tweet of the day
It’s too bad that everything that happens is real.
— ASW (@TotallyAllen) January 17, 2012
headline of the day, II
Paula Deen confirms that she has type 2 diabetes, unveils partnership with drug company
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I’m near-sighted, and my beard is getting whiter, so when I shave at the tub, standing at the southern-facing window, the light flecks the falling away like slow-motion illuminated snow.
Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing
4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you’re bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
(From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Via Brian Beatty.)
from the comments
We are all mise en abyme.
headline of the day, II
Michael Cera Looks Like Hitler’s Mom
Happy New Year, Y’all
Smootch.
from the comments
Did I ever tell you about the time I blew up our own mailbox with fireworks? I was a lousy prankster.
Dueling Banjos
If cool is a species of bullshit obscurity, culture is now divaricate enough that we can all be cool. It’s not gold anymore. More like corn.
— name (@georgelazenby) December 28, 2011
Taco Bell be having they shit look good on commercials but that shit is sick!!
— Te-Aria (@PEANUTBIOTCH) December 29, 2011
from the comments
In truth, everything should be wrapped in bacon.
12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group
I think this is my favorite story of 2011.
headline of the day
2011: The year when a lot happened
from the moderated comments
Chinese restaurants have been doing this for a while with a similar shaped product. They put fried rice in them…
from the comments
I thought “Women for Cain” was his itinerary.
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headline of the day, III
Club der Lügner, Demagogen, Ignoranten
Where I’m Calling From…
Stoneledge Farm, South Beloit, IL.
Dan’s sister’s new world-champion, three-year-old Morgan gelding, Peeps “Town Affair.” On board and training at Stoneledge Farm, Danny’s niece’s and nephew-in-law’s facility. Peeps is an athlete, IMHO.
Thanksgiving in Rockton, y’all. It don’t get much better. One thing I’m thankful for.
30 for Thirty Days, The End.
The last day of my thirty-day project. I don’t claim it as art, just something completed.
I’m Just Askin’…
The cap I bought at Saks in Pittsburgh last weekend. Me? Or home skillet? My good friend KP said it looked like me.
quote out of context
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
horsemaning: the new planking
I’m holding out for the iPhone Final
cars I’d buy, classic, vol. 1.2
BMW 2002
If BMW were to make the 2002 today it would be a thousand pounds heavier, feature Chris Bangle flame surfacing, and depending on which angle you looked at it from, strike you as cute, fat, or angry. In short, it wouldn’t be done. Also, I think that is a photograph of a die-cast model.
Three “perfect” self-contained sentences a day…
Tussel bore left on the wye West–North, West-northish. Nosing his old de Ville into wind-chill rushing across glacial tundra and down, from a thousand miles ahead. Forty-five miles an hour, nine miles a gallon, Tussel gripped the wheel, leaned into the accelerator, pressing the head-wind.
I already screwed up. They’re not “self-contained.”
headline of the day
Netflix Doesn’t Own the Qwikster Twitter Feed. This Foulmouthed Pothead Does.
