February 2012
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January 2012
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Coming Attractions
richasapo:
Can you learn the true nature of a man just by watching his appearances in the media? Well one man will have to, and the man he’s learning about will be himself. When a supposedly harmless experiment/publicity event goes wrong, Hulk Hogan’s brain is wiped clean of all but the most basic functions required to remain alive. Now a team of scientists must recreate as much Hulk as...
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nostrich: Gentlemen, I have started a blog. Famous... →
nostrich:
Gentlemen, I have started a blog. Famous last words, to be sure, but I’ve been thinking about and planning and working on this for a while, and I like what it’s ended up looking like. I will tell you all about it, but first some boring meandering in pursuit of a point. Apparently, there’s a …
Well this is terribly exciting! You guys! Read the things this smart man has found...
richasapo:
Go open your cutlery drawer and then slam it. Hear the way it rattles? That’s my new album. I’m using this message to conceptually frame every instance of a cutlery drawer rattling anywhere as a single musical work by me, entitled Jesus Christ, And His Wedding To Grace Jones In Hyperspace (10000AD). A single work, being performed all over the globe at once by trillions upon...
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themadeshop:
Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art or a politics. Authenticity is a measure of provenance, and provenance has nothing to do with substance. An idea may be ours and still be false. A work of art may be ours and still be ugly. A politics may be ours and still be evil.
— Leon Wieseltier, Against Identity (via austinkleon
I...
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moledro
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
The delicious antithesis of this is one that...
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While acknowledging that it’s impossible to argue someone into loving something they hate, and vice versa, it’s still often enjoyable to attempt the argument. When we talk to people whose opinions directly contradict ours, we’re forced to defend our tastes, define our opinions, and analyze why we react the way we do. Which is why we have Why Don’t You Like This?, in which two of our staffers...
Chris Onstad: Uncanny things that make me feel strange happen [in Jim Woodring’s comics]. That’s why I’ve been buying them for 20 years. Actually, I don’t mean to say “buying.” I mean to say “enjoying.”
Comics Alliance: You don’t buy his comics?
CO: No, I buy them, but that’s not my relationship with them. Money is just a...
December 2011
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WatchHey man, do you ever just, like, really feel the music? I mean really feel the music, like, inside you
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November 2011
14 posts
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I Survived An Abusive Animal Crossing Relationship
clupster:
Picture him: a grumpy indigo walf moving into town, plopping down in the house next next to mine. Picture the tulip garden at his front yard, him tending to it, me clutching an agonized letter with a Paisley Ottoman attached as a housewarming gift. I wanted him to like me. I dreaded him ever leaving my town. My letter was clogged with compliments for his sense of decor, his blue...
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My mind would spill out my ears should I ever have the opportunity to make my interactions at any convention as dense as (read: even moreso than they already are) I would like, easily overpowering the earbuds that act as corks during my meditative drive home. Seven generously lonely hours were startlingly appreciated while I processed and divided a whole new set of memories comprised of the faces...
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“…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff…...”
– John Green (via bottlecup)
He’s little more than a distant man named “Dad” now, so I’m not that upset about it. That’s a lie, obviously, but I have to laugh at the sheer perfection of it to keep from crying.
I saw him last week visiting his mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She is on drugs and is much better now, though still relapses to a set of memories from a different era,...
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I woke up early this morning to go to my grandparents’ house to pick up their dog to take to work with me. I missed the breakfast at Burger King by about four minutes, so I drove out of line of the drive thru and went straight to the freeway instead. I’m at work now, and Shiba is in the yards dancing and spinning - as huskies do. When I’d arrived there was a car in their driveway...
"Because Yelp needs Cormac McCarthy"
everythinginthesky:
THE APPLE STORE
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
Given the way my uncle died havin a drink directly after his funeral just didnt seem right so I went for a walk instead. One of them downtowns where all there is is stores. Came across a store was a big cube. Two stories tall and all silver. There was folks...
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I haven’t been sleeping, which itself isn’t terribly interesting, but the reasons for it perhaps might be.
My grandmother’s mind is leaving her, walling itself off from her access one section at a time. When I was 10 Grandad would tape on his hyper-sophisticated VCR Pokémon for me, and every Sunday after church I’d visit them and Grandma would make me a grilled cheese...
phyllis-stein:
“A relevant anthropology is a committed anthropology. A committed anthropology is capable of saying, unembarrassedly, that human suffering ought to be alleviated.”
I was going over my last anthropology paper when it occurred to me that it took nine pages of argument to reach this conclusion: “Human suffering ought to be alleviated.” Nine...
October 2011
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And Words Were No Longer Working by Cornelius...
Sea Monsters by Cornelius Jones
The pretend amps...
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corey: *fawning over a hairy man*
clup: see what i mean about every hipsterfurry being a bearchaser
corey: am i a hipsterfurry i don't even know
clup: says the david foster wallace furry
corey: okay you know what clup
corey: shut up, that's what
clup: you gonna have a howling fantod, corey
corey: asdfkjhasdfashj
clup: endlessly enjoying this wordless moment
clup: just saying
clup:
clup: clup uses howling fantod, it's super effective
corey: corey seems confused... he starts babbling in his confusion!
corey: I AM HERE
clup: i am mountain walk i walk across all yalls mountin's
clup: cannot be blocked my mountin' types
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Jorge's Choice
His mutt was such a vicious beast that she was less of a dog and more of a set of teeth with a dog attached. None could near her without deep chested rumbles filling their chests in kind. So alarming was this dog’s presence that the concrete slabs before Jorge’s house were a bit whiter than those of his neighbors’.
Jorge was lonely, but not yet lonely enough to do anything...
“You’re tense”, she said as she started methodically squeezing up my arm. She was a professional masseuse, and also completely innocent. It felt nice, but I also didn’t feel tense. I perhaps tensed when she squeezed me - being touched by a girl is not a familiar sensation to me (that is to say, through genuine lack of trying - I much prefer the touch of men but that’s...
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Why did you give up drinking?
I was getting too good at it.
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Allison: COREY
Corey: ALLISON
Allison: whats your mailing address
Corey: Oh uh
Corey: Hang on
Allison: hanging on
Corey: [mailing address]
Corey: Wait what are you sending me should I be worried
Allison: huge horse dongs
Corey: Oh okay then
Allison: yeah just the regular
vandergrafvanny:
Jeff Dunham should just give up on terrorist puppets and do a routine with attractive animal puppets that he shamelessly flirts with- eventually each routine would spiral downwards into Jeff Dunham simply making out with the puppets on stage because he’s lost control of his life.
I would watch that.
September 2011
8 posts
I love glowing screens. When I’m away from my computer for days, I’m happy when I sit down in front of it. There’s a certain feeling I get when I use any computer — a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad, my TiVo, even an ATM or the credit card slider at the supermarket. Cool, a computer.
— Gruber describing the sentiments of every nerd, ever
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