November 2007
69 posts
October 2007
73 posts
Small World ride revamped for bigger passengers →
“The Small World ride now must accommodate adults who frequently weigh north of 200 pounds, which it often cannot do. Increasingly, overweighted boats get to certain points in the ride and bottom out, becoming stuck in the flume.
“The ride monitors attempt to leave empty seats on many boats to compensate for the hefty, but this routinely antagonizes the hundreds of paying customers...
“News: Muhammad Ali is to play the role of Will Smith in a predictive biopic of...”
– From the new podcast The Bugle, British satire starring the Daily Show’s John Oliver. (iTunes link)
“Whenever I’ve taken Advil, I’ve been aware of a second or two of...”
– Interesting results in the Advil Taste Test Challenge
Creepy Floating Babies →
Photgraphs of Koban, Japanese Police Boxes →
Go Get High, Undergrad
It’s strangers-from-my-alma mater-emailing-me-for-career-advice season again! My auto-reply: careers are for chumps. College memory: MS Word always suggested “Charlatan” as a spell check substitute for my college’s name. I never disagreed.
Mormon in Training
A minor mistake just called for an under-the-breath curse. Ever inventive, my subconscious went with with “supercrap”: “Oh, supercrap!”
Declaration
I LOL in my chats. If you can’t take it, get the fuck off my buddy list.
“Seriously, Rashi, every tractate needs a commentary?”
– Stephen Colbert on the Talmud More quality Colbert to follow…
“RICKEY ALSO LIKES THAT ROY BLOUNT. RICKEY FINDS HIS SOUTHERN CHARM AND QUICK WIT...”
– RICKEY Henderson on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”
“The Chicago World’s Fair was also the place where most Americans first saw...”
– Chicago, 1892
Most Anticipated Books?* →
#10: Angstrom and Zuckerman Fistfight in Heaven, by John Updike, as told to Philip Roth #4: How We Became You and What It May Mean, Someday, Someday, Never by Dave Eggers Appearing on a kottke.org near you in T-minus 7 … 6 … 5
Google Earth used to target Israel : The Guardian →
Wow.
“Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, say they use the popular internet mapping tool to help determine their targets for rocket strikes.”
So True
If you have unprotected sex with a woman, someday your toilet paper will look like this.
“It must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier...”
– Carl Dennis : from “The God Who Loves You” Being a sap, I tend to love the poems featured on “The Writer’s Almanac”.
Say what you will about Britney, but she has been a tireless advocate for the Second Person Plural.
“Is it insulting to ask a band who sings in a made up language why they sing in a...”
– Jesse Thorn : Sigur Ros and the Interview from Hell
How long do you have to have a cold before it goes from “illness” to “character flaw”?
OH FUCK YES IT’S YOGA BABY. YOGA FOR YOUR BABY. BABY YOGA.
Just like Mongolian barbecue, picking your own assortment of Jelly Bellies is never as satisfying and inspired as you’d hoped.
I wonder if Israel and Palestine would have more success at the negotiating table if they called it a “Meetup”.
GQ, November 2011: Sneak Peek
pp. 1-76: Advertisements pp. 77-128: Advertorials. pp. 129-143: Hot chicks in tight sweaters, sponsored by the Emirate of Dubai. pp. 144-358: Paid testimonials. p. 359: “Peruvian Musk”, a 7-sentence short story by Paul Theroux. p. 360: Calvin Klein “One” sample. p. 361: Apology for the Calvin Klein “One” Sample, sponsored by the Emirate of Dubai. p. 362-400:...
“White Girls in particular love this song because it gives them a chance to...”
– On “I Got a Man” : The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love (via)
WatchSklar Brothers and Nick Kroll : [ ” ( Layers ) ” ] Must-watch. Or at least make sure your dopplegänger’s twin’s step-brother watches the YouTube version.
Jon Stewart and John Oliver on the Bush...
Stewart: So words, in and of themselves, have no value?
Oliver: Wow. Wow, I'd have thought you'd at least support our words, Jon.
Stewart: I don't, I don't uh . . .
Oliver: Our brave, fighting words that have been serving this country since the War on Terror began. Many of them making the ultimate sacrifice: losing their definitions. Words like "torture", "victory", "surge", "mission", "accomplished"—once filled with purpose, now signifying nothing. I know one little word named "progress". Poor bastard. ... Poor little noun. And all the while words like "John" and "Stewart" sit at home, doing nothing.
“‘Wow! Your penis is unique!’ Isn’t that what you just love to...”
– Found in my Spam folder.