December 2009
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Seeing double (digit losses on the horizon).
November 2009
27 posts
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Robots And Monsters (dot org) →
Another year, another wonderful collection of commissioned cartoon art benefitting a worthy cause. Just a taste of their ‘Charitable Menagerie’: Oskar (Green, Garbage Truck, Roller Coaster); Cro-Magnus (Frozen, Tentacles, Lopsided); Vidkil (Robotic, Camera, Evil); The Rock-Eater (Voracious, Angular, Bespectacled) - All Images © Joe Alterio
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The Cost Of Getting Sick →
An interactive, Java-based (web and standalone app) graph from General Electric calculating health care costs for individuals and health insurers based on age and a variety of chronic medical conditions. What do we learn from this, boys and girls? Don’t get old, and don’t get sick. Could not find the colored wedge indicating the costs for prolonged cryogenic suspension and 23rd...
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Guardian: 'Vomit On The Table' And Speak Like A... →
A sampling from author Max Decharne’s newly published 3rd Edition (not available in the U.S. yet) of Straight From the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang (via):
Chicago Overcoat - Coffin
Free To Run For President - Out of work, unemployed
Know Your Groceries - Be hip, aware, alert to the situation
Riding Academy - Brothel
Sniffing Arizona Perfume - Going to the gas chamber
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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National Lampoon Cover Gallery 1970-1998 →
The closest thing to porn for a 1970’s pre-teen, except for that stack of Playboys unearthed during the Cub Scout paper drive. (via)
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“My favorite genre of movies are movies that get made.”
– John August, Screenwriter (Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels), from KCRW’s The Business, 10.12.09
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Consistently funny, and wrong. (via)
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Cannot find a paper bag large enough, or sturdy enough, to contain the shame over both teams’ continued fecklessness.
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How To Use An Apostrophe →
Just a sample from the flowchart lesson. Now there are no excuses. (via) (Image © Matthew Inman
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“Write what you like; there is no other rule.”
– O. Henry
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Empty Los Angeles →
Many have wished for it. Sadly, though coolly, all we get is this self-published photography book of a seemingly “abandoned” L.A. (via) (Image © Matt Logue) It brings home the concepts behind Alan Weisman’s non-fiction book The World Without Us, and Life After People, the History Channel docu-series. Photographer Tom Baker’s Los Angeles Without Traffic is also worth...
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Southern Poverty Law Center: Active U.S. Hate... →
2008 stats. Not looking forward to the 2009 edition, post-Obama. Californians, be especially proud ashamed: we’re in first place.
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UPS Carbon Neutral Shipping →
What is brown green doing for you? Every little bit helps. (via)
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Compelling arguments for protracted NHL and NBA seasons.
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“You don’t loan Jason anything, anything that can be inserted.”
– Jerry Seinfeld, from Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 7, Episode 9: “The Table Read”)
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"Off To The Country Of Cancer"
by Liam Rector
It comes on. Comes on with a word. A doctor’s word. The doctor saying cancer. “But do I have cancer?” “Yes, cancer.” Doctor has to say cancer One more time Before the cancer In me Becomes the word I give over to it. “What then Will we Do?”(A we Enters Quickly, to calm The alone Setting in Quicker. And then I Let go of the we Altogether.)...
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(Image: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
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“Simple Simon met a pie man going to the fair.
Said Simple Simon to the pie man,...”
– 21st Century Mother Goose (via Mom’s forwarded email)
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A Bye staunches the bleeding in Buffalo, while another would’ve been welcomed in The Windy City.
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Re-emphasizing this.
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“Nothing dollarable is safe, however guarded.”
– John Muir (Tip of the evergreen to Ken Burns)
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There are ugly wins, and then there’s just ugly.
One has to wonder if that disgruntled Buffalo fan’s billboard made an impact on owner Ralph Wilson. Another offensive collapse gives these folks a much stronger case for Jauron’s ouster. Their t-shirt’s cool, at least:
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NY Times: Obamas Spruce Up White House With... →
Needless to say, his predecessor’s fine art was shipped to SMU, awaiting installation into the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s permanent collection.
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“Good God, Lemon, your breath. When did you find time to eat a diaper that you...”
– Jack Donaghy, from 30 Rock (Season 4, Episode 3: “Stone Mountain”)