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supplydemand: Brian Eno - The Paw Paw Negro...

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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How long could you survive inside a Tauntaun? →

yaldabaoth: In a normal environment, a carcass gets cold in 8 to 36 hours losing an average rate of 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit per hour. However, the ice world of Hoth is not an average environment. The Star Wars database lists that Hoth reaches nightly temperatures of -60 F. In a frigid, sub-zero environment, body heat can be lost almost 32 times faster. This means a Tauntaun’s body heat could drop...

Dec 31st

yaldabaoth: bthny: rendit: ...

Dec 31st

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The internet is useless

I want some cool things to see in LA. So far: Watts Towers Museum of Jurassic Technology Gene Autry museum Koreatown La Brea Tar Pits (I have heard these are a letdown, but come on….PITS OF TAR, and skulls in the gift shop) Things I shouldn’t miss?

Dec 31st

“Oh, The Namesake,” says one woman in a library voice, pronouncing it like...”

– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Amateur Hours.

Dec 30th

Conversations I Imagine My 10-Year-Old and... →

harharhar: 7-year-old: Hey. Remember this morning on the way to school when Dad made us listen to The Loud Band again? 10-year-old: Nirvana, yeah. 7-year-old: And the part where that angry singer says, “I tried hard to have a father/ but instead I had a dad?” 10-year-old: Uh, you mean the part that Dad sings at the top of his lungs while we’re driving by a group of my friends? Yeah. 7-year-old:...

Dec 30th

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“Book lairnin ot not be of necessitee, but shee should know how to cooke these...”

– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Declarations of Conjugal Interest from the Massachusetts Federalist, 1733.

Dec 30th

Have you read "A Sound of Thunder"?

Flying from Portland to Sea-Tac is like stepping off the path. Things are similar, but nothing is right.

Dec 30th

ThinkFruit "peanut goji glow" bars

never buy these

Dec 30th

This American Life: #1 Party School →

bthny: wait, have we talked about this yet? great episode of TAL. renewed a great argument my dad and i had years ago over whether the categorization of “party school” is specious or not. me? no. him? absolutely.

Dec 30th

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YO LA

I will be taking a magical adventure to your warmer climes on wednesday, let’s go eat kogi tacos and throw rocks in the tar pits.

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

“Charles,” Ma remonstrated. She did not approve of gambling, even in...”

– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Little Housing Crisis on the Prairie. so perfect

Dec 28th

Dec 27th

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retro dance record

Dec 26th

Tremors is on Encore

something i take as absolute proof that dan and i are not the only two people celebrating KEVIN BACON DAY. happy kevin bacon day to you!

Dec 26th

Dec 25th

Now I am a man no more no more And a black reward...

Dec 24th

Watch

raptoravatar: Visualized Version of Finnegan’s Wake, page 439 I think I’m attempting this book next. The hype is that it’s difficult, but this passage fills my brain with a certain electricity that I’m craving much more of. We’ll see if I’m down for 700~ pages of it, but I think this one is next on the docket. f’s w is a task, but very rewarding.

Dec 24th

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