January 2009
29 posts
Saturday afternoon, abridged.
stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honking stop honki…ok, thank you.
A True Story.
A few weeks ago my girlfriend was sick. She stayed home from work for several days and finally made an appointment to see a doctor named Lolita (as in Dr. Lolita C…) the following week. When she woke up that Saturday feeling much worse we decided to go to the urgent care clinic, where she saw a Dr. Fallis. That’s right: Fallis. Pronounced…. you know.
The point of telling...
“The danger in yielding to thoughts of spring—green grass, hikes, bare feet, lakes, fly-fishing, rivers, and sun, hot sun—is that once these thoughts enter your mind, you can’t get them out.” - Rick Bass, Winter: Notes from Montana
Repose.
Denis Derzacq - Hyper (left) and Pablo García - Guggenheim Jumping (right).
There are people in this world who are really, actually named Kermit.
A Skyspace created by James Turrell.
A Cloud Projection captured by Blake Gordon.
Today was kind of a big day for me. I have a fresh haircut to go with that fresh new president. Oh, and I made some slight changes to this website.
People kept asking me what the title “squeamish” meant and I never had a particularly good answer. The truth was that I felt scared of putting myself on display, even in such an insignificant way. I guess now I’m over that...
Wow.
“Shortly after 7 a.m., as the sun rose above the Capitol dome, there was a glittering burst of flash-bulbs as the teeming crowd collectively snapped thousands of photos of the dramatic moment. Around the Capitol, ticket gates opened for the long lines that were already waiting. Before long the Mall was packed with people for as far as the eye could see; by 9 a.m the eastern half of the Mall,...
Maps.
All Streets by Ben Fry.
Red Around by Eric Eley.
Roman Flood Markers via Pruned.
Already disappointing.
The largest full moon of 2009… happened last Saturday, January 10th.
Oh, and this too: “The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year. Eventually this drift will force the moon to take 47 days to circle our world.”
A list of things that I do not like to look at.
1. teeth that have recently been removed from someone else’s mouth* 2. dead birds, esp. pigeons 3. subway nailbiters 4. the computer all day long 5. blood *teeth recently removed from my own mouth are a different story.
WatchAnd now for something completely different…
Tune-Yards - FIYA
Our dinner dishes are dry in...
Bragging.
I know my library card number by heart.
Cute or creepy?
Emily in my (dead) great grandmother’s glasses.
“A way of life involves the cultivation of everyday habits, habits of reproducing life (work, care), of paying attention, of inattention, of intensities of focus that are serious and frivolous. A way of life involves managing the habituated way you show up and the way you check out of relations you are having. A way of life is a thick space of connection, habit, aversion, demand, deference,...
Public radio mashup
“Drug Money - people participating in drug trials for the cash,” from The Brian Lehrer Show + “Guinea Pig Zero - people who make their living by donating their bodies to science for medical experiments,” from This American Life.
