January 2010
45 posts
Fingertip: 0; Meat slicer: 1.
Revelation of the Day
Earl Grey tea tastes like soap.
\Song of the Day\ The Shins - Sea Legs
\Song of the Day\ Cheap Trick - Surrender
This...
The Pear
by Jane Hirshfield
November. One pear sways on the tree past leaves, past reason. In the nursing home, my friend has fallen. Chased, he said, from the freckled woods by angry Thoreau, Coleridge, and Beaumarchais. Delusion too, it seems, can be well read. He is courteous, well-spoken even in dread. The old fineness in him hangs on for dear life. “My mind now? A small ship under the wake of a...
\Song of the Day\ Iron & Wine - The Night...
“You make people happy.”
– The Best Thing Anyone Has Said to Me in a Long Time
jolienoire:
The Black Keys, Things Ain’t Like...
\Song of the Day\ Modest Mouse - Never Ending Math...
What is your dream sandwich?
I have this awesome job at a deli. This semester, I will be working a morning shift two days a week and will have to make up sandwich specials. As many of you know, I make pretty weird sandwiches all the time, so this won’t be too much of a problem. But an entire semester of three new sandwiches, two days a week, equals eighty-four sandwiches! And thus I ask you, dear readers, to help me...
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade....”
– D.H. Lawrence
\Song of the Day\ Pixies - Caribou
I played this...
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via delgrosso)
Some Ugly Baby →
Sorry, this is just too funny.
\Song of the Day\ Morphine - Hanging on a Curtain
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\Song of the Day\ Tom Petty & The...
Things I Learned How To Do Today:
- locate and open engine fuse block
- find fuses belonging to specific electrical processes
- pull a fuse
- determine whether a fuse is blown
- replace a fuse
Of course, this is all very straightforward, and of course, I wouldn’t have figured any of it out if my brother hadn’t been talking me through it on speakerphone. But now I know how to fix one more thing on my truck. And I...
\Song of the Day\ Tegan and Sara - Where Does The...
“I could never accept
life as it was,
I could never gobble
down all its...”
– Excerpt, “Let It Enfold You” by Charles Bukowski
“You worry too much. Eat some bacon… What? No, I got no idea if it’ll make you...”
– Shit My Dad Says
\Song of the Day\ Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
...
i don't know why you would ever toast a pop tart
thumbswithhands:
that’s like putting an orange slice in a glass of orange juice
BECAUSE IT GETS MELTY AND AMAZING INSIDE
you, ben sheene, of all people, should know this.
\Song of the Day\ Foo Fighters - Times Like These
/Another Song of the Day/ Air - Universal...
Simon Paneack on Nunamiut "secret places"
from Binford (1979)
“Every time men go out for something they have space in the pack or on the sled on the way out. Good men always say ‘what can I carry that may help someone in the future.’ Maybe they decide that where they are going there is no firewood, so maybe they take out some extra. Maybe there is no good stone for using with Strike-a-Light, so maybe they take out some...
A Bird at the Leather Mill
by Joshua Mehigan
The crane stood in the center of the floor Of the mill, lost and tentative. Its bill Looked like a fancy awl with a down handle. It wore its wings as though they were a shawl Thrown on an idiot. At first the men Imagined that a person had strolled in Like a green salesman or a debutante. And when the crane walked toward the loading dock, The men on tip-toes prowled with...
“Wherever you go, there you will be.”