July 2008
34 posts
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700 hobo names, read by john hodgman
defunct youth group metal bands:
leviticrush
diet of wyrms
obadiah
diseased livestock
narthex
BEATTITUDE
iron mandrake
x communication
apocriffa
NUMBERS 15:39
joel
via mcsweeney’s
george orwell: blogger →
america is fucked - the draplin project →
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andrew bird - imitosis (four tet remix)
“work is for people who can’t play video games.”
– billy mitchell, donkey kong world champion
collective pronouns:
a sleuth of bears
a flight of bees
a lounge of lizards
an exaltation of larks
a deceit of lapwings
a charm of hummingbirds
a wake of buzzards
a company of parrots
a congregation of crocodiles
an ostentation of peacocks
a crash of rhinoceri
an unkindness of ravens
a skulk of foxes
a murmuration of starlings
a descent of woodpeckers
and my personal favorite:
a...
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the lonesome death of hattie carroll - mason...
“alas” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day. at the beginning...”
– franz kafka, via dfw
“you don’t call retarded people retarded. that’s just poor taste. you call your...”
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at long last, margarine freedom →
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mr. carter - lil wayne
NFL player names that sound vaguely dickensian,...
Ethan Albright Honest and upright youngest son of the dissolute Lord Albright. Childhood favorite of his deceased mother, Lady Alicia Albright, and said to resemble her most uncannily. He comes to grief attempting to foil his father’s plot against the innocent Jeremy Trueblood. Marcus Maxwell Dodgy owner of the disreputable Circus Marcus. Suspected by Magistrate Petitgout of feeding the...
