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2008

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Listen Listen
The Magnetic Fields - Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Jan 1st
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when...”
— Great Read. Cities and...
Jan 1st
suicideblonde: yeahmon:somethingchanged: watercolor...
Jan 1st
pufferfish: deadshot: (via pwnator) Doctors tried to...
Dec 31st
WTF
Dec 31st
muxtape: Brian Dettmer
Dec 31st

EAST COAST TUMBLRS.....

lauriebreaker: kristinmick: sleepanddream: stupidinboston: leeshiebean: ...
Dec 31st
Christmas travel 2008: 665 miles on the ground (trains &...
Dec 31st
“Don’t invest your money with someone whose name is the...”
— Last caller’s response...
Dec 31st
ihardlyknowher.com
Dec 31st
ffffound!
Dec 31st
From Curbed 2008 Architecture Awards: Effed-up Real Estate...
Dec 31st
bagcoffee: inothernews:hotg0ssip:theduty: (via...
Dec 31st

No Good Thing Ever Dies

The train is leaving, flying over bridges into the morning. The tree-split sunlight hits my glasses...
Dec 31st
Warch Watch
Spirited Away - train scene I think of this on the Amtrak through CT sometimes, along the coast....
Dec 31st
I believe it was Thomas Paine who said, “No...
Dec 31st
Warch Watch
Frog swimming butterfly - CG project
Dec 30th

shocking cats

bebelestrange: shockingcats I like the part about the cats.
Dec 30th
heyyoshimi: FFFFOUND! | Flickr Photo Download: Space Man ...
Dec 30th
just missed it
Dec 29th
Warch Watch
Noah Kalina took a picture of himself every day for six years. Best use of GPOY, hands-down.
Dec 29th

322. Sympathy is a crutch. Never fake a...

(via rulesformyunbornson)
Dec 29th
“Yes No Not if I can get close enough”
— Possible Answers to the Poll...
Dec 29th
shany: (via overflowing)
Dec 29th
Listen Listen
Hands in Pockets - Untitled first track from demo
Dec 29th
20 class-action lawsuits have been filed...
Dec 29th
allcreatures:voltiando:suyhnc:(via biccchi) Ray,...
Dec 29th
Listen Listen
bebelestrange: the cars-since you’re gone (thanks icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse for reminding me...
Dec 29th
Listen Listen
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: Just What I Needed - The Cars
Dec 29th
You can buy the "Run D.C." Obama/Run DMC...
Dec 29th
getthefuckoutrightnow: (via waxandmilk) Face paint tried to...
Dec 29th
tmblg: Thelonious Monk’s notes
Dec 29th
The other end of the Tonka spectrum
Dec 29th
just don’t ok
Dec 28th
Listen Listen
Oscar Peterson Trio - My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Dec 28th
Bruce Barone
Dec 28th
Bruce Barone
Dec 28th
Mad Sq Pk
Dec 28th
Warch Watch
Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil
Dec 28th
“When the people who are responsible for our country ask you...”
— Eartha Kitt
Dec 28th
Warch Watch
Currently watching Donnie Darko on PBS. I must admit, Kitty Farmer’s words ring in my head...
Dec 28th
Student Loans: The Newest Offensive in the...
Dec 28th
Really, Best Buy? Really. You mean not a single fucking copy...
Dec 28th
This is the bike I got my nephew for Giftmas. Great for an...
Dec 28th
bebelestrange: Deneuve with ‘73 Solex I don’t know...
Dec 28th
Warch Watch
mollylambert: lambosaquarium: Japanese Snow Monkeys Bathing in Hot Springs. So pleasant. This...
Dec 28th
Naturally the cat is one of those hairless jobbies (via...
Dec 28th
“You must remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if...”
— Gary Busey (via gnomechomsky)
Dec 27th
On Dreams and Dreaming
Dec 27th

dreamache

everybodycares: Is this a word?  Because, if it’s not, I submit that it should be.  It would be...
Dec 27th
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart...
Dec 27th
In defense of pie
Dec 27th
bebelestrange: via ninjapants.org “No no, I’ve...
Dec 27th
'Watchmen' Fan Cordially Invites Fox to Eat...
Dec 27th
Warch Watch
everybodycares: short, great clip from Bottle Rocket “I’m not always as confident as I...
Dec 27th
(via bebelestrange) and then one day they all just packed...
Dec 27th
“O you who dwell in the house of dawn in the house made of...”
— Navaho
Dec 26th
cathedral
Dec 26th
The Ginger-Breads awoke to find their home in ruin—it...
Dec 26th
“I never trust people’s assertions. I always judge of...”
— Ann Radcliffe (via...
Dec 26th
Santa tried to defile the metal
Dec 26th
luna loca
Dec 26th

dudes

bagcoffee: awesome-everyday:bagcoffee:getbuck: What? Pardon me? Did I hear some static or...
Dec 25th
Spongebob tried to defile the metal
Dec 25th
Dec 25th

No crackers this year?

mom: I'm too tired to go to mass.
me: Oh thank god.
mom: They can do it without us.
me: You know we're not Catholic, right?
Dec 25th
tmblg: (via iheartit) nom nom wiki-wiki nom
Dec 24th
stockings: mass transport chassis
Dec 24th
stockings: shipping containers
Dec 24th
stockings: inventory & sorting
Dec 24th
Warch Watch
branduponthebrain: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Little Carl’s Christmas
Dec 24th
nevver: Flatiron, 1905
Dec 23rd
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out....”
— Albert Schweitzer (via...
Dec 23rd
nevver: Estonia
Dec 23rd

12 days of Christmas! interesting...

lauriebreaker: There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do...
Dec 23rd
Techno tried to defile the metal
Dec 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21)
Dec 23rd
siesta
Dec 22nd
5 hours later, still on a train
Dec 22nd
nevver: Central Park yesterday perfect
Dec 21st
bye for now
Dec 21st
Listen Listen
Joni Mitchell - River
Dec 21st
La Pedrera, Uruguay
Dec 21st
Listen Listen
bebelestrange: Shooting Star-Bad Company (the Johnny Guitar picture reminded me of this song) For...
Dec 21st
“Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in...”
— Hugh MacDiarmid, author of A...
Dec 21st
Listen Listen
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: Christmas Party - The Walkmen Doesn’t the ‘oooh ooooh ooh” just...
Dec 21st
The Story of Stuff. Worth watching, worth sharing.
Dec 21st

Not many people remember

that Blood, Sweat & Tears never really blew up until the fourth member, Urine, left the...
Dec 21st
Dec 21st
branduponthebrain: Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994)
Dec 21st
My tree this year. Not surprisingly, multi-media. And...
Dec 21st
holga: (by ernieland)
Dec 21st
Warch Watch
Holyohmywhatthe. I can’t watch this without my jaw dropping. Humans are incredible. via Tall...
Dec 21st
tmblg: To all those who I have hurt with my flagrant...
Dec 21st
Warch Watch
capucha: stupidinboston: sooshi: Always makes me smile. And even to mom, the logic is...
Dec 21st
Listen Listen
Harry Belafonte - Mary, Mary (from To Wish You A Merry Christmas) In my family this is the album.
Dec 21st

And just like that,

the day’s over. So short it almost didn’t exist. I wonder what Prof. Hawking would have...
Dec 21st
nevver: Walk
Dec 21st
“Do you remember the first time you got the 64-pack of...”
— When toys were magical without...
Dec 21st
Stephen Hawking (via bebelestrange:retrozone)
Dec 20th
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
— Stephen Hawking
Dec 20th
justo:kari-shma:NY Times
Dec 20th
overflowing:blissfulself:moderation:brieflynoted:asie
Dec 20th

Etymology of Orpheus (Wikipedia)

Several etymologies for the name Orpheus have been proposed. A probable suggestion is that it is...
Dec 20th
Orpheu
Dec 20th

Movie-A-Minute: The Odyssey (via...

Odysseus: I rule.
Poseidon: For your sin of pride, I curse you for all eternity.
Direction: (Unfazed, Odysseus boards his ship and sets SAIL for Greece, where his family is awaiting his RETURN from Troy. A STORM happens, and it drives them off course into the MEDITERRANEAN, where they come upon a strange LAND owned by the giant Cyclops POLYPHEMUS who eats some of the men ALL UP, but then they ESCAPE. Still lost, they run into the island of the sorceress CIRCE who turns some of Odysseus' men into ANIMALS, and it takes YEARS before they escape, and then they sail by some singing SIRENS, but they can't hear because they have STUFF in their ears. Then they come upon an island where there is a field of HERBS, and they all get HIGH, until Odysseus says it's time to GO. Then Odysseus' men let a WIND out of a BAG, and some more men DIE. And they sail on to HADES to talk to some DEAD people, and some more men DIE. And they steer the ship between the six headed monster SCYLLA and the torrential whirlpool CHARYBDIS, and Scylla makes some more men DIE, and Charybdis makes the rest of them DIE. Then the ship busts up into a JILLION pieces, but Odysseus is SAVED by the nymph Calypso who confines him to her ISLAND because she thinks he's HOT, and she wants his BODY. Then years later she lets him GO, but Poseidon is determined to terrorize him FURTHER. And then SUDDENLY Odysseus has an IDEA.)
Odysseus: Poseidon, I am sorry.
Poseidon: Ok, you can go home now.
Dec 20th
One cat per window. No exceptions.
Dec 20th
Mink Meadows. I could walk this road blindfolded.
Dec 20th
branduponthebrain: It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra,...
Dec 20th
“The ability to walk on the street with billionaires and...”
— James Murphy in response to...
Dec 20th
Warch Watch
Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home
Dec 20th
new wave
Dec 20th
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his...”
— Kierkegaard, Either-Or (via...
Dec 20th
derplau: I, for one, welcome our new...
Dec 20th
allcreatures: theconceptlibrarian: This morning all we...
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
“Free your mind and your ass will follow.”
— Funkadelic
Dec 19th
Listen Listen
Ramsey Lewis - Do What You Wanna (Mr. Scruff’s Soul Party Mix) Luck and courage for the...
Dec 19th
syntheticpubes: by Maurizio Peddis
Dec 19th
RIAA to stop suing individuals over "piracy"
Dec 19th
Officer John McClane has advice for pirates. Olly Moss via...
Dec 19th
Pirates Bring Shame to the Title, 'Pirate'
Dec 19th
funny
Dec 19th
(via everybodycares) But how did she fire the gun
Dec 19th
allcreatures:bg5000: In this Jan. 11, 2008 photo, eagles...
Dec 19th
bebelestrange: intweetion:ffffound: today and tomorrow I...
Dec 19th
doak: Imagine what he does at work?  Let’s see… My guess...
Dec 19th
MillerCoors to stop selling Sparks
Dec 18th
Office Christmas gifts! Don Knotts + double feature = big...
Dec 18th
explodingdog: Fwd: moon monster cookie! C is for cookie...
Dec 18th
“Make fun of my BA in English all you like, no English...”
— Shorter Excerpts (via...
Dec 18th
bebelestrange: San Francisco Twins Marian and Vivian Brown...
Dec 18th
nevver: Rune Guneriussen
Dec 18th
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road,...”
— Lin Yutang
Dec 18th
asie: alanajoy: lol: ‘tis the season via
Dec 18th
Warch Watch
Frankie Valli/The Four Seasons - Beggin’ (Pilooski re-edit) Obsessed. Clearly.
Dec 18th
Huh. Well. There… it is. (via ffffound!)
Dec 18th
one man’s trash
Dec 18th
Listen Listen
Donny Hathaway - This Christmas (via boymeetslove)
Dec 18th
“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Dec 18th
Listen Listen
Rhymefest ft. ODB - Build Me Up (via: stupidinboston:meaghano:jacobbijani)
Dec 18th

Insurance anyone?

me: so a house exploded?
me: how the fuck does that happen
ACW: gas
me: prolly right?
me: or a meth lab
ACW: or terrorists
me: or aliens
me: covering evidence
ACW: or a hero villian that goes crazy
me: like ozymandias
ACW: you watch heroes
me: oh right
me: was thinking Watchmen
ACW: yeah no
Dec 17th
House explosion rattles Scituate
Dec 17th
Dec 17th
“The brain is always trying to automate things and to create...”
— Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is...
Dec 17th
nevver: Noria de Luces
Dec 17th
west 21st
Dec 16th
At Least One Good Thing Has Come Out of This...
Dec 16th
suitep: James Hopkins - Shelf life
Dec 16th
holga: A man from South West England decided to place a...
Dec 16th

1st CD? Psssh! 1st LP!

bebelestrange: I feel old now but surely there’s someone out there who also remembers their first...
Dec 16th
“Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths He buzzes...”
— Radiohead
Dec 16th

i wanna know...

peterwknox:craytonc:missbrightside:edatrix: what was your first CD? Joni Mitchell - Blue
Dec 16th
justo:mattmcinerney: Speed bumps design flattens self for...
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate...”
—  William Styron, Darkness...
Dec 15th

NEW YORKERS: WHEN DID YOU MOVE HERE?

bagcoffee: between the Blackout and the Transit Strike. The day before my 30th Birthday, March...
Dec 15th
Ten Reasons Why The George W. Bush Shoe...
Dec 15th
justo: (via Trish Mayo & stupidinboston) Love In New...
Dec 15th

It can be startling to realize where and...

peterwknox: This morning, on my way in, I was standing in the subway car when I noticed the middle...
Dec 15th
unchangingwindow
Dec 15th
(via tmblg)
Dec 15th
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is...”
— Ken Kesey (via everybodycares)
Dec 15th
Listen Listen
Spoon - The Way We Get By This made my morning ! Ditto. Happened to be listening to this on...
Dec 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14)
Dec 15th
The Slutcracker
Dec 14th
Listen Listen
Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World See the perfect video here. Read about it here. I knew...
Dec 14th
lauriebreaker:ostermayer
Dec 14th
Warch Watch
Duck. Smirk. Duck again. Smirk again. Now where were we. Oh that’s right; see you fuckers...
Dec 14th
Man Throws His Shoes At Bush On Iraq Trip
Dec 14th
9 People Who Kill The Mood During Sex
Dec 14th
bebelestrange: syrupandhoney: Que Bueno! So I like love...
Dec 14th
This Is Awesome.
Dec 14th
This Is Awesome Too.
Dec 14th
Parts of New England are encased in ice. No wonder...
Dec 14th
Warch Watch
tmblg: Sol Sender on Creating the Obama Logo
Dec 14th
The Rise and Fall of Curiosity
Dec 13th
The Rise of Extreme Beer
Dec 13th
Warch Watch
capucha:lookmom: LUCKY’S LAST SWIM “We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the...
Dec 13th
Tonight's full moon will be awesome: shortest...
Dec 13th
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did...”
— Abraham Lincoln (via goodbye,...
Dec 13th
Warch Watch
davidfuternick:paulgulyas:joshruben:dutchwest: Whipits, the shortest sketch show in history. We...
Dec 13th
Vito, installing my new, greener printer, foreground....
Dec 12th
Listen Listen
Cake - Guitar Nice with the theramin. Or maybe it’s an actual “singing saw.”
Dec 12th
WANT
Dec 12th
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by...”
— Anais Nin
Dec 12th
Sandra Laing has always had beautiful brown skin and...
Dec 12th
Capucha’s post and its mention of the Mistral reminded...
Dec 11th
Why Infrastructure?
Dec 11th

I have an idea

peterwknox: If anyone has any get rich quick schemes like they do on tv sitcoms, get in touch. It’s...
Dec 11th
“Our choices in books, music, art, and design go to the core...”
— Accounting For Taste (via...
Dec 11th
Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million
Dec 11th
Things Bears Love (via asie:inothernews:deadshot)
Dec 11th
Warch Watch
EXTREME WINGSUIT BASE JUMPING This is one of the MOST EXTREMELY AMAZING VIDEOS EVER and the full...
Dec 10th
“Simple prose is clear prose. And simple prose, if smooth and...”
— John R. Trimble, Writing with...
Dec 10th
Scouting NY, a blog about finding unique locations in NYC...
Dec 10th
suitep: Frankie the feline exposed as the cat burglar...
Dec 10th
Vets fix feline's face after 'cat'-astrophe
Dec 10th
Not for use in New York City unless you sign a waiver...
Dec 9th
Frank Rich: The Brightest Are Not Always the...
Dec 9th
Warch Watch
branduponthebrain: deadscreen: “invisible boards” by spike jonze from Girl Skateboards “Yeah...
Dec 9th
neonindian: Klee
Dec 9th
“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different...
Dec 9th
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, free, online
Dec 9th
bebelestrange: ilikeitalot:via Imotherfuckinheartit.
Dec 9th
justo: Mine Sweeping (via toufeeque) I can’t get this...
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
Poutine: when you're serious about eating.
Dec 8th

From: Direction Missed

III. December 8th is a Wednesday. I wait outside, inside, outside the pub. She comes, dark and cool...
Dec 8th
Iroquois Theater, Chicago, 1904
Dec 8th
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing...”
— John Stuart Mill, on Liberty,...
Dec 8th
holga: motivation (by wwcutie)
Dec 8th
Listen Listen
The Classical Jazz Quartet - Bedouin Dreams
Dec 7th
Mashup
Dec 7th
“The first time a girl threw her underwear on the stage was...”
— Cedric the Entertainer, as...
Dec 7th
nevver: Rendezvous “And 9 months later, you were...
Dec 7th
bebelestrange: militantpacifist:rabbyte:...
Dec 6th
Listen Listen
Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Beggin’
Dec 5th
Warch Watch
Frankie Valli - Beggin’ - video remix
Dec 5th
suitep: And now I’ve got the theme song to Mission...
Dec 5th
Listen Listen
Hot Child In the City (dripping in 70s) Nick Gilder. I used to sing this while piloting my...
Dec 5th
“The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn’t been...”
— Ogden Nash (via tigertiger)
Dec 5th
And here in Brooklyn it’s business as usual. Trees....
Dec 5th
suitep: It was GORgeous here in Seattle, today.
Dec 5th
justo: (via paulprosseda) As bad as I am hating the cold...
Dec 5th
(via bagcoffee) Crying.
Dec 5th
Waiter, I distintcly remember ordering bottled water. And...
Dec 4th
Listen Listen
rulesformyunbornson: REQUIRED LISTENING: Joni Mitchell, “Free Man in Paris” Was introduced to her...
Dec 4th
justo: Nikon S60 Campaign
Dec 4th
peterwknox: Daily skyline  Nice try, Knox. I’m not...
Dec 3rd
Having (completely) missed Lebowski-fest NYC, tonight...
Dec 3rd

The Ladies

be trippin. Been trippin. Done-been trippin. Seeya next fall.
Dec 3rd
nevver: New Yorker  Former (and final) home of Nikola Tesla
Dec 3rd
Warch Watch
via davidfuternick
Dec 3rd

Mestizo (e.g. el gran mestizaje)

The word mestizo originated from the Romance/Latin word “Mixticius”, meaning...
Dec 3rd
He's Not Black
Dec 3rd
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this...”
— Groucho Marx
Dec 3rd
Listen Listen
asie: soupsoup: movingsideways: Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf When this song comes on in a...
Dec 3rd
Listen Listen
Damien Rice - The Blower’s Daughter
Dec 3rd
one step away from becoming my dinner
Dec 3rd
Aaaand it’s funny again.
Dec 2nd
It’s like being in the fun house! Without the promised...
Dec 2nd

Except for the bladder control.

JB: Hi SN, The attached note to you from DW was inserted in the XYZ grant folder, which I've just reviewed and routed. He's requesting you review all the open grants in that area.
SN: I'm on a dark bumpy road at 1 am somewhere between Dhaka airport and the BRAC training site. I will get right on this.
JB: See that you do.
SN: I also gotta pee.
JB: Your needs are irrelevant.
SN: In room, have to wake up in 6 hrs, BUT DONT WORRY ABOUT ME.
JB: I'm not worrying. You're a professional, seasoned traveler. You make the Navy Seals look like Cub Scouts.
Dec 2nd

$200k worth of inflatable boobs lost at...

holga: SYDNEY - More than 130,000 inflatable breasts have been lost at sea en route to Australian....
Dec 2nd
claudia: The Big Picture - Mumbai My thoughts and...
Dec 2nd
“It appears to be the work of unbelievable motherfuckers,...”
— The Daily Show correspondent...
Dec 2nd
“[Tina Fey is] the sex symbol for every man who reads without...”
— New Yorker staff writer...
Dec 1st
claudia: katespencer: Tina Fey - Yay! Written by...
Dec 1st

Not that it matters

Terri Gross: Was there a guy there to play you rimshots?
Don Rickles: How do you know about rimshots?
Terri Gross: Everyone knows about rimshots.
Don Rickles: Not everyone... what's your last name?
Terri Gross: Gross.
Don Rickles: You a Jewish girl?
Terri Gross: Yes.
Don Rickles: Oh. We'll talk more.
Dec 1st

Awkward

bagcoffee: Is it strange that I’m looking forward to hearing Paul Krugman on Leonard Lopate? One of...
Dec 1st