12:00-12:10 Try on six pairs of jeans at thrift store. Feel downcast at the size of the pair that fits and is flattering, but they are a mere $6.50. Buy them. 12:10-12:20 Go to nearby trendy boutique. Try on four more pairs of jeans, none of which costs less than $70. Each, on me, is [...]
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“Do you want women to run to you like the night butterflies fly to the light?” “Night butterflies” just makes it. What are some of y’all’s favorite spam subject lines?
FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE: 1. Early shift fast food cashier 2. Sales clerk at Shar 3. “Casual labor” at the import shop where the owner fired me because I wouldn’t help look for her hash 4. Web designer for Jiffy Mix FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER: 1. State and [...]
Y’all should go read the entire archive of Lulu Eightball.
…dancing near the corner of Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Blvd. and Prescott, earlier today. I mean, dude was in a full-on Santa suit, and he was full-on dancing. Very long fingernails. Or perhaps just oddly colored gloves.
This was boingboinged already, so some of y’all may have already seen it, but I feel compelled to repost it, ’cause this totally happened at my old school. And the Fishbowl looks just like it did when I was there. Two students at… the University of Michigan… dressed up as Pac-Man and the Ghost respectively, [...]
sdn informs me that Mr. Joyce has a website. I’m trying to stop myself from reading all his blog entries from 2001 until now in a row.
It started with The Tooth Fairy. As soon as I finished it, I started it again. The other books of his that haunt me: The Facts of Life and The Limits of Enchantment. Why? Two words: magic and place. Magic: the way he makes it absolutely real, but utterly mysterious. We don’t know how it [...]
Some reference librarian somewhere compiled this list of seasonally appropriate Library of Congresss subject headings. It was forwarded to me, and I share it now with y’all. A selection of Library of Congress (LC) subject headings for the holidays Shopping malls – Religious aspects Muzak (Trademark) – Psychological aspects Advertising — Toys Advertising — Confectionery [...]
Mental illness link to art and sex “A survey comparing mental health and the number of sexual partners among the general population, artists and schizophrenics found that artists are more likely to share key behavioural traits with schizophrenics, and that they have on average twice as many sexual partners as the rest of the population.” [...]
