December 2008
Harold Pinter - A Slight Ache
Another to follow...
Aggregate transformation is the root unit of human works.
riazm:
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
— White Noise, Don Delillo
sarazucker:
scott schuman is a dick. he is, but i feel the need to risk life, limb, and copyright stipulations to follow in the footsteps of frangry and mari and announce kris payne’s appearance on the sartorialist. yes, a tumblr was captured by the len’s of one of street style’s greatest phtographers. this day will go down in infamy.
My morning tangent has informed me that Scott Schuman kicked...
Anthony Minghella’s short play Hang Up. BBC...
Harold Pinter reading from his Last To Go in 1959.
$X00/night - 4 night minimum
Wondering if I can sue the hotels in the DC area for collusion.
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Geek Chicken
install new sata hard drive equal to the size of the others
start areca raid controller web management utility
resize raid object
wait 14 hours
cut back out of whole chicken with poultry scissors
take off wings with knife and flatten
rinse the bird and dry
make marinade with lots of lemon juice, fresh dill, 3 large cloves minced garlic, sea salt, cracked pepper, and olive olive.
spooning...
“Hal Ashby did die just after Christmas, on a raw, rainy Tuesday… .The...”
– Biskind, Easy Riders and Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock’n’Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 438. Observations on film art and Film Art
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters or advances the story, but the details of which are of little or no importance otherwise.
The element that distinguishes a MacGuffin from other types of plot devices is that it is not important what the object specifically is. Anything that serves as a motivation will do. The MacGuffin might even be ambiguous. Its...
Kids in the Hall Returning to TV! →
Exclamation mark.
Intellectually bankrupt.
From Roger Ebert’s begrudging review of Ben Stein’s steaming pile of ignorancemovie, “Expelled.”
Ben Stein is only getting warmed up. He takes a field trip to visit one “result” of Darwinism: Nazi concentration camps. “As a Jew,” he says, “I wanted to see for myself.” We see footage of gaunt, skeletal...
“(Extroverts) are as inscrutable as puppy dogs.”
– Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic - 2003
Tonight it’s braised short ribs improvised with wine, homemade stock and a Mamet film.
“The stock market is like your schizophrenic, paranoid, impulsive, superstitious,...”
– Because you know they make like 6 figures.
WatchI could play the first 17 seconds of this all day. The rest is not necessarily safe for work.
David Cross - Chicken Pot Pie - animal humps
WatchRöyksopp - What Else Is There?
This office smells like burning.
This office coffee tastes like burning.