Friday, May 25, 2012

Neighbors Describe Suspect as Family Man.
 When he received a bogus document warning of a vast force of Indians on the march, he lost it. Barely coherent, stuffing his mouth with so much tobacco that the juice ran down his face, and crouching to avoid imaginary artillery shelling

 In the late 1970s dozens of German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico bought up fallow land and began peanut farms.
 3 killed in Texas cockfight shooting debate  trampled “desire lines” on aloofly chained-off college quadrangles. As a British engineer once told me, “pedestrians are natural Pythagoreans”—they will always seek the shortest path.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012


http://www.flickr.com/photos/midcentarc/5938413101/in/photostream


Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:18pm
To: Patrick
call me - some kind of problem on metro on red line - smoke on tracks...come home
reply: Our house lights keep flickering?
Should I buy some more alcohol? I mean blankets, more blankets?
42 more minutes
7:06 PM,Christy
think red line is back now - lights keep flicking

Henry David Thoreau’s mother stopped by once a week to do the writer’s laundry as he mused around Walden Pond.

photos that gain the most traction play into the desires of both journalists and the public for a story with a distinct victim and aggressor.
At the center of most stories we tell, is the struggle between good and evil, If the ingredients are there, that is what journalists will grab onto and present.

Margaret Wise Brown died tragically early at 42, though it should be noted that she died playfully. She was in France, hospitalized for appendicitis (“I’ve really enjoyed this odd French Hospital …” she wrote to a friend), and after the routine operation she seemed to be recovering uneventfully. One morning she kicked her leg can-can style to show a nurse how well she was, and an embolism killed her instantly.

In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sent an animal-breeding expert to Africa in hopes of creating an army of half-man, half-monkey soldiers. Attempts both to inseminate women with monkey sperm and impregnate female chimpanzees with human sperm failed.

He walks over with a Sharpie mounted on a 4-foot stick and begins sketching. He is looking at photographs of natural phenomena and glancing at the images to help him understand the flow and motion of the natural events.

The straight male performer must be attractive enough to serve as a prop, but not so attractive that he becomes the object of desire

Tuesday, February 7, 2012






The deity resides in a sanctum at the center of the temple and is visible only through three narrow doors, one near the head, the second in the middle and the third at his feet. The sanctum is lit by oil lamps, which makes it hard to see him.


http://research.culturalequity.org/get-audio-ix.do?ix=session&id=SC51&idType=abbrev&sortBy=abc


“If I jump do you think they’ll look for me?” - passengers who go overboard
http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Overboard.html

angle of concern

the last letter - ted hughes
http://lovingsylvia.tumblr.com/post/1263482483/last-letter-by-ted-hughes

Very few people really want to travel in circles.

Tim Hecker's (stunning) Ravedeath, 1972
avant ambiant musique

Testing parallels between birdsong and speech

thrift store landscape

the absent ghost at the feast

http://littlekingsbeerstore.myshopify.com/products/little-kings-logo-tee-medium

it’s never a good idea to meet your idols


Tuesday, January 10, 2012

WTC SEPT 11 DESIGN PROPOSAL
guy #1: of course youll support my design bid for the wtc site
guy #2: hell yeah
guy #2: are you working on one?
guy #1: at this point its a used soup can on the end of a 3.5 ft long stick
guy #1: a bronze statue of george bush points to the stick
guy #2: hahaha

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business proposal:

guy#1: senor pizza,a new food and game concept
guy#2: mexican pizza is growing at 30% a year
guy#3: its a sleeper
guy#2: senor pizza- isnt that an inspiring name
guy#3: ahhh the days of old

guy#1: kind of like tombstone, but instead of cowboys getting personal pizzas from the chuck wagon,its mexicans getting spicy pizza from a gigantic terra cotta hacienda. The restrooms will have humorous rustic signs of doubled over men and women with horrible diarhea. Many of the menu items will have fun names playing on the diarrhea theme with funny pictures on the margins of the menu.

guy#3: blow the doors off of taco bell!

guy#1: the two characters who will push the product are a fiery macho mexican man with a comically floppy sombrero, who is always smacking himself
in the forehead and yelling "ah-yiiiiiii"

guy#2: and a wildly gesturing Italian man who always seems to be upset about something

guy#1: the gimmick will be that they continuously fight over whether the senor pizza is more mexican or Italian.