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.
