February 2009
28 posts
“Well, baby used to stay out all night long
She made me cry, she done me wrong...”
– God, I missed listening to the Rebirth Brass Band from my New Orleans days. Last night at the Hi-Tone brought back old memories.
DEAR DESIGNERS: I HAVE SOME TOTALLY AWESOME NEW...
sniffyjenkins:
moltz:
kellydeal:
T.G.I. Futura Ennui Ivanhoe! Wingdings and Beer Chum Sooo Goth Filet O’ Bold Scat Gotti Extra Bold Arial Bold’s Drunk Brother Dick M.D. Script I Can’t Believe It’s Not Serif! Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Times New Roman
May I humbly add:
Glottal Stop Erotic Bold Georgia On My Mind Neti Pot Script Palpatine Gurlz Gurlz Gurlz Hobo
What, no...
They Bombed at O'Hare →
In the wake of the “This Bike is a Pipe Bomb” story, it’s important to keep a sense of perspective. “Bomb” is a word that TSA folks took very seriously long before 9/11. (From the August, 1996 Chicago Reader.)
Harper’s Index Turns 25: Now free for searching... →
Well, there goes my productivity for a while.
"Know This If Nothing Else: This Was A Hate Crime"... →
Yay. Thanks, Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Goldberg, O’Reilly, Liddy, etc. etc. Between McVeigh, Nichols, and Adkisson you’re doing a GREAT job discouraging terrorists.
No Kops!
yourmonkeycalled:
“In another case, Shuy helped solve a kidnapping and extortion case by using [the Dictionary of American Regional English]. A child was abducted from her home, and a scrawled ransom note was left behind demanding $10,000. The letter read, in part: ‘Put (the money) in the green trash kan on the devil strip at the corner of 18th and Carlson. Don’t bring anybody along. No kops!’
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Uh oh.
Last night I was looking around Costco trying to find the Kashi cereal bars I normally eat for breakfast, as I was down to my last two here at work. I couldn’t find any, so I ended up getting something else. I ate one of the remaining ones this morning—peanut butter & granola.
Then I realized why I couldn’t find them at Costco.
I’ll always treasure our time together....
Canard Pear Noodle - Vingt-cinq! →
Okay, okay. I give. My Twenty-Five things. Some of which are interesting.
“For every creator who makes great strides towards webcomics as a viable literary...”
– Justin Pierce, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella » Archive » COURTING Favor
You may have heard. Dr. Trent Pierce was seriously injured when a bomb exploded in or near his car yesterday morning in West Memphis.
I knew the guy. When I lived in midtown and worked in West Memphis, he was the closest thing you could call to my doctor, although I almost never go to the doctor—I think I saw him more frequently socially than as a physician—he’d come to plays in...
A Question John Hodgman Never Got Around to...
“I’ve written a novel about a man who files a lawsuit against big tobacco after being beaten within an inch of his life in prison because he smokes Virginia Slims. Is the legal thriller a dead genre?”
“Deep dish is pizza like Olive Garden is Italian.”
– Anthony Bourdain, trying to pick another fight.
