- Never invite the chiggers to a party. #
- Did anyone else out there enjoy Cloverfield as much as I did? #
- Speaking of Cloverfield: never bring Doberman-sized spider-lookin monsters to a party in NYC. Even if you're indestructible and 300 ft tall. #
- Robert Siegel just asked "does this mean more marmots or bigger marmots?" #
- Front page headline this morning: "Candidates turn up heat as they grill each other." Ouch. #literally? #
- I have a few old They Might Be Giants songs on my run playlist. Love em. I think I just need some accordion to fire my blood. #
- Movie Salt is really enjoyable until after when you start to think about it, but haven't simply enjoyed a show like this in too long. #
- "Where's the keyboards, & the tambourine, & the guitar, & you know, I mean – the stuff that like, white people like?" -Carl (from ATHF) #
- Rompers are so popular right now. How long until the man-romper arrives? #fashionformmen #
- Inception=Oceans11+a deep rabbithole where everyone's batshit for guns instead of tea. Oh and w/ GIJoe-type action. But also really good! #
- Today purchased secondhand The Score by the Fugees and Metalica's black album. I'm now as cool as I wanted to be 10-13 years ago. #hopeless #
- "Exit light, enter night, take my hand off to never never land." I love lyrics in the imperative. Impossible… to resist… Rocking out… #
- Anticipation for the English soccer season, with Arsenal playing Liverpool Aug15. Doing preseason reading & thinking it's Arsenal's year.(!) #
- What's the name of that movie with the gremlins in it? #
- Metalica's Black album came out when I was 13. Finally bought it. You know what that means? #
- It means I was Unsuccessfully Cool from age 13 until I stopped trying (whenever it was). Since then I've settled for Successfully Uncool. #
- "…fashion–the triumph of the absurd remade into something highly desired but barely wearable at a price that is unaffordableRead more…" #
- That last quote by Susan Orlean in a New Yorker article about jeggings http://bit.ly/9eSu1o (via @RaquelLaneri) #
- I wonder if there's a story behind the idiom "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." #
- Susan Orlean has changed the way I think about hashtags in text messages. #lookitup #
- I forgot about this: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. #
- Word. #lookitup #
- Do computer/phone interfaces enrich our visual vocabulary, do they expand visual vocab, or do they regiment it all into fullblown language? #
- Or, on the other side, do image-based interfaces limit visual expressives by establishing a grammar/syntax for pictoral experience? #
- Do extraterrestrial shapeshifting reptillian overlords lay eggs? Are they good in huevos rancheros, or more suitable for quiche? #
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House cleaning is more fun when you have old newspapers laying around. Take this example of a USA Today (I must have hauled it back from a work trip because I’ve never spent actual money on a copy): it’s from 2004, and we dug it up in a fit of summer cleaning a week or two ago. Added bonus: it’s dated July 30, so we’re coming up on the 6 year anniversary of hiding this little time capsule/archive. How much could the world have changed since then? Well…
If this quick look is anything, it’s a call to retain paper records as a bedrock of society (and a great mine for offhand trivia). Don’t get me wrong, I love me some diginews. But physical archives don’t require any gadgets except the ones in your head and at the ends of your arms to gain access. And for simple snapshots, the odd newspaper page is super cool. Now, it’s time to recycle this paper before it disintegrates. So without further ado: For starters, the thing is HUGE. I don’t think that USA Today is printed on such huge sheets of paper anymore. At least, compared to the Courier Journal nowadays after a couple of downsizes in size to save paper costs, this rag looks like it’s built for much larger readers (or as a swatter for Jurassic-sized mosquitos) In 2004, John Edwards was part of the team destined to “restore trust” in the USA and the presidency. These were happy days for him and John Kerry. They were riding out from the convention and ready to oust the bad guys and smile warmly on America. We know how that ended, and we now know that Edwards is a bit skeezier than we thought but that he’s still less skeezy than the dude he was trying to take over from.
Eli Manning? in 2004, he’s just an overhyped kid with an accomplished older bro, but he’s coming into the NFL on a big contract and big expectations. I’m not the football fan around here, so you tell me if it was worth it for the Giants to get him…
USC was just recently on the nasty end of the NCAA stick (the mighty have fallen and all that rubbish). And anyway, More football news? In July, really, more about football? Wait, Harold and Kumar go where? Oh yeah, they went to White Castle. Shocking news for 2004, though. Was this movie funny? I can’t remember. Thanks for joining me on this trip down memory lane. See you in 6 years.
Hey. Posted this pic from my phone. It was pretty easy.
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