February 2009
1 post
Even with three locations in its empire, the National Museum of the American Indian can display barely 1 percent of its 800,000 objects.
Well, they could fit a bit more in if they designed the interior of the D.C. one a little more efficiently. I feel like 80% of the space is hallways, bathrooms, dining, and other museum fluff. It always bugs me that the exhibits feel hidden away rather than...
January 2009
2 posts
December 2008
1 post
if saucy pink jesus truly is following me, he...
metric ass myrrh
smarmy retch sir
scram merry sh*t
‘Merry Christmas’ anagrams
November 2008
3 posts
“To justify its existence, writing has to be extraordinary. If it’s...”
– I completely agree, which is why I have trouble finding books I like. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96565473
September 2008
1 post
A list of quotations from a creepy kid from Jr....
I was once dead for three minutes.
I want bananas on my waffles!
Protesting… (Me: What kind of protesting?)…the kind with yelling.
C is for Cannibalism!
It involves zombies and large guns…
Pudding makes me smile.
Look…humans!
That crack in the picture is a hint of Lincoln’s death.
The weirdness follows me around.
Have you ever noticed that “42”...
August 2008
8 posts
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as...”
– Thoreau - Walden
from The Wire - Season 3
(looking for a criminal named Peanut)
Bunk: (types in "Peanut" in database) 89? And that's just the ones with Westside addresses.
Vernon: Man, you got to narrow that sh** down. Find some way to work with all them "Peanuts."
Bunk: Motherf**ker, do I look like George Washington Carver?
seriously had some more “simple” songs stuck in my head recently:
baby beluga
the one with the lyrics “i love you, a bushel and a peck, you bet your pretty neck i doooooooooooooooo…”
PMS has many meanings in the Army:
PMS 1portable monitoring set, 2program management support, 3planned maintenance subsystem, 4professor of military science, 5plant monitoring system, 6probable maximum surge, 7processor, memories, and switches, 8production management support, 9policy management system, 10project management system, 11PACOM munitions storage, 12performance monitoring system,...
Giving up diet soda.. →
Eek, I’m kinda trying to give it up. I’ve switched to water at work and Crystal Light at home. Unlike this lady, I never had all those crazy addictions, but I’m also unsure that I can ever give up diet soda for good.
July 2008
66 posts
“The No Child Left Behind Act was supposed to make our children...”
– Mr. Simmons goes to Washington
More Poetry...
Billy Collins, a former US poet laureate, has the knack of poeticizing his flights into imagination as I wish I could mine.
He has great taste in poetry; his selections for the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project helped me out a lot during student teaching.
His “Introduction to Poetry” is exactly how I felt about teaching poetry to teenagers.
Now I’m reading through these,...
just slightly amusing...
I didn’t get a belly laugh from this, but I was slightly tickled.
Some items from the list of clothing items exempt from VA tax this weekend:
beach capes and coats
corsets and corset laces
footlets
girdles
rubber pants
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.”
– Dream Song #14
That memorable line popped up in my head today. I’m not that bored, but at other times I’ve thought I was.
The Dream Songs are centered on (and generally narrated by) the character Henry. Actually, here is a better explanation:
Who is the speaker? In a preface to The...
When barackobama is not Barack Obama →
Continuing with The New Yorker links…
“Americans agree: Alaska and Hawaii are too far away. I, and my fellow Americans,...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/07/time-for-a-chan.html
The Three Four Five Cs
Some things women want from men:
Cooking
Cleaning
Cuddling
Uhhh… and then there are two more C words I can think of that I will not mention here. I’ll leave them to your imagination.
“We’ve upped our standards,
up yours !”
– AHAHAHA… from an Air Force PowerPoint presentation.
Maybe you just have to see it in context. (It’s a few slides in.)
Mom: I want to see Mama Mia. It has Pierce Brosnan,
Me: Ew, old.
Mom: Colin Firth,
Me: Okay, sort of boring.
Mom: and Meryl Streep.
Me: I don't care about women.
Mom: Well, if anyone was going to convert me to the other side, it could be no less than Meryl Streep.
Me: WHOA!
Mom: But it's not very likely anyway, since I've gone so long without it, I don't think I need to switch sides.
“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a...”
– Charles Bukowski … speaking of losing your soul …
“You might think you’re working quietly at some cubicle in a Fairfax office...”
– Actually, the rough draft is pretty cool too.
UPDATE: He went to W&M too !
“NoVa. You know what a “nova” is? It’s when a white dwarf star gobbles up so...”
– from Patton Oswalt’s speech to his old high school
“the text i’m working with is often laughable…and...”
– keeping with the theme… from my twitter .
“If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault...”
– what the hey… it’ll be a re-blogging & editing/proofreading theme day .
Muphry’s Law (via jstn)
“It is also a misspelling of the word “Goats”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTS
This is kind of thing that makes my day in its tiny way…
Funny AskMetafilter of the Day - Cats eating... →
“Sad boss: Like cats in a parade, they just do whatever they want to do.”
– http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/007109.html
I don’t know why this is particularly funny to me, but it is.
For a little while I felt obscurely guilty about liking Man Man, but their music is really exactly what I like: crazy, slightly annoying, energizing, and different.
I listened to their album Six Demon Bag recently while cleaning my room, then not a week later they dominated an episode of Weeds and I freaked out in my strange fashion whenever I heard a clip come on.
Jason Bateman on Fresh Air →
Well, I’m not planning to make this into a Jason Bateman fan blog anytime soon. But, I was tooling around the Fresh Air interviews and found this nugget.
Beef up your vocabulary... →
If I
were a teenage girl
cared about this body part specifically
and wanted to comment on said body part while confusing listeners, I would use this word.
