I Should Kick Myself
The entry into the garage. We had new siding put on the house three…four? years ago. At the time, they also put in new garage doors with openers, new windows in the media room (a 10′x25′ room on the south side of the house). Why I didn’t include this door in the deal is a mystery to me. I remember thinking, “Ooo, this is too much money.” But, honestly, what would another three or four hundred dollars have done to the loan, lien on the house over the course of fifteen years?
Nevermind the decaying concrete ruined by ten years of throwing “snow-melt” on top of it, that now needs to be ripped out and replaced. “All in good time,” I keep thinking. “All in good time.” And then there’s the landscaping. Oh, fuck it. The shoemaker’s kids go without shoes.
Before and After: a Professional Job
NOON
«We like lists because we don’t want to die.»
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Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta
Roman Lisquidation
It’s official.
Whether this is one step closer to a goat remains to be determined. If any of y’all ‘ve been meaning to get some Calamari now’s the time.
“I’ll go through it with you line by line.”
I just keep on liking this guy.
Thanks, Shannon!
Frank’s story about Pierce
Them’s the breaks, as my half-brother Pierce used to say a lot. He’d spit it out like you had earned that bad thing comin’ and why didn’t you just get outta the way but nobody said it out loud when he got so drunk and walked in front of an F-350 dually. Twenty four breaks as I recall although that’s skipping the bones that got all crushed up like oyster crackers.
Quote out of context
When Rogozov had made the incision and was manipulating his own innards as he removed the appendix, his intestine gurgled, which was highly unpleasant for us.
Phoenix 1901
If you haven’t listened to Phoenix, I urge you to go buy their music immediately and be overjoyed.
Phoenix – 1901 – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
Long Horn Meat
Happy Christmas, Clusterflock!
I’m snowed in from this terrible blizzard. Hmm..should I drink wine or Sam Adams this Christmas Eve?
the unhelpful phonetic alphabet
From The Ragbag
A conversation in my household
Sarah: Will you curl my hair for me?
Amy: Get a perm.
Sarah: That’s permanent!
Quote out of context
And I pledge to govern with integrity, and goodwill, and clear conviction, and a servant’s heart.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, apparently confused as to the role of the Vice President, in her would-have-been victory speech.
Daily Beast via here.
Vincent
A bit of vintage Tim Burton for this All Hallows Eve.
At a loss?
When do you know it’s time to put your pet down?
Deterritorializing Deleuze & Guattari Across the Schizophrenic States of America
My latest dispatch from our X-country trip whilst reading Anti-Oedipus…
get off the stinkin’ bus
Stinky? Want to ride the bus? The city of Honolulu might send you to jail:
The bill will be heard Thursday in committee. It would make it illegal to have “odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s body odor or offensive fumes that emanates from clothes, personal belongings or animals.
Everything Must Change
Oleta Adams – Everything Must Change from Phil Bebbington on Vimeo.
Discovered after I followed Phil’s giant.
Maybe Isaac Hayes’s 11-minute
performance of “I Stand Accused” is one of the most over-the-top (and wonderful) cover versions ever done, but I’d like to recommend you take a listen to Lee Michaels’s stammering and unhinged assault on “Can I Get a Witness?” which I find immensely more satisfying than “Do You Know What I Mean?” He does a fine “Rock Me Baby” too.
And while you’re at it, how about Arthur Brown’s cover of “I Put a Spell on You,” a slow burn which ends up as purely insane as his own “Fire”?
A Summer of Fun: The Manifesto
- Work Less
- Play More
- Go Outside
- Sleep Different
- Experiment
- Unplug
- Turn It Up
- Love More
- Donate Fun
- End Boredom
- Create Things
(Via our Sean)
Quote out of context
This land, blessed with clean air, water, wildlife, minerals, AND oil and gas. It’s energy! God gave us energy.
- Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in her resignation speech yesterday.
How do you work? How do you live?
Matt Mullenweg is the guy who, as a teenager, started developing WordPress, the terrific blogging/content management software on which Clusterflock runs. At the ripe old age of twenty-five now, Matt was the subject of Inc.’s column “The Way I Work” this month. And he’s posted a revised and expanded version of the piece, with links, on his own blog, because the third-person-interview-as-first-person-monologue format the magazine used came out strange (as one would expect). Some snippets:
On a good morning there’s no alarm clock. I wake up with the sun and do my best to resist the instinctive urge to look at the computer or check email for at least an hour.
My vice of choice isn’t coffee, but the Kindle. Its electronic shelves are filled mostly with the business books I read in order to grow up to be a real businessman (before someone figures out I’m not). At any point in time I have about 120 books downloaded. Interspersed between Drucker, Godin, and Buffett are classics like Seneca, which I wish I could read more often but only get to a few times a year.
. . . When you’re coding you really have to be in the zone so I’ll listen to a single song over and over on repeat, hundreds of times. It helps me focus. The other best way to focus is to turn off email and instant messenger. The moment that little toaster pops up and says “you’ve got mail” you’re taken out of the flow. You’re juggling variables and functions and layouts and the moment you look away it all falls to the ground — it takes you 10 minutes getting it back in the air again.
. . .
I go out for lunch whenever I can, which fits well with my preference for no meetings before 11 AM. There’s something very personal about sharing food with someone; it’s a deeper connection than shaking hands in a boardroom. . . .
In general, I’m pretty darn disorganized, late as often as not, and really bad at keeping a schedule. . . . Last year I was on the road 212 days and clocked 175,000 miles, which is seven times around the globe . . .
. . . For my 25th birthday in January I published a list of 2009 goals on my blog. It included learning Spanish, learning how to cook, and posting 10,000 photos. Cooking has been a total fail so far; I go out for every meal. If you open my refrigerator you’ll find Girl Scout cookies and barbecue sauce. Photos are blazing along, half-way through the year and I’ve taken 20,000 photos and posted about 4,000 of them.
. . .
I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or a 20-minute snooze in the office. Our business is 24 hours — folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I’ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.
—Matt Mullenweg, “The Way I Work, annotated” Jun 19, 2009
Dear clusterflock, is there such a thing as a typical day in your life? If so, what’s it like? How do you keep it together, especially if you live alone and work by yourself?
Minor Personal Revelation
One of the main flavors in cola is cloves.