The regularly scheduled program is being interrupted by a tornado warning.
Literary star, out of the limelight
The way he spoke -- in tightly wound, fully realized thought, his diction excellent, his tone formal, any high-mindedness kept in check by free-floating jargon -- sort of replicated the experience of reading him. It's not that [David Foster] Wallace is a borg, finally. It's that he's socially awkward and very guarded, and so in person, his intelligence naturally becomes his greatest defense."It's an odd question to ask me," Wallace said, when he was asked if one should worry about never having read certain "classic" works of literature. "I worry about it, but for me it gets very muddled between what are my expectations for myself as a human being and what do I want to read professionally. Totally between you and me, use it if you want, but my mom and I both laugh. Mom teaches literature at a junior college; mom's never read 'Moby-Dick.' I've never read 'The Iliad.' I know I've stood in gatherings and made facial expressions meant to communicate that I've read it, but in fact I haven't."
And yet, it came out, he has read the entire Tom Clancy oeuvre. On airplanes.
Expanding the Agenda of Cultural Research
* A history of the senses has emerged, demonstrating how changes in values and assumptions have reshaped the nature of the sense of smell while, at the same time, diminishing its role in the sensory arsenal. Modern Westerners are now viscerally disgusted by odors people used to accept, because of changing ideas about cleanliness and the body.
* Various approaches to the history of emotion have shown how basic formulations have altered, with significant implications for the ways that emotions are handled by society and experienced individually. Indulgence in grief in 19th-century America turned, by the 1920s, into aversion, so much so that deep feeling denoted a need for therapy.
* Many diseases, as well, have at least partially been explained through cultural construction. The fascinating work on the emergence of modern anorexia nervosa has shown how changing beliefs about mother-daughter bonds promoted new forms of unconscious rebellion around food as a cherished family symbol, with new standards of beauty supplementing those reactions.
Such achievements, of the cultural turn at its best, clearly indicate that we should not reverse directions too fully, even as faddish interest declines. Initial sketches, as in the history of the senses, are still being elaborated, and there is much more to be learned. But limitations in the impact of the cultural turn also provide food for thought as we consider what should come next.
New Animation Chief Redraws Rules at Disney
On Monday, the new boss roiled the ranks when he told a gathering of 525 animation employees that he wants them to produce lush, classic fairy tales -- perhaps "The Snow Queen" or "Rapunzel" -- entirely on computers. His vision was greeted with dropped jaws by the roomful of artists steeped in the traditional style of hand-drawn animation pioneered by Disney.
daily my-stomach-hurts-You cruel, cruel pescetarians. Fish do feel pain.
-before and after makeup; where can I find that makeup? (via geisha asobi log)
-Giornale Nuovo on collages
-Joyce and jogging
-phancy.com's got Bjork mp3s
-Joss Whedon's ten favorite Buffy episodes
-Freak Watchers Textbook
-Combat stress. Combat stress.
-Museum of The History of Psychological Instrumentation (via speckled paint)
-foods that affect your bowels
According to the Gaurdian's weekly lit quiz, I'm a literary genius. But I'm only linking it because the quiz quotes the Smiths, and shows M. wearing his Oscar Wilde shirt.
I usually avoid "what personality disorder do you have?" quizzes, because the quizzes tend to tell me I have all of them. More than reflecting my personality, I think these quizzes reflect my test-taking style. For example, the quiz I linked to asks, "Do you always feel the need to have a story to tell?" I'm a short story writer, so I answered Yes. My result: highly histrionic ("People with histrionic personality disorder . . . use grandiose language to discribe* everyday events.").
*That's how they spell it.
link via coyote's bark
Marginally related: Mickey Mouse Trying to Commit Suicide
link via speckled paint
Many art links today on my other blog, including links to online portfolios and games by Mr Bingo, enzyme design, Gary Baseman, and Sophie Thouvenin.
Sometime in the history of advertisement, a think tank decided that we like eating anthropomorphized food. Instead of gaining our empathy, smiling food with human eyes would make us hungry; instead of making eating feel like murder, eating would be playful interaction with a willing cast of characters.
The candy aisle in convenience stores looks like a class portrait, rows of grinning faces; the think tank must have been right, or else anthropomorphic food wouldn’t still be so popular. But projecting human qualities on our pets saves 
them from being carved up for dinner, and—for me—singing and dancing food either elicits empathy, or repulsion for the food that would sell out its brothers and sisters.
Since the logic of advertisements is most obvious when it fails, I’ve always felt I’m in a good position to understand the logic of anthropomorphized food. But the logic seems over-determined, and I’ve had a hard time coming up with one coherent theory. Here are my ideas, most of them based on conversations with my boyfriend:
1. By anthropomorphizing food, we’re ascribing food will power. Food wants to be eaten, as much as, or more than, we want to eat it. So, anthropomorphized food might be assuaging two different kinds of guilt—targeting our culture of obesity, and telling us to feel less guilty for over-eating, or addressing our unconscious guilt over eating animals by making us, on some level, believe all food is happily devoured.
2. By making food human, we ignore its production. Fruit with eyes and legs isn’t picked off the tree by migrant workers; instead, it jumps off the tree, into a cart, and hitchhikes to the nearest market. Anthropomorphic food is an obvious 
instance of what Marx called commodity fetishism, in which "the object produced by labour, its product, now stands opposed to it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer."
3. Or, the logic of consumption is best expressed by a much older logic—that of cannibalism. The Aborigines ate their enemies to incorporate their powers, and omophagia, one form of cannibalism, was practiced to preserve the life force of ancestors. Consumption is more appealing if it seems like acquisition rather than the erasing or disappearance of goods. (The cannibalism idea was much better articulated by my boyfriend.)
4. Maybe humanized food has to do with the pleasures of narrative. If the items on our plate are a cast of characters, we can turn eating into a story. Narrative psychologists say humans understand themselves by making stories -- that stories are central to thinking and feeling. If so, we’re apt to find stories, and hence characters, everywhere.
5. Children have a special need for stories, and cartoons cater to it by turning all kinds of objects and animals into characters. Anthropomorphic food, always cartoonish, offers us a pleasant opportunity for regression, for associating food with the comforts of Saturday-morning childhood.
6. Or, maybe, we’re all just repressed hunters. We give cats plastic mice, and advertisers give us talking food. Opening a bag of M & Ms is our substitute for tossing spears at antelopes.
***If you have thoughts or links to anthropomorphized food products, or know of any relevent advertisements or ad campaigns, please leave a comment. Here's a list of the campaigns and products I know of that star human-like food, but I know there's a lot more out there:
-Prego Pasta Bake Sauce
-Pizza Hut, Gary The Garlic
-Foster Farms Chickens
-M & Ms
-Runts
-Gobstoppers
-Frosted Mini-Wheats
-French's Mustard "funny food face"
-Frulatté
-Snapple
-Sour Patch Kids
-Kool-Aid
-California Raisins
-Pillsbury Doughboy
-Lemonheads
-McDonalds, Mayor McCheese and The McNuggets
-StarKist, Charlie the Tuna
-Slim Jims ("Eat Me!")
-Planters, Mr.Peanut
-those ads with the hot dog running for its life (name? brand?)
-older campaigns
Why is AsciiRock forbidden? Has Incoming Signals stopped broadcasting? Will Supermodels Are Lonelier Than You Think come back? What does "as daily as possible" mean to Lightcycle? Will Portage ever get off the road?
daily i'm-nocturnal-again-Bob's Quick Guide To The Apostrophe, You Idiots
-Trickle: Automated Posting of Deferred MovableType Entries
-designer trading cards
-"The Trade Regulation Organization is issuing a '55 most wanted' playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in Iraq."
-American Crusade 2001+ trading cards
-apocalyptic dreaming
-world's first home DNA storage kit
-website DNA
One of the net's great untapped porn sources: before and after pics.
-before and after liposuction
-before and after buttocks implants
-before and after breast reductions
-before and after breast lifts
-before and after breast augmentations
-before and after breast asymmetry correction
-before and after penis enlargement
-before and after pec implants
-before and after face lifts
-before and after nose jobs
-before and after chin implants
-before and after botox
also:
-a good nose job
-facial feminization surgery
-Rhinoplasty (nose job) tutorial
You'll notice, if you scroll down and look left, that I've organized and extended my homage to other blogs. I'm still playing with the CSS, but use and abuse the list; all the listed blogs are great.
-What kind of thinker are you? (via burnt toast)
-vintage posters from the golden age of magic (via everlasting blort)
-Atheist: the game (via feindish is the word)
-get free Maxim (via fimoculous)
-BlogPulse - Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs (via muxway)
-paper dolls, aka Unholy Army of Catholic School Girls
-The Jean-Luc Godard Drinking Game (via scrubbles)
-Radiohead album art (via quasimeta)
-Researchers propose a mathematical model of marriage
-body part zen
-nerdy size comparisons of buildings and starships (via geisha asobi log)
-Animal Rights Leader Wants To Be Barbecued (also via geisha asobi log)
-strange fruits (via muxway)
-good gifts-- except for the bubble gun, which I have and is total crap (via idle type)
-the best gift of all: the 'orgasm machine' (via tokyo ouja)
-Create your own safety signs (via coudal partners)
Steve Almond's top ten tips for writing good sex scenes.
2) Never compare a woman’s nipples to:a) Cherries.
b) Cherry pits.
c) Pencil erasers.
d) Frankenstein’s bolts.
Nipples are tricky. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and shades. They do not, as a rule, look like much of anything, aside from nipples. So resist making dumb-shit comparisons.
AsciiRock links to a breakdown of Japanese subcultures. Among the groups:
-Uyoku, militant right-wingers: "At the Yasukuni Jinja (Peaceful Country Shrine) in Tokyo you can often see new Uyoku practising their slogan chanting, and see the evil black vehicles up close."
-Anti-Giants, anti-fans of the Giants baseball team: "'"I hate the Giants, and when they win I am filled with a sense of deep frustration and anger.'"
-Speed Tribes or Bosozoku, who ride "cars and scooters with their mufflers removed, disturbing the peace, defying authority, and engaging in acts of random violence."
-Hikikomori are "people who are young and physically healthy, but choose to spend their entire lives cut off from the rest of the world."
-Otaku, geeks: "There are even anime otaku who say that they have no interest in dating real women because no person can ever be as beautiful, kind, or wonderful as the character that appear in comics and animated films."
-Ganguro, girls in black face, and Yamanba, mountain witches: "Other causes of the trend are rebelliousness against the traditional aesthetic of pale-skinned beauty, and the desire to be shocking."
xray art by Bert Myers
xray art by Steven Myers
xray art by Sheila Pinkel
xray art by George Green
xray art by Daniel Buxton
xray art by Hugh Turvey
xray art by Wolfgang Reichmann
History of the xray.
Buy xray art here.
Related entries: XXX-rays, April 5, 2003; Floral Radiography, May 21, 2002.
-Most movies that feature skin disease use it to represent evil.
-Beck has a journal.
-Internet Sacred Text Archive
-home built chastity devices (via muxway)
-TELEPORT is a multidimensional transport system powered by a network of consciousness exploration units, or trips. (via incuBLOGula)
-. . .growing evidence that cannabis may protect the brain against the damaging effects of ageing. (via burnt toast)
-An Introvert's Lexicon (via fiendish is the word)
-Shoe Size-->Penis Size Conversion Chart (via Tokyo Ouja)
-Nietzsche Aphorism Generator (via spitting image)
-Start your own invisiblog
Body Art
-To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, turn your DNA into art.
-Roxanne Wolanczyk's organ surveillance art.
-Yves Klein's Untitled Anthropometry.
Embody Art
-Body Art.
-Classic Mayan Beauty Tips.
-Bob Carey's self-portraits.
-"Artists, designers and people who have been to art school are a staggering five times more likely to suffer body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a mental illness characterised by a distorted body image and a preoccupation with slight or imagined defects in physical appearance than other mentally ill patients." [more>]
coyote's bark has been amassing some good links:
-skinstrip.net: share your naked pics
-sex in the U. library
-few want to wash dead people for a living
From the LA Times—
Now it appears that as Antonioni was making his movie about voyeurism and virtual realities, an unknown (or largely forgotten) observer was taking photos of him and his cast, both while the cameras were rolling and between takes.The result was about 800 black-and-white negatives, some identical to frames from the movie, others offering behind-the-scenes glimpses of Hemmings, Redgrave, Sarah Miles (who plays an unhappily married friend of Thomas), Antonioni, famous models, and the production crew. Several dozen have been made into prints and are on display through Wednesday at Headquarters gallery in Hollywood. David Wills, 32, who organized the show, says that among the negatives are images of Redgrave at home, playing with her children and taking voice lessons. [more>]
-call any phone booth in the world (via idle type)
-this has been on the web for a while, but I haven't been on the web: philosophy radio, "an archive of (or links to) recordings of radio programmes on philosophical themes."
-play rock paper scissors online (via b3ta)
-world wide blog
-"Forty German authors are hoping to set a record on World Book Day on Wednesday by conceiving, writing and printing a book in 12 hours."
-a new clickable collage every minute (via amberglow)
-free reference books
"More than 90 dead tigers, including 58 cubs stuffed into freezers, were discovered at the Riverside County home of a noted animal rescuer by authorities who also uncovered a menagerie of malnourished animals roaming the property."
Thirsty baboons attack girls in Kenya for water
It's 4 am, my apartment is filled with smoke, and if I don't flap the smoke away from the fire alarm with a blanket, the alarm's going to go shrill again and wake my neighbors. A quick flashback: at 3:30 am, I couldn't fall asleep, so I got up and decided to draw myself a bath. I lit a couple candles, set them on the edge of the tub (as I always do), and browsed the internet while the bath was running. Three minutes later, I hear a loud snap, and check in on the bath. One of the candle's glass casings is broken, and the candle's top surface is on fire like a lit pan of oil. Now, I'd read as a child that water can actually aggravate fires, but the bath was still running, and it was too easy to splash some wetness in the candle's direction. The candle's flame paused, cackled, and jumped two feet in the air. Now, the fire alarm was screaming, and smoke was clouding my vision, and I went running. I got my fire extinguisher and sprayed the mother fucker out of existence, and I now have a bathroom that looks like a lunar landscape: mountains of white powder everywhere.
The candle-culprit, by the way, was one of those candles that's made out of gel, not wax. They're manufactured by Identity and look like this:
I wouldn't trust them.
What type of brain do you have? According to Baron-Cohen's theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular 'brain type'. There are three common brain types: the female brain, the male brain and the balanced brain. A key feature of the theory is that your sex cannot tell you which type of brain you have. Not all men have the male brain, and not all women have the female brain. The central claim of this new theory is only that on average, more males than females have a brain of type S, and more females than males have a brain of type E.How male or female is your brain?
A friend once told me I have a masculine mind, but my test results claim my mind is "balanced":
But, like all psychological quizzes, this test seems to reflect self-conception rather than personality or 'brain type.'
sites related to http://www.nchicha.com/cupofchicha (thanks, sixdifferentways)
I'll be posting very little this week. But then, next week, I'll be back full force, promise.
I'm getting bored with my blog these days. Linking to what other people link to, hoping that my readers don't read the exact combination of blogs that I do. While I'll still post daily random links, I want to make this blog more useful: for myself and hopefully, by some logic that's too hazy to articulate, for others. I don't, though, want to make this a journal blog; when I go blog-hunting and see a page of text without links, I immediately hit the back button. But I want to add more commentary, and, since I'm not a scholar, my commentary will be somewhat autobiographical. If this new style doesn't entertain, write me, and I'll change back; or, more likely, if this new style clashes with my laziness, I'll change and blame it on your emails.
"While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network's web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures."
We are writing a book that seeks to capture every delicious detail of bar mitzvah celebrations from the 1970's, ‘80s and early ‘90s. You lived it. Now be a part of history. We need your help to tell the story of who we are and how we got to be this way.Why are we doing this?
If you are Jewish - or if you had a Jew or two or three in your class - there would have been a golden year when it seemed like you attended a bar mitzvah disco almost weekly. Each one was like a 'pee-wee' Studio 54, a potent cocktail of ritual, acne, insecurity, and hormones run amok.
I went to middle school in Beverly Hills. Do I have to say more?
Okay, more: a typical Bar Mitzvah theme was Wall Street. Entertainment included those glass cages where money is blown around, and you try to grab as much as you can. "Home movies" were shot on film, not video, and directed by established music video directors. The parties usually took place on an entire floor of a 4-star hotel. There were usually three Bar Mitzvahs per month during seventh grade, and girls were expected to wear a new dress to each. Coincidentally, that was the year my depression started.
Slate has an extremely accurate review of Married by America, my favorite reality series.
"I don't," said Jill. "I don't," said Tony.Kevin took the rejection in stride—journey, blah blah, timing—but Billie Jeanne did not. "I have to go," she whispered at the altar, retreating back down the aisle that she had just triumphantly walked. "What a loser!" her gay friend shouted from the crowd, infuriating her. Still in her gown, she ran to a distant part of the enormous artificial mansion at which the show had been set. She crouched in what seemed like a closet and wailed.
Outside, Tony showed pangs of remorse while his tight-lipped father shook his hand in congratulations. Billie Jeanne is not the kind of girl dads like. She's too hot and too profligate. The lawn was still decorated by Fox for a bland universal American wedding. The pastor had slunk away.
Inside the Fox mansion, Billie Jeanne sobbed harder and harder, turning away comforters. The breakable girl, her hair loose, seemed now to be wearing no makeup, and she looked like a very little girl. "I'm a joke," she said, on reality television. It wasn't the Met, but it was a sad and lovely piece of theater.
-DeLillo on terrorism
-the wonderful world of pop-up and animated books
-London tube map archive
-girls with guitars
-"According to industry reports, the execrable Ben Affleck and the ubiquitous and execrable Jennifer Lopez intend to do a remake of Casablanca."
-virus images
-To Inhale The Black Mosquito, a story in six images (via quasimeta)
-artnotes: an art and art history weblog
-Wes Anderson's next film, godspeed
-The Matrix must pay its respects to Berkeley's Campinile.
-Pot or not?
-milkmen: fathers who breastfeed (via everlasting blort)
more later, if you really want it.
My ex-boyfriend recently criticized me for posting too many sex links, but this one is just too good to pass up. Short excerpt:
They show that in the missionary position, the penis -- which looks like a boomerang because much of it is rooted inside a man's body -- butts between the woman's bladder and uterus, lifting the bladder up and forward, and shifting the uterus up and back towards the spine. The Dutch researchers saw the same thing. But in the rear-entry position, the penis pushes on the cervix, causing the uterus to swing down so that it presses on the bladder. This is an entirely new discovery.
"Can this be true? Morrissey has mixed a compilation album - featuring the Ramones, Patti Smith... and Diana Dors. Alexis Petridis reports."
-gallery of automata (and download E.T.A. Hoffman's "Automata" here)
-octofungi: "An intelligent sculpture which interacts with people and its environment and utilizes unusual materials and technologies. " (via geisha asobi blog)
-virtual fetal pig dissection (via everlasting blort)
-Ontogenesis: a weblog about biotech art
-Miss Manners looks at illness's military metaphors. (Doesn't anybody read Sontag?)
-100 Things You Didn't Know About Bukowski
-literal phone sex
-blowing fireballs
-neo-futurist presidential portraits
"The U.S. military has put out a most-wanted list of Iraqi regime leaders in the form of a deck of cards. Click through the entire deck of 55 cards."
New Scientist interviews Joe Griffin, "who says there is a way to lift depression in a day":
How can you deal with serious depression in just a day?The important thing is to know how depression is manufactured in the brain. Once you understand that, you can correct the maladaptive cycle incredibly fast. For 40 years it's been known that depressed people have excessive REM sleep. They dream far more than healthy people. What we realised - and proved - is that the negative introspection, or ruminations, that depressed people engage in actually causes the excessive dreaming. So depression is being generated on a 24-hour cycle and we can make a difference within 24 hours to how a person feels. [more>]
Woke up late, and going to bed early. I'll post more tomorrow.
"Sylvia Plath Stuck Her Head in an Oven . . ." & Other Disturbing Deaths in the Literary World
Some excerpts:
•Euripides [480-406 B.C.] Greek Playwright - Mauled by a pack of wild dogs owned by Archelaus, the King of Macedonia.
•Honore De Balzac [1799-1850] French Author - Believed to have choked on too much coffee.
•Tennessee Williams [1911-1983] American Playwright - Choked on a bottle cap while trying to get hands on some barbiturates.
According to a friend, Sylvia didn't really stick her head in the oven. I don't know if this site fact-checks.
-Do writers' looks matter?
-indiewire reviews a Fellini documentary and interviews its director, Damian Pettigrew
-Recollections based on the album The Queen is Dead
-famous name changes
-stare down your computer
-photography of fire ants
-Insect Macro Photography
-Sculptural Work in Collaboration with Trichoptera
-Thailand's Amazing Insects
-also, Giant Spiders
-A new branch in the tree of life
Bookmunch has a review of Murakami's as-yet-untranslated Kafka On the Shore.
Some short, crappy paragraphs from the new story I'm working on are up at drafts. I worry this story may be the worst thing I've ever written.
The Miniature Book Library via speckled paint
-The Webby Awards: 2003 Nominees
-Salon praises The Daily Show
-Gallery of World Paper Money (via AsciiRock)
-typo popularity tracking
-the 'Uncommon Gorey Gallery' (via incoming signals)
-naked skydiving (via geisha asobi blog)
-Pride and Prejudice, the wedding night
-Dublog has lots of great links this week. I can't list them all.
The NovaDreamer, only $300, gives you unlimited lucid dreaming. This could be the end of nightmares as we know them (last link via quasimeta).
Look at this. Why didn't anyone tell me?
This is probably more interesting if, like me, you've recently seen Secretary and read Barthelme's "The Captured Woman."
Junk mail is getting interesting. Most recent subject line: I Need To Gossip To You About Your Septic Tank.
-comparative mammalian brain collections
-"The Robot Zoo is a traveling exhibit that reveals the biomechanics of giant robot animals to illustrate how real animals work." (via lightcycle.org)
-interesting mapping application
-Hemingway's letters to Marlene Dietrich
-setting up a home soda fountain (via muxway)
-on a side note: Indy Personals. Yo, what the fuck.
Also: the Hilton sisters have a blog. Sort of.
-Things Andrew Had No Intention of Telling Hannah (via kottke)
-Re-Code: create barcodes that make store purchases cheaper (via mefi)
-Getting the Picture: the Art of the Illustrated Letter
-man attacks string sculpture with scissors
"It's a simple game: you select a mood from the pull-down list, click on 'take me away' and it'll whisk you away to an appropriate site. Each time you reload the page or click the 'Mood swing' link, the moods are shuffled into a different order." (via idle type)
Gawker has some good items that I'd like to share.
-single female seeks commitment-phobic mate
-NYC food for the tabacco-deprived; nicotine patches for NYers
Other links worth your attention:
-real-life porn clerk stories (via the morning news)
-Salon reviews "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie"
-fact: two out of every ten babies drink blood.
-Is it a Tornado Shelter, or is it a bed? Actually, it's both! (via the presurfer)
-sharpeworld freaks out about chemtrails
"The robot is . . . targeted at the elderly, for whom having someone to talk to is essential to their well-being, Mr Kato said. It has completed successful trials at retirement homes. "
As if that isn't troubling enough, here's an earlier paragraph from the article: "One problem with Wakamaru, as is the case for most such 'robot-partners', is that it understands only phrases formatted exactly like those programmed into it. If the order of the words is changed, the robot is lost."
-Joelogon's Foolproof Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend (via the presurfer)
-and not on that note, Girls kissing! (via SixDifferentWays)
-photography of Geisha and Maiko girls (via speckled paint)
-"By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. " (via the right side of my brain)
-carnivorous plant photography (via Dublog)
-gallery of demons (via bifurcated rivets)
-Yahoo! News' most emailed photos
-attempts at explaining common English expressions (via the presurfer)
-Rumsfeld's poetry:
The Situation
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.
—Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing
-super squid (via asciirock)
-Joker cards (via several sites)
-"Tabacco Shortage Makes Marines Irritable"
-Undress sixteen strangers while listening to them comment on their bodies. (via mefi)
-article on the comic strip Get Fuzzy (via scrubbles)
-White House to terminate drugs + terror ads
-Aphorisms Galore! (via mefi)
Get it here. Geoff writes, "Rename the files from .txt to .mp3. Don't say I never did anything for you."
-Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time (via one-trick cyber pony)
-Dave Egger's new mag, The Believer
-The Royal Shakespeare Company is turning The Tempest into a video game (via the morning news)
-According to Geoff's site, injection, EGON is "like Pitchfork, only for serious comics."
Other blog writers ask for wish list presents, or paypal donations. All I ask is that you don't make fun of me, and that, if you read me often, you "buy" some shares of my blog. Now I can't even ask that you don't make fun of me.
Out of humility and laziness, I haven't added entries to the Best Of category since October. But tonight, procastination makes sifting through my monthly archives seem 1) productive, 2) necessary.
