Things I’ve Eaten (And Enjoyed) This Past Week Which Would Surprise People Who Have Known Me For A While:
Wild mushrooms.
Swiss chard.
Polenta.
Coconut juice.
Cherimoya.
Things I’ve Eaten This Past Week Which Wouldn’t Surprise Anyone Who Knows Me:
Two hot dogs from 7-11, affectionately dubbed “recession steaks.”
Super-douchey: Should your wife have guy-friends?
Helpful and awesome: A guide to LA’s best taco trucks
I’ve sort of gotten over my irrational zombie fear, but still would’ve been concerned about this construction sign spotted in Austin last night.
Internet speculation in 1969. “Fingertip shopping will be one of the many homemaker’s conveniences.” Let’s play “Where’s Waldo” with the misogyny!
More Internet speculation from 1969, this time in French (with a couple of subtitles). I don’t speak the universal language of surrender myself, o this is for those of you who do.
An amazing [...]
“Everything can be as interesting as every other thing. My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class. I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. ”
-John Updike (1932-2009), interview with Life magazine, 1966
If you like Updike, here’s the interview from which the above sentiment (one oft-quoted [...]
When I’m in charge, I’ll keep a bunch of the states. But I also wanna make some new ones, too.
You know when you’re driving up the California coast, and you hit that spot where the air is suddenly breathable again? I’m going to partition that off, call it North Califoregon, and fucking run the country [...]
this was originally posted as a “note” on the facebooks
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25 (minus 15) random things about me
This will hopefully be the best one of these you read all day, because it only has 10 items on it. Plus, it is AWESOME. If I tagged you, you don’t have to do it… I mostly tagged [...]
George W. Bush keeps saying that history will judge him favorably. After reading this article about Stalin’s rehabilitation in Russia, I’m not convinced he’s totally wrong.
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I use the I Ching when it is useful, just as I turn on the water faucet when I want a drink. I find the I Ching useful to answer questions, and when I have questions, I use it. Then the answers, instead of coming from my likes and dislikes, come from chance operations, and [...]
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Cheney’s cyborg legs must need a software update, because he got rolled out of his hellpit in a wheelchair. He looks so much like the Big Lebowski that I was waiting for him to start shouting, “The bums will always lose!”
The other guy got airlifted out on a helicopter:
I love how the Washington Monument and [...]