January 2011
3 posts
Chicks with Swords
1792: Lady Almeria Braddock and Mrs Elphinstone; so called “petticoat duel”; Lady Almeria Braddock felt insulted by Mrs Elphinstone and challenged her to a duel in London’s Hyde Park after their genteel conversation turned to the subject of Lady Almeria’s true age. The ladies first exchanged pistol shots in which Lady Almeria’s hat was damaged. They then...
December 2010
4 posts
I don’t have anything to say, but I just wanted... →
Wittgenstein and the art of car maintenance →
“there will be no returns”
July 2010
7 posts
In which the distance between the writer of the... →
“Brandon does give us some of that, but only the way a firing squad gives you a cigarette before it kills you”
“The Reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-orientated bastard, it’s you I’m addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You’ve read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don’t go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I...
“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”
– Clay Shirky
April 2010
5 posts
Damn Wanucha, you lost me at "You’re at breakfast... →
"So meaty, there’s no room for a bun!" →
Dear God, it’s an actual Tracy Jordan Meat Machine.
If you’re shy, you’re never bored. →
March 2010
96 posts
It really is an insanely bad piece of work, a... →
nedhepburn:
Spent the last hour wandering around downtown LA. Pulled up a seat at the bar at Coles and got the French dip sandwich with a few bucks I had. Just started eating it when I got an email that one of my articles got printed in Austrailia. It looks awesome! Happy Ned.
Australia, my homeland. Where were you published? Maybe we can celebrate this with a physical item.
You have a problem with the science of Hot Tub... →
We haven't even produced a decent serial killer →
The building is beige, but the shadows make it... →
“HERE ARE THE DANGER SIGNALS. ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD,...”
– from a letter David Mamet sent his writers on the TV series The Unit (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
(via nickdouglas)
Neptune: Planet-eater, asteroid-raper, unrepentant... →
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Herman Hesse (via nightmarebrunette) (via beautyinthefilth)
“There is something hugely interesting, as well as disturbing, about the...”
– Ana Marie Cox
They are asking why no Australian concert is... →
CONVICTED teenager "can't remember" attacking a... →
Way to bury your lead AAP.
OH GREAT I HAVE 23 MINUTES OF ANNUAL LEAVE
Just enough time to apply a hearty rope to this mother of a day.
I know that this show is a piece of garbage that... →
“It’s the greatest novel about a guy riding an... →
“The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and likely approaching or over 5000...”
– Prometheus (tree) - Wikipedia (via nickdouglas)
About six months ago I was walking through a park with a friend. She was telling me about the oldest tree in the world.
Right, I said, but how do you know it’s the oldest tree. I mean look at all the trees in this park, how many trees are there...
“The reader and writer are being smarter together than either one could be...”
– George Saunders, via John Warner
“Media agencies are ill-equipped to deliver high quality creative services,...”
– WOW
Stop flipping your sentences already.
“Shoes dispatched* today at 1:00 pm, standard mail.
Dad
*Should be...”
– I want to print all my dad’s emails off and lock them in a drawer because I feel like gmail doesn’t do them justice, or keep them safe.
Nazi Spoons in Shortlist for Prize
David Crompton’s Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter (Glenstrae Press) James A Yannes’ Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich (Trafford) Daina Taimina’s Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes (A K Peters) Ronald C Arkin’s Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots (CRC Press) Ellen Scherl and Maria Dubinsky’s The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease...