We Lurve Nerds

I met Todd Barry!

2011-02-05T11:57:00.000-08:00

Saw Todd Barry perform at Connies RickRack last night. So amazing to meet one of the greats. He's tiny, I'm tall. It makes for an awkward photo op. Enjoy!!

What Now, Bitches?

2010-12-09T06:42:00.001-08:00

Superhero Grandma By Photographer Sacha Goldberger

2010-11-18T10:12:00.001-08:00

I gots me a blog, son.

2010-11-11T14:50:00.000-08:00

Wander & Ramble

They Are Among Us

2010-11-08T17:54:00.001-08:00

You said it, Jon.

2010-11-01T11:39:00.000-07:00

And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity. If that's okay - I know that there are boundaries for a comedian / pundit / talker guy, and I'm sure that I'll find out tomorrow how I have violated them.

So, uh, what exactly was this? I can't control what people think this was: I can only tell you my intentions.

This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear--they are, and we do.

But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus, and not be enemies. But unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke.

The country's 24-hour, political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the dangerous, unexpected flaming ants epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

There are terrorists, and racists, and Stalinists, and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned! You must have the resume! Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Party-ers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult--not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more.

The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker--and, perhaps, eczema. And yet... I feel good. Strangely, calmly, good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us, through a funhouse mirror--and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist, and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead, and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin, and one eyeball.

So why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle, to a pumpkin-assed forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable--why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, and homophobes who see no one's humanity but their own?

We hear every damned day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of catastrophe, torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done. The truth is, we do! We work together to get things done every damned day! The only place we don't is here (in Washington) or on cable TV!

But Americans don't live here, or on cable TV. Where we live, our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done--not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done.

Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often something they do not want to do! But they do it. Impossible things, every day, that are only made possible through the little, reasonable compromises we all make.

(Points to video screen, showing video of cars in traffic.) Look on the screen. This is where we are, this is who we are. These cars. That's a schoolteacher who probably think his taxes are too high, he's going to work. There's another car, a woman with two small kids, can't really think about anything else right now... A lady's in the NRA, loves Oprah. There's another car, an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car's a Latino carpenter; another car, a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan.

But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief, and principles they hold dear--often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers'. And yet, these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze, one by one, into a mile-long, 30-foot-wide tunnel, carved underneath a mighty river.

And they do it, concession by concession: you go, then I'll go. You go, then I'll go. You go, then I'll go. 'Oh my God--is that an NRA sticker on your car?' 'Is that an Obama sticker on your car?' It's okay--you go, then I go.

And sure, at some point, there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder, and cuts in at the last minute. But that individual is rare, and he is scorned, and he is not hired as an analyst!

Because we know, instinctively, as a people, that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is there will always be darkness, and sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land.

Sometimes, it's just New Jersey.

2010-10-19T12:14:00.001-07:00

I'm the goddamn batman

2010-10-05T07:02:00.001-07:00

Read this later

2010-10-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?

2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn’t Arrive

2010-09-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

Click the picture for an article that is extremely interesting and about much more than the apocalypse.

just plain heartwarming

2010-09-30T12:05:00.000-07:00

Ain't No Party Like -

2010-09-27T09:09:00.001-07:00

Love you guys

2010-09-26T18:50:00.000-07:00

Line By Line

2010-09-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

A series on learning the basics of drawing, presented by the artist and author James McMullan. Line By Line begins with installments on line, perspective, proportion and structure, and continues from there, using examples from art history to illuminate specific issues. Pencil and paper recommended.

brain game

2010-09-13T09:50:00.001-07:00

A Dictionary of the Near Future

2010-09-13T09:45:00.000-07:00

Taken from the NYTIMES

By DOUGLAS COUPLAND

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. New sensations require new terms; below are a few such terms to encapsulate our present moment.

AIRPORT-INDUCED IDENTITY DYSPHORIA Describes the extent to which modern travel strips the traveler of just enough sense of identity so as to create a need to purchase stickers and gift knick-knacks that bolster their sense of slightly eroded personhood: flags of the world, family crests, school and university merchandise.

ANTIFLUKE A situation in the universe in which rigid rules of action exist to prevent coincidences from happening. Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of antifluke.

BELL’S LAW OF TELEPHONY No matter what technology is used, your monthly phone bill magically remains about the same size.

BLANK-COLLAR WORKERS Formerly middle-class workers who will never be middle class again and who will never come to terms with that.

CHRISTMAS-MORNING FEELING A sensation created by stimulus to the anterior amygdala that leaves one with a strong sense of expectation. (See also Godseeking)

CLOUD BLINDNESS The inability of some people to see faces or shapes in clouds.

COMPLEX SEPARATION The theory that, in music, a song gets only one chance to make a first impression. After that the brain starts breaking it down, subdividing the musical experience into its various components — lyrical, melodic and so forth.

COVER BUZZ The sensation felt when hearing a cover version of a song one already knows.

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MONEY THEORY The hypothesis that money is a crystallization or condensation of time and free will, the two characteristics that separate humans from other species.

DENARRATION The process whereby one’s life stops feeling like a story.

DESELFING Willingly diluting one’s sense of self and ego by plastering the Internet with as much information as possible. (See also Omniscience Fatigue; Undeselfing)

DIMANCHOPHOBIA Fear of Sundays, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as acalendrical anxiety. Not to be confused with didominicaphobia or kyriakephobia, fear of the Lord’s Day.

FICTIVE REST The inability of many people to fall asleep until after reading even the tiniest amount of fiction.

FRANKENTIME What time feels like when you realize that most of your life is spent working with and around a computer and the Internet.

GODSEEKING An extreme version of Christmas Morning Feeling.

GRIM TRUTH You’re smarter than TV. So what?

IKEASIS The desire in daily life and consumer life to cling to “generically” designed objects. This need for clear, unconfusing forms is a means of simplifying life amid an onslaught of information.

INSTANT REINCARNATION The fact that most adults, no matter how great their life is, wish for radical change in their life. The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

INTRAVINCULAR FAMILIAL SILENCE We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

HUMANALIA Things made by humans that exist only on earth and nowhere else in the universe. Examples include Teflon, NutraSweet, Paxil and meaningfully sized chunks of element No. 43, technetium.

INTERNAL VOICE BLINDNESS The near universal inability of people to articulate the tone and personality of the voice that forms their interior monologue.

INTERRUPTION-DRIVEN MEMORY We remember only red traffic lights, never the green ones. The green ones keep us in the flow, the red ones interrupt and annoy us.

INTRAFFINITAL MELANCHOLY VS. EXTRAFFINITAL MELANCHOLYWhich is lonelier: to be single and lonely, or to be lonely within a dead relationship?

KARAOKEAL AMNESIA Most people don’t know the complete lyrics to almost any song, particularly the ones they hold most dear. (See also Lyrical Putty)

LIMITED POOL ROMANTIC THEORY The belief that there is a finite number of times in which one can fall in love, most commonly six.

LYRICAL PUTTY The lyrics one creates in one’s head in the absence of knowing a song’s real lyrics.

MALFACTORY AVERSION The ability to figure out what it is in life you don’t do well, and then to stop doing it.

ME GOGGLES The inability to accurately perceive oneself as others do.

MEMESPHERE The realm of culturally tangible ideas.

OMNISCIENCE FATIGUE The burnout that comes with being able to know the answer to almost anything online.

POST-HUMAN Whatever it is that we become next.

PROCELERATION The acceleration of acceleration.

PSEUDOALIENATION The inability of humans to create genuinely alienating situations. Anything made by humans is a de facto expression of humanity. Technology cannot be alienating because humans created it. Genuinely alien technologies can be created only by aliens. Technically, a situation one might describe as alienating is, in fact, “humanating.”

ROSENWALD’S THEOREM The belief that all the wrong people have self-esteem.

SITUATIONAL DISINHIBITION Social contrivances within which one is allowed to become disinhibited, that is, moments of culturally approved disinhibition: when speaking with fortunetellers, to dogs and other pets, to strangers and bartenders in bars, or with Ouija boards.

STANDARD DEVIATION Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness, and yet it is the feeling of uniqueness that convinces us we have souls.

STAR SHOCK The disproportionate way that meeting celebrities feels slightly like being told a piece of life-changing news.

STOVULAX A micro-targeted drug of the future designed to stop fantastically specific O.C.D. cases, in this case a compulsion involving the inability of some people to convince themselves after leaving the house that the stove is turned off.

UNDESELFING The attempt, usually frantic and futile, to reverse the deselfing process.

ZOOSOMNIAL BLURRING The notion that animals probably don’t see much difference between dreaming and being awake.

lurvebrrrds

2010-09-13T07:33:00.000-07:00

Can't wait to see you again, Sarah.

Ultimate Road Trip Songs

2010-09-09T07:58:00.000-07:00

Listen up, music people!

88.5 WXPN is having a contest for the best road trip song list.

Ya'll should enter here.

I LOVE MA VIRGOS

2010-09-07T17:35:00.001-07:00

The Virgo is highly discriminating, but not necessarily as prudish at some might believe. In ancient times, a Virgin was a woman who was not the property of man, and therefore had the legal right to just say "no." Now, in modern times, you Virgos are known for your ability to be highly discriminating -- especially when it comes to matters of personal desire. When Virgo is ready, however, to say yes, the laser-like focus of your passion is anything but prudish.

You Virgos have the uncanny sense to see what's wrong with a person, a situation or your environment. It's why Virgo makes such natural critics. Virgo practical analytical abilities are second to none. Your mental process may not be the most creative, but Virgo's razor-like thinking is highly effective. Like the maiden pictured in the Virgo glyph, you separate the useful wheat from the unneeded chafe, the good from the bad. Virgo might be a "clean freak," but most Virgos have a messy closet somewhere or a disaster under their bed.

The Virgo motto could be "Perfect is almost good enough." On one hand, this trait makes you very employable, for you're not likely to do shabby work. On the other hand, you can be so finicky that you put limitations on your interactions and experiences before they happen. You'll be happier if you can learn to be selectively less critical, both of others and yourself.

Element: Earth

Earth signs are naturally practical. In this lifetime we are bound to Earth. There is no escaping the reality around us The Earth is about as real as it gets; it can be felt, weighed and it has substance. Accordingly, the earth signs base their life on what is real, not what is imagined. Sensation is valued over thoughts or feelings. Earth signs live with their feet on the ground. Others seek their advice because of their basic sensibility. For earth signs, seeing is believing.

The earth of Virgo is a changeable earth, light to the touch. It's about practical analysis -- using mental tools to discern the best use for what is around us.

2010-08-10T14:18:00.000-07:00

Second Street Festival

2010-07-29T09:25:00.001-07:00

Love Letter

2010-07-27T21:25:00.001-07:00

MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY WITH DIPLO

2010-07-26T09:57:00.000-07:00

R5 Productions and Mad Decent Presents:

MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY w/ DIPLO

NADASTROM / PAUL DEVRO / POPO / BRICK BANDITS / BOSCO DELRAY, BRENDAN BRING'EM / LUVSTEP / MALUCA / THE DEATHSET / TOADALLY KROSSED OUT, Special Appearance by ELMO and MICHAEL VICK DOG

Mad Decent Mausoleum
12TH AND SPRING GARDEN
Sat, July 31, 2010

1:00 pm (event ends at 8:00 PM)

FREE FREE FREE

Born Free - MIA

2010-07-05T16:04:00.000-07:00

So bad-ass it was banned from youtube.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Check it out!

2010-06-30T12:50:00.000-07:00

Come check out the new show, opening on Friday night! Click the pic to get more info!

101 Fast Recipes for Grilling

2010-06-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

Animal vs. Danimal

2010-06-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

RIP Manute Bole

2010-06-24T06:56:00.000-07:00

Click on the picture to learn more about his life and to help his work. This man was a saint.

BERNADETTE MAYER'S WRITING EXPERIMENTS

2010-06-24T06:40:00.000-07:00

* Pick a word or phrase at random, let mind play freely around it until a
few ideas have come up, then seize on one and begin to write. Try this with
a non- connotative word, like "so" etc.
* Systematically eliminate the use of certain kinds of words or phrases from
a piece of writing: eliminate all adjectives from a poem of your own, or
take out all words beginning with 's' in Shakespeare's sonnets.
* Rewrite someone else's writing. Experiment with theft and plagiarism.
* Systematically derange the language: write a work consisting only of
prepositional phrases, or, add a gerund to every line of an already existing
work. 
* Get a group of words, either randomly selected or thought up, then form
these words (only) into a piece of writing-whatever the words allow. Let
them demand their own form, or, use some words in a predetermined way.
Design words. 
* Eliminate material systematically from a piece of your own writing until
it is "ultimately" reduced, or, read or write it backwards, line by line or
word by word. Read a novel backwards.
* Using phrases relating to one subject or idea, write about another,
pushing metaphor and simile as far as you can. For example, use science
terms to write about childhood or philosophic language to describe a shirt.
* Take an idea, anything that interests you, or an object, then spend a few
days looking and noticing, perhaps making notes on what comes up about that
idea, or, try to create a situation or surrounding where everything that
happens is in relation.
* Construct a poem as if the words were three-dimensional objects to be
handled in space. Print them on large cards or bricks if necessary.
* Write as you think, as close as you can come to this, that is, put pen to
paper and don't stop. Experiment writing fast and writing slow.
* Attempt tape recorder work, that is, recording without a text, perhaps at
specific times. 
* Make notes on what happens or occurs to you for a limited amount of time,
then make something of it in writing.
* Get someone to write for you, pretending they are you.
* Write in a strict form, or, transform prose into a poetic form.
* Write a poem that reflects another poem, as in a mirror.
* Read or write a story or myth, then put it aside and, trying to remember
it, write it five or ten times at intervals from memory. Or, make a work out
of continuously saying, in a column or list, one sentence or line, over and
over in different ways, until you get it "right."
* Make a pattern of repetitions.
* Take an already written work of your own and insert, at random or by
choice, a paragraph or section from, for example, a psychology book or a
seed catalogue. Then study the possibilities of rearranging this work or
rewriting the "source."
* Experiment with writing in every person and tense every day.
* Explore the possibilities of lists, puzzles, riddles, dictionaries,
almanacs, etc. Consult the thesaurus where categories for the word "word"
include: word as news, word as message, word as information, word as story,
word as order or command, word as vocable, word as instruction, promise,
vow, contract. 
* Write what cannot be written; for example, compose an index.
* The possibilities of synesthesia in relation to language and words: the
word and the letter as sensations, colors evoked by letters, sensations
caused by the sound of a word as apart from its meaning, etc. And the effect
of this phenomenon on you; for example, write in the water, on a moving
vehicle. 
* Attempt writing in a state of mind that seems least congenial.
* Consider word and letter as forms-the concretistic distortion of a text, a
mutiplicity of o's or ea's, or a pleasing visual arrangement: "the mill pond
of chill doubt." 
* Do experiments with sensory memory: record all sense images that remain
from breakfast, study which senses engage you, escape you.
* Write, taking off from visual projections, whether mental or mechanical,
without thought to the word in the ordinary sense, no craft.
* Make writing experiments over a long period of time. For example, plan how
much you will write for a particular work each day, perhaps one word or one
page. 
* Write on a piece of paper where something is already printed or written.
* Attempt to eliminate all connotation from a piece of writing and vice
versa. 
* Experiment with writing in a group, collaborative work: a group writing
individually off of each other's work over a long period of time in the same
room; a group contributing to the same work, sentence by sentence or line by
line; one writer being fed information and ideas while the other writes;
writing, leaving instructions for another writer to fill in what you can't
describe; compiling a book or work structured by your own language around
the writings of others; or a group working and writing off of each other's
dream writing. 
* Dream work: record dreams daily, experiment with translation or
transcription of dream thought, attempt to approach the tense and
incongruity appropriate to the dream, work with the dream until a poem or
song emerges from it, use the dream as an alert form of the mind's activity
or consciousness, consider the dream a problem-solving device, change dream
characters into fictional characters, accept dream's language as a gift.
* Structure a poem or prose writing according to city streets, miles, walks,
drives. For example: Take a fourteen-block walk, writing one line per block
to create a sonnet; choose a city street familiar to you, walk it, make
notes and use them to create a work; take a long walk with a group of
writers, observe, make notes and create works, then compare them; take a
long walk or drive-write one line or sentence per mile. Variations on this.
* The uses of journals. Keep a journal that is restricted to one set of
ideas, for instance, a food or dream journal, a journal that is only written
in when it is raining, a journal of ideas about writing, a weather journal.
Remember that journals do not have to involve "good" writing-they are to be
made use of. Simple one-line entries like "No snow today" can be inspiring
later. Have 3 or 4 journals going at once, each with a different purpose.
Create a journal that is meant to be shared and commented on by another
writer--leave half of each page blank for the comments of the other.
* Type out a Shakespeare sonnet or other poem you would like to learn
about/imitate double-spaced on a page. Rewrite it in between the lines.
* Find the poems you think are the worst poems ever written, either by your
own self or other poets. Study them, then write a bad poem.
* Choose a subject you would like to write "about." Then attempt to write a
piece that absolutely avoids any relationship to that subject. Get someone
to grade you. 
* Write a series of titles for as yet unwritten poems or proses.
* Work with a number of objects, moving them around on a field or
surface-describe their shifting relationships, resonances, associations. Or,
write a series of poems that have only to do with what you see in the place
where you most often write. Or, write a poem in each room of your house or
apartment. Experiment with doing this in the home you grew up in, if
possible. 
* Write a bestiary (a poem about real and mythical animals).
* Write five short expressions of the most adamant anger; make a work out of
them. 
* Write a work gazing into a mirror without using the pronoun I.
* A shocking experiment: Rip pages out of books at random (I guess you could
xerox them) and study them as if they were a collection of poetic/literary
material. Use this method on your old high school or college notebooks, if
possible, then create an epistemological work based on the randomly chosen
notebook pages. 
* Meditate on a word, sound or list of ideas before beginning to write.
* Take a book of poetry you love and make a list, going through it poem by
poem, of the experiments, innovations, methods, intentions, etc. involved in
the creation of the works in the book.
* Write what is secret. Then write what is shared. Experiment with writing
each in two different ways: veiled language, direct language.
* Write a soothing novel in twelve short paragraphs.
* Write a work that attempts to include the names of all the physical
contents of the terrestrial world that you know.
* Take a piece of prose writing and turn it into poetic lines. Then, without
remembering that you were planning to do this, make a poem of the first and
last words of each line to see what happens. For instance, the lines (from
Einstein) 
* When at the reception
* Of sense-impressions, memory pictures
* Emerge this is not yet thinking
* And when. . . 
* Would become: 
* When reception 
* Of pictures 
* Emerge thinking 
* And when 
* And so on. Form the original prose, poetic lines, and first-and-last word
poem into three columns on a page. Study their relationships.
* If you have an answering machine, record all messages received for one
month, then turn them into a best-selling novella.
* Write a macaronic poem (making use of as many languages as you are
conversant with). 
* Attempt to speak for a day only in questions; write only in questions.
* Attempt to become in a state where the mind is flooded with ideas; attempt
to keep as many thoughts in mind simultaneously as possible. Then write
without looking at the page, typescript or computer screen (This is "called"
invisible writing).
* Choose a period of time, perhaps five or nine months. Every day, write a
letter that will never be sent to a person who does or does not exist, or to
a number of people who do or do not exist. Create a title for each letter
and don't send them. Pile them up as a book.
* Etymological work. Experiment with investigating the etymologies of all
words that interest you, including your own name(s). Approaches to
etymologies: Take a work you've already written, preferably something short,
look up the etymological meanings of every word in that work including words
like "the" and "a". Study the histories of the words used, then rewrite the
work on the basis of the etymological information found out. Another
approach: Build poems and writings form the etymological families based on
the Indo-European language constructs, for instance, the BHEL family: bulge,
bowl, belly, boulder, billow, ball, balloon; or the OINO family: one, alone,
lonely, unique, unite, unison, union; not to speak of one of the GEN
families: kin, king, kindergarten, genteel, gender, generous, genius,
genital, gingerly, pregnant, cognate, renaissance, and innate!
* Write a brief bibliography of the science and philosophy texts that
interest you. Create a file of newspaper articles that seem to relate to the
chances of writing poetry.
* Write the poem: Ways of Making Love. List them.
* Diagram a sentence in the old-fashioned way. If you don't know how, I'll
be happy to show you; if you do know how, try a really long sentence, for
instance from Melville.
* Turn a list of the objects that have something to do with a person who has
died into a poem or poem form, in homage to that person.
* Write the same poem over and over again, in different forms, until you are
weary. Another experiment: Set yourself the task of writing for four hours
at a time, perhaps once, twice or seven times a week. Don't stop until
hunger and/or fatigue take over. At the very least, always set aside a
four-hour period once a month in which to write. This is always possible and
will result in one book of poems or prose writing for each year. Then we
begin to know something.
* Attempt as a writer to win the Nobel Prize in Science by finding out how
thought becomes language, or does not.
* Take a traditional text like the pledge of allegiance to the flag. For
every noun, replace it with one that is seventh or ninth down from the
original one in the dictionary. For instance, the word "honesty" would be
replaced by "honey dew melon." Investigate what happens; different
dictionaries will produce different results.
* Attempt to write a poem or series of poems that will change the world.
Does everything written or dreamed of do this?
* Write occasional poems for weddings, for rivers, for birthdays, for other
poets' beauty, for movie stars maybe, for the anniversaries of all kinds of
loving meetings, for births, for moments of knowledge, for deaths. Writing
for the "occasion" is part of our purpose as poets in being-this is our work
in the community wherein we belong and work as speakers for others.
* Experiment with every traditional form, so as to know it.
* Write poems and proses in which you set yourself the task of using
particular words, chosen at random like the spelling exercises of children:
intelligence, amazing, weigh, weight, camel, camel's, foresight, through,
threw, never, now, snow, rein, rain. Make a story of that!
* Plan, structure, and write a long work. Consider what is the work now
needed by the culture to cure and exact even if by accident the great
exorcism of its 1998 sort-of- seeming-not-being. What do we need? What is
the poem of the future?
* What is communicable now? What more is communicable?
* Compose a list of familiar phrases, or phrases that have stayed in your
mind for a long time--from songs, from poems, from conversation:
* What's in a name? That which we call a rose
* By any other name would smell as sweet
* (Romeo and Juliet)
* A rose is a rose is a rose
* (Gertrude Stein) 
* A raisin in the sun
* (Langston Hughes)
* The king was in the counting house
* Counting out his money. . .
* (Nursery rhyme) 
* I sing the body electric. . .
* These United States. . .
* (Walt Whitman) 
* A thing of beauty is a joy forever
* (Keats) 
* (I summon up) remembrance of things past
* (WS) 
* Ask not for whom the bell tolls
* It tolls for thee
* (Donne) 
* Look homeward, Angel
* (Milton) 
* For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
* (Pope) 
* All's well that ends well
* (WS) 
* I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
* (Allen Ginsberg) 
* I think therefore I am
* (Descartes) 
* It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,. . .
* (Dickens) 
* brave new world has such people in it
* (Shakespeare, The Tempest, later Huxley)
* Odi et amo (I hate and I love)
* (Catullus) 
* Water water everywhere
* Nor any drop to drink
* (Coleridge) 
* Curiouser and curiouser
* (Alice in Wonderland)
* Don't worry be happy. Here's a little song I wrote. . .
* Write the longest most beautiful sentence you can imagine-make it be a
whole page. 
* Set yourself the task of writing in a way you've never written before, no
matter who you are.
* What is the value of autobiography?
* Attempt to write in a way that's never been written before.
* Invent a new form.
* Write a perfect poem.
* Write a work that intersperses love with landlords.
* In a poem, list what you know.
* Address the poem to the reader.
* Write household poems-about cooking, shopping, eating and sleeping.
* Write dream collabortations in the lune form.
* Write poems that only make use of the words included in Basic English.
* Attempt to write about jobs and how they affect the writing of poetry.
* Write while being read to from science texts, or, write while being read
to by one's lover from any text.
* Trade poems with others and do not consider them your own.
* Exercises in style: Write twenty-five or more different versions of one
event. 
* Review the statement: "What is happening to me, allowing for lies and
exaggerations which I try to avoid, goes into my poems."

In my opinion, Kung Fu is pretty good...

2010-06-24T06:36:00.000-07:00

life on titan? BIG maybe

2010-06-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

Beer week is here!

2010-06-03T09:05:00.000-07:00

Click the pic for a day by day event guide...

one please

2010-06-03T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hemlit

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2010-04-27T08:55:00.001-07:00

Intense

patience

2010-04-27T07:51:00.000-07:00

When a Man Is an Island

2010-04-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

call it

2010-04-15T07:00:00.001-07:00

Corey

2010-04-14T21:30:00.001-07:00

I think you're really cool.

awesome

2010-04-12T09:54:00.000-07:00

modernist dollhouses

2010-04-08T06:56:00.000-07:00

what's the deal?

2010-04-05T08:23:00.001-07:00

What do you see?

2010-04-05T08:06:00.000-07:00

mmmm... walken

2010-04-03T13:48:00.000-07:00

74...75...76...77!!!

2010-03-29T13:03:00.000-07:00

Early sketch Voice Lessons from The State, more on Vimeo.

nuff said

2010-03-26T13:55:00.000-07:00

FESH!

2010-03-26T13:38:00.000-07:00

But who was this mysterious Fesh, and why all the love?

while i'm at it...

2010-03-25T14:50:00.000-07:00

t-bone walker

2010-03-25T14:48:00.001-07:00

these are some blue fucking blues

2010-03-25T14:45:00.000-07:00

everything by zoe strauss

2010-03-23T22:23:00.000-07:00

Getting a Polaroid portrait shot by her this weekend. So excited!

i like this guy

2010-03-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

Wonderful

2010-03-17T20:32:00.001-07:00

where my girls at? where my grills at?

2010-03-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo.

OG comix

2010-03-16T09:55:00.001-07:00

high res panoramic photo of paris!!

2010-03-16T09:23:00.000-07:00

cave jumping

2010-03-16T07:28:00.000-07:00

Gotta make one of these

2010-03-16T07:22:00.000-07:00

what color is this?

2010-03-16T07:10:00.001-07:00

man jumps from plane, breaks sound barrier

2010-03-16T07:03:00.000-07:00

Chester A. Arthur

2010-03-09T09:55:00.000-08:00

Our Original Hipster President

it's called "the predator"

2010-03-05T09:37:00.000-08:00

my two loves, together at last

2010-03-04T10:48:00.000-08:00

WARNING: Ultimate shameful geek out ahead...

badass dwarves in china making their own way

2010-03-04T07:52:00.000-08:00

Ahh, Italiano

2010-03-03T07:40:00.000-08:00

even spiderman is out of a job

2010-03-01T12:51:00.000-08:00

Spider-Man may be able to spin a web of any size, but how far can his secret identity, Peter Parker, stretch a dollar? The wall-crawling Marvel Comics hero will have to depend on his thrifty sense as much as his Spidey-sense in the months to come as a new story sees him become the latest addition to the nation’s ranks of unemployed. On Monday, Marvel said that in a plot line that begins in issue No. 623 of Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker — who has lately given up his gig at The Daily Bugle to become the official photographer of the mayor of New York — will lose that job and, potentially, his career as he becomes blacklisted throughout the city.

Horrible

2010-02-26T11:11:00.001-08:00

2010-02-26T07:37:00.000-08:00

Cuz I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low?

2010-02-25T16:53:00.000-08:00

nuff said

2010-02-25T08:19:00.000-08:00

ruins that are re-writing history

2010-02-24T12:33:00.000-08:00

They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is the Syrian border, visible 20 miles away, pointing toward the ancient lands of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, the region that gave rise to human civilization. And under our feet, according to archeologist Klaus Schmidt, are the stones that mark the spot—the exact spot—where humans began that ascent.

robot chefs!

2010-02-24T07:44:00.000-08:00

“Hello, I’m the Snackbot,” it said in a voice not unlike that of HAL 9000, from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” as its rectangular LED “mouth” pulsated to form the words. “I’ve come to deliver snacks to Ian. Is Ian here?”

walken's way

2010-02-23T08:17:00.000-08:00

you did it!

2010-02-22T14:29:00.001-08:00

sean

2010-02-22T13:36:00.000-08:00

www.sarahcassano.com

2010-02-22T13:03:00.000-08:00

Way to go baby!

The Five Creepiest Sex Scenes in Comics

2010-02-20T08:19:00.000-08:00

The five creepiest sex scenes in comics.

OMLG

2010-02-19T14:33:00.000-08:00

vote for sarah's designs on threadless!

2010-02-19T14:09:00.001-08:00

VOTE FAST, ONLY 7 DAYS TO VOTE. VOTE BY Friday, February 26th! GO GO GO!!!

lalalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2010-02-18T14:45:00.000-08:00

Good ol' Phila Parking Authority

2010-02-18T13:11:00.000-08:00

That's What She Said

2010-02-18T10:09:00.000-08:00

'Flash Mob' Of 100 Teens Storm Center City Macy's

2010-02-17T12:31:00.000-08:00

Investigators say a massive snowball fight outside City Hall between 100 teens spilled into a popular department store and ended with 14 arrests.
The entire ordeal began when approximately 100 teens engaged in a gigantic snowball fight outside Philadelphia's City Hall Tuesday evening.
Shortly afterwards, the unruly mob then rolled into the Macy's Department Store located in the 1300 block of Market Street.
Once inside, customers told Eyewitness News total chaos ensued.
"A couple kids were shoving and pushing and people started throwing shoes at each other. Someone threw a sign over someone's head," Eyewitness Brianne Bee said.
Customers inside the store said the incident lasted between five to 10 minutes.
A 16-year-old girl was arrested for allegedly kicking a 15-year-old boy in the face as other teens held him down outside the store. The 15-year-old is listed in stable condition at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Similar to the "flash mobs" near South Street in June 2009, investigators believe Tuesday's brawl might have been organized on the internet.
According to investigators, many of the teens involved in the incident attend Simon Gratz High School.
All of the teens are facing charges of disorderly conduct, while some are facing assault charges.
No innocent bystanders were injured. The incident remains under police investigation

EMI to sell Abbey Road Studios

2010-02-16T23:17:00.000-08:00

It's the end of an era.

2010-02-11T17:08:00.000-08:00

FULL SCREEN
The Sounds of VTech / Angel Feat. Dwele

J DILLA IS TIMELESS

As in Jay Dee is forever Feb 11, 2010 at 12:32
When it comes to hip-hop producers, there ain’t none greater than J Dilla. This week marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of a man who has influenced the sounds of Erykah Badu, Common, Tribe Called Quest, Janet Jackson, Slum Village and pretty much every beat-maker out there, and with that in mind we thought it was a good time to pay our respects, and highlight the forthcoming release of the Timeless 3 x DVD set.

Timeless was a composer/arranger series originally held in LA last year, comprised of one concert dedicated to each of the three greats – Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke, Brazilian gem Arthur Verocai, and J Dilla. The event celebrating the Detroit beat-maker, Suite For Ma Dukes (Jay Dee’s mama is Ma Dukes), was performed by a 40-piece orchestra and re-imagined Dilla’s beats into a lush tapestry of strings, horns and percussion.

Until now most of the offerings from the concerts have been instrumentals, but this week they dropped this (apparently Dwele performed this unrehearsed)

From Lifelounge

Ugly Furniture

2010-02-07T09:57:00.001-08:00

Brought to you by Jason Messina of The Sixth Borough

He made this video and it's hitting big. Spread the love, make it viral!

Khula Happy Zulu Singers

2010-02-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

Khula Happy Zulu Singers St. Lucia South Africa from Jan van der Meer on Vimeo.

The Gentle Woman

2010-02-06T19:26:00.000-08:00

Gert and Jop, of FANTASTIC MAN, introduce THE GENTLE WOMAN

"I know, we don't need another new women's fashion magazine right now. However, I say we don't need another bad women's fashion magazine right now. I think THE GENTLEWOMAN has a chance to be something truly different. I am very excited that the first two big interviews and related editorials feature super cool women, Melanie Ward and fashion PR powerhouse, Karla Otto.

So ladies, if you see the copy of FANTASTIC MAN with Ewan McGregor on the cover, don't be afraid to take a peek inside. You might find something you like..."

~The Sartorialist

oh. em. gee.

2010-02-06T11:51:00.000-08:00

grumble

2010-02-05T08:29:00.000-08:00

Edith Keeler Must Die

2010-02-05T07:48:00.001-08:00

on the color of dinosaurs

2010-02-05T06:59:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney Animators - Femme Fatales

2010-02-05T05:01:00.000-08:00

Women never cease to amaze me.

Did you know that the original Snow White animated movie was inked and painted by over 100 women in 1937?

Click here for the article in Vanity Fair.

hubble sees pluto changing color

2010-02-04T12:47:00.000-08:00

best camera's under $300

2010-02-04T06:29:00.001-08:00

Dog Rescued From Sea Starts Life With New Master

2010-02-04T06:24:00.000-08:00

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Baltic, the spunky dog who floated at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe, has a new owner: The seaman who rescued him.

Wojciech Pelczarski of the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia said the decision was made after the dog rejected six people who had claimed to be his original owner. He said Thursday the would-be owners were probably trying to be part of the media attention surrounding the dog's dramatic rescue.

Pelczarski, whose institute co-owns the research ship ''Baltica'' that rescued the dog and nicknamed him, says Baltic is sociable, affectionate and was getting his first bath since his icy ordeal because his fur was still salty.

The dog's new master is Adam Buczynski, who pulled him to safety from an ice sheet in the Baltic Sea last week.

it's the car

2010-02-03T21:43:00.000-08:00

Beautiful picture

2010-02-03T21:31:00.000-08:00

The answer to whatever

2010-02-03T20:56:00.001-08:00

ha!

2010-02-03T15:46:00.001-08:00