Phil Ochs: “I’m Going to Say It Now”
Achingly brief clip of Ochs in performance. Said to have been filmed at a Free Speech rally held in the spring of 1965 on The Oval at The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio.
Gordon Lish and dictionary.com
I’m afraid this link will not be what I’m wanting past midnight today. The word of the day for November 19 is “knavery” and they use a quote from Gordon Lish to show usage! (Thanks to my friend Susan for letting me know about this.)
Update:
Yes, I took the brunt of it but not because there was a ballot on it but because I know knavery when I see knavery. Plus underhandedness and mischief.
– Gordon Lish, Collected Fictions
EDIT: The link has been edited to point to the relevant day forever.
Image with a Little Bit of Context
I stumbled across this picture a few days ago and meant to post it sooner. The headline? ‘Cain’s Bodyguards Get Physical with Reporters‘.
Is that not the most comically over-intimidating presidential bodyguard you’ve ever seen?
from the comments
I’m a dick grabber. Ask anyone.
A History of the Sky
A time-lapse study of the sky for a year. By Ken Murphy.
A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds for a year.
[A History of the Sky] is a mosaic of 360 time-lapse movies, each showing [a] single day. They are arranged chronologically, and are synchronized by time-of-day, beginning before sunrise.
(Thanks to Ju Ju Pongo.)
headline of the day, II
Bank of America hires Malcolm Gladwell to attract small business clients
from the moderated comments
FALSE: Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is better than gravity
Update:
headline of the day
CERN Reconfirms Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
GOP Clown College
(via @khoi)
from the comments
Still need the last $15? Send me an email and I’ll donate the last $15 by way of coupon code. — the designer of Elena…
quotes out of context
For most people, every other computer in their life feels like work, and they don’t need another one.
I am the artist referred to above: I have reclaimed the copyright only so I can hand it over legally to the family of Che Guevara and the Cuban people — without payment to me, free of any charges or legal fees etc.
“It was not a homicide. It was not a suicide. It was an accident,” Noguchi said.
Indeed, the Nazi ideology underpinning the extermination of the Jews was opposed to and incompatible with Darwinism, instead being a religious and creationist doctrine.
Update:
Divorced, with prostheses that she has modified with spare parts from broken refrigerators and stereo systems, she is now an artist struggling to support two sons.
Icon4x4Design’s Ford Bronco
How do I feel about this car?
Question
Do you think I’m to blame for the death of Natalie Wood? Should I be worried the LAPD are re-opening the case?
photo out of context
Transit
Don’t eat so much. You don’t have to keep going until everything is gone. The Clean Plate Club is not looking for new members. You are already full, so why do you continue eating? You taste nothing.
Review your hardware-store shopping list. Arrange the items in two categories: things that must be fixed before they break something else, and parts for projects you will never start. Stop choosing tools based on whether you think they will outlast your span of years. Do not synthesize memories and likely scenarios as you did last time.
Amy said
I figured it out. Time is short. We’re getting older. I’m resorting to violence first.
You make me wanna shoop.
What are you supposed to do when you want to have sex more than your boyfriend does?
Owls
We have owl in a hat, owl on a bike, and now “Lovely Owl.”
(via Stellar)
Mic Check
You heard about them, but have you seen one?
dear clusterflock
To quote my friend, Rich, “let’s talk about all the things that are wrong with these two lists.”
sketching in others’ styles
Mike Holmes is drawing himself in the style of other cartoonists. In anticipation of seeing the Tintin movie, I give you some Herge.
Beautiful Geological Maps of Volcanoes
This one’s Crater Lake.
The colors on geological maps represent different rock units of different ages. With an active lifespan of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, volcanoes produce many layers of ash and flows of lava that will end up as different colors on the map. And with the circular shape of many volcanoes and the radiating rock units, the maps can really be striking.
quotes out of context
“At one point, the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated,” Isaacson writes: Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it.
But when it comes to Paul Newman, it is impossible not to find him attractive. He is objectively handsome. His blue eyes are un-unlikable.
“Grand slam,” called out a boy (who’d later tell me with disarming matter-of-factness that “the one thing Mr. V. talked about that made me feel really good was that penis size doesn’t matter”).
David calms his slices like kittens before consuming whole (like kittens).
And as I had that thought, there was this dusty feeling in my mouth. As if she was so young and vibrant that I could feel myself withering.
Over the years, I’ve watched these women and girls make a difference, and they’re self-replicating.
from the comments
Matter of fact a good percentage of Italians dress on the street like Americans dress to play golf.
tweet of the day
