December 2008
50 posts
kaleidoscope →
WatchSlate V - Robo-Pets: A Test-Drive
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Harry Nilsson (46)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (16)
Joel Alme (15)
Pulp (15)
Why? (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Coca-Cola douches for pregnancy prevention were a part of folklore in the 1950s...”
– The year in weird science and myth-busting - Los Angeles Times
Pretzel Rolls « Food Junta →
Pretzel Rolls
“I think people like reading about themselves, like they want to read their diary...”
– » Blog Archive » I like existentialism a lot
“It seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere...”
– » Blog Archive » David Foster Wallace Quote
“And so we sacrificed our lambs for a semester and learned about the rigors of...”
– Letters to Frank Conroy From His Students
O'Leary Holiday Hamster Cam →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Serge Gainsbourg (43)
Lambchop (20)
Mount Eerie (20)
Coldplay (15)
The Music Tapes (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Charlie Rose - A conversation with chef Thomas... →
Octopus Days
Monkfish Jowls: ugh. my story sucks.
Monkfish Jowls: i'm going to turn it into a story about octopus fishermen
Monkfish Jowls: and the liquor they drink
Monkfish Jowls: and pour on their fresh wounds
Monkfish Jowls: that they get from big hooks
Monkfish Jowls: and harpoons
Monkfish Jowls: and octopus beaks
Germinate My Heart: NICE
Germinate My Heart: I love beaks
Monkfish Jowls: luv beaks
Monkfish Jowls: anna and barbara: octopus fishers
Monkfish Jowls: one day an octopus beak bit barbara's leg off.
Monkfish Jowls: the next day, anna said, we should do something about that.
Monkfish Jowls: The day after, Barbara soiled her panties.
Monkfish Jowls: The days and days continued, until there was another day.
Germinate My Heart: with octopus juice!
Germinate My Heart: octopus day
Germinate My Heart: "octopus days"
Monkfish Jowls: unti there was octopus jelly day
Monkfish Jowls: days full of octopus and cuttlefish
Monkfish Jowls: inky days
Monkfish Jowls: they wrote love letters on each others' bare backs
Germinate My Heart: Inky squishy
Germinate My Heart: days
Monkfish Jowls: in octopus ink
Germinate My Heart: and suctioned
Monkfish Jowls: their teeth black with octopus ink pasta
Monkfish Jowls: the recipe passed on by david leavitt
Monkfish Jowls: i forgot about the suctioning
Monkfish Jowls: Barbara and her magic tentacle that she introduced Anna to
Monkfish Jowls: tentacle of love
Monkfish Jowls: a whirring, purring, rumbling artifact
Monkfish Jowls: with three heads, four hearts, and a thump.
Germinate My Heart: beautiful
Germinate My Heart: pushcart prize
“Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to...”
– Roland Barthes, The pleasure of the text
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
Serge Gainsbourg (54)
George Harrison (22)
The Fireman (20)
Smog (17)
Joel Alme (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“One time years ago at our Hamilton County Fair the poultry judge was asked to...”
– McMurray Hatchery - Buff Orpingtons (via p. powell)
elimae -- books recommended by Brian Evenson,... →
“in some ways I sort of want the writing in elimae to work like a Zen koan. Or,...”
– <HTMLGIANT> Massive People (6): Cooper Renner
“if i had a large horse made out of ham i would climb up on it and ride down the...”
– NO ONE DOES THAT
The Fall →
I have tried probably ten serious times to quit chewing tobacco in the last decade. I’ve never even made it a year. Besides all the well-documented psychic fallout, the hardest thing about quitting for me is that it makes me stupid. Really stupid. As in walking into rooms and forgetting why I’m there, drifting off in the middle of sentences, feeling coolness on my chin and discovering I’ve been...
H. M., "the most important patient in the history... →
Gary Lutz - RateMyProfessors.com →
“Last February, a dear friend and housemate celebrated the morning of his...”
– Seaweed soup, or “It’s my party and I can eat kelp if I want to” « Food Junta
Jonesin' Crossword →
Writers on Writing -- Series of columns from the... →