January 2012
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
Yes!
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Public Park over a highway in the US
secretrepublic:
“Construction has been underway for some time on this public park over a highway in Dallas, TX of all places. The arts district with the city’s finest museums, concert hall, new opera hall, et all will now be walkable for the thousands of residents residing in “Uptown” who would traditionally have to drive across the highway to cover the short distance to the arts district. ...
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December 2011
3 posts
“Ultimately, I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I’m trying to be a...”
– Ian MacKaye (via pitchfork)
November 2011
5 posts
“It’s not democracy, it’s Digiorno.”
– Jon Stewart, on Congress’ recent decision to declare frozen pizza a vegetable in public school cafeterias (via natteringnabobs)
“Films are subjective- what you like, what you don’t like. But the thing for me...”
– Christopher Nolan (via helloemile)
October 2011
8 posts
What's Haunting America This Halloween? →
npr:
As America hurries down the haunted trail toward Halloween, scariness is everywhere. Ominousness is omnipresent. So many real and imagined aspects of the future are frightening. On the right, Patrick Buchanan, author of the recently released Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? howls about pending national death. On the left, Occupiers — riled by Wall Street and war...
“It’s robots, right? They are taking over the world. Slowly, their goal is to...”
– Tom Waits on the internet and computers. (via pitchfork)
Tom Waits, everyone.
lazenby:
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn...
September 2011
3 posts
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demiurge:
Every rock star needs an astronaut...
August 2011
3 posts
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Don't Touch My Stuff: Fuglies Unite →
olliebck:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/ugly-you-may-have-a-case.html?_r=1&hp
I speak to you today in this low-lit room, my crater faced brethren, because the time has come for us to demand our rights. Now is when we must join one hideous hand with another and fight for equality…
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June 2011
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Spree Music with Me: Okkervil River
I’ve begun a stint as a bi-weekly blogger about music for Buffalo Spree. I am satisfied with my first update, though I feel this is still a shot over the bow of what I really want to write. So stay tuned, won’t you? Also, one of these days I’ll explain exactly how much I get lost in everything Okkervil River does, and hopefully not to Will Sheff’s face. Read the rest...
May 2011
2 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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Catching Up With Myself
Here’s a random collection of thoughts for the day, that seem so relevant.
DCFC has a new album out next week, and I heard it all on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Also, at first blush, I’m liking it.
A friend of mine asked me if I listen to TV on the Radio today, and I almost fell over. Its the weirdest thing when most of my friends shrug their shoulders to that band, or...
July 2009
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One More Time
And the ZCP increases by one, thanks to the (possible) Zombie Short Film Festival in Toronto.
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Can I Have a Nature Change?
NPR had a story yesterday, about something I talked about back in April. Granted it covers a lot of ground on the idea of Zombie Culture Permeation (ZCP) compared to my slightly self-absorbed assesment, but they really talk about the same thing: Zombies have become a large obsession in our culture.
Is it because they’re so easy to destroy, the us that isn’t us (as I paraphrase Max...
June 2009
13 posts
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A Momentary Diversion on the Road to the Grave
I own Thriller on vinyl, and my cousin did the moonwalk across his high school stage accepting his diploma. Thank you Chris Onstad for once again, defining pop culture so very well. This is how I felt when I found out about Harvey Danger.
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“I think she could sit out on that tree and sing.”
– My Mom
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The Fundemental Fact That No One Owes You...
HOW was loads of fun. I met some amazing folks, attended some great events, lost some posters, saw John Vanderslice and his new band (got to sing “Keep The Dream Alive”, just like these folks did in Orlando a couple years ago, but we had a flute, and more of the FLA folks seemed to know the song), went to Emo’s, . Of course, I picked up a few books: Zombie Haiku, Away We Go, and...
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I Know These Lines Look Crooked On Paper
It has been raining on and off all day. I have a scene in a short story that explores part of the experience of not doing what you’d like to be doing and not knowing why you’re not accomplishing what you know you should be. The difference is, I know why I haven’t gotten to edit this short yet: I’ve got a live event to shoot tomorrow, and since I’m heading to Austin on...
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I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost
The Ghostbusters video game came out on Tuesday. If you didn’t know that, please get out from under whatever rock you’ve been living under and rejoin us in the light. Assuming you’re human.
I got the Wii version, because I don’t have an XBox 360 or a PS3. Mostly because I’d be completely consumed by the need to play. So my parents, being savvy in the use of video...
It's On, In Two Months
Sorry Seattle, I just can’t squeeze that trip in at the end. Chicago it is.
08-15-2009 Harvey Danger | Schubas Tavern
(via addthis)
12 Days and counting
JOHN VANDERSLICE and THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
(via addthis)
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I finished mastering the tracks from the IMF4...
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Busy, Busy, Busy
I’ve been feeling like a zombie lately.
The stuff over at Nickel City Chef has been keeping me really busy, so I haven’t even been able to consider how great a read World War Z was; I finished it almost two weeks ago. I certainly haven’t been able to concentrate on any of my own projects. I did finish mixing the tracks from the semi-secret IMF4 a few weeks ago, and they sound...
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
– John Waters, dispensing valuable Friday night advice (via Let Us Read and Let Us Dance) (via mercenarywriters)
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HD
A good friend of mine tipped me off to this a few days ago. Can’t say I’m too surprised, definitely sad, but still understanding.
At least I got a few trips to Seattle, some great friends, fantastic memories, and countless amounts of inspiration from you. You caught me on a wavelength at an awkward stage, but we traveled it together, in my CD player and in my car. I hope you know...
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“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via mercenarywriters)
May 2009
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Without A Spark
Bruce has it right.
This has got to be one of the signs that an outbreak has begun. Is it already here? Are there Zombies amongst us that we’re just not capable of seeing yet? I caught sight of this today, sitting on the rack next to me as I took a seat with my coffee, trying to decide if I wanted to purchase the oral history or the survival guide. I probably should have gone with the...
“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds...”
– Edgar Rice Burroughs (via mercenarywriters)
