January 2008
59 posts
hello?
and I really want this.
wow. →
Highlights: EQ Shirt HTTPanties R2D2 Hampers d20 die necklace Gadget Holster Site found by: Mike Flavin
What Was The #1 Song When You Were Born? →
thisisbk: I’m pleased to see that on my birthday, the #1 song in Amerca was Yes - “Owner of a Lonely Heart” Me: Huey Lewis and the News - “The Power of Love” “Dont need no credit card to ride this train” ~h.lewis “Their early work was a little too New Wave for my taste” ~p.bateman
Compound Fracture
I was typing “Superbowl” in an email and the Microsoft Spellcheck did not recognize it (suggesting that I change it to “superb owl”). That is when, for the first time in my 22 years of life in America, I realized that Super Bowl is not one word.
Mark Ronson does Radiohead →
Heard about this video from www.pastemagazine.com Heard about PasteMagazine from my dad Heard about Mark Ronson from Brian Kurtzman Heard about Radiohead from Taylor Forry
What Would Jesus Shotgun? →
I (read: joanna) have owned a Mac for just about... →
Buy a Mac. They make you cooler.
Worenen
One ongoing desire of mine is to incorporate more Yiddish terms into my working vocabulary. I am not sure exactly why but like the conflicting elitist and colloquial natures of the language, how the words sound quirky, nonsensical, and impressively astute all at the same time. However, I learned an important lesson this weekend: never use a Yiddish word before you have thoroughly researched its...
click click ding
The receptionist here at the office has been using a typewriter for the last hour - there is no excuse for that.
“He looks like a perfect human living a perfect life, effortlessly incarnating...”
– [Chuck Klosterman, on Tom Brady] (works cited: 1 2 )
Have you heard (about) that billboard?
There is a new billboard on the platform of the NRW 49th Street stop. It is a Target billboard advertising John Legend’s new album. In the bottom lefthand corner there is a small box with a headphone jack and instructions to plug your earbuds into it. I did just that this morning and heard John Legend’s new song. Well done, marketing team.
Coexist
I went to see U2-3D last night with Joanna, Brian Kurtzman, and Holly Burt. It was magical. Brian and I were singing along at the top of our lungs like we were really there. Joanna was getting seasick then fell asleep. It was really fun. Brian texted my dad in Tijuana and told him to go see it too. My dad checked it out in San Diego later that night. You should see it too. (site)
“All of my portraits are portraits of myself”
– [tierney gearon, photographer]
Tierney Gearon - Photographer
I watched “Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project” on The Sundance Channel the other week and it was magnetic. I was instantly engrossed by her art, her life, and the intensity with which the two interact in an generational synergy. Her photographs are all desperate attempts connect her to her mother, her to her own children, her children to her mother. She pieces together her...
Joanna told me about this. It is a day before her... →
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www.weeatwhatwelike.com →
I have successfully navigated the cyberworld of godaddy.com and now own a part of the internet. Well, I know they don’t really own the internet to begin with, no one does, but I paid them to tell the world that my domain is ‘already taken.’ Godaddy really must be rolling in cash - their only advertising is at the Superbowl (featuring monkeys, strippers, and racecar drivers) and...
Why would a women's magazine propagate this... →
Doesn’t this seem really counterintuitive to the progress of all gender equality and all of that stuff that girls who are women’s studies majors in college get in such a tizzy about? Am I missing something here? — davidcho Me: I agree, David. But then again, is there anything to be found coming from Cosmopolitan (print or internet) that addresses women as intelligent members of...
Prints and Design by Jason Munn →
I know I am probably the last to find out about this guy but whatever - he is really good.
Sean Paul recognized by American Medical...
“Stacey Gayle had three seizures shortly after listening to the Sean Paul ‘Temperature’ song on her iPod” Look on the bright side, Stacey - you now have a medical reason to not listen to Sean Paul. (works cited)
A guy named Dr. Larry Brilliant works for Google. ...
Google’s philanthropic arm, www.Google.org, is dedicated to using 1% of its profit ($175M) to “make the world a better place.” (It is obvious that zero dollars were spent on the website. It was donated by Ms. Johnson’s WebDesign101 class) These are the causes they have chosen to back with their finances and resources: To strengthen early warning systems in countries...
How am I funny to you?
In related news, if you were one of the 250 youngsters polled in the aforementined study, do not go here. Some highlights: Purpose: To provide its membership with necessary resources that allow them to further define and improve their individual clown character. They actually have “by laws” Clown Code of Ethics I found a clown in Astoria named Wendy “Crazy Daisy” Pincus....
“We found that clowns are universally disliked by children.”
– [Penny Curtis, researcher from the University of Sheffield] (proof)
I have a minor in sociology
“MySpace, with its cluttered layout, can suggest an online incarnation of the broken-windows theory—surface disorder begetting actual chaos.” (from this week’s New Yorker) -rickyvanveen I never thought I would reblog something from Ricky Van Veen’s blog but this is a really cool quote. The ‘broken-windows theory’ (put forth in an article by George Kelling and James Wilson and...
“A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person.”
– [Supreme Court of Austria] (proof)
Everyone should already know this but apparently...
GoogleMaps is the best map program to ever be developed to date. I cannot fathom ever using MapQuest for anyreason. Wow, GoogleMaps is awesome. I was reading last night in the Times that MapQuest was getting more traffic than GoogleMaps. There is absolutely no reason for that. Use it.
“I would like to write some songs that are so good that nobody can understand...”
– [townes van zandt (1944-1997), on his future goals]
Sigur Ros News
in an interview in today’s fréttablaðið newspaper, orri revealed that sigur rós will begin recording brand new songs for their fifth lp next week. producer flood, best known for producing albums by bands such as the smashing pumpkins, u2, pj harvey and nick cave, will be joining the band in iceland to record the album. this time around the band will not be recording in their sundlaugin studio, but...
"This is the Bible Belt and everyone is afraid... →
“You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal” -Ricky Sorrells, on observing what appeared to be a UFO through his rifle scope.
Dream Update
As fate (read:destiny) would have it I just “happened” to come across an article on MSN.com about dream interpretation. I think The Smoking Man pulled some strings over at MSN so that I would get this very important information. This is the most pertinent revelation gleaned from the article was the following: ACTOR/ACTRESS: 1. If the actor or actress is a particular favorite of...
“It’s not that big.”
– [CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on the popularity of his online company]
Don't Wake Me
The only part I can remember from the dreaming I did this weekend is a 7 second clip in which I walked up to David Duchovny and said, “David, the truth is out there.” I Googled “Dream Interpretation” with the intention of getting an in depth analysis of the aforementioned dream but promptly ran into a warning from our local batallion of Thought Police in the form of this...
verdict
Joanna bought me a cigarrette case (which I will be using for a wallet…smoking kills) yesterday and it is kickass. I would like to refer to my first blog post ever, posted 302 days ago, in which I pondered the coolness of said case. I guess now I know. Thanks, Jo.
this is a year old - but did we all know about... →
“[Two PETA employees] were arrested on felony charges during a June 2005 stakeout after they were caught dumping bags filled with dead dogs and cats in a trash bin behind a Piggly Wiggly supermarket…. A lawyer for PETA said Cook and Hinkle were rescuing the animals from oppressive animal shelters, and had euthanized them to save them from inhumane conditions.”
Did you know...
Tara Lipinski, women’s figure skating gold medal winner at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, had several forays into acting, with appearances in Vanilla Sky, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and What’s New Scooby- Do? (proof) Take that Michelle Kwan.
I happened upon this exhibit at the Lever House... →
It really is more odd than you can imagine - butchered sheep in formaldehyde, cabinets full of prescription drugs, piles of sand, ashtrays, a shark, bags of intravenous fluids, clocks ticking backwards, and two sides of a cow suspended like wings above an easy-chair in a twelve foot high tank of formaldehyde. Unsettling but I actually really liked it. more photos
wave of the future
We got a really nice new microwave in the office kitchen today. I think you can run Linux on it. (Homepage of the guy who invented Linux - for some reason I thought it would be cooler)
Dial Tone
I love it when I see payphones off the hook and hanging by the cord. I think it is beautiful. I haven’t figured out why.
Waiting for the Bus in Harlem
Last night, as I leaned against a lamp post on the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fredrick Douglas Boulevard, I was shortly joined by two middle aged, African-American women who, like me, were awaiting the M60 bus. I had one headphone on as half-listening to Jeff Buckley’s “Mojo Pin” and half listening to the sounds of the city. Don’t wanna weep for you...
Students at Kerens high school are also prohibited... →
Lets get some outside opinions on male hair length: St. Paul - “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?” Samson - “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my birth. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.” Crosby, Stills,...
"I understand the anger," Loren Scott, a Baton... →
1 quadrillion pennies, or 1,000,000,000,000,000, would look something like this if stacked into a 2,730 ft. high cube. — taylormichael Me: I went to tell my coworkers about this article and all I got out was, “Hurricane Katrina victims…” followed by laughter. I am an ass.
Urinal Update
Upon using the facilities at the Chipotle located on 52nd, I discovered that Kohler has the right idea regarding urinal design; it is obvious that thought was put into this cutting edge structure. The Kohler urinal had a distinct V shape and decreased width (as opposed to the wide, flat plane of the AmStand), causing a larger angle of incidence and reflection. Ideally I would prefer a V with a...
Thoughts Regading Urine Receptacles
While I was relieving myself this morning I had the following thought, “I wish i worked for American Standard - I would totally revamp the design of their urinals.” I have always thought that the universal urinal structure and design is less than optimal and desperately in need of a more functional layout. First, I would cut the width in half - no one needs to be able to pivot 45...