Gland Prix

So, the Brothers Quay made a Rice Krispies commercial

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:51:00 -0500

So, the Brothers Quay made a Rice Krispies commercial:

Hmmm… Thank you Krispies!

"…All these stupid men are always measuring their dicks. Mine does it for real. And with a knife...."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:59:00 -0500

“…All these stupid men are always measuring their dicks. Mine does it for real. And with a knife. Also, it’s the knife he got from his first girlfriend, who was almost like a mother to him.”

- From: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

I hope you’ve already read Bolaño. If not, you should.

Internuts.

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:28:34 -0500

Internuts.

Someday Guillermo del Toro will be asked where he came up with...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:15:00 -0400

Someday Guillermo del Toro will be asked where he came up with the idea for some spindly monster in one of his movies and he will say, “Have you ever watched a border collie?”

Look Back in Danger

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:27:33 -0500

Two sides to everything and shame is no different. Shame can be a guide and shame can claim that which it has no business owning.

I’ve spent a lot of time suffering and fretting and generally feeling pretty shameful about the things that I have not accomplished in life. The truth is that no one cares. And no one cares in a good way. No one is disappointed that I have not revolutionized the art world with new conceptions or re-imagined artistic themes. No one spends their time wondering when my next, or first, great novel is coming out. The people I love and trust could care less about these unspoken goals that I’ve manufactured. Thank you for your inconsideration friends and loved ones!

But maybe I care? And I do, to some degree. Feeling that it is important that I’ve created something and then feeling bad that lately I’ve not done a whole lot of creating could be positive. Such reflection could be stimulative. Instead I’ve spent more effort generating and then succumbing to my own supra-lofty goals than is remotely justifiable. The real problem (problem being that which inhibits accomplishment) is that I’ve sought the disaster of living in the past. The only part of me that has thrived is that part which feeds on the morose. This is some leftover remnants of depression - surely. What else but depression seeks to kill your vitality with your own emotions?

The truth that I can see about it now, now that I’ve tried to sort it out with writing, is that depression chose my most cherished part of me to kill. I say depression “chose”. Depression is like the trinity, an impossible orchestration of being. It is both within you and without you - but it is not your self. It is a distinct and individual enemy. Too often, though, this enemy is so close that you have no chance to see how it distorts your mind. It is phantom limbs and doom-colored glasses.

This lack of clarity is what has transformed my shame. Instead of impetus, shame has laid claim to the very faculties it should have emboldened. Writing this down has let me see this. Thank you, words; thank you, phrases; thank you, paragraphs.

Good grief! Poor little character palette - not getting the...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:30:00 -0400

Good grief! Poor little character palette - not getting the attention necessary so he decides to hitch himself to the coattails of Mr. OS X Keychain. You’re better than that CP. No matter how much you hurt inside - Keychain is way more needy and is probably jealous of you.

"Breakfast Cereal Food is one kind of crispy food which is processed by twin-screw extruder and takes..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:22:07 -0400

“Breakfast Cereal Food is one kind of crispy food which is processed by twin-screw extruder and takes grist as basic material. For many of us, ready-to-eat breakfast cereals are still a staple food, and a good one can be the perfect kick-start to the day.”

- Breakfast cereal machinery

Colostrum Ice Cream Bars

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:17:38 -0400

Colostrum Ice Cream Bars:

All my previous frozen dairy treats have been missing something. That special something that vectors me back towards infancy!

Link discovered while researching my new breakfast cereals.

Aaron Kimbrell - FriendFeed

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:18:18 -0400

Aaron Kimbrell - FriendFeed:

Getting the friend feed rolling.

HDR Madness

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:14:45 -0400

What the heck is going on? Why are HDR photos showing up all over the tubes and the Flickr?

They look like ass!

Are they just some attempt to avoid metering?

Do people really like the look?

Egads!

And sweet Jesus on the rock will someone tell Alex Lindsay to stop talking about HDR on every podcast he ends up on? The guy seems pleasant enough - but you’d think he had a religious experience upon his first sighting an HDR pic and has set out to evangelize the untouched masses.

That is all.

"Product Description Three-dimensional design gives Daotou no injuries nasal cavity Open unable to..."

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:31:51 -0500

“Product Description
Three-dimensional design gives Daotou no injuries nasal cavity Open unable to catch any direction and length Bimao Body washed clean convenience Central operation system, quiet operation Mao scrap storage, storage hair filings, clean sanitation With lights could illuminate nostril to help perfect pruning”

- Amazon.com: Panasonic ER430K Vacuum Nose/Ear Hair Trimmer, Gray: Health & Personal Care

"(c) No person shall possess in a form ready for serving colored oleomargarine or colored margarine..."

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:34:00 -0500

“(c) No person shall possess in a form ready for serving colored oleomargarine or colored margarine at a public eating place unless a notice that oleomargarine or margarine is served is displayed prominently and conspicuously in such place and in such manner as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual being served in such eating place or is printed or is otherwise set forth on the menu in type or lettering not smaller than that normally used to designate the serving of other food items. No person shall serve colored oleomargarine or colored margarine at a public eating place, whether or not any charge is made therefore, unless (1) each separate serving bears or is accompanied by labeling identifying it as oleomargarine or margarine, or (2) each separate serving thereof is triangular in shape.”

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From:FD&C Act Chapter IV

Don’t ask how I found myself leaning in to the monitor, reading this piece of legislation. It was the result of a strange wikipedia-started series of clicks and reads. This passage discusses margarine. The batshit part is the last sentence (and it really is the last sentence of that section). They end strong at FDA - they leave you in a fanciful world where foodstuffs are codified by shape. A special place, that land which you are left to ponder.

apple tv

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:48:28 -0500

yikes, a mac post!

I don’t have an apple tv but I’ve pondered the idea. It leaves me just a little flat.

I’ve been thinking that the Apple TV needs some help to make it great.

The best addition would be an ipod dock. That’s right: sync your stuff via your pod (sneakernet is faster than wireless for sure in this case) plus your buddy could plug his in and you could enjoy their content while visiting. Obviously you wouldn’t magically get all of the foreign pod’s goodies but the feature would be good for get-togethers or sharing TV shows/movies.

The problem w/ above: where would the ugly dock go? The Steve would hate it.

Also: DVR - but that’s an entirely different bag of meatballs.

"(A) word which occurs only once in the written record of a language, in the works of an author, or..."

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:27:00 -0500

“(A) word which occurs only once in the written record of a language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. If a word is used twice it is a dis legomenon, thrice, a tris legomenon. Beyond tetrakis legomenon (four times), there is no term for such a word.”

- Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One of those great vocabulary discoveries that continues to arrive after age 30. I love such words.

Unicorn Steak

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:27:00 -0500

Unicorn Steak:

I have commenced music reviews on the iTunes store. The album is ‘Unicorn Steak’ by Die Mannequin. I have listened but to the previews; so yes, I am a jackass. Inform me as to your reviews dear readers. My handle is dflatzero.

tumbld

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:18:29 -0500

a blog is born this day.