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jazzfishAmusing:
Walter George Bruhl Jr., DuPont Co. retiree: "There will be no viewing since his wife refuses to honor his request to have him standing in the corner of the room with a glass of Jack Daniels in his hand so he would appear natural to visitors." (See also.)
How to Kill a Wasp Indoors: A Guide for the Weak: "13. Quickly skim a thread on “Best way to KILL WASPS indoors!!!!!?????” and make a mental note that five exclamation points and five question marks do not, in fact, do your predicament justice."
The only possible way to reform the U.S. Senate: "If we're going to have a nonsensical system of government, let's at least push the ontological boundaries."
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel: "By the time the burritos reach Cedar Rapids (traveling well over a mile a second) they are heated through, and anyone who managed to penetrate into the tunnel through the Cleveland access shafts would find them ready to eat."
THE SEMI-COLON IS THE BEST: "For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life’s experience in some semblance of its complexity--for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable."
Awesome:
The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See: "Standing on his front stoop, he could visualize, with an extraordinary degree of precision, the two pine trees on his front lawn, the curb at the edge of his street, and finally, a bit too far from that curb, my rental car."
Seasteading: "No, to the Valleybro, a city unwilling to exercise eminent domain to build a hyperloop, or an FCC unwilling open up a bunch of radio spectrum, or a court that won’t process their complaint about these things this week, is a society in its failure state. Oh my god, they say to each other, this is like driving around with the parking brake on all the time!"
How Iowa Flattened Literature: "Did the CIA fund creative writing in America?"
The World's Greatest Feminist Fishmonger: "In the 1930s, after his daughters had married, Russ made a startling move: he made them partners in the business and renamed his store 'Russ & Daughters,' a practice unheard of at the time."
The trailer for The Double, about which someone on Twitter said "Someone has made a better Terry Gilliam film than Terry Gilliam." Some notes: that's Wallace 'Vizzini' Shawn as Jesse Eisenberg's boss, and the design choices made a lot more sense to me when I found out it's based on a Dostoevsky story.
My Dementia: have only skimmed, mostly because slowly losing my mind is the thing I fear second-most (behind being trapped fully-aware in my body), but it's impressive.
Walter George Bruhl Jr., DuPont Co. retiree: "There will be no viewing since his wife refuses to honor his request to have him standing in the corner of the room with a glass of Jack Daniels in his hand so he would appear natural to visitors." (See also.)
How to Kill a Wasp Indoors: A Guide for the Weak: "13. Quickly skim a thread on “Best way to KILL WASPS indoors!!!!!?????” and make a mental note that five exclamation points and five question marks do not, in fact, do your predicament justice."
The only possible way to reform the U.S. Senate: "If we're going to have a nonsensical system of government, let's at least push the ontological boundaries."
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel: "By the time the burritos reach Cedar Rapids (traveling well over a mile a second) they are heated through, and anyone who managed to penetrate into the tunnel through the Cleveland access shafts would find them ready to eat."
THE SEMI-COLON IS THE BEST: "For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life’s experience in some semblance of its complexity--for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable."
Awesome:
The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See: "Standing on his front stoop, he could visualize, with an extraordinary degree of precision, the two pine trees on his front lawn, the curb at the edge of his street, and finally, a bit too far from that curb, my rental car."
Seasteading: "No, to the Valleybro, a city unwilling to exercise eminent domain to build a hyperloop, or an FCC unwilling open up a bunch of radio spectrum, or a court that won’t process their complaint about these things this week, is a society in its failure state. Oh my god, they say to each other, this is like driving around with the parking brake on all the time!"
How Iowa Flattened Literature: "Did the CIA fund creative writing in America?"
The World's Greatest Feminist Fishmonger: "In the 1930s, after his daughters had married, Russ made a startling move: he made them partners in the business and renamed his store 'Russ & Daughters,' a practice unheard of at the time."
The trailer for The Double, about which someone on Twitter said "Someone has made a better Terry Gilliam film than Terry Gilliam." Some notes: that's Wallace 'Vizzini' Shawn as Jesse Eisenberg's boss, and the design choices made a lot more sense to me when I found out it's based on a Dostoevsky story.
My Dementia: have only skimmed, mostly because slowly losing my mind is the thing I fear second-most (behind being trapped fully-aware in my body), but it's impressive.
The Iowa connection
Date: 2014-03-28 05:42 pm (UTC)I can tell you that in Cedar Rapids at least, the burrito tunnel must be well "scent-shielded" because (a) you can't smell any burritos going by because Quaker Oats' smell1 permiates the area and (b) any burritos arriving in NYC with the good old QO smell would immediately be chucked into the river and end up in New Jersey.
Wait...that may be what has happened...hmmmm.
Anyway, back to Iowa...just in case you weren't aware, Bloom County was set in Iowa City. We had the boarding house on College Ave., Charmin' Harmon was our local DJ and Praire Lights bookstore existed both in reality and the comic strips. My favorite, favorite, favorite Bloom County cartoon is in the Iowa City public library and features the fountain (and the water) that's just outside the library. Here - enjoy.
1. Cedar Rapids is officially called The City of Five Seasons2, but those of us who live/have lived there know that it's the City of Five Smells...and Quaker Oats is four of them.
2. The story of the City of Five Seasons.
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Date: 2014-03-29 04:51 pm (UTC)