November 2007
109 posts
Blog name ideas from 1987: Halley’s Comment. Hands Across the Internet. The Color of Purple Money. Webster’s Secret Passage.
I just spilled hot coffee on my crotch. But not so hot that it didn’t feel kind of nice.
WatchAtmospheric Moods - “LA Rain” Relax and unwind to the soothing sounds of Los Angeles rain, light traffic and the dulcet tones of my next door neighbor Opera Lady Please Shut the Fuck Up.
“And over here is my favorite. It’s titled ‘Rainbow with Egg Underneath and an Elephant.’”
1 and CLAP and 3 and CLAP and
“no, not gonorrhea
so tonight i actually witnessed what i had only joked about before…auditory race classification. a blind man could have decided who was white and who was black with 100% accuracy. the identifier? the clap. it was 1 and 3 vs beats 2 and 4, and it was glorious.”
— chloesanchez
I’ve glared it at you before, white man, and I’ll glare it at you...
Every Twitter bio, by default should say ‘flinger of Internet poo’.
“They hurt me. Then they took all my money.” My girlfriend has no appreciation for the subtleties of modern dentistry.
WatchTHE MOST COMPELLING FOOTAGE OF ELDERLY ABUSE YOU WILL SEE TODAY
Some kid set up the video camera and risked sending Grandmom to an early grave by sitting her down in front of the Internet and showing her the viral shock video that everyone has been irresponsibly passing around lately (I’m looking at you, Boingboing) although I am an early adopter so I gagged to the first 14 seconds of it...
Can I write an ‘Away’ message on a post-it and stick it to my forehead? Is that considered rude? (Worse yet, is it considered trite?)
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"Hot Rod" (2007)
If you loved “Anchorman” (2004), you won’t be totally put off by “Hot Rod”. It’s much much funnier than the pitchmen would have you believe. Stupid pitchmen.
After the strike the studios will get an onslaught of scripts about labor disputes told from the POV of the handsome and well-hung laborers.
Joseph Loves His Job
“While sweeping up crumbs, bits of cheese, and other scraps from a meal for adults, I had a conversation with one of said well-paid adults who left bits of food all over the table and floor. He stopped and looked out the window.
‘Mm. Baby blue Porsche. I should get one of those.’
I lifted the dustpan and emptied it into the trash can.” — bittentongue
The <3 symbol reminds me of testicles on an ice cream cone. Or as I like to call them, testicles.
The New Dalai Lama
To obstruct the Chinese government from installing its own successor to Tibet’s spiritual leader, the current Dalai Lama is breaking tradition and taking action in support of an election while he is still alive, by which Tibetans will choose their next leader democratically.
via NPR
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It may be time little Jonas Gruber gets his own Twitter stream. The kid is a comic prodigy.
All I Needed to Know About Obama
According to TV Guide according to Drudge according to Vulture, Barack names SpongeBob among his favorite tv shows.
Can I please just vote for the guy already?
Clearly the up/down metaphor for data transfer still hasn’t taken with the public. Would toload/fromload have stuck better? putload/getload?
(No, Mowrey, I’m not sure that shootload/swallowload would fare any better with the Baby Boomers.)
Back at work from 2 weeks off. Aeron should put a thumbhole in their mesh seats - it would really help with what I’ve been doing all day.
this morning, drove behind very old lady with license plate ST SUSAN - clearly not the Patron Saint of Not Hopping the Curb.
Me and Dad, sitting on the couch, eating pumpkin pie and watching Larry King. Men being men.
i wouldn’t have expected this, but @scottsimpson loves his gimlets. and the guy is a mean, nasty drunk.
ran out of plastic bags for dog poo; used a Louis Vuitton someone had thrown out. probably a knock-off, though. a little messy but entirely worth it.
“actually, i believe it’s pronounced ‘Villem Dafoy’” - overheard never but that would be pretty funny, right?
tryptophane : tryptophan :: silicone : silicon - (usage: “I’m high off my ass on tryptophane right now.”)
just heard a bunch of drunk dudes in a backyard across the street having a loud ‘who’s got the biggest balls’ contest. the winner: humanity.
i like my turkey like i like my women. we’ll leave it at that.
when you’ve had enough to drink, most Thanksgiving foods can be construed into some sort of innuendo.
“I think one character says “dawg” four times in one sentence; he does not utter...”
– Joseph, in his review of ‘Southland Tales’
That character, by the way, is played by none other than Lou Pucci, whose name (if i may steal a joke from a friend) sounds like something Marlon Brando would want performed on him by a hooker.
Well, Noah Baumbach is kinda funny, I guess.
via kottke, a The New Yorker piece in which Baumbach recounts his last relationship in the style and form of a series of Zagat Guide reviews. my favorite restaurant:
VANDERWEI’S
Be careful not to combine “four dry sakes” with your “creeping feeling of insecurity and dread,” or you might find yourself saying, “Wipe that damn grin off your face!” The bathrooms are “big and glamorous,” so you...
Yesterday was an awful movie day.
my Movie Buddy and i took in 3 movies yesterday. typically when we do this, it’s an exercise meant to inspire. see, he’s a screenwriter and i like to close my eyes and make believe i work in movies, so when we watch, we watch to learn.
yesterday’s curriculum was not so helpful, in that regard.
we kicked off with a his guild screener of “Margot at the Wedding”...
‘interesting’ means something different to flickr than it means to me.
can’t really stomach Ed Burns, but am downloading ‘Purple Violets’ to prove a point. (that’s enough activism for the day, i think).
couldn’t find Eternal Sunshine so we watched National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2. in it’s entirety. SPOILER: at the end the monkey steals the diamond.
someone just mass emailed a “funny” clip from Fox News’ comedy show. then mass emailed it 2 more times. 3rd time crashed Mail.app.
