April 2012
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“Nature is a void. An emptiness. A vacuum. And speaking of vacuum, I am not sure...”
– Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady | TV & Film | Sabotage Times
Texts from Dog (recent favorite)
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“…I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in...”
– – John Keats, of whom I have been thinking fondly lately instead of irritably reaching after fact and reason.
Ye Olde WTF →
Kinkadia in Vallejo: “Named the Village, a Thomas Kinkade Community, it promised residents a ‘vision of simpler times’ with ‘cottage style homes that are filled with warmth and personality.’ Its slogan: ‘Calm, not chaos. Peace, not pressure.’”
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“I feel just like Sigourney Weaver/When she had to kill those aliens/And one guy...”
– John Grant, “Sigourney Weaver”
It is? →
This would be brilliant but for the grammatical error.
Girl quits job on dry erase board. →
Yet another tale of resignation. Great photos, but the comments on this are cretinous. I mean, you know, even more cretinous than comments usually are.
WatchHermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe - Wanderland (by Kristof Luyckx)
“Horny” unicorns possibly NSFW.
JetBlue Flight Attendant Pops Open Plane Chute at... →
“Slater is alleged to have then activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, grabbed two beers from the galley, then slid down the chute, the official said.”
XTC Skylarking Better Than You've Ever Heard It →
It’s my second-favorite XTC album and I’ve been hearing it totally wrong all these years. Great. When’s this rerelease, then?
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“Mr. Bob-san. You are sitting quietly in your study. And then there is a bottle...”
– NYT translation of the “Suntory Time” scene in “Lost in Translation.”
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Duly noted.
I was one of those digital download holdouts for many a year for one reason: No liner notes. I used to love bringing my musical haul home and poring over the liner notes. (My most treasured tiny booklets were of the Vaughn Oliver 4AD vintage.) But then I got lazy, moved way too much, and wanted my music RIGHT NOW, so I abandoned CD shopping and sold everything except the very rarest physical...
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A Practical yet Human Boarding Pass Design. →
Because I hear “people don’t read” and “maybe this should just be a bulleted list” about a quillion times a day, this made me very happy indeed:
“My version uses clear information delivered in the same manner that an airline attendant might use, in common prose…I realize that people are not that into reading these days, but I think a simple concise...
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