February 2012
33 posts
Make Your Own Suspenders! →
scrapscallion:
(Click through for full tutorial.)
I am completely blanking on who sent me this. If it was you, let me know, and I’ll edit and credit accordingly.
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“This Nicholas anoon leet flee a fart,
As greet as it hadde been a...”
– Geoffery Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Millers Tale.
(Sorry sorry! I just love fart jokes, okay?)
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MonkeyBrain, Inc.: Alan Moore on culture and... →
“I think our mistake has been thinking, in the 20th and 21st century, of the big cultural providers, like television or Hollywood, as culture. They’re not. They’re commercial entities which may occasionally or accidentally produce culture. But, they’re not culture. We are culture. Just ordinary people, what they do. You’ve only got to look at all sorts of areas around the world at present to see...
“sounds like you have a lot of energy
and only girl problems without solutions...”
– an insightful young person
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How (Not) to Say “I Love You” with Perec →
“maybe Perec’s novels could help you, like, get it going in your personal lifestyle.”
This is what breast cancer is and is not →
surfed to iblamethepatriarchy.com and saw this video
felt very very very glad for its existence
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She Can't Move For Snacks: I just saw a picture of... →
effington:
But then I remembered something. A thought floated across my mind as if in a dream, it wasn’t always like this between Furbies and I…me and the Furbs….
I used to really like them. I asked for one for my 9th birthday and when I got it I was so excited I could barely speak, but the excitement was not to last, because at the time, I had a pitbull for a pet.
The next morning I...
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Rowan County teens make astronomical discovery →
“when you discover a pulsar, you feel like you’re walking on air. … It’s wonderful to know that there is something out there in space that you discovered.”
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January 2012
59 posts
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A Letter From E.B. White
From Letters of Note, a letter from E. B. White:
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say,...
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Football Fans Vote Republican: Hardcore Data... →
“A preference for football indicates Republican leanings. Basketball indicates Democratic leanings. Religious purchases can say a lot about social-issue stances. Professional licenses can help paint a picture of a voter. Owning a motorcycle strongly suggests libertarian leanings and gun-rights advocacy. A subscription to Good Housekeeping says someone will favor female candidates.”
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Why Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc is the best cartoon... →
What it really comes down to is character. Mystery Inc. is one of the first times in the 43-year history of the franchise that anyone’s been allowed to develop the gang as characters, and it’s something that changes the entire tone of the show.
Before Mystery Inc., they were really just archetypes with few additional twists added for the sake of gags, like brainy Velma who always...
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Pug in space necklace (unfortunately sold out) →
(h/t Kelsey)
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Famous Space Zine teen livetweet of #SOTU quoted... →
…something abt Mitch McConnell’s waddle.
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Sarah Leonard and @jacobinmag's brutal take down... →
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Hey friends, Baby Stephan and Baby Will will be livetweeting the State of the Union tonight at 9 EST from the @SpaceZinetweets twitter account. Be sure to tune in.
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The Nanny Diaries: The One In Which I Explain...
E: So what's an example of a conspiracy theory?
Me: Well, there's one about how all the presidents are reptilians from outer space.
E: WHAT?! Can I see it on youtube?
Me: Well there's nothing really to see... Except for bad CGI representations of politicians shape-shifting into snakes.
E: That sounds stupid.
E: But here's one where the guy talks about it. *watches interview with David Icke*
E: ...I'm going to tell all my friends about the Babylonian Brotherhood.
Me: What have I done.
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Officials plan to bring food trucks to Lexington →
Sometime this spring, people who work and live in downtown Lexington finally might be able to enjoy the food phenomenon that urban hipsters around the country have been tweeting about for years: food trucks.
A city task force is hammering out details for a pilot project to allow mobile food vendors to rotate among several locations downtown.
Bring on the wood-fired pizza, the artisanal ice...
