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Oh no you di’in’t…
clintonmcdougall:mageca:Dropped by airfields.
Saturday nights with Donnie!
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When you’re twisting balloons for children, never tell them what you’re making. The majority of the finished products—despite your best attempts—almost always look like a dog, a blastula, or something vaguely phallic. If you identify what you’re actually attempting to make, the children will respond to your finished product with, “That doesn’t look like a [insert animal name]…”
But if you make the animals and then ask, “What does it look like to you?” the child’s imagination will take over, turning the blue, four-legged balloon into Blue from Blue’s Clues, the blastula into a Pokemon, and the phallic object into an elephant.
You’ll also get bonus points because you were so cool for making exactly what they wanted.
” —Tricks of the Trade by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News (via superamit)
HEZ PRO-TIP: This applies to more than just balloon animals. Think about it.
Above is an 18th century “witch bottle,” used to fend off evil spirits. Discovered at a construction site in the London borough of Greenwich, this example is particularly rare because it’s still corked. Retired chemistry professor Dr. Alan Massey analyzed the bottle and its curious contents. From Fortean Times:
(The bottle) contained 12 bent iron nails (one of which pierced a small leather heart), eight brass pins, 10 adult fingernail pairings (sic) (not from a manual worker, but a person “of some social standing”), a quantity of hair and urine with traces of nicotine, indicating it had come from a smoker. There were also traces of sulphur, then known as brimstone, and what is thought to be navel fluff. The brimstone recalled the passage in Revelation where the beast and the false prophet were “cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone”.From boingboing
A Friend's Tweet Could Be An Ad -
Tuesday was another typical day for John Chow, blogger and Internet entrepreneur in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Chow treated his 50,000 Twitter followers to a photograph of his lunch (barbecued chicken and French fries), discussed the weather in Vancouver and linked to a new post on his Internet business blog.
Then he earned $200 by telling his fans where they could buy M&M’s with customized faces, messages and colors.
ZOMG, I know this guy. His blog is retina-searing, but makes shit tons of money.
I’m too busy eating to take anything but a blurry Photo Booth pic of tonight’s dinner, but here’s the recipe for my super-healthy gloriously gluten-free faux risotto:
Brown jasmine rice (in exact 1 to 2 proportions to water so that it’s a bit mushy)
Can of tuna (drained)
Snap peas cut into bite size bits
One ripe avocado
A bit or marg (you should use butter) and a tablespoon or so of good creamy country mustard
Cook the rice and add the pea pods when there are just a few minutes left so they steam. Mix in the rest of the shit really well, season with salt & fresh ground pepper and serve.
This happens to my MacBook Pro around every week or so. It feels like the thing is trying to prod me into installing Snow Leopard, but that’s silly. It’s really having all these kernel panics because my awesomeness makes it nervous.
Colonel Panic is totally going to be your Civil War Nickname.
All the Leaves Are Gone
New mix for fall! Photo by the lovely Jen Gibson.
Tracklist
1. Neil Young - look out for my love
2. Chad Vangaalen - soak in visions
3. Thee Oh Sees - the river rushes (to screw MD over)
4. Fresh & Onlys - happy to be living
5. The Mantles- don’t lie
6. Nite Jewel - we want our things
7. The XX - you’ve got the love (Florence & the Machine cover)
8. Solange - stillness is the move (Dirty Projectors cover)
9. Lindstrom & Christabelle - lovesick
10. Dam-Funk - brookside park
11. Atlas Sound - walk a thin line (Fleetwood Mac cover)
12. Girls - goddamn
13. Tickley Feather - trashy boys
14. Little Dragon - a new
15. Four Tet - love cry (Joy Orbison remix)
16. Fever Ray - here before (Vashti Bunyan cover)
17. Mountain Man - animal tracks
18. Yellow Fever - hellfire
19. Real Estate - suburban beverage
20. Josephine Foster - all the leaves are gone
Swinging and still sullen. How does she do it?
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Richard Mosse’s “Breach” is a collection of images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. The net effect is a little disarming, a little humorous, and very surreal.
But those Bluth Company floorplans have never looked better.
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Richard Mosse’s “Breach” is a collection of images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. The net effect is a little disarming, a little humorous, and very surreal.
But those Bluth Company floorplans have never looked better.
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It’s up on Youtube! I’ve linked it to start after a 2 minute introduction by some guy.
Thank you! Always wanted to see this!
Rockin’. Knockin’.