July 2010
7 posts
“Seems like either Bieber will get trampled by fans, then they will chop his body...”
– Hipster Runoff, on Justin Bieber fans rioting in a mall parking lot
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when...”
– Jack London (via cocknbull)
“New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying “You either love me or you...”
– Bill Maher (via fuckyeahbillmaher) (via schbank) (via cocknbull)
June 2010
12 posts
“When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by...”
– The sting of poverty - The Boston Globe (via rabsteen)
3 wounded in Castro shooting →
vruz:
—via ryking:sv:
Anybody who thinks it’s “safe” to be gay because it’s The 21st Century or because Will & Grace ran for 7 years is so fucking full of shit it’s coming out their ears. It used to be kind of a joke that you’d be safe as long as you stuck to the larger cities in any particular state, but that is a huge misconception in The 21st Century. My own city has seen a couple of...
“When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said: ‘At least the handle...”
– Turkish proverb (via cocknbull)
Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam →
AKRON, OH—Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate “sex-for-security” scam in which she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers of sexual intercourse.
“It’s the biggest scam of its kind I’ve...
“I’d like to join in on the blame game that has come to define our national...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - This Time Is Different - NYTimes.com (via lkm)
“The meta-narratives that postmodernists decry (Marx, Freud, and even later...”
– David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 115 (via newleft) (via jhnbrssndn)
WatchRoss Ching, “Running on Empty”
I live in Los Angeles. I drive in Los Angeles. I think about traffic a lot in Los Angeles. A few months ago, I discovered Matt Logue’s Empty LA photographs. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but every time I was stuck in rush hour all-hour traffic, I found myself thinking, “What if tomorrow everyone’s car disappeared.”
(more)
May 2010
5 posts
“Think of all the actual security you can buy for that money.”
– Schneier on Security: Canada Spending $1B on Security for G8/G20 Summit in June (via lkm)
“We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is...”
– Albert Camus (via sometimesagreatnotion)
“Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time.”
– And it was well worth it. The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours « RescueTime Blog (via lkm)
April 2010
11 posts
moving day
Me: You busy these days?
Rob: Sadly. U?
Me: Ya. We get our house this week. Big move next Wednesday. Stress-induced suicide by Friday.
Rob: omg then we're coming to visit
Me: Thursday would be best
Rob: :/
Me: Friday obviously not so good
“Why are the Teabaggers always rallying? All they do is rally. Monday:rally,...”
– @marchinko
McLaren & Meyer & Rotten & Vicious & me →
Ebert tells an intriguing story about a movie that never was:
“I need you out here,” Russ Meyer told me on the phone in 1977. It was 6 a.m. He could not conceive that I might still be asleep. “Have you ever heard of the Sex Pistols?”
“No,” I said. “They’re a rock band from England. They got a lot of publicity for saying ‘fuck’ on TV. Now...
“If it is to be designed for the wealthy and privileged, mostly engaged in...”
– An email from Noam Chomsky
On universities.
(via rabsteen)
just another slow news day
My blog has been rather quiet for the last two weeks for the simple reason that I haven’t had anything particularly meaningful to say or share. Can you imagine if the internet worked like that, too?
March 2010
7 posts
“WikiLeaks editors, including Assagne, have spent substantial time of late in...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot) (via jhnbrssndn)
ma Bell (I got the ill communication)
I’m currently trying to cancel a cell phone that I no longer use. So far I’ve been on hold for 40 minutes while they transfer me to “Customer Retention” to finalize the process. I imagine that at this point most people just hang up and keep paying their monthly bills through gritted teeth. But not me. I’ve got all night.
This is what happens when the future of...
“I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only...”
– John Taylor Gatto (via adamquinn)
February 2010
8 posts
“Stop being so anger-averse and stop making fun of those pissed-off...”
– Paul Street (via adamquinn)
“Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson. (via ryanedwardmiller) (via vruz)
“I don’t think there’s any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human...”
– Christopher Hitchens, on the work of Ayn Rand (via cocknbull)
Olympic Spirit
The Olympic organizing committee in Vancouver (VANOC) is really going overboard with their desire to shape and mold the city and its inhabitants into the ideal Olympic brand. And it’s really starting to wear thin.
Take for instance this series of murals, which was commissioned in 2007 by the Steve Nash foundation:
Now, these murals had the unfortunate distinction of being located a...
A COVER LETTER FROM AN ART MAJOR SEEKING A JOB... →
Dear Human Relations Sir or Madam,
I am writing in search of position within your fine company that would allow me to practically apply my strong background and formal training in The Studio Arts.
I’m looking for a position that will require me to draw hundreds of thumbnails of my ideas so I can thoroughly explore all the possibilities of composition that will ultimately empower a client...
