December 2009
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via myradventures) (via inteawetrust)
crowth:
hereharehere:
lonelysandwich:
“Young Sherlock Homes” (1985) dir. Barry Levinson
Above, Young Watson hallucinates and takes a cream pie to the face.
This, for a certain generation (some say the greatest generation) is the One True Holmes.
And if the scene where Elizabeth gets ritualistically waxed by members of an Egyptology cult didn’t keep you up for at least a week,...
“Pasta my arse!”
– Jim Royle is becoming my alter hero.
squashed:
“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the obstructionist Republicans. It doesn’t even mean voting out Senator Lieberman. As long as our legislative process is held in thrall to an economy of influence that nearly requires members to play nice with the special interests, the will of the people — on the left and on the right — will continue to be stymied on...
What’s the word for the compromised reality two people in a conversation nonverbally agree to in order to make it an easy joke?
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“Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the part of you...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann (via chartier).
One of my all time favorite Merlinisms.
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Most exciting find within my new The Fat Duck Cookbook: page 186, Marmite broth recipe. I will be making this.
“A Free society does indeed require some confidence in the ability of men to...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr (via azspot)
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“George: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? Capt. Blackadder:...”
– Travors.com: Blackadder
Nothing says holiday-comedown like Blackadder. Queueing up my own marathon, now.
Watchmerlin:
Merry Christmas, you magnificent bastards.
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Alfred Hitchcock - Music to Be Murdered By...
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“So it’s especially disheartening that their name has been reassigned, and not to any foolish but vigorous crop of tyros, but to parasites. Eric Fredericksen defines the hipster as “a consumer of (sub)culture, a person who substitutes taste for creative drive.” That sort has probably been around forever, but didn’t really become an identifiable genus until maybe the...
“Imagine telling a Democrat in the days after the 2004 election that the 2006...”
– Ezra Klein (via savingpaper) (via apsies) (via mikehudack)
And, I continue to appreciate Ezra Klein’s perspectivizing.
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Making Hugh’s marrons glace, glazed chestnuts.
“Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.”
– Donald Barthelme, quoted by Falling and Laughing (who had an additional political note, as do I). I have many reasons for not cursing the world; I even agree that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” Sometimes I worry that I’m naive, or that such sentiments...
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“the bitterness of an interrupted life is nothing compared to the bitterness of...”
– Nabokov, from the Boston Review, describing how I feel about waking from a good sleep. My best, most interruptible work is sleep.
Always be prepared
State Park employee carrying a musket over your shoulder and pulling a red wagon,
I snuck a picture of you while holding my camera backwards at arm’s length out the passenger side window. But, I got the exposure wrong. Can we try it again?
Thanks,
s.
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Who do I need to contact about buying a license so I can post music on my tumblr?