MayMay 14 Monday 07
"I don't get no respect. No respect, I tell ya."
From the Wikipedia article on Rodney Dangerfield, who died in October of 2004:
When Johnny Carson died on January 23, 2005, a correspondent from CNN called Dangerfield's longtime publicist, Kevin Sasaki, and asked whether Dangerfield would be available to share comments …
"I don't get no respect. No respect, I tell ya."
From the Wikipedia article on Rodney Dangerfield, who died in October of 2004:
When Johnny Carson died on January 23, 2005, a correspondent from CNN called Dangerfield's longtime publicist, Kevin Sasaki, and asked whether Dangerfield would be available to share comments …
MayMay 11 Friday 07
Mongrel Nation
A documentary in short snippets by comedian Eddie Izzard, produced by The Discovery Channel in the UK. The documentary deals with how many of the things (language, monarchy, food) which are thought of as being quintessentially English are, in fact, pieces of culture …
Messing around in Audacity
Audacity is a small, open-source, freeware sound editing and recording program available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. It can be used for editing existing audio files or for simple track-by-track multi track recording. I've used it before to edit or change the bitrate of …
I hope I don't have a girlfriend either...
... she'd feel pretty neglected since I never call her or see her or anything.
One of the annoying things about being male and putting down "Single" on your MySpace profile is that you get a lot of messages and friend requests from girls who are just pimping their …
It always starts out so simple
In late November 2003 I saw a piece online about NaNoWriMo that sparked something in me. The desire to write, dormant since my teens when playing music took over the creative/expressive portions of my brain, suddenly flared up again like an old injury that throbs at the …
Escalation of Graffiti War results in longwinded rambling.
Found this on Curbed, a quite entertaining New York City real estate blog.
Someone has been defacing some Banksy "wall art" around Williamsburg by rolling over them and replacing them with other stencils. Then, someone defaced those stencils with random splashes of …
Free Education!
Open Culture: University Podcast Collection
Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts
Berkeley on iTunes U - entire courses available online, requires iTunes
These sites are goldmines for the autodidact types, of which I is one. I just loaded up my iPod with some …
Next Read, More Thrift Store Book Stuff
I recently finished John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After putting the book in my "Read" stack in the back of the shelf, I looked about trying to decide on my next read. The possibilities ranged from Stephen King (Misery or Hearts in Atlantis) …
A Smorgasbord Of Videos Which Have Entertained Me Recently
I decided to embed the vids this time around rather than linking. If this causes any problems (slow loading or the annoying tendency of some videos to not play sound when too many are open at once) let me know.
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul - Music Video
Apartments and Purging Cycles
There are eras in life which culture and history have pre-labeled for us; infancy, adolescence, and middle-age, for example. There are also the labels which we use in our own mind to rope off portions of the continuous stream of our life into palatable and easy to …
On Creative Commons
The image to the right is the first time (that I am aware of anyway) that one of my photos has been used under the auspices of the Creative Commons license. I …
School Days
In the time since I joined MySpace, besides being bombarded with messages and friend requests from girls who might have ulterior motives, I have regottenintouchwith (!?) with several old friends from school and early life. During December I was contacted by a girl I was …
Tracks
I have been ill for the past six weeks or so. It started with waves of nausea, followed by long periods of weakness, shakiness, lightheadedness, and dizziness. It would go away for a few days only to return back to torment me for a few days in a row. The nausea …
Text, Twitter, Ficlets.
Image based on Who you looking at? by Askpang which was licensed under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license just as this image is. Image inspiration from icanhascheezburger.com
I love text. Books, letters, blogs, emails, instant messages, text messages. I could wax long …
Pearls before Breakfast
I linked the above article on the linkroll during the weekend, but there was a wonderful quote from lower down in the article that I wanted to point out. The article, for those who do not wish to read the whole thing, is about how the Washington …
The Graveyard of the Flying Machines - The Story So Far
After the excitement my first two ficlets, I found myself at a loss for what to write. The first two stories were unsuccessful in the sense that they did not inspire anyone to continue them, so I wanted to try even harder this time to craft …
"Thank God I Was Raped"
On one level it seems a little harsh to criticize this video, creepy as parts of it may be to certain viewers such as myself. After all, gratitude in the face of hardship can be a very noble trait, and can at times lead to healing. And I …