December 2008
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“Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.”
- Antonio Machado
Traveler, there is no road. You make your path as you walk.
// bunnynico
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WatchAnother year, another deep-fried turkey.
November 2008
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nora
is pooping… alot
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Nora Is...
A poophead!!!
<3
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A Better Brew: the rise of extreme beer →
America used to be full of odd beers. In 1873, the country had some four thousand breweries, working in dozens of regional and ethnic styles. Brooklyn alone had nearly fifty. Beer was not only refreshing but nutritious, it was said—a “valuable substitute for vegetables,” as a member of the United States Sanitary Commission put it during the Civil War. The lagers brewed by Adolphus Busch and...
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The myth of the black vote persists, but we have...
Hendrik Hertzberg writes in The New Yorker:
“It was the black vote that voted down gay marriage,” Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, insisted triumphantly—and, it turns out, wrongly. If exit polling is to be believed, seventy per cent of California’s African-American voters did indeed vote yes on Prop. 8, as did upward of eighty per cent of Republicans, conservatives, white evangelicals, and weekly...
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Neville Brothers, “With God on Our...
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“Nora posts something that happened once and then it becomes some sort of...”
– Dad
He would like my readers to know that he doesn’t even play solitaire. He was killing time while setting up my sister’s new computer, which was briefly connected to the television. I just thought it was a funny picture.
He has a point. For all the “life-casting,”...
Download "The Public Domain" →
(via azspot)
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WatchHappy Thanksgiving to mama Jane from Wilkes and Trouble and friends.
We love you and miss you!
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Cold War Kids, “I’ve Seen...
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Oops. →
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“As America fretted about Obama’s exoticism and he sought to calm the...”
– Erin Aubry Kaplan on the next First Lady’s large and lovely butt. (Link via aja)
Rock on, Ms. Kaplan, but I have one thing to say: black girls do not have a monopoly on booty.
Long live da booty.
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“Bessie was talking some mess back in the day!”
– Sharon Jones on Bessie Smith’s “I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
What’s the matter, hard papa, come on and save you mama’s soul ‘Cause I need a little sugar, in my bowl, doggone it, I need a little sugar in my bowl I need a little sugar, in my bowl, I need...
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If you knew what's good for you →
You’d be listening to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings live on The Current right now.
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“If you’ve said, ‘I do,’ do it.”
– Rev. Ed Young, the Texas pastor who preaches that the secret to a happy marriage is a lot of sex.
As for single people, “I don’t know, try eating chocolate cake,” he said.
// NYT
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Why Haven't You Rocked Out to Blitzen Trapper Yet? →
hipsterdiet:
Furr is quickly becoming one of my top 5 albums released this year.
Um, I have. Duh.
“Japanese scientists and origami masters propose to launch a flotilla of paper...”
– Origami airplanes to be launched from space
mills writes: “The ostensible purpose is to explore the ‘feasibility of slow-speed, low-friction atmospheric reentry,’ but that’s a bit dry.
Doesn’t it seem like one of the most beautiful images you could imagine?”
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WatchWilkes & Trouble’s Greatest Hits (Volume I).
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“Lemon, you’re going to work it like a Chinese gymnast. Wear something...”
– Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy on “30 Rock”
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“I’d like to establish a State of Denial — I don’t care which...”
– Denis Leary in ELLE.
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Hall & Oates, “I Can’t Go For...
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