February 2009
28 posts
Me, singing Jonathan Coulton’s “Soft...
January 2009
35 posts
Birmingham bans apostrophes from road signs →
nostrich:
Good lord.
Next year, irregular plurals! CAUTION! CHILDS PLAYING!
WatchWARNING: This product may cause drowsiness. Not recommended more than 2 servings within a 24 hour period.
Is there anything that makes me feel as simultaneously righteous and dickish as actually using Let Me Google That For You for its intended purpose?
Oh well. Sometimes you just gotta.
In which a joke bombs. Badly.
Checking out my feeds yesterday I noticed a that the final tag on @hemlock_martini’s post using awful potato chips as a metaphor for the Bush administration observed that the potato chips in question had an obscure Bible verse on the bag. There’s a local snack food company that’s known for putting Bible verses on their products; I can only remember tasting their white cheddar...
You're a special kind of people...
The auditions for the Memphis premiere of Kander & Ebb’s last musical, Curtains, are this weekend. My appointment was yesterday and I sang my two little numbers and was told to come back by in an hour for the dance audition.
I’m not a dancer. I’m also not what you’d call thin. Or even average. Which probably explains why, if I ever express a desire to have sex,...
WatchHey! The trailer for $5 Cover’s up, and it looks amazing. Show it to all your friends who claim that Memphis music died with Elvis and/or Stax.
(Okay, the first fifteen seconds are for some horror movie that looks like fifteen seconds for any other horror movie released in the past five years. I think you can safely ignore that bit.)
EDIT: There’s a preview showing on Saturday Feb 7...
neologasm →
nostrich:
The pleasurable feeling from having coined a new word. Combination of neologism and orgasm
(via tristanjay7)
New Yorker Fiction Podcasts: 2008 Highlights →
yourmonkeycalled:
A nice summary; I agree that the absolute can’t-miss standout is Louise Erdich reading Lorrie Moore’s “Dance in America.” Made me weep like the little girl I really am. (iTunes link)
Since you can't get busy with the milkman anymore,...
Today I discovered that Amazon has a “Subscribe & Save” programs where you can receive discounted regular deliveries of items you use frequently and restock monthly like toilet paper or coffee.
Or cases of Slim Jims.
Or five-pound bags of hempseed.
Or artificial fried chicken in a can.
Or microwave pork rinds.
Or three-packs of Nipple Butter.
So, if you find that you just...
Well, that's it.
Divorce attorney: Could you state your name?
Me: Randal Dean Cooper
Divorce attorney: Have you been a resident of Shelby County for the six months prior to filing your petition for divorce?
Me: Yes.
Divorce attorney: Have you filed a Marital Dissolution Agreement?
Me: Yes.
Divorce attorney: Do you wish for the court to grant your peition for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable...
Feltron 2008 Annual Report →
Nicholas Feltron’s annual reports are magnificent examples of information design. The 2008 report is now available, but you can get reprints of older reports as well; and you can view then all online.
Feltron is also the guy partly responsible for the genius that is Daytum.
My book report
Listen, I said to Maisie the saucy librarian. I have mixed feelings about what should happen next. True self-doubt is self-affirmation. False self-doubt is self doubt. But if self-doubt is self-affirmation, wouldn’t that make false self-doubt, which is real self-doubt, self-affirmation? And in that case, isn’t everything self-affirmation?
You’re blowing my mind with your...
On being adventurous.
Last Wednesday I had lunch at Lobster King with the lovely and delightful Theogeo, and among the topics of conversation was my trepidation at trying new restaurants, which isn’t a debilitating phobia in me but may scary enough to send lots of other folks packing it in to Chilis, Red Lobster, and Olive Garden for ever and ever amen.
Memphis can be especially intimidating—the best...
Amended post from Mary Cash's "In The Bluff" Blog:
Original Post.
USAToday is reporting that teen birth rates are up in 26 states, signifying a reversal of a downward trend that spanned from 1991 to 2005. Teen birth rates, up 3 percent overall in 2006 (the most recent data available), were up among teens 15 to 17 and 17 to 19, teens white, black and Hispanic. The states with the highest teen birth rates are in the South, with Mississippi...
Werewolf Calendar →
I was checking the public calendars in Google Calendar, and there really isn’t anything established to warn folks of when they might be attacked by a werewolf. There are a number of calendars based around a game called “Werewolf,” but these do not do the public near the service required for an up-to-date lycanthropy warning system. So, for my creative work for the day, I have...
A&R Downtown →
Based on news from Paul Ryburn, I’ve gone ahead and added A&R Barbecue downtown, in the former Roma Pizza location. Rumor has it that they’ll sell beer, but no news about fried pies (the location…
Best of Bootie 2008 CD →
The Best of Bootie CD is always worth a listen, and the new one is just out!
WatchI have but two New Years Resolutions: Exercise every day, somehow (unless, you know, sick), and create something every day—be it a photograph, a written page, a sketch, a painting, a poem, a blog post that’s more than “what I did today,” a recipe, something. I spent too much of the past few years partaking in other folks creativity, when there’s a lot that needs to...
The Hourly Comic →
I’m thinking John Campbell’s (Pictures For Sad Children) hourly comics are better than ever this time around.
One load of laundry washed Christmas tree disassembled DVDs put into storage boxes Breakfast made Kickin’ this years ass, so far.