futile but funny

from an email sent to us by a HAVC professor:
This was not hard to recognize as a fraud. but should you warn others?
[redacted]
Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture
[redacted]
University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[redacted]@ucsc.edu
>To: tech.service8@live.com
>From: [redacted] <[redacted]@ucsc.edu>
>Subject: Re: EMAIL ACCOUNT MAINTENANCE
> >if you can’t write proper english you should go soak [...]

wherein the author attempts to forge substance from an overly esoteric lexicon

a plentitude of occasions
great happenings in quick succession
many miles driven
fortunately for you, reader, I will curate the past four weeks carefully and present to you only the most delicious morsels from the heady stream of excitement that is my life:
an episode concerning the contemporary gauche
new year’s eve found the author in dire need of sartorial [...]

better than navel contemplation

first off, so I don’t forget: Inga, you still owe me a burrito. The new year will not invalidate this delicious debt, only the finest mexican food tube from taqueria las cabanas will.
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bored at work, tried [...]

“If you can’t have the perfect family, at least you can Photoshop it.”

self-deception for the digital age, I guess the impulses have always been there but this is taking it to a level that I find kind of disquieting.
[I was there, just ask photoshop.]

impossible to miss

stereoscopic signage in a australian parking garage, such a great idea because the vast majority of people are going to be in automobiles and so will share similar vantage points…

[more from ridelust]

obvious finals-related procrastination

Michael Chabon pens, “An essay in unitard theory,” in a recent New Yorker, discussing the phenomenon of comic-book superhero attire, and the rich symbolism within. It’s an interesting article, and he keeps it from become too abstract and pretentious by including, throughout and primarily with a vignette that closes the essay, thoughts on [...]

briefly…

whilst I wait for steve to return from the vancouver public library’s bathroom, a quick update.
as the more observant of readers may have already guessed, I’m in vancouver.  the one in canada.  there’s one in washington, too, but it’s way less cool.  so far the trip has been pretty much awesome, even considering how damn [...]

the owl whisperer?

“I don’t remember how many times it has attacked me, but the day before yesterday, it pecked me 20 times,” Yang said. “It doesn’t hurt but it is really annoying.”
 angry owls

dude lets go to rome

and be like this guy:

nytimes

popular french baby names that I think are freakin’ sweet.

Gurls
Tatiana- Reminds me of tangerine for some weird reason.
Héloïse- Just cause it would be fun to give that name to poor southern uneducated telemarketers and see how they tried to spell it.
Anaïs- Another beezy to spell.
Aliénor- I don’t speak french, but I assume this is pronounced similar to “Eleanor.” Hahah, that’s the worst one [...]