September 2008
11 posts
5 tags
“The world had never seemed so beautiful and devastating, so ordinary and...”
– Davy Rothbart’s short story The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. Talk about words that kicked me in the stomach this weekend on a flight to Seattle. Arthur Miller calls Rothbart’s stories “crushing” and I agree completely.
word of the day →
actualdavid:
Today’s word of the day is blue-tool
blue-tool is defined as a person who walks around with a blue tooth head piece in their ear when they are not talking on the phone or driving.
submitted by Andrew Elledge
My nose went running. And so did the rest of me. ...
In my first excursion since 9th grade into the wild terrain of what humans call “running” I’ve learned several things:
1. After one half of a city block, my lungs will start to burn. I imagined them also turning purple. They may naturally be purple, though, so maybe they actually turned orange. Whatever the case, they were making sure I knew they weren’t happy with my...
Guess who’s officially become Zero-Emission-Brian?
WatchWow this is a great pick-me-up.
livejamie:
Freestyle Rap Battle Translated: Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.
West Winged
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Roger, If anything happens, you know what to do, right?
Roger: I honestly hadn't thought about it, sir.
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: First thing always is national security. Get your commanders together. Appoint Joint Chiefs, appoint a chairman. Take us to defcon 4. Have the governors send emergency delegates to Washington. The assistant Attorney General is going to be the Acting A.G. You got a best friend?
Roger: Yes, sir.
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Is he smarter than you?
Roger: Yes, sir.
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Would you trust him with your life?
Roger: Yes, sir.
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: That's your chief of staff.
“By representing everything in terms of neuron firing rates, the human brain is...”
– Seed Magazine: A New State of Mind by Jonah Lehrer • Posted August 8, 2008 11:24 AM (via melancholytransmissions)
Someone’s back on the tumblr train!
August 2008
27 posts
4 tags
AARON SORKIN TO PIONEER THE WALK AND SCRABULOUS →
I saw this on /Film earlier and they blew chunks all over the idea. And after thinking about it, I actually agree with CHUD’s take more.
And it was awesome reading Sorkin’s answer to fan questions in the F-Book group he made.
[Also, Josh Malina, Jeremy Goodwin/Will Bailey himself, makes a few quick digital appearances in the thread.]
WatchWow this is great.
livejamie:
This is what it’s like to lose to Michael Phelps.
There's Something about Whiteheads.
Today I woke up with a whitehead on my left eyelid.
Its awesome and painful at the same time.
Snapshot.
I like the idea of freezing a moment in time in a place like a journal or a tumblr post. I spent a part of last week going through some old papers and journals and I always love seeing the moments in time that are frozen on those sheets of paper. The same can be said for browsing through my tumblr archive. Each post is a moment frozen in time. Its a main part of why I started this beast in the...
