April 2009
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March 2009
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“I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and...”
– Dayana Mendoza, aka Miss Universe, on her trip to Guantanamo Bay. (via)
“Realism is what we grapple with every morning in the bathroom mirror; it has no...”
– Sam Mcpheeters’ review of The Core.
Gaming Blamed for Childhood Finger Deformities →
All I will add to this is that I am able to crack both of my wrists at will, over and over, as many times as necessary.
“We didn’t spend a series in a cul-de-sac with people barbecuing; it was the...”
– David Simon, creator of The Wire, in response to the Atlantic accusing him (and his show) of being overly cynical.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Captain Beefheart's 10... →
“If your brain is part of the process, you’re missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.”
(via walkietalkies)
“Everyone should [expletive] make music. Do crazy [expletive]. Just make music...”
– Matt Horseshit to the Washington Post again. Swish.
“If you have to [expletive] keep recording lo-fi then you’re a [expletive]....”
– Matt Horseshit, to the Washington Post.
“Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the...”
– Rogers of Kung-Fu Monkey.
Excerpt from Army Man, the Funniest Thing Ever...
BRIDE: (QUIETLY, TEARFUL) Ladies and gentlemen ... I’m afraid there won’t be a wedding after all. Because, you see ... my fiancé has ... has died.
HECKLER FROM BACK PEW: Louder!
BRIDE: (LOUDER, ALMOST HYSTERICAL) My fiancé has died!
ANOTHER HECKLER: Funnier!
“Sadly, these days, it’s really a matter of ‘every man for...”
– John Mellencamp, of all people. (via)
“Mambo Sun” by T-Rex. It is only the...
“What’s good about boredom, about anguish and the sense of meaninglessness...”
– Joseph Brodsky
Bruce McCulloch - America
Some people look at a...
Chart detailing Pokémon presence on Twitter with... →
“Because: many people have Pokémon usernames, but very few are in character. This absolutely needs to be addressed.”
In which David and some cohorts finally find a concrete use for this Twitter thing my kids told me about.
“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why...”
– I realize the bar was set relatively low, but I’m not sure anyone expected Michelle Obama to become the best first lady in American history quite so quickly. (via rach, douglaswolk, IHT)
“I was so high on Sudafed and whiskey today that I couldn’t eat. I got a...”
– One of Joe Wenderoth’s Letters to Wendy’s.
“Real Love driven past the point of reason is certainly blind; so too is it...”
– Brendan Lee, in Action Button’s review of Duel Love, an apparently-terrible “erotic game about boys.”
Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s son commits... →
Plath’s friend, the poet and critic Al Alvarez, once said: “I would love to think that the culture’s fascination is because Plath is a great and major poet, which she is. But it wouldn’t be true. It is because people are wildly interested in scandal and gossip.”
Wire - Dot Dash
Apparently Colin Newman wrote...
“What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via unburyingthelead)
sarahbelfort said:
All I Want - Violent Femmes
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Whose Fault is That Interviews Gregory Weir →
Gregory Weir is the designer of such games as (I Fell in Love With the) Majesty of Colors. We talked to him about colossi, what it means to be sponsored in a scene full of “indie” developers, and his mission to create one game a month in 2009. Do yourself a favor and at least skip the interview and click through to his really fun games.
“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to posses a sense of...”
– Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (via sarahbelfort)
“What we see today is not discontinuity but continuity. Mass media reaches its...”
– Nicholas Carr
Whose Fault Is That Interviews Superbomba →
In which my colleague David interviews Superbomba, an anonymousish “collectrix” of vintage found photographs. Who is she? Where does she find these amazing pictures? Neither of those questions are answered conclusively in the interview, but there are lots of great pictures and a Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing reference.
“Not a list of peoples’ jokey internet names, not a moldy hillock of...”
– Merlin Mann
Widow: Moonshiner took his life to avoid prison →
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says.
Of thee I sing, Popcorn Sutton. Of thee I sing.