July 2007
73 posts
“that’s ridiculous. Why should I have to wait for something to “sink...”
– King Kracka commenting on this clip: http://www.vimeo.com/251208 I have submitted a formal clip request: ”Please show us some art that doesn’t suck. Preferably something infants are incapable of, painted by a grown man.”
We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift.Your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need...
appropriate
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a backwards phrase in more ways than one.
conclusion:
I’ve come to the conclusion that all arguments, misunderstandings, and disagreements can be resolved if you just communicate long enough.
I would like to purchase a truly unscented deodorant. And one that contains no aluminum.
In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart... →
“Ms. Rodham skates earnestly on the surface of life, raising more questions than answers. ‘Last week I decided that even if life is absurd why couldn’t I spend it absurdly happy?’ she wrote in November of her junior year. She then challenges herself to “define ‘happiness’ Hillary Rodham, acknowledged agnostic intellectual liberal, emotional conservative.”
“…Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be...”
– Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate 2004-2006, in response to “elitist” poets who maintained writing poetry should be reserved for the few.
sidestep →
Carl, whose new hobby is finding the best travel deals, suggests sidestep.com for flights.
commas
Carl is reading the book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves at the moment and was reading about the comma last night. I had forgotten the little anecdote about two literary men arguing the comma’s importance. One man offered this sentence, “After dinner, the men went into the living room.” He asked why the comma was needed. The other man said, “This comma was [the author’s] way...
Koalas Aren’t Hard They Some Little Bitches.
From an 8th grader’s essay in Pittsburgh. Not quite sure how you get away with writing like this in school, at least as far as the swearing goes. Do you get a detention for turning in something like this? If I was the teacher I’d give him an A+ with detention. “I shouldn’t do shit. I don’t care about them they all could die and it won’t affect my life. I know a lot about them but...
TB's BB
Thommy Browne’s animated gif of Brian Brown.
The penitent man shall pass... penitent......
I have decided to document each time I watch any of the movies that made my top three list. Tonight, Carl and I are watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade while he works on his drums and I work on a day-in-the-life feature for my company’s weekly newsletter.
WatchI’m wanting to make more videos using our Edirol R-09. It can be a lot of fun.
list of recent group invites I've received on...
I flushed my phone down the toilet on accident K’in it R i need some numbers NOTHING Vainism ~NEW and IMPROVED Newman Dance Team~ Men Are Scum Club Students for Social Action
karma police, arrest this guy we call "Orange...
My friends, Heather, Carl, and Miller have made Monday night Texas Hold ‘Em at a small bar our weekly ritual. Typically, only one of us will make it to the final table. Last night, both Miller and I made it to the top five. The other three included Mr. Hat, Mr. Gay, and the notorious Mr. Orange Tank-top. Orange Tank-top is known as the bully. He’s really intimidating and loud. His arms...
Grandma doesn't get it
“… As people age, they lose their sense of humor, says a new study. It takes brainpower to compute the meaning of a joke — short-term memory, abstract reasoning, and cognitive flexibility are all key — so elderly people with declining mental abilities can also experience a dulled sense of absurdity…” - The Week, v7, i320 I think that’s the most...
Sometimes I’ll hang out on YouTube and read people’s profiles. It can be really entertaining.
world's fattest man
Last night we watched part of the show, “World’s Fattest Man.” Just to explain how upsetting I found this show to be, I have been thinking a lot about lunch today. I don’t know what I’m going to eat, but I do know that I don’t want to feel full. Not for a while, at least.
top three movies I could watch over and over...
1. Batman (1989) 2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 3. Jurasic Park (1993) I attempted to come up with a top five, but I don’t really think any other movies fit the title criteria. I have every line of each of these movies memorized.
vimeo attitude
melissa: i dont like some of the new attitude about vimeo
andrea: me either
andrea: and the most outspoken people that are being dicks are ones that have had accounts for like 4 or 5 months at most!
it's such bullshit.
melissa: i've noticed that too
andrea: I'm not saying that I'm like so awesome or whatever, but I never would have felt okay saying that shit. In fact, I still don't!
melissa: same with me!
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“I feel I must admit that even in this soothing breeze, every time I see a man in...”
– from Rjyan Kidwell’s blog. Reading it gave me chills.
“The lady who cleans the house is here and I don’t have any clothes on!”
– Carl
habits, lately:
- Unzipping my pants a few steps before I get to the bathroom. - Going back and adding a little tail to my written letter “U’s” - Overfeeding fish. - Talking about defecating during meals.
coffee mold
Everyday, I go downstairs and get coffee in the break room. Before I can, though, I have to wash out the mold that grew the night before. I’m consistently amazed at the speed at which the mold grows or gestates or whatever. If I add a lot of cream and leave my coffee half-full over the weekend, I can look forward to getting to work on Monday and seeing my coffee mold growing a shriveled,...
I’m going to taste Marmite today.
“Let’s form a Lenny Kravitz cover band. ”
– Carl Stuerke
http://www.crackle.com/fame/ →
Everyone has been blogging about crackle. I decided to go check it out. I watched one and a half videos and then saw a tab labeled “fame.” I clicked it and it took me to the page I’ve linked above. It definitely secured my judgement of crackle. Crackle is for schmucks.
“Wow, that actually feels really good just to use my bare foot.”
– Carl, as he hit the kick drum during a jam session with his friends.
“I fully agree, Doc. With 250mb, what else is needed? Why are some people so keen...”
– vimeo user: SteveR commenting in the “Vimeo Pro” forum.
Best Brian Brown Blog Post Ever →
excerpt: so i get down the mountain a little bit more to where i think i’m clear of the cougar, but there is still a hint of danger. there is some guy there with his three nasty, half retarded girlfriends that he’s probably going to have a disgusting orgy with at the top. anyway, i say to them, “hey, i saw a cougar up there. you might want to be careful or something.” then...
flickr favorites
I think looking at people’s favorite flickr photos is almost more telling about their personalities than their personal photos.
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business casual chat
Andrea: hey, do you have a project list in a word doc? and if you do, could you send it to me?
Andrea: I want to take credit for everything you've accomplished
Erin: Of course. Once you remove your lips from [Boss's] ass.
Someone just took a sour, humidity-raising shit in the bathroom right outside my office. If the smell had a color, it would be burnt umber.
I like reading books that have the portrait of the author with the short bio. Whenever I read something I find brilliant like, “…And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the...
“ I’ll leave it on for 24 hours. It may scare away potential viewers.”
– SteveR about my short-lived ability to change the thumbnail on this clip to a work ID picture of me with hair from 2004.
melissa: ok i'm going to lunch now that i can't stop thinking about buttholes
aa: enjoy