Enero 14, 2012
Pictures of Austin, Texas.
Bicycle wheel chandelier at the Bouldin Creek Café:
Masculine fashions:
In the Spider House Café:
On Lady Bird Lake, a monument to the homeless...
... and a monument to Stevie Ray Vaughan (who died in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin):
Barton Springs:
Reflection in the Japanese garden:
At the Cherrywood Coffeehouse... outside....
... and inside:
Masculine fashions:
In the Spider House Café:
On Lady Bird Lake, a monument to the homeless...
... and a monument to Stevie Ray Vaughan (who died in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin):
Barton Springs:
Reflection in the Japanese garden:
At the Cherrywood Coffeehouse... outside....
... and inside:
"Oh, yes! There is a gossamer of a story line — the heroine’s all-engrossing search for sexual gratification..."
"... and when all sexual endeavors fail to gratify, her unique problem is successfully diagnosed to exist in her throat... The alleged story lines are the facade, the sheer negligee through which clearly shines the producer’s and the defendant’s true and only purpose, that is, the presentation of unmistakably hard-core pornography."
Wrote Judge Joel J. Tyler, finding "Deep Throat" obscene in 1973. The judge has died at the age of 90.
Wrote Judge Joel J. Tyler, finding "Deep Throat" obscene in 1973. The judge has died at the age of 90.
"I have always been scared of those boats, but my girlfriend kept on saying that it was romantic, and I gave in."
"There were not enough lifeboats. The pilots were not sailors but waiters who had no idea how to maneuver and kept on having us turning in circles. It was the first and certainly the last cruise of my life."
Have you ever given in and — against your better instincts — gotten on a cruise ship? I haven't. But I have read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" — PDF — perhaps the most amusing essay I've ever read. Apparently, it's all quite awful even when it's not some "Titanic"/"Poseidon Adventure" experience.
Have you ever given in and — against your better instincts — gotten on a cruise ship? I haven't. But I have read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" — PDF — perhaps the most amusing essay I've ever read. Apparently, it's all quite awful even when it's not some "Titanic"/"Poseidon Adventure" experience.
"Shame on NPR for reporting only the money Walker is receiving..."
"... and not even mentioning the millions coming from labor unions from outside the state."
(I'm quoting the 5th commenter on here.)
(I'm quoting the 5th commenter on here.)
This blog is 8 years old today.
It was back on January 14, 2004 that I crossed the line into the blogosphere. (That's what we called it then, the blogosphere.) After posting every single day — absolutely never even one day away — I'm still having a grand time.
I'm delighted to still be here and able to type out the letters: Thanks for reading!
I'm delighted to still be here and able to type out the letters: Thanks for reading!
Enero 13, 2012
"Actually, Patron X said he had no idea he was the culprit."
"He said his company replaced his BlackBerry with an iPhone the day before the concert. He said he made sure to turn it off before the concert, not realizing that the alarm clock had accidentally been set and would sound even if the phone was in silent mode."
“I didn’t even know phones came with alarms,” the man said.
"Let Bee Fly Out of Car Window."
Advice from an old newspaper. I'll leave it to you to guess how old this is.
ADDED: More clues on this page:
"I'm delighted to announce the launch of HuffPost Good News..."
"... a new section that will shine a much-needed spotlight on what's inspiring, what's positive, what's working -- and what's missing from what most of the media chooses to cover."
How perfectly insipid. It's like Martha Stewart, but for news. Is it bad of me to feel like this is meant to work as news for women? Relatedly, my father used to insist that the news should be entirely about people who died. Dying being such a profoundly important matter. As long as anyone has died — and there's never a day when no one dies (if there was, would we notice?) — that's what the news should focus on. I tried to say, but wouldn't that be monotonous? It's banal, isn't it? Why not report that people are breathing? The real question is: What are people doing that's different and important now, not who did something in the past that makes it seem significant that he has now died? It's that thing, that for the newly dead makes us care that he has now died, that we should be learning about now. No, whatever that thing was, death is bigger. Death is the news. The news for men.
AND: Here's HuffPo's news for men: Weird News.
How perfectly insipid. It's like Martha Stewart, but for news. Is it bad of me to feel like this is meant to work as news for women? Relatedly, my father used to insist that the news should be entirely about people who died. Dying being such a profoundly important matter. As long as anyone has died — and there's never a day when no one dies (if there was, would we notice?) — that's what the news should focus on. I tried to say, but wouldn't that be monotonous? It's banal, isn't it? Why not report that people are breathing? The real question is: What are people doing that's different and important now, not who did something in the past that makes it seem significant that he has now died? It's that thing, that for the newly dead makes us care that he has now died, that we should be learning about now. No, whatever that thing was, death is bigger. Death is the news. The news for men.
AND: Here's HuffPo's news for men: Weird News.
What kind of sale?!
Oh... that explains it.
Super Happy Awesome also discovered the real reason why there was a "fuckin sale" in the first place. Apparently fuckin is an unfortunate pun on fukubukuro — "lucky bags." It's a New Years tradition for Japanese retailers to put their overstock from last year into big grab bags and sell them at a discount....
"The movie pejoratively claims that the 'Bain Way' was shorthand for being able to 'turn the misfortunes of others into their enormous financial gains.'"
"Bain Capital was actually an offshoot of Bain & Company, a consulting firm, and the 'Bain Way' refers to its heavily analytical and data-driven approach to problems."
More here:
More here:
Bain didn’t make “people lose their jobs;” on the contrary, it created all of the jobs in Gaffney that [Rick] Perry is talking about. It would have been good if the jobs had lasted more than four years, but there was obviously a net benefit of four years’ work to the employees.
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