November 2011
7 posts
Tyler Coates: Things in popular culture that feel... →
dpdsprings:
These things, to varying degrees and for disparate reasons, feel like they came from a rushed novel about celebrities in 2011:
A glamorous British actress disappearing from the spotlight for a while, returning with a movie about the psychosexual rivalry between Freud and Jung
Wipe Your Feet: Make a Party →
tesslynch:
I like to spend time alone. I think it’s a lot of fun. I tend to fixate on activities, which is vaguely anti-social considering the fact that most people like to do one thing for a while and then move on, so alone time allows me to give myself permission to do something for five plus hours at a…
October 2011
3 posts
Woke up out of a dead sleep this morning because on the television I heard the professor on Futurama say “The ship is too heavy to fly! It’s made of Rearden Steel!” I’ve slept through earthquakes but I can’t resist a good Ayn Rand joke.
July 2011
3 posts
booked a plane ticket to the philippines. return...
May 2011
7 posts
A scene
Setting: Medical office waiting room, Las Vegas, Nevada at 9 am on a Friday morning in early May, 2011.
[A group of mentally handicapped people enter the waiting room with a guardian. They take seats in front of the wall-mounted television, which is showing “CNN NEWSROOM.” The guardian is a Mexican girl in her early twenties wearing black scrubs and a plastic ID badge. She takes a...
Took a red-eye home from LA last night
Me [as we're landing, waking up]: Euuughh. Are we here?
Mid-level executive in snappy-casual loafers sitting next to me: Yeah. And I'll have you know I was a good Seat Husband.
Me: Sorry, what?
Dude: Seat Husband. Remember? I tapped you on the shoulder before we took off and asked you if I could put my bag in the middle seat and you said sure as long as I'd be your Seat Husband.
Me: Oh god, I think I was sleep talking.
Dude: I don't know, you were very lucid.
Me: I took a sleeping thing though. A sleep aid.
Dude: Well you were very polite. You said I could use the seat as long as I made sure nobody stole your wallet.
April 2011
3 posts
Post-Coachella Wrap-up
Alternative Title: I Went to Coachella and All I Have to Show For It Is This Year Supply of Watermelon-flavored 5 Gum
I have some things to say. Here are some thoughts in no particular format.
Let me preface this by saying that this was a great Coachella. If I had to rank them, 2008 was the best (because it was the first one we went to) and this was a close second. I had to work today and now...
I cannot wait to walk out onto that field...
March 2011
3 posts
A surprisingly interesting journal entry from...
“[In the dream] I was looking at a bunch of cancer patients. Some of them were missing arms and legs, and the more patients I saw the more extreme the cases got. There was a woman with just a head, spine, and some internal organs. Just laying there on the bed. There were others like her, hooked up to machines. Then the cases got even worse. There were people with no heads, just bodies or...
WHAT YOUR FAVORITE CLASSIC ROCK BAND SAYS ABOUT... →
tj:
inthefade:
kellydeal:
The Eagles: You can only reach orgasm while listening to talk radio.
Rainbow: You have worn sweatpants to a funeral.
Thin Lizzy: You are often forced to change or cancel your plans due to “NO LOITERING” signs.
Journey: You own those running shoes that are shaped like feet.
Rush: You carry a small flashlight everywhere, and use it at least three times a day.
...
February 2011
7 posts
A blog post
Adam came home from Kuwait this weekend. I picked him up in Vegas after finishing a geology program for fourth graders aboard a triple-decker paddlewheeler boat on Lake Mead. He was hungover and had lost a few hundred on blackjack the night before. He had three huge bags of gear, almost none of it civilian, which we locked safely in the car and went about our business. Our first stops: In n Out...
3 tags
Dad just came home with a Christian Dior suit he...
It’s his size
I checked all the pockets for money/drugs/murder weapons/poker chips
“Dior, that’s made in France right? I think I’ve heard of it.”
“I never had a suit before!”
http://tesslynch.tumblr.com/post/3391185273 →
tesslynch:
It is very difficult to talk about what Planned Parenthood has meant to you personally, or to talk about your sexual history, or abortion or rape. It might be the most difficult thing to talk about, in fact, and so most people don’t, which complicates the perception of there being a “kind of…
Good job, Tess. I donated $25, and someday when I’m rich I will donate more....
January 2011
1 post
2 tags
December 2010
1 post
Social isolation in the desert.
I don’t live alone, but my nocturnal habits cause me to be alone for most of the day. I spend my days alone. I wake up alone, eat alone, read alone, walk alone. I walk to the water every afternoon as if to give purpose to my day. Yesterday I saw a coyote lapping water at the shore. I waited until he was done before I proceeded. It’s strange to see a coyote in the day. I hear them...
November 2010
1 post
July 2010
4 posts
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since... →
June 2010
5 posts
2 tags
Today they were looking for the body of a person who drowned in the lake earlier this week. I heard them find the body over the police-radio. Then the ranger called back and said “Wait, this isn’t the body we were looking for.” What kind of these-are-not-the-droids-you-are-looking-for bullshit is that? Seriously? How many fucking dead bodies are floating around in the lake?
I’ve been living in a sort of communications black-hole recently. I live in a rural area where cell phones don’t work, I have no internet, and if I want to talk to someone I have to go knock on their door. The nearest town (only a McDonald’s, a gas station, and an elementary school dedicated to Sen. Harry Reid.) An aside: I’m now living in the hometown of Senator Harry...
“Compare marijuana to a chocolate fruitcake. The cake, like marijuana, contains...”
– http://www.dare.com/home/tertiary/Default474a.asp?N=Tertiary&S=8
It’s 2AM, and I am reading D.A.R.E.’s website. you know, that government subsidized group that gave us free pencils in 5th grade?
This quote was taken from a paragraph attempting to distinguish medical marijuana from “FDA...
May 2010
11 posts
2 tags
“Arizona: It’s hate, but it’s a dry hate.”
– Elizabeth Skinner (via magicconch)
I wish I could take credit for this, but my liberal Godmother in Minnesota facebook-messaged it to me. And I think she might have got it from a rap video.
