So I finally went through one of my old and full notebooks and transcribed all the interesting parts onto my computer. I think of an entire Moleskine there were ten bits worth reading. I guess that’s not a terrible ratio, all things considered.
Anyway, among them were these two short notes that have something to say […]
I had a Jaeger Bomb tonight—specifically, Jaegermeister dropped into Monster energy drink. It tasted like the interior of a glowstick. It tasted like it was designed by a six year-old wino. It gave me an enduring case of the hiccups.
this has also been posted on the Booze Council Blotto
The intelligent man is always thirsty. He stretches his gaze ever outward; he is never satisfied with his body of experience, but instead pushes his horizons as far as resources will allow. He raises himself above his peers, always; first he conquers the fruits of his […]
In the beginning minutes of the BBC Films movie, Conspiracy, there is a quick couple of shots of a hand calligraphing name cards, for a table setting, in fraktur. Honestly? I got choked up for a moment.
This is just to say: I will be in Italy, the resort town of Cortona, to be precise, from July 11 to July 22. My cell phone will not be joining me, though I might have email access.
So this weekend one of my little mini-projects was transferring my iTunes library from my old external hard drive to my new one (750GB!)1 When all that was through, I finally had the space to import the 5- or 6-and-a-half GB of music that had been steadily accumulating on my desktop, and then process it—getting […]
Omphaloskeptic? Please! Who even knows what that means (without looking it up)? It’s certainly not listed in dictionary.com. I Googled it just to satisfy my curiosity, and by the way, it’s practically meaningless in the context he chose to use it in. Now here’s a good word - ostentatious - and I think […]
What’s the deal with all these fucking ‘Productivity’ blogs? How have we come up with an entire caste of productivity gurus, each with their own foolproof 13 step ‘how to get things done’ system? Who, more to the point, would possibly put their faith in some idiot on the internet whose only demonstrable labor is […]
