One final note: I came across the above image from the Japanese illustrated epic novel Satomi and the Eight “Dogs,” another beautiful work in the World Digital Library, on which the artist spent thirty years of life. But damn my ignint 21st-century-addled brain, the strongest association I have with this lovely historic print is the [...]
When I woke up this morning, this was running through my head:
This ain’t a movie, dog. It ain’t no country club either.
A completely wrong and nonsensical combination of hollerations that Jay-Z and Sheryl Crow have respectively made.
Then later, at work, I spotted someone’s desk-size keep calm and carry on poster, and I read it to [...]
Perhaps this actually belongs on my blog dedicated to eBay, curio cabinet, but I don’t really want to poison the well over there. Anyway, look what I saw on my daily jaunt to that website:
Current bids for these limited edition atrocities:
Barack Obama: $3,050
Joe Biden: $843
John McCain: $1,700
Sarah Palin: $9,600
Unsurprisingly, Joe Biden, the least controversial of [...]
Not surprising but worth noting, these are the current Amazon sales stats for David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
Keeping in mind that I have rightly been accused of being overly interested in the interests of the overly interested, and given my tendency to collect things which may or may not merit collecting (the names of people who have received mail at my address [a long list!], newspapers of religious organizations I have found [...]
I’m working in my blissfully empty-ass office today, Saturday, and as such I’m not paying for my lunch. I ordered sushi from a midtown restaurant called Haru, and the blurb on the front of the menu is so over-the-top broken that I’m not sure how it was ever allowed to have been mass-produced and dropped [...]
Observe:
Jerry Orbach (deceased actor, best known as Lennie Brisco from the original flavor of the Law & Order empire) Halloween costume spotted on Flickr while I was searching for this slightly bewildering (wait, are you saying he actually wasn’t that gifted of an actor if his greatest role was dying and giving his corneas away?) [...]
For posterity and giggles, I give you this quite good Craigslist post that originated in my ‘hood, Crown Heights.
who put the dead bird in my mailbox? - w4m
Date: 2008-04-20, 12:56PM EDT
a) how did you get into my mailbox in the first place, it is locked
b) did you kill the bird
c) it died [...]
From: [redacted]
Date: February 20, 2008 9:16:38 PM EST
To: laura griffin
Subject:
Sadly I did not have a camera on me during my run this afternoon,
because I really wanted to take a photo of this sign for you:
Tonight
at the Bamboo Grill
Gray Sky Falling
featuring
original Steppenwolf keyboardist
Goldy McJohn
sitting in on Steppenwolf songs
