Friday May 09, 2008 at 11:36

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English Russia » An Abandoned Tank Base
English Russia » An Abandoned Tank Base

Thursday May 08, 2008 at 16:39

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travors:

“It insists upon itself”

This post was reblogged from Travors.com.

Thursday May 08, 2008 at 12:07

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meghanagain:

Yesterday Andrea and I had lunch in the park and decided that everything would be better if people just did their research. Pick up a book once in awhile. I wish these cherry blossoms would stop falling in my hummus. All that.

I understand that you may prefer the above in haiku form. Many people do.

yesterday, lunch in the park
fie on lazy work
too bad about my hummus

The falling cherry blossoms
Their wings rest upon our food
Come back to life!

This post was reblogged from How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down.

Thursday May 08, 2008 at 10:59

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Chaiten volcano More here and here and here. 

Chaiten volcano

More here and here and here. 

Wednesday May 07, 2008 at 13:18

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Top X, 5/7/08

It’s kind of hard to see moments of grace lately. I try to catch up on Twitter and I see the number 22,000 stamped across each post. It’s a hard number for me to visualize: I keep trying to find a more personal way to conceptualize it. No luck so far. I want to sit with the number 22,000 and turn it around in my mind, look at it from different angles.

Anyways.

In the one creative writing class I ever took, the teacher shared a poem he had written about a spider that crawled across the piece of paper he was writing on, and his coin-flip decision to let the spider live. The poem turned on the phrase because life does manage to inhabit, and I’m not 100% sure what he meant, but the phrase stuck in my head, 13 years now, and I think about it whenever I start to wonder why we bother.

1. My two-year-old was very excited to go to his new classroom this morning.

2. Candy. A kind of chocolate I’ve never had before. Australian licorice.

3. David Barringer, who sent me the tools I need to put out more books.

4. “Look at Miss Ohio” by Gillian Welch

5. “suppose” by ee cummings

6. Situations that could definitely be worse.

7. My five-year-old’s constant stream of questions about Super Mario Brothers 3. A bell of mindfulness.

8. R.

Tuesday May 06, 2008 at 9:12

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“Part of the joy of the mix (both making and receiving) was getting/hearing something that made you say “where did THAT come from?!” And of course, the mixtape merely offered you the track name. There wasn’t really any context, so a really obscure track could have an air of mystery about it that really added to the fun, and prompted attempts at one-upmanship. The same is true of forwarding links to your friends — you just send the youtube link, not usually where you got it from. And this keeps that sense of mystery, that great feeling of “where did they find THAT?!” But once you start blogging, it seems that the protocol is to reference where you got your article links, your weird remixes, your youtube links. The mystery is gone, you can see the wizard of Oz behind the curtain, it becomes clear that the main asset a blogger has is simply time.”

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putting the j in jjosh » Blog Archive » mixsion statement

Josh Granger*, comparing blogging to the ancient (lost?) art of mixtapes. Great post, pulling together many disparate strings. He’s less jaded about it than I am, but I agree with his conclusion: create more. It’s muuuuch harder and more frustrating than link blogging, but I’d rather have 1 person link to something of mine that they liked then 100 linking to something that I just happened to notice.

* I’ve been Googling Josh Granger for 12 years now, all “Why the hell doesn’t this guy have a blog.” So Amen to him finally turning up.

Monday May 05, 2008 at 21:07

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Friday May 02, 2008 at 21:54

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How To Play Slug Pumpkin

Slug Pumpkin is a pretty chill new game which I recently invented. What you do is log into your Gmail at an hour such as 11:30 pm on a Friday night, or maybe 1:30 am on a Saturday. Basically any time when anyone who is NOT A COMPLETE LOSER would be nowhere near a computer. At that time you log into Gmail, see which of your contacts is online, and then post their names on your blog, thereby outing those people as *uses fingers to make shape of “L” against forehead.* Pretty fun.

You may think it is a Catch-22 that the person playing this game is logging in to Gmail at a time when he or she is expected to be partying, at some A-list invite-only event where there are probably celebrities. But most likely the person just stopped home real quick between gala events to change from their tuxedo into their tight sweater and vinyl pants.

Anyways those are the rules, have fun playing Slug Pumpkin.

PS The game is called Slug Pumpkin because I have such a busy social schedule that I did not even have time to think of a good title. It was just the first thing that popped into my head while I was discussing this idea with attractive Broadway star Kristen Chenoweth.

Friday May 02, 2008 at 12:48

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Thursday May 01, 2008 at 22:27

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  • k. Who do you think is writing soupy sales on twitter?
  • j. I dunno, but it's gotta be Somebody -- it's too mega-sharp. The Larry King one, too (assuming it's not the same person).
  • j. Man who doesn't love a good Internet Mystery.

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