February 2012
15 posts
Bon Iver at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session) →
You should listen to this.
\Song of the Day\ Explosions in the Sky —...
Late night bus service to begin in Old Town →
Hurrah for cheap public transportation!
\Song of the Day\ Bon Iver - Perth
This reminds...
Neighbor:
There’s gonna be another foot of snow on your porch in the morning. It’s really not necessary to be dragging your metal snow shovel across the concrete outside my bedroom window at midnight. Just saying.
January 2012
16 posts
Another Confession:
I don’t know what Game of Thrones is (are?) either.
Confession:
I don’t know what The Hunger Games is (are?).
“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
– Amy Hempel
\Song of the Day\ Nick Drake — Time Has Told...
Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson →
Landlords must speak a different language.
I say, “Please come remove the tree limbs from my roof,” and they hear, “Please wait three months, and don’t remove the tree limbs from my roof, but take away all the tree limbs that my neighbors and I have been cutting and collecting for firewood since I called you three months ago.” AJFA;LSKJDFL;KAJSD;LJK.
Alton Brown's Pan-Seared Ribeye →
Attempting cast iron skillet steak tonight. Should I be concerned that the top comment on this recipe reads, “Havs dons this trea timse now ands cumbs ins taste my engine purfects at times every day and wood s do thisis form new on of cause transmission tasteses awfooly goods thankyous”?
More Phonetic Shopping List Errors
“Stakes.”
\Song of the Day\ Baths - Maximalist
Every Funny Headline Involving the Word 'Santorum' →
This will be my only commentary on the Iowa caucuses.
2012
I’ve worked forty hours since Friday and I’m still only halfway through this six-shift weekend, but I couldn’t be happier to start the new year with two jobs I love.
December 2011
18 posts
Actual Conversation in the Amtrak Dining Car
Wife: What's sweet potato gravy?
Husband: It's gravy made from sweet potatoes.
Wife: What's a sweet potato?
Husband: It's an orange potato.
Really loving book sculptures lately.
“I just got asked about the giant dead beaver in the back of my truck… I...”
– I hope you all already know that statements like this could only possibly come from my brother
Pronunciation of Biological Latin →
isn’t always as intuitive as you would think. I’m no language genie like Rachel or Kerri, so I’m glad that there are rules and that someone has written them down.
TV on the Internets
Your recommendations—I need them. I have 56 episodes of Parks & Recreation to go, but 56 x 21:58 goes a lot more quickly than one would think.
I have seen every episode of The Office and Community, and just finished re-watching the entire run of Arrested Development. I’m mostly into comedy but also like dramas in the vein of Carnivále and Deadwood. Not so much on the...
Absences
by Donald Justice
It’s snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers. There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote, Like the memory of scales descending the white keys Of a childhood piano—outside the window, palms! And the heavy head of the cereus, inclining, Soon to let down its white or yellow-white. Now, only these poor snow-flowers in a heap, Like the memory of a white...
\Song of the Day\ Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand
You Guys
I finally did it. After seeing those forlorn faces about 532987 times, I donated to Wikipedia. Because let’s be real here — the reason I’ve seen those donation banner faces 532987 times is that I use it a lot. We all use it a lot, and we take it for granted. Donate here.
Speaking of the marching band...
I had a kind of magical experience this evening. I came home from a long day of classes and quizzes and presentations, tired and grouchy. I was huffing and puffing my way in the door when I noticed a lot of families seemed to be standing around in the street, and then I saw several cop cars. I was expecting to see some juicy law enforcement about to happen, when, lo and behold, the CSU marching...