Even though it has been a long time since I was in school, September still always feels like a new year to me. Summer’s over, vacations are done, everybody’s work life gears back up after a slow August. It seems like a good time to reassess one’s life, more so than January does. This feels [...]
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Inception cat
Why is this so hilarious? I have no idea, but I can’t stop laughing when I’m watching it. (BTW, click twice to go to the Youtube page, and be sure to watch with the sound on.)
Photoshopping the past onto the present
Many of you have probably seen this already, but Sergey Larenkov has a fascinating series of altered photographs at his Live Journal site here. Larenkov has taken photographs from World War II, found the exact locations (in Berlin, Prague, Moscow, St. Petersburg et. al.) where they were shot, and grafted the old images onto contemporary [...]
Let us count the ways
How despicable is Sarah Palin? I know this is beating the proverbial dead horse, but a clip of the Palinmonster that surfaced yesterday has only served to reinforce how ludicrous, shallow and loathsome she truly is. Here is the clip. Short quiz to follow. What is the most despicable moment in this exchange? A. ”Oh, [...]
Tuesday mishmash: Roshambo edition
1. So, you think you can play rock-scissors-paper with the best of them, eh? You think you have it wired, so you get the exact piece of sushi you want every time? Hm? And does anyone but the West Coast contingent even engage in that particular sushi-restaurant ritual? You may think that roshambo (rochambeau? Experts [...]
Home tour
In downtown L.A., on a street that comes to an end where the Santa Monica freeway whizzes by overhead, architect Michael Maltzan has built a new apartment building called the Carver Apartments. There are a few things that are unusual about this. One is the shape: the building is like a doughnut – a cylinder [...]
500 million friends and counting
I hate Facebook. But I can’t stop looking at it, either. I hate it because it’s essentially a giant tool for collecting information about you under the guise of “fun” applications that cause you to reveal much more about yourself than you normally would to a company. I hate it because it causes you to [...]
poems
the thing i love about poetry is that you can write just about anything and as long as you space it out creatively, it transcends mere words. or at least it feels that way. ~~~ it also helps if you write in all lower-case letters. ~~~ i know this is crap. but now i will [...]
