December 2007
48 posts
“Inspired by Immanuel Kant’s idea that beauty is what promotes life, I asked the...”
– (link) via FFFFOUND! Posted by Ksen.
“What’s this??” I asked myself. “Rate-my-camel-toe .com?...”
– (link) From one of my favorite pieces of bad writing—Rivers Cuomo’s English essay on abstinence, titled “A Mad and Furious Master.” The whole thing is available in Word format here. Posted by Ksen.
British Flag, Welsh Dragon Get 2chan'ned
Via my friend Paul: “After Mr Lucas issued his appeal for new flag, the Telegraph was deluged with designs sent in by readers. Some were serious, some scurrilous, some frankly ridiculous. Many came from Japan, where our competition sparked a national craze after it was picked up by a popular online forum.” (Telegraph)
Some favorite submissions:
“Even at the height of Cool...
Re: Editor Dispute.
Dear Ksen.,
I suppose that if we as a human race are to shine, we must shine together. So in the interest of burying the atchet, atchet, here is some kind of MS Paint-ified portrait of Ms. Eh, Eh, Eh herself, which I’m sure we can all agree is quite ugly. And French!
Posted by Matt Carman, via Kzerphii (Video Tutorial!)
Editor dispute.
Dear Mr. Other Editor, what do you know about music?? ‘Umbrella’ is universal! Not until you’ve heard it in a Paris airport and throughout the Ukraine, do you understand how necessary it is for us to come together under our common need for weather protective accessories and STRONG BEATS. Sincerely yours, Ksen.
From the American Museum of Natural History exhibit on apes. It’s a touch screen with corresponding vocal cues, used to teach gorillas our language.
What’s hard (impossible?) to understand is how they came up with these symbols. Why does “Squirrel” look like a mutant DNA molecule? In what Intellivision version of the Reservoir Dogs video game does one...
“And she ask me ‘what’s the difference between me and a fish?’...”
– At least I’m pretty sure that’s what I heard. This guy was selling his poetry on the R train this morning and punctuating his ‘that’s me on the cover’ with some hilarious tidbits from his work. I bought the book. Couldn’t resist. He signed it ‘Thanks 4 not...
Damn you, Rubble.
About a year ago on a break from installing a temporary museum to Lebron James’ shoes in SoHo (which: ugly), I found half a dozen garbage bags filled with documents from the life of one Alan Trustman. Most of it was not very interesting, except for the fact that he regularly received six-figure checks from movie studios, and that his Social Security number was all over the place (theory:...
Buildings for Bulemics
Prague, consisting mainly of Old Town, New Town, West Town, Downtown, and O-Town, is a premiere “hot spot” for humpers of architecture. The myriad forms found in the city represent, according to the reference works cited by Wikipedia, the styles of “Art Nouveau, Baroque, Renaissance, Cubist, Gothic, Neo-Classical, and [lower-case and thus less attractive] ultra-modern.”...
The Best (Worst) Fantasy & Science Fiction Book... →
(link) As usual, the author’s comments are the best part.
