January 2009
57 posts
Karaoke Rage →
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Watch[via Dad]
mongermonger:
I was following the pack all...
Scenes from a cross-continent motorcycle trip →
cakeordeath:
Landscape photography (and panoramas) at its best. This looks like the trip of a lifetime.
Amazingggg.
New Fucking Zealand →
Oh God Yes please I want to go NOW.
Emperor Norton →
He is by far the most fascinating SF eccentric in history, as far as I’m concerned.
10 Weirdest Inaguration Day Blunders
fletter:
nortolano:
nickmcglynn:
10 Weirdest Inauguration Day Blunders
On the day of Richard Nixon’s 1973 inauguration, Pennsylvania Avenue was dotted with sick and dead pigeons. At the president’s request, the inauguration committee spent $13,000 to spread a chemical bird repellent on the tree branches along the parade route to deter the pigeons. According to the Washington Post, the...
Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present →
God bless NYTimes infographics.
Bush Street Renamed Obama Street in San Francisco →
And you can bet I’ll be taking pictures of this today.
bedtimechamp:
Will Oldham w/Matt Sweeny & Pink...
The Impossible Project →
bedtimechamp:
cakeordeath:
This company has bought the rights and equipment to make Polaroid film, under a different brand name and with a different, modern process. It aims to have film in production by 2010.
A-FUCKING-MEN!!
Martin Luther King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail →
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New Neko Case track, "People Got a Lotta Nerve" →
cakeordeath:
(via crumbler — thanks, guys!)
cakeordeath:
about-today:
Kelly Clarkson, My...
Freakonomics Blog: What Happens When College... →
cakeordeath:
Answer: People buy less food and subsequently eat less and throw away less.
YIKES
compliqated:
craigslist » All the tenants I interview aren’t good enough
this is too amazing to be real. in case it gets flagged down again:
Reply to: pers-964514051@craigslist.org [?] Date: 2008-12-19, 6:05PM PST
I am a born again Christian. Why is this a problem for people????! I have a house that’s MINE and I PAID FOR IT. I also have a basement apartment for rent. It’s a great space...
The 11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating →
Oh I’m NOT?! Okay jerk! Er…well, I guess in most cases that’s right. With the exception of the occasional foray into beets or cinnamon or pom juice.
What You Don't Know About Gaza →
The Lonesome Death of William Zantzinger →
Zantzinger [the real life villian in Dylan’s classic, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”] just died. ‘Hattie Carroll’ is TOTALLY one of Dylan’s best & least appreciated protest songs.
The 10 Best American Movies, by Stanley Fish →
I tend to avoid these kinds of lists, but I’m actually really fascinated that this dude includes a much overlooked classic among his ten…
Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis. Another Pygmalion story, but this time the material the sculptor works on is himself. Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is a jaded, dyspeptic, arrogant, cynical and obnoxious TV weatherman who on Feb. 2 finds...
Photos of the abandoned soundstage for "The Wire" →
(via cakeordeath)
WHOA, awesome! Uh, possible spoiler alerts?
