Terry Evans, Bobby King, Eldridge King. Ry Cooder. And Flaco Jiménez.
I almost can’t bear this, this beauty. Dark End of the Street.
after farting
On the other hand.
Update: After sharting: Don’t cry for me Argentina.
Hilary Faye
You’re built like a car (You got a hubcap diamond-star halo)
Europeans have all the fun: lower drinking ages, funner beaches, easier lifestyles and . . . dinosaur skeletons having sex in their museums. This exhibit, which clearly shows two T-Rexes “mating”, is located in the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain.
Via @leatherarchives.
It feels more à propos than ever, no?
Every conversation about #OWS sounds like this to me.
The Murder of Van Gogh
60 Minutes did a segment on the possibility that, contrary to historical assumption, Vincent Van
Gogh was murdered, or shot accidentally, rather than committed suicide. You can watch the second segment below the fold.
dueling headlines
Actress sues Amazon for revealing age on film database
Wash. woman accused of using power saw on husband
Update: UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years
first
The gate was open. Down the hill a canal. The soft edges of the end of the day. By the time I returned, I knew they were looking for me. She took her turn. He was still out. When he saw me, he beat me in front of her. We had an agreement. If you let this happen again, I’ll finish it. Then he held me and said it was love.
from the comments
Wait, all this time “Tupac scholar” was a valid career option and nobody told me?
from the comments
At the time I worked on campus helping to run the recreational sports program. We visited other schools once a year for the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association conference and either at UNR or Boise State I heard a story about a guy who was hit by a maintenance cart on campus and had minor brain damage. His settlement with the school basically amounted to lifetime tuition plus room and board. He was a career student. According to campus lore he had been on campus for something like 20 years.
I have no idea if any of it was true or if it was just a story they told people responsible for driving those little electric carts around campus (something I got to do every now and again) but it sounded pretty good to me, except for the brain damage part.
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We’re almost on the other side, and the negativity leaves us well positioned to exceed expectations with an I.P.O. baby that, having seen the ultrasound, I can promise you is not one of those uglies.
Thomas Bernhard on Photography
«Every photograph—whoever took it, whoever is pictured in it—is a gross violation of human dignity, a monstrous falsification of nature, a base insult to humanity. [...] Photography is the greatest mockery in the world, the ultimate mockery of the world.»
More thoughts on photography & thinking, whilst reading Bernhard & Beckett in Dublin.
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In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since
Kurt Cobain blew his brains out,Tupac was murdered,Jeff Mangum went crazy,David Foster Wallace hung himself,Jeff Buckley drowned,River Phoenix overdosed,Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.
via Tim Carmody
How to draw a cloud
Apparently the golden ratio applies to clouds too. Scott Hanselman has a good post on the similarities of cloud icons. But why the flat bottom? (via The Atlantic)
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And then nothing happened.
Last night at dinner, John and I were trying to decide if I should get the two enchiladas. I went through a thought process in my head, “Well, they have flour tortillas so I’d have to ask for the corn tortillas, which are smaller so they’d probably only make two but then they’d be smaller than the flour ones unless they made a third one to compensate, but I doubt it.” So I chose to get the fish tacos. Later on, John said the exact. same. thing. as above, as a reason for me not getting the enchiladas. I stared at him in wonder and said, “I literally thought all that like ten minutes ago.” Which he took the wrong way and said, “Well I guess we just don’t need to talk anymore.”
Later:
We’re standing outside the restaurant as he tells me a story from childhood, of which the ending result was that someone got divorced. “That’s true though isn’t it? Half of all marriages end.” We stared into the street for half a second and then he said “…in sweatpants.” To which I replied, delightedly, “You’ve been reading billboards again!”
BUT YOU DON’T HAVE ONE
I could only find one other instance where an owl befriended a cat, but I could nowhere find a picture or anything about an owl bringing a mouse or rat to a cat
An incredible story of a miraculous owl:
I am from South Africa and about 4 years ago made friends with a spotted eagle owl that showed up on our farm (most probably it was rehabilitated by someone). The owl got injured and I kept it inside for a couple of months until it was well again. During this time our one old cat found out that no other cats are allowed in my study where I kept the owl and she moved in. I allowed this because she has never in her life caught a bird or mouse and was not interested in the owl at all.
During this period the owl got used to her and they regularly ate steak out of my hand together. Once the owl was OK again I let it out, but it now comes and sleeps inside during the day, hunting freely at night.
The owl ends up taking care of other wounded animals.
(thanks, India)
Jeff Altman: Las Vegas 1962
via Devour
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Break into his house when he’s not home. Put truth serum in all of the liquids in his fridge. Make sure you’re around when he drinks something from his fridge. And, uh, don’t drink from there yourself, or you’ll end up telling him that he’s consumed truth serum and the gig’s up.
for the ride
I love this photo by Karrah Kobus (you can order prints by the way), a Minneapolis based photographer, which was inspired by a similarly striking photograph by Alex Stoddard.
quotes out of context
At some point I feel that the public should be reminded of their predictions so the next time they make predictions that are way off the mark, fewer people will give them credence.
To its detractors, the brain is a kludge, a hacked-up device beset with bugs, biases and self-deceptions that undermine our decision making and well-being at every turn.
I wonder if any of them will ever experience the type of intimacy that J.T. and Porkchop shared.
Of course, we are aware that the history of science and technology is littered with people who confidently assert that some event can’t happen, only to be later proven wrong — often in spectacular fashion.
Update:
We learn from this same column that butterflies can see with their genitals.
The Trip, streaming on Netflix
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s dueling Michael Caine impersonation movie, The Trip, is now streaming on Netflix.
Mostly improvised and highlighting the duo’s penchant for dueling impressions of famous actors, the film follows them as they test their friendship while sampling the best restaurants in Northern England.
To see if that interests you, you can check out this clip, previously, on clusterflock.
(via @spavis)
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