July 2009
165 posts
“Some were fifteen, they’re now thirty. Some were five, they’re now twenty. They...”
pursuant to our earlier conversation... →
the new offenders of standup comedy →
a critical analysis of the warren g / nate dogg...
“warren g you useless, useless bastard” / sean keane:
The song “Regulate,” by Warren G and Nate Dogg, tells the story of a dramatic night in the LBC. There is sex, there is violence, there is bass, there is treble. Nate Dogg cruises for skirts, guns down rival homies, and beds down triumphantly at the East Side Motel. Nate emerges the ideal G-Funk man. By contrast,...
1979 tom waits interview →
[i want to chain smoke on tv]
in case you were worried about your drinking...
apparently tuesday was the hundredth anniversary of malcolm lowry’s birth. reminded of the 2007 new yorker article by d.t. max about his (un)timely demise: day of the dead.
stephen metcalf of the new york times:
Coming of age a half-generation after “Ulysses,” the British-born, Cambridge-educated Lowry wanted to produce not just a novel but a cosmos-surfing, cosmos-swallowing book of...
i mean, fair enough →
went and saw in the loop tonight with 30 girls, jen, and barbara [haha]. really funny, in that soul-crushing english comedy / this actually happened kind of way.
what a champion. →
jack kerouac / steve allen / woody allen →
hahaha. →
i just got motorcaded for the third time this week.
it occurs to me that if i were the president, i would probably be scheduling the majority of meetings at my place.
oddly appropriate
Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery under...
the crow paradox →
oh shit, says humanity →
“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years,” Dr. Horvitz said. “Technologists are replacing religion, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”
muzorama →
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we are gods! we are wolves! / le loup [the throne...
rise of the herbivores →
the world's greatest imposter
ferdinand waldo demara
when asked why he did it: “rascality, pure rascality.”
“On Oct. 16, 1906, small-time criminal Wilhelm Voigt became a big-time criminal …...”
– via futility closet
a little too easy →
[via the daily dish]
brooklyn: the joke that everyone's in on but no...
spent last weekend with the usuals in bushwick, etc.
i was going through my ritual sunday ny bum-out session, which began on the floor of a very strange hotel room, when i arrived at chris’s [very cool] apartment in time to hear his metal band practice. predator raw [named after the portions of ’to catch a predator’ deemed too raw for tv, and thus exist in what might be the...
the ron artest compendium
the greatest moment in indiana basketball history: [eat it detroit]
the apology to paul pierce: [post-pantsing]
his video blog: [jokes]
his rap album: [“tic tac toe vs. sudoku” might be the best song name ever]
and perhaps the coup-de-grace, his beijing performance: [actually fantastic]
fordlandia
first off: someone buy me this book.
In 1927, Ford, the richest man in the world, needed rubber to make tires, hoses and other parts for his cars. Rubber does not grow in Michigan, and European producers enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the rubber trade because of their Asian colonies. So, typically, the car magnate decided to grow his own.
The site chosen for Ford’s new rubber plantation was an...
yoo gets got
In 2006, the team pulled a prank on Virgin Blue airlines staff at the Sydney Airport when they purchased online tickets for a flight from Sydney to Melbourne under the names Al Kyder and Terry Wrist. When the passengers failed to show up for the flight, Virgin Blue staff made a final boarding call over the airport PA system calling for the missing passengers, whose names sounded...
michel gondry and his son rap about the green... →
[yeah, no idea]
confirming my suspicions about local government. →
“this is when the new video iphone would really come in handy.”
– the women standing next to me in the elevator, after we had been stuck between the first and second floor of my office building for half an hour and were watching a pair of grubby hands from the other side of the door attempting to force it open. thankfully, despite her inability to videotape the...
love in 2-D →
