August 2011
Kim Kardashian video on line has a gyno vibe that I am reading as an homage to Annie Sprinkle “Public Cervix.” http://t.co/MV5a6V6
I went backwards in time today. Always thought it would take a spaceship but redoing a previous day’s work achieves same! The past sucks FYI
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Things I Have Learned This Week
brilliantmistake:
Tofu can, under certain circumstances, be highly flammable.
It is remarkably easy to destroy the prop on an outboard motor.
The spare tire on Ford F150s require a vey particular gizmo to be freed from their prison under the truck bed.
If, unbeknownst to you, someone steals said spare tire gizmo from your rental F150 and you have a flat, you are fucked.
Roadside Assistance...
RT @maura: yes, i am going a bit stir crazy too, but the ‘cool story bro’ reaction to the hurricane not being like a disaster flick is S …
““We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news...”
– “Locked Up and Left Behind,” by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
RT @superanne: SORT OF BREAKING: http://t.co/rh4YXvI @mikkipedia on the best party ever (“it’s not a cat appreciation society”)
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“According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the...”
– Panda are just doomed to go extinct if they don’t get their shit together (via psychotropicpolitics)
“Beauty is unfair: the attractive enjoy privileges and powers gained without...”
– From Alexander Edmonds’s piece on plastic surgery, class, and self-esteem.
Working through this.
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“When someone works for less pay than she can live on…she has made a great...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (via squeetothegee)
Fuck yes.
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RT @colleenw: I’m looking at you. @mikkipedia
General excitement at the prospect of an “interactive canine murder mystery dinner” demonstrates high-value friendships.
Quentin Crisp called crosswords “aerobics for the soul,” further confirming that I might be him.
NYC is a giant haunted house tonight.
“Everyone knows I called dibs on “middling haiku” as a band name,...”
– I was looking for an image and found a blog of chickens doing haiku, which, as you know, is extremely upsetting. Thankfully, the penguin came along. (TWSS) (AF)
(Ok I had to.) “He comes with a plastic ice shelf.”) (“Mind like a sewer and a heart like a freezer.”) (This...
RT @yokoono: #BEDPEACE http://t.co/21ogC1i Enjoy the film and Give Peace A Chance! love, yoko
Saw a bird duckdive, come up with a fish, and wolf it down BEFORE MY VERY EYES. Thank you, @eastriverferry.
Well, that conversation went from YSL dress to “I love you” pretty fast.
Reading some praise for J.K. Rowling not using a gender-neutral pen name. Except of course, J.K. Rowling IS her gender-neutral pen name.
Wait I just realized that quote was from DAVE FUCKING KERPEN
K is annoyed at traffic but the radio is only playing songs from 1972 and talking about Nixon in the breaks. BEST.
RT @AmyAndronicus: Hey NYC, what are you doing Monday evening? We need to tell the NYPD that THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE RAPE COPS IN OUR CI …
Family road trip tomorrow: Two tiny Jewish ladies, a gigantic African American man, and a fat middle-aged Irish lady. Melting pot on wheels!
Dude at the bar is actually chatting up the bartender w debt ceiling opinions. Like anvils.
Coworkers in hysterics that the only celeb in Chicago I could name was Ira Glass. I only said him bec I thought @PeterSagal was too nerdy.
Having just learned about fairy doors, it looks like the sequel to “Shut Up Foodies” won’t be “Shut Up Steampunks,” after all.
On the one hand, less nauseous. On the other, 8.0 scale headache.
Can’t complain about not being sent flowers for a week or two… http://twitpic.com/5zyt1z
