Tim and TMI
I sent Stefan “a link to David Foster Wallace’s introduction to the 2007 edition of Best American Essays. I have enjoyed his magazine pieces, and own two of his books, so I sent the link unread with a promise to … Continue reading
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Teeny Tiny Banners at Brilliant Button Maker
I made a Brilliant Button with Brilliant Button Maker at LucaZappa.com, and now will litter this and my other site with them. An example: This pleases me in odd, but not disturbing, ways.
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Three Interesting Food Links
A Food Timline, which seems to have explanations for when what food was discovered/exploited/domesticated. Ivan Day’s Historic Food, with sections on several types of food throughout the ages, including this interesting and in places digestively dubious page on English puddings.
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“We Face Follicular Armageddon”
Andrew Barnett, writing in a Beards thread in the Textdrive forums, called this his “near-favourite blog post evah: We Face Follicular Armageddon. Just hurry up and go read it, but don’t drink anything while you do.
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B Kliban Picture Gallery
Thanks to Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden for the link, a B Kliban Picture Gallery: Cartoons In Order Of Increasing Difficulty. B. Kliban’s cat cartoons were very popular in the 80s, but his other cartoons were surreal and subversive. Just … Continue reading
Running from Camera
Click to find out why this man is running away. Simple rules, simple pictures.
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Can’t Sleep…
Driving Will home from wrestling practice just a few minutes ago, we came up behind a car with a New York plate, in a frame that’s worth a post:
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Serious Eats: 30 Days of Pork
I wish I’d thought of 30 Days of Pork. Proof that bacon is a starter meat that leads to harder uses of pork. I also wish I’d thought of Serious Eats. I need to take my serious eating to a … Continue reading
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Dr. Roy Johnson here from Pretoria
He’s an old friend from the College of Business, and he wanted to see what blogging is about. Hi, Roy!
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Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time
This is an old link I should have posted ages ago, from the UK’s Observer Monthy Music (“OMM”): Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time: ‘It’s perfect madness’ In the first of an occasional series in which the … Continue reading