December 2007
37 posts
Salud
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup! And surely I’ll be mine! And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. ~Original Scot’s Verse from the pen of Robert Burns (1759-1796) I am sitting at my desk drinking a Heineken. Happy New Year.
Lovely Rita
I recently “made a payment to the City of New York’s Department of Finance” in the amount of $127.00. This payment was demanded of me due to the following infraction: “Violation Code 40 - Stopping, standing or parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant. Between sunrise and sunset, a passenger vehicle may stand alongside a fire hydrant as long as the operator remains behind...
Email sent from my father to Sports Illustrated
Subject: letter to the editor-SIDate: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 I just received the final Sports Illustrated issue of the year…the one with the retrospective of all the year’s covers. Looking at all those covers was a great journey back through a remarkable year in sports. It also raised a huge question…How could it be that out of 52 covers, only one had a woman’s photo on...
the journey is the destination
Dan Eldon [1970-1993] I read about him in the Times - sounds like he was a pretty awesome guy who kept journals overflowing with pieces of his world - photos, drawings, writing, collages - a hybrid, photojournalistic artform. Him work is organic and raw; they are beautiful collections from his 23 years of life lived in New York, California, Kenya, London, and Somalia. He was running through...
12.28.07
I found it ironic that the Diamond District smelled like bacon this morning.
Drinking away the art. →
this is actually really cool. I approve of its artistic value. Reblogged from — asprettyasasong
Blogs Bog Google
The recent proliferation of blogs has severely hampered my ability to Google. I find that the abundance of words in all of the blogs stick to my searches like insects on the windshield of a Maserati, marring the view. Not incapacitating, just annoying.
Daily dose of peoplearedying →
If the STAR WARS universe were real, how would its phenomena be understood? ……..
love this site →
It is as addictive as cocaine - like pixels ground into a fine powder. A majority of the photos are really good - there is a balanced collection of photoshopped ones, untouched ones, humourous ones, graphic designs.
Will Smith's response to previous misquotations →
Atta boy, Will. I’ve been in your corner the whole time.
i was gonna go to work but then
I just encountered a gentleman who was out for a stroll and smoking weed on 46th Street at approximately 1:33 pm.
America's favorite little white guy and huge black... →
I agree with Will. The people who are offended by this quote are small-minded. I can’t believe they misquoted him as saying “hitler was a good person.” Will was making a great (existential) point that we all think we are doing “good” and can always find ways to twist our actions to make ourselves beleive they are right and justified. I just think the media...
“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do...”
– The Fresh Prince Will Smith to the Daily Record via Page Six dot com. (link) Reblogged from - mch
one of the grossest photos I have seen in a while →
They reattached it.
If you must return it, you can send it here
My new (pleasantly inexpensive) hobby is collecting paperbacks of classic literature. My most recent finds include the following titles: Perelandra by CS Lewis Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Prince Caspian by CS Lewis The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Sun Also Rises by...
I read about John Marshall and this blog in GQ →
I figure daily consumption TalkingPointsMemo and DrudgeReport will give me a well-balanced political diet - little bit of red, little bit of blue.
idea had while in the shower this morning:
If I created TV commercials, I would make an ad in which Santa Claus sneakily (and clumsily) spies on people to see whether or not they are “bad or good.” Due to his trademark obesity, he experiences some difficulty with his reconnaissance mission - the hilarity of a fat person falling ensues. He resorts to an alternative rubric for determining naughty and nice. Mr. Claus then...
Privatization Parts
Two iron-clad reasons why health-care should never be socialized by the United States government: United States Postal Service Department of Motor Vehicles The next time you have to go into one of the aforementioned places (and you will only go out of necessity - one would never choose to patronize such a place) look around - observe the organization, the decor, the employees, the...
Oprah's Book Club
Currently Reading: Roughing It by Mark Twain
one of the most innovative ideas I have seen in a... →
I dont know if this would be financially advantageous (depending on how many recharges they can take in their lifespan) but what a genius idea. They are in the process of developing AAA, 9V, and cell phone batteries. There are also fashion batteries?
bibliochaise = bookchair →
microgeist
When you push the “open door” button on the office microwave, not only does the door open but the oven turns on and the plate starts spinning. Safe? (This has never happened to me everin my life. It is unbelievably odd to witness a microwave oven both on and open. I am taken aback by how this seemingly inconsequential occurrence shook the foundation of my microwave schema. One...
Something that makes me inexplicably angry:
Pictures of faces that have been altered using Mac PhotoBooth. I believe the reasons “Virgil“ provides for loving it quite adequately prove my point for the contrary. May it please the court - I submit the following as evidence and justification for my ire: Article 1.a Article 1.b Article 1.c Appendix 1
I Hate Acronyms. They Employ Asinine Combinations....
god bless america →
I am filled with an inexplicable feeling of pride knowing that my country protects and encourages this guy’s right to free speech and expression. (how did security miss this guy?)
what is myocardial infarction, alex? →
feel better, big guy.
what a wonderful word
portmanteau - port.man.teau a large suitcase a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog) I am pleased to see that this literary tool has come back into fashion of late. Some of my favorites are: man+purse=murse, jeans+shorts=jorts, John Mayer+Aircraft Carrier = Mayercraft
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The warmth of analog - the rich yellows highlighted by a slide projector bulb, the whispering crackle of a needle on vinyl, the pixel-less display of a tube TV - has now been quietly anesthetized. Fluorescent bulbs, LCD displays, tinny sounding mp3 files, pix and flix on phones and ipods and keychains, flat screen TVs on head rests, above urinals, in refrigerators Welcome to the Digital Age. ...
“It is ridiculous to blame babies for global warming.”
– {Angela Conway, spokeswoman for Australian Family Association}
Al Gore hates global warming. Babies cause global... →
Happy Chanukkah
This morning an employee of Kosher Deli Deluxe was spreading Kosher salt from the kitchen on the ice that had formed on the sidewalk in front of the store. I found it appropriate. (and yes that is how you spell Chanukkah (proof))
(Eckerd cont. from yesterday's post)
So this blue-vested twenty-something and I got to talking as we both did his job collecting the photos from the machine. Turns out he only stocks shelves with deodorant and “mans the photo center” as a means to pay the bills - his real (less lucrative) passion is creating comic books. He told me that Marvell is way out of his league but that some of the “indie” publishers...
Eckerd
The other night I went to Eckerd Drug Store to print out some of my photos. After struggling with the touch screen for nearly 20 minutes, I submitted an order for seven 8x10 photos. I had been informed that each print cost $4.99 plus tax bringing by total tab to a little over $35 which I was more than happy to pay for these priceless works of art. My photos started coming out of the machine and...
Vocab
bespoke - (adj.) a word of British origin, meaning made for the personal specifications of one individual, particularly a suit or article of clothing.
dear glenn o'brien,
Is it ok for me to use a tiny paper clip to fasten the narrow end of my tie to the broad end? I am currently emloying this method so I just thought I would check with you, you being the style guy and all.