2008

May

“It will also be horribly difficult and painful for Americans...”
— Martin Amis, “The Second...

theoriginaljoefisher:quaking aspens.

“We say we love each other and we do, I don’t doubt it. We...”
— Beginners, by Raymond...

milesbarger: Toxic nudibranchs—soft, seagoing slugs. see...

I’ve posted bits of Keith Jarrett before, but as his best work is too long to upload (and in...

“The first time he left I felt scalded, as if drenched by a...”
— Heaven Spent,...

My mom took this photo in Metairie yesterday; the flag is...

The First Time I've Been Called a "Man"

fatmanatee: tumblcrush: “I have a tumblr crush on Mills The man seems absolutely incapable of...

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science...”
— Albert Einstein. I’ve...

Jindal, McCain, Katrina

Cycling in St. Francisville, LA, with Will, HM, and WM. I know the music is perhaps a bit much; but...

Squashed is grateful for his lovely-looking dog, which -like...

“Get your scary eyes away from my ovaries.”
— Syd, to me. She swears...

Because Everyone Has Klaus Kinski Moments My dogs come sit next to meA pack of dogs and of...

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (via...

katrina:nevver. My deceased maternal grandmother’s...

“There are no strangers, there are only friends.”
— Heidi C., 8-year old...

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! I was going to come to town,...

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your...”
— CS Lewis (via vasta). Done and...

billydalto: NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in...

Via supernice. I think this is beautiful, but I may be...

Madness

Geekerella and Doree are having an interesting conversation about mental illness in the workplace, a...

yumwatch: The most beautiful portrait of an insane person ever put to film; with the most...

bauldoff: Flower Girls by Elsa Mora. Mental note: show...

“There’s absolutely no reason to take seriously someone who...”
— Richard Dawkins (BBC NEWS | UK...

‘A 3D Exploration of Picasso’s Guernica.’ Inspired by the Nazi...

black-maria: “Kermit the Frog sings Elliott Smith’s “Needle in the Hay”, I weep.”

Tonight I’ve written and discarded more text than at any other time I can recall; I have no...

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...

The Stumblng Tumblr noted the existence of tulip farms,...

“She sacrificed many things for me and gave me one of the...”
— Sydvish: Why/How I Love my...

A Dream of Flight

After lovepuppy asked whether flight or invisibility was preferable as a...

Today, despite spending literally minutes preparing for his...

Sunburn and Selfhood

When I spend hours outdoors with my dogs, they occasionally regress to their days as strays and...

Five’s attraction to beer pays off for Roman. My doppelganger had a swell party yesterday at...

Beck - Blackhole. Okay: I’ve heard and seen a lot of fascinating, beautiful things here in the...

Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

Art Tatum- ‘Yesterdays.’ Tatum is commonly referred to as the greatest jazz pianist in...

katydid: Leo’s song from impactist on vimeo.The plan was to share just one,but i couldn’t resist...

Pensacola, Atlanta

I’ve put up the photos from the trip that Syd, Will, and I took to attend a beach wedding in...

“Waste can… You should keep the world clean as...

At the High with Chuck Close and Vik Muniz. This is what...

This, perhaps because of my sentimentality about animals, or...

New game: in an office bathroom, make faces and jump up and...

Vreny's Biergarten

Atlanta church converted into a bank, or: ‘There Will...

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic...”
— George Santayana (via...

My Dream Flight

mollycaitlin: The Ugly: - Wing malfunction of said plane - Nearly crashing on the runway -...

It’s not Wednesday anymore where I am, and I am...

Excellent Points

Both Squashed and Bunnynico had excellent responses to the Wright issue and I recommend both their...

Apr

My mother, who lives in New Orleans, went to JazzFest last...

dalasverdugo: Adem - To Cure A Weakling Child (Boy Girl Song) I was looking for the Aphex Twin...

tucker: PaintRoller’d (via ihasmario) AMAZING! This is a modified version of Mario Paint, or...

“The end product [of Suburbia] is an encapsulated life, spent...”
— Lewis Mumford, The City in...

On Some Things Being Wrong

I do not think that Obama’s relationship with Wright reflects meaningfully on him or tells us...

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”
— Cyril Connolly, quoted by...

k8e: in the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart...

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us...”
— Vladimir Nabokov (via...

My hotel room is opposite the large new headquarters of a...

“Operating in a world where life and commercial narratives...”
— Review of David Foster...

Notes

Some observations I will refrain from processing into meaningful coherence: I rented something...

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one,...”
— Karl Popper.

Subsumed by the Swarm

It is hardly possible to be lonelier than one is when in a crowd of strangers; it makes the...

I am the solitary lunatic scribbling to himself at the sushi...

Although I think it’s bizarre and perhaps a bit cruel...

Boy band video shoot for new single “Non-Alcoholic...

Books on Tape: Live! Reading Karl Popper to Will as we...

Syd, Will, and I will be attending a beach wedding in...

“We are living well after the introduction of the piano forte...”
— My dad.

Do kids still run and jump to avoid ‘hot lava’...

When I worked for a time at a veterinary hospital, I became acquainted with a strange habit the mind...

“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little...”
— John le Carre (via...

ellebelle: “We cannot wish for that we know not” -...

“It is not the consciousness of man that determines his...”
— Karl Marx, quoted by Popper....

idkwidk: Given a choice how many of the animals would opt...

On the back of a cereal box

katydid: I woke up with so many lines on the right-side of my face from my pillow that it looks...

Above: an image from the Random Walk theory page at...

Black Boxes

After a particularly traumatic break-up a few years ago, I spent some time deconstructing,...

thatguyben: The steps at Paley are so low and easy that...

katrina: I have loved this song deeply since the first time I heard it. tuneage: Laurie...

“It ain’t me. It ain’t me. I ain’t no...”
— I just realized while eating...

Cruel and Unusual History - NYT

“In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly...”
— Hillary Clinton...

stumblng: an advert from April 1908, via this would that...

“…now the Stumblng Tumblr’s no foreign affairs expert,...”
— The Stumblng Tumblr:...

Tom Waits - Take It With Me I felt bad only posting examples of Waits as a ludicrous caricature, so...

J.R. Valenzuela: one of the dorms at Bard.

J.R. Valenzuela

I tend to write and think generally, which is unfortunate:...

“San Marino, with a population of about 30,000, is at the end...”
— From this NYT article. I bet...

idkwidk: I am glad I can give up my corporate bus pass and...

leeg: “A small child recently lost his hand when his...

ashleystar: morphine - wishing well

Fuck

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck...

Some days, even a glamorous career in middle (and middling)...

E-mail etiquette

karmcity: Whoever came up with the idea that all e-mails are informal, and thus, can be excused...

Eff Ough.

saramcpherson: The letter combination “ough” has nine different possible pronunciations. This...

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking - 1977. I love my doppelganger; there, I said it. He just...

Tom Waits - Come On Up to the House I have long hoped to open either a serious rehab hospital or an...

Up and Then Down

cameronr (via many others) When I saw this on VSL, I thought: I should try and resist the coming...

ellebelle: “In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass...

What will it take for citizens to demand comprehensive...

“Why do we love eating lobster but recoil at the thought of...”
— Psychology Today: Mystery of...

idkwidk: Dog fighting is cruel! Dog wresteling looks like it could be fun. It does not qualify as...

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to...”
— Albert Schweitzer, quoted by...

The Utter Boredom of the Bore-in-Himself...

In a short, lively, readable essay in which he demonstrates that (1) something may be both false and...

“A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air...”
— From Philip Larkin’s...

I don’t think I’ve ever asked the Tumblr...

“Damn, Mills: you seem cool. What does a bad-ass like...

Metastatic Consumption Pattern

David Foster Wallace describes the way trends spread across demographic groups, like affluent...

I am seriously not trying to be an asshole about this, and I...

sydvish: The end is near… We went to see Kevin’s new...

Yes, I bought a bacon chocolate bar and an olive white...

“I’m in the car right now… My hair is killing me. My icy was...”
— Liz’s Notes: My students...

(via tylerriewer)

“I hope I am destined to make really weak and inessential...”
— Red Right Ankle, making an...

bauldoff: Beautifully simple covers for Dante’s Divine...

Frankb: “It’s like a fancy, dancing lunch.” Frank is an asshole.

“Being Irish, I have an abiding sense of tragedy which...”
— W.B. Yeats (via whokilled)

A gutsy and heroic Circle K manager built (from blood,...

“I don’t see the problem with people voting based in part for...”
— Squashed, one of my favorites....

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in...”
— John Adams, 1797, as quoted...

romeojulietsierra: For years we’ve been reading about a...

“I respect an artist’s right to free speech, even if I don’t...”
— Bunnynico. Well-summarized.

The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure. I love this song and I love claymation, although I don’t...

“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to...”
— Ecclesiastes, quoted by Orwell ...

I freely admit that I am, by the casual reckoning of our...

ashleystar (via beautiful). I feel like I’ve been...

Who's Bitter Now? - NYT

“Normally, you would [define a net as] a meshed instrument...”
— Julian Barnes. Katydid knows...

"Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun," by...

Living in Baton Rouge with the heroes of overconsumption,...

cameronr: Brandon Bird: “No One Wants to Play Sega with...