May 2008
April 2008
“It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world. Don’t ask me -...”
– East of Eden (via whokilled)
Random exchange from the '60s Batman show
Batman: Better put five cents in the meter.
Robin: No policeman's going to give the Batmobile a ticket!
Batman: This money goes to building better roads. We all must do our part.
allisonweiss: “Congratulations! You have been accepted into the graphic design area major. You were accepted based not only on the high quality of your work but also because of the professional manner in which you approach assignments and the collegial attitude with which you relate to your instructors and fellow students. This is your gateway to life as a professional designer where you...
Flobots - Handlebars(via tuneage + alla1) Last.fm...
sarahcroberts: butterflyeffect: Curtis Mayfield...
Never underestimate the curative power of a one-hour nap.
Food Crisis for Thought
dihard: “A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world,” says the head of the UN World Food Program. In Haiti, protesters shouting “we’re hungry” forced the prime minister to resign. Cameroon saw 24 deaths during hunger riots. Egypt’s president has ordered the army to bake bread. Hoarding rice in the Philippines is now punishable by life imprisonment. Riots in Côte d’Ivoire have...
“Puppies are Tylenol for the soul.”
– Vinh Pham
The Dark Knight trailer on Sunday →
I was really hoping for it tonight. :( (“ARG” more like ARGH)
Super-hot galaxy-on-galaxy action →
The Hubble Space Telescope: delivering us interstellar money-shots for 18 years and counting.
Second trailer for The Dark Knight tonight? →
Update: Sunday. :( The “Alternative Reality Game” for The Dark Knight is reaching another climax tonight with events in a dozen major cities around the globe. The new trailer should be out online any day now, especially given that it’ll probably be bundled with Iron Man in theaters. So excited for this film. See also: the poster that came out earlier this week
your profile picture
edatrix: i just added someone, but double checked myself because I thought I’d already followed. then I realized that’s because a lot of the guys i follow have the same basic picture - it’s a head-on, full face shot of their unsmiling self. The girls i follow generally have something artistic or some expression or artsy angle, but the guys’ are almost all like mugshots. so why is that? I...
“It’s not until high school that most children really learn or choose what they...”
– A scholarship applicant. Even if I ignore the wordiness, this statement makes me fall over laughing. I’m 28 and still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. (via sayrah) I’m only 21, but this cracked me up too. In high-school, I took tons of math and science courses, eventually...
“I’d like to understand / what you think about and why it seems so bad.”
– “Sand” by The Microphones
“Paradoxically, suggests Frankl, for some the experience of suffering is the one...”
– Vaughan Bell on psychiatrist/neurologist Viktor E. Frankl, who was a Nazi concentration camp inmate.
WatchQ: How do you make a sequel to 50 Cent: Bulletproof, the by-all-accounts awful game featuring the eponymous rapper? A: Send him to the Middle East. To get a diamond-encrusted skull. Seriously.
Why our play-spaces, work-spaces, and... →
A great (albeit longish) report on how digital technology has made it possible to work or play or hang out anywhere, and how our buildings have to transition to being similarly flexible. If you find it neat, the rest of the articles in that package are on the right in the “Related Items” box.
Bubbles Theme →
A very clean, very nice-looking theme for tumblrs.
Seven-year-old goes for a drive →
allisonweiss: “It’s fun to do bad things and drive into a car.” Timely, given that Grand Theft Auto IV is coming out this week (and is already being hailed by some as one of the best games ever).
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
The Microphones
Do Make Say Think
Why?
Michael Giacchino
Boom Bip & Doseone
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Microphones - The Pull This, the opening track...
“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
– Alan Saporta (via affremblequotes and allisonweiss, who uncannily reblogged this just as I was writing my thoughts on escapes)
It seems to me that there are two kinds of escapes: places and people. Places are where you go to physically (and sometimes metaphorically) get away from the stresses of the rest of your life. For me, this is going to visit my parents for the weekend. They feed me and spoil me some, and I can push all the school-related worries out of my head because I’ve budgeted enough time to take care of...
Three things I saw on my drive to see the parents in KC: Monstrous shadows crawling over the rolling Kansas plains, each matched with its buddy cloud drifting overhead, A red-orange sun about to reach the horizon, bisected by some far-off strip of water vapor, and A vanity plate that read “MCGYVER”.I’ll leave you to guess which one led me to excitedly yelp “Badass!”
Happy DNA Day! →
(via candyformonkeys) I’m coming up with a blank on ways to celebrate this. Any ideas?
“Finished the 2nd disk of “2010”. Something strange about watching a...”
– January 5th, 2001 entry in the International Space Station’s movies log.
five things with which i am recently and newly...
alla1: crossing things off my to-do list my summer in DC. can’t stop thinking/daydreaming about it gossip girl .. but more like re-obsessed platform heels like these and these planning for/counting down toward the NACURH conference Wait wait, what? I’m going to NACURH too! Stillwater, OK totally needs an awkward Tumblr meetup. And to continue the chain: Pruning stuff down to the bare...
Boom Bip & Doseone - Town Crier’s Walk...