November 2010
2 posts
“To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and...”
– Lao-Tzu
“On a purely material economic level processes of globalization bring forth a...”
– Randall Halle, German Film After Germany
October 2010
1 post
“Suppose we continue with building, and with deliberate rebuilding, of unsafe...”
– Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage Books, 1961). This book should be required reading for every person who lives, has ever lived, or ever plans to live in a city. I try to read it every time I move. Do yourself a favor and buy it now.
September 2010
2 posts
“A guppy might be a good example of a pet fish, but a bad example of a pet, and a...”
– George Lakoff
“When they moved to Los Angeles, he and A had spent only a few days there as...”
August 2010
4 posts
“What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.”
– Alfred Hitchcock
“But Nolan always reaches with two hands: with the left one for the gimmick he’s...”
– A D Jameson, “Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception”
“Today, there are two words that sum up the culture: ‘authenticity’...”
– Malcolm McLaren
July 2010
7 posts
I Write Like David Foster Wallace. →
Just picked this up from a Paul Constant SLOG post. Pasted in my six favorite PubliCola reviews. One returned Vonnegut, one returned William Gibson (?), and four returned David Foster Wallace. I decided to do a control with non-journalistic writing and pasted in a grad school app essay: David Foster Wallace. Never read anything by him, but I guess it’s an incentive to start.
Regardless,...
“Soon all we’ll have in common is Lady Gaga and diabetes.”
– Cat and Girl
on the pronunciation of "cache"
me: "cash," "cashay," however you pronounce it, I hear it both ways
pete: "cash." programmers have a lock on that word
me: I guess it makes sense to have two, "cash" be for computers and "cashay" before, like, you know, "cashay" as in...
pete: oh you mean like "cashay" as in a store of stuff that's in a corner...like "a 'cashay' of cheese puffs"
me: (incontrollable laughter) BAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
pete: what, I don't think it's that funny. I mean, it's a real thing. "a 'cashay' of cheese puffs.
June 2010
14 posts
“There is no box. There is only a boat, with me as the captain, floating on a...”
“Just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does...”
– Michael Chabon
Guess where you WON'T read about the North... →
"This happened to me on my first time. I thought I... →
Hey asshole! You think you're better than me? ... →
Puppy Thrown at German Biker Gang
A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
The man drove up to a Hell’s Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy.
He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on a bulldozer from a nearby building site.
He was arrested later at home by police. The...
May 2010
13 posts
Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?
1 tag
1 tag
mom + email =
mom: want to see peter pan with me on m's day? will you be back by 4 p.m. from your bike trip? or do I have to sit alone in the dark on Mother's Day?
me: That sounds neat. Not sure if I will be back in time, but I will try. I'll call you.
mom: what sounds neat? me in the dark all alone???
me: No, the movie! Silly. You in the dark all alone only sounds neat if you add tears and a bottle of vodka.
mom: I prefer Scotch and grins.
free lunch →
yes, there is such a thing
April 2010
5 posts
"Hello. This is my second email to you regarding... →
this is the worst thing I have ever seen
1 tag
A plump of wildfowl. A wreck of seabirds. A... →
March 2010
2 posts
"Your soul was for the first runner-up. The big... →
