September 2008
38 posts
What to drink: an age old problem
After living in Chelsea for over two years, I find myself having to fight off the constant urge to order a frozen margarita. I accidentally order them at dive bars. Sometimes I ask a clerk at the grocery where they keep the frozen margaritas. Since I can’t drink the frozen margarita outside of a mexican restaurant and maintain any shred of dignity, I have become a big fan of the old...
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In very urgent news, I am wearing white pants...
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Killa Queens (museum of art)
Took a little road-trip on Saturday to the Queens Museum of Art, home of the “Panorama,” which they purport to be the largest scale model in the world. After seeing that shit, I believe it. It’s basically a huge room depicting the five boroughs of New York in 1/1200 scale (1 inch = 100 feet). It’s totally hokey in a Disney-esque kinda way, especially when the...
“for a guy who’s so awesome, it sure is hard to find stuff about him on the...”
– Demling, on Houshang
Siege Perilous
In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous is a seat forever reserved at the round table for the knight who sucessfully recovers the holy grail. Naturally, if you sit there without recovering the grail, you will suffer from an immediate and painful demise.
Depending on who you ask, it’s for either Galahad or Macgyver. Harrison Ford is out of luck.
This band, along with their dubious choice of...
Sweatpants and Straight quotes
Typography is always important because presentation is always important. For example: before a court appearance, do you do any of the following things?
Take a shower
Shave
Brush your teeth
Brush your hair
Put on a clean shirt
Polish your shoes
If you’re like most lawyers, you do all of those things. But why? There aren’t any rules of court that say you have to be clean and well-groomed....
Utter Filth: TX vs. UK
In the past two days I have seen two separate articles detailing disgusting rental units. One of these was in Houston. The other was someplace in Britain. There’s only three pictures of the one in Britain, but judging by the fact that the limey has a sink that could be considered usable, it appears Texas has once again gone bigger. Hook ‘em.
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Electoral Collage
Emporer Norton
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Elysium
Elysian Fields
Enlightened Despot
I heard a guy yell this on his cellphone today:
“That wasn’t no nigga! That was a bitch. A bitch done up as a nigga. That bitch had a fade and timbos and everything…”
That dude was cool.
On embellishment
b: I saw one of these climbing the fence at sidebar last night b: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodontidae a: Yeah? Well, I saw one of these in courtyard at emos a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade a: I also saw one IN FUCKING SPACE! b: They’re very xtreme a: PS… there’s no way that fucking glyptodont had a big spiked tail a: I don’t buy it b: Artist...
“Sing a song about drugs!”
– Heckler heard on the Spiritualized live recording from 7.25.08, 9:30 Club, Washington D.C
Trainspotting from your couch
Trainspotting, in and of itself, is uber lame. But Trainspotting the videogame: awesome.
“I just found my spirit animal near a mud hut on the border of Kenya and...”
– Moody, sent via smoke signal while having a tusker with my spirit animal.
Watchno thank you.
crushcrash
William George Crush, on September 15, 1896 destroyed two locomotives just outside of West, Texas (currently the site of the Czech Stop). It was a free event, and his company offerered $2 rail fares from anywhere in Texas. Forty-thousand people showed up, along with medicine shows, carnival games, lemonade booths, caterers, two telegraph offices and a well-drilling team. Four miles of track was...
a: "A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type here.” and he called the Serif."
b: o lord
a: hilarious typographic humor from Typographunnies. much much more at http://type.salsen.com/
a: "A sans-serif face walks into the street and is hit by a Swiss Modernist truck. The carnage is grotesk... but you know, akzidenz happen."
b: the fact that i actually get that joke is really, really sad
Also...
I just looked at the Bruce Dickenson picture again and cracked up. That dude fucking wins. Period.
Jan Tschichold:
The Van de Graaf canon is a historical reconstruction of a method that may have been used in book design to divide a page in pleasing proportions.This canon is also known as the “secret canon” used in many medieval manuscripts and incunabula.
The geometrical solution of the construction of van de Graaf’s canon, which works for any page width:height ratio,...
