October 2009
27 posts
WatchToo much awesome.
Take a beloved film (Star Wars, in this case). Chop it up into 15 second fragments. Using the Internet, collect volunteers and assign each one a fragment. The volunteers have to remake the fragment in any style they choose — faithful, silly, drawn animation, stop-motion, goofy, weird — and no effort is made at all to harmonise or synchronise the different actors,...
Conference call log
TG [Vice President of one of my employer's clients]: "Who is on your end of the line?"
LR [one of our project managers]: "Me and Richard."
TG: "Oh, is that Dr Richard Gaywood?"
RB [my colleage]: "no, it's me, Richard B."
TG: "Oh."
(beat)
RB: "Your words cut me like razors, T".
(beat)
TB: "Well, are you a doctor, Richard?"
RB: "No, I don't think you should call yourself Doctor unless you can take a man's heart out, show it to him, and put it back before he dies."
395. Be mindful of what comes between you and the...
Oh, I like that one a lot. (via rulesformyunbornson)
If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He... →
biorhythmist:
The Onion. Of course.
Priceless.
“I took the bullets from the carport
Tossed them in my backpack
Placed a set of...”
– Few people do bleak like Bob Mould does bleak. (This from Again And Again from District Line).
Dear Tumblr,
myrm:
Take out a pen and paper and note the following:
There should be a comment box under posts in the dashboard.
So I can comment.
Because I have a comment for everything.
Because I don’t know how to shut up.
Sincerely,
Incessant reblogger.
^This. I mean, seriously, Livejournal had baked-in comments, and that was shit.
“The Egg McMuffin not only brought McDonald’s into the breakfast business,...”
– The factual inspiration for my Eggs Benedict / Egg McMuffin comparison. It’s entertaining and educational!
Moon Disaster Speech, by William Safire. →
whileyouweresleeping:
In 1969, William Safire wrote a speech for Nixon which was to be delivered in the event that Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin would find themselves stranded on the moon.
— In Watergate.info via Seed Magazine, from London.
Sent a shiver up my spine.
“But for good or ill, the justice system doesn’t work on behalf of victims; it...”
– from Rape Apologists: Roman Polanski’s Rape of a Child Not That Bad | Blog of the Moderate Left (via indefensible)
^this
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““Give me an adventure.”
In the moment that followed, my sister...”
– I can’t freely tell you what book this is from, because it constitutes a spoiler. Great quote though. This link will take you to the Wikipedia page about the book, if you really want to know.
"How I Met My Wife" by Jack Winter
funsizebytes:
{Tom sent me this link via IM. As someone who cares about words, it is almost painful to read, and yet, a little fun.}
“How I Met My Wife” (A Tale in Orphan Negatives)
by Jack Winter, the New Yorker, July 25, 1994
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate.
I was furling my weildy umbrella for...