June 2008
38 posts
apparently, when i leave home the world's economy... →
places i did not expect to be since i returned...
a warehouse full of “100% human hair” (and jkorean car smugglers)
speaking to 500 high schoolers about my life
the private upstate art gallery of a MoMA trustee
talking to natalie portman on the set of her directorial debut
dangling 30ft above 250,000 sq ft concrete floor
starting a road trip to california just when gas hit the $4 national average
so thats where i am, and where...
teh interwebz.
my computer is still busted, my internet is continuously down, and i hate technology now. the continuous and upward trend for everything in life, computers, cars, appliances - it pisses me off. i don’t ever want to download the new iTunes because the old one worked just fine, the new one is just bound to take more resources and have more bugs. this thought applies to everything in my...
group identification? meh, rich people like perty...
high times for self reflection, eh? not really reflection though - i already knew all of this. lately i’ve found myself verbalizing a lot of this stuff in the company of others, in their aid. i guess right now im just making sure i am getting my story straight. what to get my story straight about this time? in my quest to never leave my childhood, i have yet to come to terms with one of...
never heard of this, but anytime the national... →
kevin garnett winning a title: good to see, and... →
being single, being a couple, being friends, being...
despite my best efforts, i don’t necessarily live to the ideals i wish. primarily, my deviations are female-related. i don’t like succumbing to “like.” i do it rarely, as every time i have it has ended badly - usually for the worse from where i started. this has made any argument for continuing to slog away hard to swallow, as, i think for me, the good times have yet...
the most amazing, revealing, punk review of a... →
if i were rich, id want an apartment built with secrets, and art that makes me smile.
philosophies of life, pt. 2
to continue what once i started, and as i only write on here for myself, ill take this opportunity to figure myself out a little bit more. i will always maintain my thoughts on shared experience as vital for life. it very well may be what i work on for the rest of my days, but only in a technical sense. i dont subscribe to a Jungian unconscious or societal archetypes. so what do i subscribe...
the age we live in
Given that my parents’ generation endured an impressively weird psychological upbringing due to the Cold War, I am intrigued by how they shuffled of an even worse epoch upon their children. To be sure, a lot of the problems with the world aren’t new, there is just more information and much more availability to it by everyone. Whether it is a worse, more paranoid, world or just a more...
im not saying anything, im just saying missing a drug test in a sport outside of america is a lot more harsh than missing a drug test inside of america. rio ferdinand had to miss the third biggest sporting event on earth - terrell owens had to answer a couple more questions through his agent.
Watchi like it when traffic figures itself out. as long as im not stuck in the middle. (via boingboing)
always bad to have an untranslatable tattoo. but when you turn out to be the prostitute at the center of a governor’s downfall, it turns interesting! (via clusterflock)
house of oranje
on account of the gorgeous dutch taking apart the dastardly italians yesterday, i might as well talk about some footie. ive often referenced how soccer explains the world as a great entry book to my views on the sport, but the much more appropriate, and better, book is brilliant orange (this blog entry sums up the design and football aspects of the book well, along with adding other great stuff)....
another politicians screwed up the oil situation... →
Watchno picture i took can convey this subject any better. the zebras were so weird the first time i saw them, but they are great. and the video is a great view of la paz, with colectivos and everything. (via kottke)
i believe ive lost my computer to the dreaded agp440.sys hangup. oh the humanity. given my comp’s setup, im not sure i can get it back. boooo.
from the moment i first saw it, i knew that the... →
“All those dead poets stressed about god and goblins and getting laid should have...”
– i really like this post at f train. i think its the dreams. and this poem about plums.
“Now before you get all defensive and like, “This is so wrong!” just remember...”
– the awkward reaction to down syndrome dolls. (via delicious ghost)
i heard about the miracle fruit that makes you... →
it has literary classics in ppt form to fool your... →
Watchglad to be taking from the most pirated show in the world, its more of the future: where elephants are artists and cars drive themselves!
political goings and comings
instead of just looking at old pictures of her, i should actually think about the recent events in the democratic primary. since im still only half here, ill go with a half hearted thinkabout, mostly coming from slate.
i hate clintonian triangulation with a passion. i feel like the 90s created a cult of personality that resulted in nothing for the democratic party. to look at the previous two...
im all down for repeating father's life, in photo... →
allow myself to excuse myself
for both the confusing and hastily put together (but earnest, genuine, and heartfelt - there is a nub of a thought there) last post and delay since then, but i was busy inadequately and quite failingly attempting to help something of a close friend through a bad time.
empathy sucks, most especially when combined with other qualities, like eager overachievement, the middle child syndrome of trying...
May 2008
53 posts
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and...
While I was traveling in South America I stopped by the Xul Solar museum in Buenos Aires. When I left, and after pondering the generation of Solar and Borges and their peers, I was amazed at the lack of progress we have made as a people. Even taking the large jump of ignoring the bloodletting of the 20th Century, we still have yet to generate the person-to-person connections that would suggest a...
pamphlets have a great history (see revolutionary america or france), so its great to see someone starting them up again.
#16 might be the closest i get to the childlike... →
bloggers have been slowly creeping into the establishment, but more often than not their first crack at it is a manifesto of sorts, or a mea culpa at least. the latest, someone i never knew exist but is apparently such a big deal is Emily Gould’s, on the front page of the next NYT magazine (thought i confess now to remembering her horrid interview with Kimmel). true to form, it gives the...
alas, my hopes of becoming Ferris Bueller have... →
stuff that is happening
the internets keep burbling up interesting things. no matter how much hunter s. wants me to, i don’t get that enthralled by horseracing. big brown pulling ahead in the preakness was just about the most impressive thing ive seen from the sport, but this photo series from the infield almost has it beat. speaking of photos, i love this nightlife’s photog’s outlook on the best...
Watchthese thought bubbles have been around new york for a while, and i still love em. who knew the common man was so bitter and artistic?
football families and facebook
i really love finding connections among things that previously went unconnected. In my childhood, there was a fantastic bbc/discovery program and books (hosted by my favorite balding guy with white hair and black eyebrows) making leaps across centuries and civilizations through personal, individual connections between them. it really engaged me, and was one of the first books i remember finding...
were it if every company had cute, baby spinoffs,... →