April 2010
who are you people?
4tones:
titivil:
I’ve reached the point that people I’ve never met but follow on Tumblr are guest-starring in my dreams. Let me know if I should be paranoid.
r o b o t s
OK. But like Skynet, or like Roombas?
molls...she wrote: At my elementary school, it was... →
At my elementary school, it was a tradition for the 4th grade class to write and perform their own original play. The year that it was my turn, the teachers chose “water” to be the topic. Water. Right?!
So we had to write these poems about water and then a composer came in and helped us turn our…
When I was in fourth grade, we had a little show where we all dressed like a state of the...
March 2010
“Usually, I eat some of the steak with the sauce, and some bites without. It’s...”
– A line from ‘I Eight One’ the new restaurant review series in the New York Times by New York Jets (and CV Patrick Moberg) tight end Dustin Keller.
Yes, this is actually happening right now.
(via davidcho)
Seventy-Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Johnny Cash
Here’s 79: his speaking voice sounded exactly like that of my grandmother. Or vice versa.
who are you people?
I’ve reached the point that people I’ve never met but follow on Tumblr are guest-starring in my dreams. Let me know if I should be paranoid.
big city livin'
This time yesterday I get a call from home saying that an upstairs neighbor was screaming that he had killed his baby and that a bunch of cops were amassed in the hallway. In the background I could hear the wailing of the distressed man.
Baby (and wife) turned out to be okay, but that was not the way to start a day, no.
Bright side: no barricaded perp phone calls yet this morning.
hunting/gathering: ZOMBIE BILL O'REILLY →
“To the Editor:
Re The Democrats Rejoice by David Brooks (column, March 23):
Mr. Brooks is right. The Democrats should proudly rejoice after their success in passing the health care reform bill. Congratulations to President Obama and his team for standing by what they believed to be right and…
Credit where credit is due.
Boy that hurts.
World population, births, deaths, metered in real time.
Additionally, we’re only a year or so away from hitting the eight million mark.
Yikes.
Maud Newton decodes Sarah Palin →
(via alexbalk)
Go read this NOW.
Reblogging: It's a conversation.
(via winominx)
We’ll see.
cargohoo:
The Replacements - Left Of The Dial
I am embarrassed that my first thought opening to today’s obits was to count words.
I mean, Fess Parker was also a cultural icon of sorts, right?
What should Hiram Monserrate do next? I have some... →
(via pareene)
“I was walking along Main Road, Roswell, on my way to find some dinner.”
“Find some dinner” is a locution I wish I used.
Plus: UFO.
This may be unpopular, but Wilco on Prairie Home Companion right now is a significant portion of the threads of my personal life knotting themselves up in an apprehensive way.
“Many [in Japan] are taking tsubuyaku, the Japanese verb of choice for tweeting, rather literally. The word means mutter or murmer, and that is just what many seem to be doing, often to tens of thousands of followers.”
I would feel much more comfortable using “murmer” instead of “tweet”.
By far the most surreal event of the morning is hearing a local metropolitan newsradio lead with the story that Corey Haim has passed away. Complete with the “breaking news!” intro. Hopefully it goes without saying that the surreality comes from leading with the story and not the story itself.
