December 2008
WatchA sublime video on How to Make An Eames Shell Chair. Like many Eames’ films, it’s primarily abstract, and I’m not sure the extent to which this blog edited or changed what looks to be an original Herman Miller video. Regardless, it’s a reminder of just how unsimple it can be to make what we think are the most basic of things. So beautiful. [via]
Norm Coleman Requests Vote Be Tossed Because Voter... →
Nice.
The Periodic Table of Awesoments →
Recipe: BLT Salad (AKA Salad In A Bowl Made Of... →
Herb and Dorothy →
“He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and commitment defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.”
Fuck You, Penguin →
“A Blog Where I Tell Cute Animals What’s What”
New Favorite Theme Blog. (via VSL)
See what song was #1 on the day you were born. →
UK: Saling - Rod Stewart US: I’m Sorry - John Denver AU: Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain and Tennille
Wow, I guess this explains my affinity for boats, love, apologies, and godawful music.
kittykittybangbang:
US: Another One Bites the Dust - Queen UK: Don’t Stand So Close To Me - The Police AUS: Upside Down - Diana Ross
bohemea:
US: (Love is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb...
The Kinks - The Band Everyone Always Talks About...
Here we go again.
David Malitz has written a post over at the Post Rock blog titled The Kinks - The Most Underrated Revered Band Ever? Ugh. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read this same piece. It’s like variations on a theme, a theme of predictable mainstream rock crit.
The Kinks were great, no doubt, and influential, no doubt. Sure, I’ll bite, yeah, I think they...
Who are you, Victory Plate Man? And why do you... →
WTFOTD: Bill Kristol - Left and Right, United in... →
It’s a sad fucking day when Bill Kristol is the reasonable one. Calling on the left and right to stop toying around, he asks them to start “offering management and labor at the Big Three a little more sympathy, and heaping upon them a little less calumny.”
He targets Democrats and Republicans alike, though his choicest words are for those on the right. What’s more...
WatchBetween Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (with Jon Hamm)
[via merlin via Chris Glass]
NYT Op-Ed: ITEM! KIDS THESE DAYS! ITEM! THEY BANG... →
If you’re name is Blow, you’re over fifty, married with kids, and you’re the Times’s “visual Op-Ed columist” (spelling mistake not mine), maybe you should avoid opining about teenagers and sex, lest you come across like an out of touch goof.
Instead, you should stick with your chartograms and pictographs and statsopics and numbogasms. Blow’s past columns...
WatchDouchebag Beach: Back to Da Beach
As someone who grew up on the (South) Jersey Shore, I can tell you that these are exactly the sorts of scrotewad fucknuts that pollute our beaches a bit further up the coast, from Sandy Hook down to LBI. It’s a little different down near Atlantic City and Ocean City, where instead of New Yorkers, we get Philly jackholes, who are very different accents. The...
12 Things You Might Not Know About A Christmas... →
Courtesy of Mental Floss
17 dots: The Best Albums of 2008 →
Unreal. 17 dots calls The Gaslight Anthem’s “The ‘59 Sound” the best record of the year.
Honestly, I didn’t realize anyone else was as IN LOVE with this record as me.
I’ve been thinking about my own personal top 10 over the last couple of weeks, and this was at the top of the list. If I’m being honest, I tell you that I was both excited and disappointed...
Lame Dick Dicks It Up Some More: Bush Eliminates... →
WaPo:
“The changes, which will go into effect in about 30 days, were completed in just four months. But they could take Obama much longer to reverse.
They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for...
Susan Powter for Secretary of Agriculture →
The Carlesfork 500 →
HRO tweaks p4k
Eric Cantor: Friend of the little people →
Terminator Salvation →
New trailer. Nice.
MAKE YOUR OWN PRUNO →
Wow. Disgusting. (via coudal)
thisissand.com →
yep. there goes six point four hours.
“I have a hard time pronouncing his name. I just call him the idiot.”
– David Gergen, on The Blag, CNN, 12/9/2008
