Friends, some editorial advice?
Here is a piece I started back in, oh, 1992 or ‘93 or so. I’ve attempted furtherances of it many times, yet I find myself stuck here with it. I think some of this has merit to continue work on it, but I’m stuck. Stuck for 15 years.
If you can muster the will to get through it, I’d welcome insight on the moment in the text that makes it, for me, unfurtherable. Is there a point where I should delete everything after and move from that point? Or is it a turd from word one? Don’t hold back, I’m a big boy, I can take whatever you might have to offer.
I Just Want to Say
…that when I think about the people I have to work with, and how everyone is so serious about work and life, and all that other sort of shit, the people who make me feel better and make me smile are the people right here at clusterflock. Thank you for making me feel better.
Thomas Friedman Explains a Bar Fight
It was then that I realized all power came from the Sun. As I stumbled from my car to a roadside saloon a PowerPoint graph slid into my head of what organisms need to do to achieve PhotoSynthesis. I call them the PhotoSynthesis Superchargers:
- Be a living organism: Sitting on the fence between “dead” and “not dead” won’t cut it any more.
- Maximize your access to carbon dioxide and water investment.
- Be willing to absorb solar energy and change.
In the post 9/11-world, there are what I call Plants and Animals. Animals can’t make Glucose and Oxygen from the Sun. But a Plant can. I was thinking about this as I ordered a drink from the bar, when I ran—literally—into German finance minister Peer Steinbrück. Mr. Steinbrück demanded an apology.
“It doesn’t look like the Thai baht is going to recover any time soon,” I said, slamming the business end of my Zima bottle into his head.
~ Alesh
Is it something in the air today?
Or the water?
A Formal Apology to Cooper Renner
I am so very sorry, my friend.
You do not now nor did you ever eat Lunchables.
I stand corrected, thanks to Cindy.
Lunch Buckets.
Somali Goat Butts Bellying Up at the Borehole
Greetings from Eastern Kenya!
Goat Heaven:
Danny, from an Airport, tonight
I’m sitting next to my gate … and I’m listening to a conversation between a mother, father and “the brood” (two small boys and a girl). The mother proclaims “I haven’t been able to go to the GD bathroom all day! Can’t I have a minute without my 2 year old?” To which the father looks dumb-founded. The kids are kids (although a little red-neckedy). Rambunctious. Wanting to look out the windows. I imagine I’ve invaded their space.
All I can say is … “thank God for First Class”. 5-10 more minutes, and I’ll be in the comfort of a fresh vodka drank (note the tense of my noun).
Can’t wait to see mah hunny…
XOD
PS – “don’t you DARE touch that” just came out of momma’s mouth. She still hasn’t gone to the GD bathroom.
Wars can no longer be won. (?)
I’m totally claiming that blastocyst as a dependent
In November, Colorado voters may change the legal definition of who or what is a person (any human being from the moment of fertilization) when they vote on Amendment 48.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Last night at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, I had the pleasure to see this seldom-screened 2003 documentary.
A fantastic sprawling exploration of the real Los Angeles through clips from 191 films that are set here, filled with remarkable commentary. The three hour film brings up fascinating food for thought at every turn, from the portrayal of police, history, race, and false beliefs about a city that director Thom Andersen has loved for decades. Andersen made the film to show the differences between what Los Angeles really is, and how the movies portray it. As a native, it was hilarious at times, and wonderful to see the city through the eyes of countless other directors, unintentionally and intentionally documenting a city that so few people ever really see for what it is, how it is.
As a lover of, and Los Angeles apologist, it was luxurious to slip into the endless montage of Los Angeles films, sinking deeper and deeper into that love. The longer I live here, the more I see, the more I don’t know if I could ever leave for longer than a year or two. This is one of my new favourite movies.
If you ever get a chance to see this, jump on it. Here is a good essay on the film as well as the imdb.com entry:
Sister Smackdown’s imaginary search for Cindy and Sheila
I apologize for subjecting the rest of you to this. Via Trelvix.
sublime,
A Recipe.
- Install iTunes 8
- Subscribe to WNYC’s (splendid) Radiolab
- Grab Emergence, from 7/14/2008
- Listen for 1 minute, 45 seconds
- Turn on the new Visualizer
- Brilliantly lit.
- Total darkness.
No Value Voters
‘No Values Voters’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate
Great cover of Elliott Smith’s Angeles
For the thousands of terrible covers on youtube you will find one of these.
Dear clusterflock
Everybody has a “street” name. Mine is DJ Jazzy Asscrack.
What’s yours?
[A 24 Hour Trip to New York]
A beautifully done piece with pictures taken exclusively on the iphone in French with subtitles (via kottke and lonelysandwhich).
iZzy’s iPhone
She looks pretty happy about her new toy:
Obama, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore…
We took a drive out to Nairobi National Park yesterday, only like 10 minutes from downtown. Here’s what we saw.
Odd Leads in the Paper this Morning
- Self-deportation didn’t work well
- In Nebraska, parents can desert teens
- Teenager with bullet in head cleared in assault
- Emotions high at summit
- Bigfoot’s a bust
- Mr. Sensitivity wears a badge
Must Have iPhone App: Simplify Media
Erotic Magic Workshop
There’ll be workshops, after a fashion, at clusterflockstock, and this is by way of “drumming up” interest in a “workshop” I plan to offer.
“Content” is still “in development”, but I have privately shared with a couple of my fellow ‘flockers a description of my newly invented “Gettin’ It On Ritual” (the core of my Erotic Magic Workshop), and responses have been positive. To share the details in a public forum would only cheapen and coarsen something already crude and vulgar, so I invite those of you planning to attend clusterflockstock to “pencil in” my Erotic Magic Workshop.
Exact time and location will be announced at the event itself when I holler, “Hey, y’all, I’m fixin’ to show my Gettin’ It On Ritual! . . . (Yeah, that’s okay. If you’re still workin’ on your barbecue, just bring it with you.)”
Incestuous Speculation
I wonder if anyone has made love to Brandon Hobson lately.
I wonder if Deron Bauman will make love to Mike Dresser.
‘We are the Champions’ in Altay
(via metkere)
Award Winning Li[tt]l[e] General Mini Golf
Play on an 18 Hole Championship Miniature Golf Course, complete with a cascading waterfall, rapids, streams, a fountain and beautiful landscaping!
Located next To The Palace Campgrounds, only 2 Miles West Of Galena On Hwy. 20, we have a game arcade with food and drink concessions. We’re open 10am - 10pm daily from April through November, weather permitting. For more info call (815) 777-6911.
Clusterflock’s Civil War
Robert E. Lee