May 2009
“a highly thoughtful conservative prior to his elevation to the nation’s...”
– description of Souter, from Nina Totenberg’s story about his impending retirement to return to that little state he loves so much. [npr]
April 2009
dinosaurs! →
tonight we went to key arena and took a magical trip through time to see amazing giant dinosaurs roaming around, fake foraging, and sort of fighting. There could have been a bit more action,…
Video: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - “Young... →
mbvmusic:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - “Young Adult Friction”
I don’t think it would have been possible for this video to look more like how I imagined the band from the sound of their album [twttr]. Foggy basement, check. The singing skeletons are a bonus.
rockville, literary convergences
This episode of Rockville, CA was written by Toph Eggers, produced by Zev Borrow, and features Bishop Allen performances.
it includes comedy gems like: “I’m not a puppy. You can’t hide the ball and have me forget about it. I’m not fucking Stevie Wonder, I’ll still know what’s going on.”
They really do need to write the douche character off. A four...
imeeming
This seems to be the sanctioned methodology for telling you that I really like the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album.
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
OH MY GOD
maura:
JERRY ORBACH IS ON THIS EPISODE OF THE GOLDEN GIRLS
AND HIS CHARACTER IS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH DOROTHY
RIP X 10000000000
how is this tragic occasion not on the youtube?
“Cue the Elephants”
Bishop Allen...
barcelona →
I sorted through Lightroom and uploaded some pictures from Barcelona. Lots of cathedrals and Gaudi from walking around the city being a tourist. Consider them the postcards I forgot to send…
“I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured...”
– MoDo is a jerkface. (I’m only now catching up on my two week internet vacation.) —via wkfd.
The birds →
Swarming around a neon fish at the wharf in San Francisco.
the standard →
I know that seattle doesn’t really have the appropriate climate for such a thing, but if someone wanted to make a consciously overdesigned rooftop bar/pool situation there I would be supportive of such a venture.
Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare [gawker] →
a few of my coachella pictures ended up on Gawker today.
Watchthe cheesepuffs opening scene from last week’s episode of the Office should win an Emmy for special achievement with synthetic food product stunts.
LA →
My hotel is across the street from the dramatic conclusion of Heroes season one.
coachella at night →
the grounds crew at this hotel in the desert don’t seem to mind making tremendous amounts of morning noise, so I might as well get up and upload pictures from yesterday’s long day at…
coachella →
I flew from Amsterdam to LAX and then drove for a hundred hours in traffic to go to Coachella. By the time I’d arrived I’d already missed the indie center of the day (Girl Talk was already…
barcelona →
Today I walked around the city on the advice of TimeOut’s “48 hours in …” and looked at a bunch of Gaudi things. All the way down one of the narrow vertigo-inducing spiral staircases at…
Outlets →
On a flight to Amsterdam (then to Barcelona).
"A Skeptic's Guide to Passover" →
throwing a little science (wind set-down effect, dinoflagellates, volcanic vents, hallucinogens) in along with your Manichevitz. [slate]
US newspaper owners are "mad as hell" →
by “mad as hell” they mean “certifiably insane”, right?
“UNDERSTANDING THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE PIE CHART CAN HELP US MAKE SENSE OF AND...”
– Another salvo in the war against bad information graphics. [SEEDMAGAZINE via NYT.ideas]
this dude will have a six-figure book contract by... →
(via maura) definitely. so popular was the topic that it broke the internet for a few hours this afternoon.
happy 5th birthday, subservient chicken →
Rick Webb tells the story of how the Barbarian Group made a creepy chicken on the internet appear to do whatever you typed.
WatchPhoenix was on Saturday Night Live last night. Along with the rest of the album, “Lisztomania” has grown on me substantially, which may be related to the arrival of spring. The whole thing sounds like it’s built out of slightly stretched Slinkies and loose ligaments.
Here’s “1901”, too. [hulu]
“But it’s 2009 now, and this problem no longer exists.”
– joshua’s blog: on url shorteners (via wkfd) (the funny thing is that I think that twitter does its own URL-shortening anyway)
“ Then she pretended like she was a cawing bird as she flew to her seat. This is...”
– A description of Megan’s appearance on last night’s American Idol from Claire Zulkey’s recap. [A.V. Club] As much as I like LOST, I’m sort of sad that I missed this moment, but am relieved that someone put it online for me [youtube].
