December 2008
54 posts
The Eternal Question
sarahb:
Is a grilled cheese sandwich at its best when the cheese is hot and too gooey to chew, or five minutes later, when it’s cooled a little and started to coagulate?
(If you can’t handle the word coagulate in regards to your food, perhaps you should go sit at the kids’ table.)
Five minutes later. Coagulation mmmmmmm.
this. →
maura:
made me cry.
This is literally where I am at in my life, and exactly why I’m not dating. Spot on perfect.
How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking... →
unburyingthelead:
The Colorado River, the life vein of the Southwestern United States, is in trouble.
The river’s water is hoarded the moment it trickles out of the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado and begins its 1,450-mile journey to Mexico’s border. It runs south through seven states and the Grand Canyon, delivering water to Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego. Along the way, it powers homes...
Bands I have tried and tried to like but they just...
sarahb:
Aimee Mann
Afghan Whigs
Ryan Adams
Smashing Pumpkins
Red Hot Chili Peppers (okay, I never tried too hard on this one)
All of The Shins except for like two songs
Your boyfriend’s band
Twilight
Oh wait
Yes I get the Twilight punchline but lady, what the hell? Except for RHCP and I guess you get a pass on Ryan Adams too.
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and...”
– David Foster Wallace
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places....”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
A chat from March 2007
Bret: Romance, man - it's a giant clusterfuck. You go around meeting people, and there's no guarantee you'll be compatible with them - sometimes you don't figure out you're incompatible until you're already involved. Sometimes you find someone who's TOTALLY compatible but isn't interested in you. Sometimes someone finds you to be totally compatible but you don't reciprocate. It's a fucking stupid disaster.
Kate: no kiddin.' Please post that so that I may pass on the Gospel of Bret.
Bret: As you command.
Randomly
I was re-watching a bit of The Corporation and realized that every time something horrible happens to humanity and/or the planet, the markets go up. Oil spill? Markets go up. 9/11? Markets go up. War? Famine? Genocide? Check.
It’s not the perfect silver lining regarding the economic issues at hand. I know a lot of people are worried and are out of work. That’s nothing to take lightly....
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
Charlie Feathers, “That Certain...
Be kinder than necessary 'cause everyone you meet... →
crushes:
Everyone,
If they say no, you end up alone. If you say nothing, you end up alone. What have you got to lose?
— anonymous
Coming home.
It means many things, but last night at one a.m. I was compelled to pull all the books of my shelves that had bookmarks to see where I left off.
In one case there’s a book of poetry with multiple markers in it. I’ve looked at them all and can not figure out why I would choose to mark these, nothing resonates as it must have before.
What It Meant To Be The Universe by Kevin Fanning →
kfan:
In Which We Prepare Ourselves For Refutation of the Afterlife.
Canadian Tumblrs
scrollr:
walpaper:
allthiscanbeyours:
Where are all of you located? I often wonder how many tumblrs are actually close to me. I’ll start, I live in Kitchener, Ontario!
Hanover, Ontario!
Toaronna (and, yes, I too want to know where they/you/we all are hiding)
I’m the only Yellowknifer Tumblr, as far as I’m aware. Okay, yeah, I’m in Toronto most of the year for school, but...
you f---ing googled me?!? you freak
viereckige-augen:
jaimeleighfairbrother:
So, a few years ago (when jpod was released) I went to a Douglas Coupland reading and he talked a bit about Google. Basically he said (albeit worded much better) it is all cute and fun to google people now, but give it a few years and it will be an act of evil. As in, “Yeah, well I’m going to google you.” I didn’t get it at the time, or at least, I...
Citizen Kubrick | Film | The Guardian →
I take a break from the boxes to wander over to Tony’s office. As I walk in, I notice something pinned to his letterbox. “POSTMAN,” it reads. “Please put all mail in the white box under the colonnade across the courtyard to your right.”
It is not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is exactly the same typeface Kubrick used for...
BeTaMaXMas →
sarahb:
It’s December 18, 1988, all the time.
“VIRGO (August 23-September 22): Your feelings are valid, Virgo. We’re not...”
– Astrobarry.com, Week of December 8-14.
I’m hoping that crying on a subway platform this afternoon while listening to Coldplay’s Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas is covered by this.
Paul Cox made a three hour Christmas party mix! →
perpetua:
And of course it’s very good! It’s Paul!
It’s so good. Do download!
A theory of art (Ftrain.com) →
A lot of what I do is indeed about “ordering a system of ideas so you have a place to explore and experience,” but it also documents the “bitter, ignorant, or cruel” aspects of day to day life.
So much of art is escapism. I prefer that which is not; that which is even hyper-realism.
Word of the day.
alexbalk:
Prorogue.
A good friend of mine’s Facebook update FTW:
“David F. has been prorogued and they didn’t even buy me a drink first.”
RickMercer: Forgive them Canada, they know not... →