September 2008
48 posts
Squid Brain
Squids have brains in the shapes of donuts. Squids suck food in through the hole in their brains.
August 2008
47 posts
Bad Relations: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker →
Finally, near the end, the filmmakers stop backpedalling and rush through a series of increasingly violent acts in which the two men, trapped by their mistakes and their nauseating guilt, fall apart. “Devil” is devoted to the chaos unleashed by a single terrible idea. The fractured time scheme brings out the unsurprising but still enlightening lesson that crime should be left to the...
Why are tennis, golf, etc considered lifetime sports? I used to think it was because they were more easygoing sports that you could play even when you got old, whereas you couldn’t do that with basketball, football, etc. Now I think that tennis/golf/etc are lifetime sports because you can play them with fewer people. You can play golf by yourself, and tennis with only one other person....
Damon Che - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
In a much publicized incident, Che got into an argument with his bandmates during a show in Athens, Georgia while touring in support of Snowing Sun in October 2004 and proceeded to pack up his gear and drive the band’s van to Chicago alone, leaving the others stranded. The remaining members of Bellini promptly replaced Che with Girls Against Boys drummer Alexis Fleisig, borrowed a van from...
I don’t know if political operatives are actually really stupid or just that they’re couching their ideas in terms of what works in politics.
You might have thought I'd fallen off
sequentialist:
But get ready, I’m about to come back with the power, power.
Mostly, it’s cause I found a place to live for the next three and a half months and can now get pastries from Cheeseboard on my way to work each morning.
hollazzzzzzzzzz
MetaEzra →
Back in June, MetaEzra announced a project in conjunction with Cornell’s New Student Reading Project, Gary Wills’ Lincoln at Gettysburg. While the incoming class may have groaned at the thought of summer reading, some recent alumni — all engaged in the nation’s political arena in one form or another — took up the book in stride and agreed to be part of an alumni...
One of the Reasons Law School Orientation is so...
deepalc:
Really, the only meaningful expression of your past is your present and future, but during orientation you’re always talking about your past. There aren’t really many avenues during orientation to express the breadth of your person. On a whole, though, I think orientation is a good thing as long as you realize that the point isn’t to get to know people or have other people get to know...
ESPN - Team USA has already won hearts and minds... →
“The way they’ve treated us over here, that’s what’s going into the memory bank,” Tayshaun Prince said. “People are treating us like we’re on top of the world — which we’re not.”
But the top of the world was only one more victory away, and the Americans were hoping to finish this tournament in the same manner in which they’ve...
My Dead Letter Office →
All that said, I’ve been bleeding affection for months now and can’t help but feel a little embarrassed. I’m not running around with random peeps or anything, but I have a hard time managing the other 95% of life that grinds to a halt every time my mind wanders off to play in fantastical and semi-fictional worlds for a few hours.
I know the only solution I’ll be able to...
Barry.
robot-heart:
Does anyone know why conservative bloggers refer to Barack Obama as “Barry” when they want to be disparaging? Barry is a fairly common nickname. It was the name of conservative leader Barry Goldwater, an Arizonan that McCain counts among his early political mentors. From what I understand, it was a nickname Obama went by as a child and that he’s since shed, as most children shed their...
Athlete in pain, country in tears →
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He was a symbol of Chinese accomplishment and possibility, an extension of the nation’s best self. Certainly there are people in this vast land who were beyond the long reach of the Olympics — all 1.3 billion Chinese really couldn’t give a damn about a guy who jumps over hurdles, could they? — but no other Olympic athlete approached his status. As reported by the...
“There’s a segment of my blog readership that comes from the indie-craft world,...”
– Rachel Kramer Bussel: Lesbian cupcakes (via jgh)
Basically, you can do what you want, e.g., even if you’re a femninist you can still cook. On a slightly separate note, I’ve been bored recently by people’s use of language to make an idea seem grand, i.e., different from something...
NBC's Olympics coverage tops but drops--The Live... →
I have not tuned in to even one minute of the Olympics. I am and have been boycotting all things Chinese for the past two years. The Chinese have provided us with faulty and even deadly products yet Americans still don’t look for the country of origin when they purchase things. The Chinese have sent us lead-poisoned toys for our young children to chew on. They have sent us tainted...
About last night......
antikris:
Headed over to Sweet & Vicious to learn of it’s seizure. Nice. Called Blakeley who informed me it was moved to Tom & Jerry’s (right around the corner). Now, lately I have been walking everywhere rather than cabbing whenever possible, but last night seemed especially humid to me and the choice of the whore heels was certainly not the best. Right around the corner seemed to...
House in Detroit Sells for $1 →
markyb:
(via hilker)
The property taxes will run the new owner $3,900, in 2009.
Thanks, Kwame!
I’ve failed to see commentary about this topic I’m about to broach, but that could be because I showed up on the scene late. Do people call Mayor Kilpatrick by his first name, Kwame, to put him in his place? Ya know, as part of the racist tradition of calling black men...
“This particular technique seems so standard. I’m a little puzzled about why...”
– - Andrew Nathan (via sequentialist)
There’s no point in posing the question. Yes, the feigned outrage is retarded, everybody knows this, but thank god Mihir has returned to the internet-verse.
Day Night Day Night - Movie - Review - The New... →
How much of “Day Night Day Night” you choose to remember, however, is another matter. It depends on your tolerance for high- concept stunts. The movie, written and directed by Julia Loktev, may be serious, and it certainly is sure of itself. But it is also maddeningly, purposefully evasive. It wants to imprison you in a terrorist mind-set and play cat-and-mouse games with your hopes and...
Munchkins.
katiebakes:
“Still, the Chinese and the Americans were competing on the same apparatus with each rotation, so their differences in body types were glaring.
The Chinese gymnasts lack curves and have an average height of 4 foot 9 and an average weight of 77 pounds. The women on the U.S. team, generally more muscular and shapely than the Chinese, are 3 1/2 inches taller and 30 pounds heavier.”
...
Does the rash of Chinese-gymnasts-are-underage posts on Tumblr have more to do with the anxiety of white women at their inability to age as well as Chinese women than it has to do with gymnastics?
Cristina tells it like it is...
rach:
C: OH MY GOD C: and i love how bela just said it straight C: he was like…well we all know they fudged their passports C: and i was like…i have actual evidence that they are under 16. they are wearing glitter makeup and hot pink and purple hair clips. It looks like a little kid who is trying to dress up like their older sister. no self respecting teenager would wear those things in public.
...
“What’s wrong with the silver?”
– My sister, who is obviously an idiot and a communist. (via markyb)
Silver is first loser. Congratulations China, I guess y’all do deserve it more, being stolen away from your families at 3 years old and all that shit.
(via sarahchristine)
The U.S. is a country of sore losers.
Anand: you didn't answer my question
you just said hollaz
With India’s First Gold, Suddenly a Billion People... →
On the streets of the nation’s capital, the mood was jubilant, and incredulous. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Malvika Singh Rana, a 24-year-old hardware engineer in central Delhi. At first when she heard Bindra had won a gold, “I thought he may be an nonresident Indian from Canada or United States,” she said. But when she realized he was truly an athlete from India, “I shouted, ‘Oh my God — an...
How To Demo Your Startup →
The point is all that inner thinking is chaos when you try to explain it to another person. It’s pure madness after 60 seconds of talking. The best thing to do is answer the question with the most concise answer.
Man on Wire - Movie - Review - The New York Times →
Why did they do it? Rather than risking banality by addressing this question head-on, Mr. Marsh allows the answer to be at once self-evident and profoundly mysterious. A work of art is its own explanation, and “Man on Wire” leaves no doubt that Mr. Petit’s coup deserves to be called art. Mr. Blondeau, a sensitive and cerebral foil to the impish Mr. Petit, chokes up when he recalls watching his...
