September 2009
28 posts
Wino vs. Dracula
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Big Hair
“Fashionable” hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts.
I feel for these ladies.
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Nixon was a Proto-Juggalo
I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of August 1 through August 7, 1971, as National Clown Week. I invite the Governors of the States and the appropriate officials of other areas under the United States flag to issue similar proclamations.
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Self Help
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And the Beat Goes On
Buddy Rich pimping his daughter. Love her moves.
Completely Awesome
The book tells the story of Jung trying to face down his own demons as they emerged from the shadows. The results are humiliating, sometimes unsavory. In it, Jung travels the land of the dead, falls in love with a woman he later realizes is his sister, gets squeezed by a giant serpent and, in one terrifying moment, eats the liver of a little child. (“I swallow with desperate efforts — it is...
Rather Unsettling
Something about this makes me very nervous. Their “guests” could easily be tied up in the next room.
Those Dudes Were Ill
Ryan says:
“I wish they would add jungle fever to jefferson.”
Carter’s list is amazing.
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Superdick
From Dan.
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Long Term Projects
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before.” - Charles Darwin
Darwin spent eight years studying, hating the shit out of barnacles.
Standard Deviations Above Average
Useful addition to the Wins Produced stat suite. Don’t recall Berri ever doing this. He should do this more. Really makes it feel like it’s less about height and rebounds.
if we look at the past thirty years, only Magic and Jordan managed to post marks that were 3.5 standard deviations above average (Magic did this six times, Jordan did this three times). Well, at least that was...
Opening Night
I was just there seeing this. Wonderful.
Junkies Save Lives
three eighth-grade children overdosed on Heroin […] one child was very lucky and his life was saved because of a nearby Heroin addict. This “junkie” had a drug called Narcan, or Naloxone. He used it to resuscitate the young man.
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Winter Babies
I didn’t know this was a thing:
Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test poorly, don’t get as far in school, earn less, are less healthy, and don’t live as long as children born at other times of year.
Turns out a mother’s education level correlates with her baby’s birth season.
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Jello San Francisco
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Dissection
Good essay. Can’t read enough about historical body softening methods:
Wrap the body in grass, hemp, or bast, the inner bark of trees. Place the wrapped figure in a cage, for protection from animals, and lower the cage into a river with a gentle current. Leave it there, bobbing in the rhythmic rush of water, “the body left to soften.”
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Race Matters
I’d be interested to know when the racial makeup of the “band” was decided. During the writing process? Casting? I am sure something about this decision would make me a little sad. I have no idea why I find this spot so unsettling, and unsettling in this particular way.
For Sheiks
Cleveland bathroom. “The magazine for Sheiks”.
Yeltsin Partied
Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.
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Readings 5/4-9/21
Ghetto Bastard
Some say I’m all in all, nothing but a dog now I answer that with a fuck you and a bow-wow ‘Cause I done been through more shit within the last week Than a fly flowin’ to doo-doo on the concrete
I apologize for the ridiculous intro appended to this video. The version on youtube was unfortunately out of tune.
Superman
I used to think that George Reeves killed himself by jumping off a building in his Superman suit, believing he could fly. Turns out he just shot himself in the head. Don’t know whether I heard the flying story or made it up. Either way it’s much nicer.
Virgin Hunting
“For this reason, I would actually suggest that you look for someone at a church in an urban area. For example, evangelicals in downtown Toronto are there because they really believe, while those in rural Alberta perhaps less so.”
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Metallica Calms Monkees
A group of cottontop tamarins were played a variety of music, including Bach, Led Zeppelin and Miles Davis, but they only reacted when heavy metal rock songs by Metallica were played.
Makes perfect sense.
Proust Partied
“Not many people know that for the last month of his life Marcel Proust subsisted entirely on beer.”
Apparently he also went out most nights between 10pm and 2am staying up afterward to dish with his maid.
Cheeseburger and Fries
Prince Hal on the Sangamon
“I see my political rise with the help of my father-in-law as having elements of Henry IV, Part Two and Henry V and culminating with my own personal battle of Agincourt”
- Rod Blagojevich (via Slate)
