October 2009
59 posts
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS.
langer:
Colin Nissan for McSweeney’s:
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests...
es regnet Strömen und Bindfäden
Red Roses and Rancid Cheese: Testing the Limits of... →
Annals of Improbable Research (Volume 6, Issue 4). Researchers wanted to test the delivery limits of the USPS. So they mailed a bunch of eccentric items to see what would happen.
“There is simply no way that a person with even the most minimal levels of...”
– Glenn Greenwald on today’s NYT editorial condemning the Obama administration’s overexpansive abuse of executive authority. Read both. (via fightwithknives) (via unburyingthelead)
Schmidt Sting Pain Index →
bestofwikipedia:
The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera. Schmidt...
unburyingthelead:
Death to Feelers - Asa Breed
Chris Adler →
“When I went to see heavy metal bands growing up, I wanted to hear them pull off what was on the record because I couldn’t believe that they did it to begin with. Maybe other people think differently, but I don’t want to go out there and change the part that’s on the record.”
This isn’t my own attitude to music, but if it’s true it would help finally make metal make sense...
Monday.
langer:
A brief list of things to contemplate before setting out to write your first novel or draft your first screenplay or run your first startup or record your first album or build any other big idea into something from which you ultimately hope to draw a paycheck:
80 million people bought The Da Vinci Code
16 million people tune in each week for “Two and a Half Men”
8 million people...
http://www.exactitudes.com/index.php →
yams:
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and...
Fool's Gold Loaf →
bestofwikipedia:
Fool’s Gold Loaf is a sandwich made by a restaurant in Denver, Colorado called the Colorado Mine Company. The sandwich consists of a single loaf of hollowed out, warmed bread filled with one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon. The name of the sandwich is derived from its price of $49.95. (via @Mr_Thell)
Benin's capital Cotonou is slowly disappearing →
I just heard the jingle for Radio 21. It was a woman singing something like “Ich bin nass geworden.” I think I might have misheard it.
