October 2007
15 posts
baby balk
so… i’ve never really enjoyed talking to babies. i think it’s because i find it sort of ridiculous; overly theatrical. i feel that i’m only doing it for the parents, as if by showing interest in their little creation i’m somehow showing interest in them. but, if that were the case, then simply talking to them about their baby would suffice. however… i...
why can't i just take a half-tinkle?
i think it’s funny that you can hold your bladder in various states of fullness and in relative comfort for good lengths of time, but that once you begin to relieve yourself of a full bladder, you are never comfortable and satisfied until your bladder is completely empty.
sentences on which we've left lunch this week
so… we have a habit of staying in the cafeteria and talking after we’ve eaten until someone says something which makes it appropriate or, at times, necessary to leave. this week, these have been those sentences : monday : we were discussing the laugh of two brothers with whom we work. it’s a cartoonishly high-pitched and chattering laugh that seems more like an ironic...
for holiday rapping
what about gift rap as an mc’ing name?
5 tags
against all that noise
so.. i get a bit fed-up/frustrated/deaf to all the blabber about market-failures - be they mortgage-based, private equity, stock-bubbles…whathaveyou. anyway, the thing - as with collective opinion in so many spheres - is that the conversation ends up as a self-reinforcing cycle of reductions at best and a bundle of loosely associated tangents at worst… (i feel the same way about the...
crazier than a fish with titties
r kelly really went buck wild with the new installment of trapped in the closet. before viewing it, i was certain that trapped in the closet was destined for the tate…but now i’m glad i didn’t make that claim to anyone.
Deadwood
Dan Dority: I'm older, and I'm much less friendly to fucking change.
Al Swearengen: Change ain't looking for friends... change calls the tune we dance to.
“So I was careful to make no noise, careful not to disturb this first intact and...”
– john hawkes - second skin
two fun facts
1. this morning i was so anxious for my morning coffee that i removed my cup from the machine before it had been filled. so… i stood there with a cup of sugar as my coffee poured into the spill-reservoir at the bottom. 2. i ran out of deodorant last tuesday. for various reasons (work, forgetfulness) i was unable to purchase deodorant until today during my lunch break. applying deodorant...
“I don’t think it was like him to have manipulated – to have falsified an image...”
– Gordon Baldwin, from this great errol morris piece in the nyt.
pierrot le fou
Marianne: it's our's again.
Ferdinand: what?
Marianne: eternity.
Ferdinand: no, that's just the sea.
Marianne: and the sun.
i watched a lot of movies this weekend.
i’d been wanting to watch some movies for a few weeks, but hadn’t been able to for various reason… this weekend i really came through. in related news, i read very little. coffee and cigarettes l’age d’or pierrot le fou i hired a contract killer thx 1138