Sweat rolls down my cheeks and my hair is laced with spider webs and dried flies. I am filthy from the attic. I have been rummaging long enough to be light-headed from the trapped heat, probably over a hundred and ten degrees. I have worked hard to retrieve a box. The packing tape on the [...]
Daft Punk, “Fresh” — 0:00
Law & Order, “boink” — 0:01
Dave Barber, “Monkeys” — 0:02
Ghostface Killah, “Major Operation (Skit)” — 0:06
Sufjan Stevens, “Belly Button” — 0:09
tape-beatles, “Elevator Music” — 0:10
The Beatles, “Intro” (from Beatles Unplugged) — 0:10
Maja Ratkje, “Interlude” — 0:11
Excerpt from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — 0:13
So these are the nine shortest tracks [...]
I’m not a very sentimental person, though I have my moments.
And I’m certainly no nature lover, but lately I can’t help but fret and wonder — where have all the bees gone?
I’ve been dismayed over the last six months by the dramatically named “Colony Collapse Disorder,” the inexplicable mass vanishing of millions of bees. [...]
This might be my favorite cover of a song, ever. Top 5 at least. Love how a white girl transforms an angry rap song into a lullaby. The words, “When I’m called off, I got a sawed off, squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off,” never sounded so sweet, so soothing. I listen to [...]
The Question: How has a mild-mannered boy like me, never prone to guns or fishing or traditional masculine sport in general, wound up each summer on the hunt for crabs near the San Juan Islands on the Washington coast? That’s what I love to do come mid-August, and have done half a dozen times since [...]