December 2008
20 posts
About the Cat
Me: Neptune was being crazy this morning. All over the counters running around.
Yosha (who is 10yrs old): Really? She must have had an epiphany.
Me: Ha! What do you think the epiphany was?
Yosha: I don't know... ..... probably "go crazy".
Something in the way Molly Lambert keeps referencing “imprinting” is making me feel like I’ve never been born.
“i never said muskie was eating ibogaine. i said there was a rumour in milwaukee...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (approximately)
Little Banana →
Little Banana, “the best Bottle Rocket fansite…. They have the original screenplay for the Bottle Rocket short, side by side comparison with the shooting script, and a transcript of Dignan’s notebook.”
[via] This Recording: In Which You, My Dear Friend, Are a Damn Fool. by Molly Lambert
“He came to me like, ‘I see what you got going on. I really like what you [got]...”
– Killer Mike
5oh7:
devil town : tony lucca
I was living...
Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security...
“Fun fact: do you know in Russian [TVs are] called televisors? Space age.”
– Above the fold
Space age indeed. I shall adopt this immediately.
I also like the way the French do this. You know, rather than commit the unspeakable sin of adopting the Anglo-American, the way they’ll come up with things like magnetophone (tape recorder) and the sublime magnetoscope (VCR).
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Howl if You Mate for Life
latenightliz:
dearoldlove:
I’m hoping we’ll be reincarnated as married wolves.
“every time you think of me, we die, a little”
– prettymucheverywordwritten,spoken,heard,overheardfrom1989 by douglas gordon
currently at the guggenheim
(via nikography)
Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Find...
Starving to death, covered with vermin, with no clothing but the filthy rags they had worn during their whole imprisonment - a period of from five to twenty months; cramped by long sitting in one position, so that they could not straighten their limbs; their feet rotted off!”
“Young Readers’ History Of The Civil War; For Home And Country: A Civil War Scrapbook” by Norman...