December 2008
The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
(via capucha:...
Elvis Costello - (What’s So Funny...
Roxy Music - More Than This
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset...”
– Lost in Translation (via tylercoates) (via asie)
“People who say “Know what I mean?” are the ones least likely to...”
– Robin Ince
November 2008
derplau:
The world needs more mid-60’s tv-spy-show...
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman. (via holga)
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
– C.S. Lewis (via meganmalice) (via livesophia) (via asie)
He copies nature with his soul
darklamb:tenderbuttons: (photo credit unknown)
This might be in Chiang Mai, or someplace else in Thailand. Beautiful!
David S. Broder - A Good Time for a Smart... →
(via doak)
How old is the Internet? →
bebelestrange:sisifo: (via konrad)
Panda attacks man who wanted a cuddle →
allcreatures:
On one hand it’s entirely this guy’s fault for being bitten by a panda. You can’t fault an animal for protecting itself.
On the other, who can blame the guy? If I were to meet a panda in person, I know I’d want a hug.
Read this yesterday and it reminded me… the culture of cute is kinda out of hand in some parts of the world. This was a grad student.
P.S. - The End Is Nigh
At some point, my family—collectively—began honing their skills at “The Astonishing Postscript.” I don’t know when this all transpired, but I never got the memo.
Some gems from the edge, all received this week:
P.S. - I’m fat.
P.S. - I called your father for the first time in 8 years. He has a cellphone now.
P.S. - I broke my leg. Damn!
304. If you choose to wear a tie, commit. Button...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Worn under a v-neck sweater, a tie gets by without the button, imho. So, like any good rule of haberdashery, we (and our sons) will have to break it on occasion—judiciously.
Take the example of poor O’Leary, the Butcher. “All he wanted was the privilege of wearing soft shirts without neckties.”
Bank like a pirate day! →
(via derplau)
Head pirate, Ubu Kalid Shandu, said: “We need a bank so that we have a place to keep all of our ransom money. Thankfully, the dislocations in the capital markets has allowed us to purchase Citigroup at an attractive valuation and to take advantage of TARP capital to grow the business even faster.”
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A maverick Thai general who... →
Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd (cover of Woody...
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via willmccloud) (via mikehudack) (via snickerdoodle)(via robot-heart) (via peterwknox)
Damn straight TJ. You cool, unruffled mofo.
Bert and I: Downeast Humor →
An acquired taste. That I did acquire, after growing up in New England.
30 Rock
Kenneth: Well, you know what they say: money is the root of all evil.
Tracy: I thought that was just the tagline from my movie, DeathBank.
“Fools’ names and
Fools’ faces
Always appear in
Public places.”
– what a friend’s puritanical parents told him growing up to discourage graffiti
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact...”
– Frederick Douglass 