March 2010
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“Ever notice ‘RIP Xyz’ actually means ‘OMG guys you know...”
– Remiel, who makes my id look positively restrained.
“I attended a writers conference a few years back and they gave us bottles of...”
– The Honeybees Writers Group: BUM GLUE
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Everybody needs a hobby.
Y’know how some people unwind by knitting or crocheting or cooking or ritually killing domestic animals?
Me? I update my FAQs.
And, occasionally, kill a cat.
Q: What’s your email autoresponse message look like?
A: Right now, it looks like this
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WatchFirst Opening Crawl
Mm. I can already tell. The Force is strong with this one.
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Block you.
Looks like Google Voice recently introduced the second-best thing ever: ability to block a given “UNKNOWN” caller, even though, by definition, you don’t know their identity or number. Marry me.
Frankly, I don’t care whether this works by wires, slave labor, or fucking elfin magic, it’s gold, and it’s awesome, and I can finally stop dealing with mystery meat voicemails for...
somesongsconsidered:
“Hopeless” – The Wrens...
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Antelope Valley High School, 1958.
Lancaster, California’s “Home of the Lopes.”
Wow.
“Early life and musical influences, 1941-1962”:
While attending Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding through their interest in Chicago blues and R&B. Van Vliet is portrayed in both The Real Frank Zappa Book and...
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WatchHalf-Porter
From the vaults (Jan, 2009).
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WatchYo Gabba Gabba: of Montreal - “Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast”
of Montreal share some very useful advice on a terrific home remedy I first learned about during three excruciating weeks back in college: the BRAT diet.
At last, someone’s written a catchy psych-pop song about the best friend to anyone who’s suffering what used to be euphemized as the trots.
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“Do I have your loyalty?”
Last night, I was reading some of the angry Amazon reviews of the “Coppola Restoration” of The Godfather trilogy. Hi-larious.
Essentially, there’s a lot of bleating and whining and high nerd drama over how the restored versions of I and II don’t look—what?—”Blu-ray” enough, I guess.
Too dark, too overexposed, too red, too yellow, and waaaaaaaaaay too grainy,...
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“However so slight”
» pavement live at mississippi nights, 10.14.99
here be an awesome soundboard of pavement performing at st. louis’ famed mississippi nights back 10.14.99.
Pretty sure I linked to this before, but who cares. Those link to a big ole pile of MP3s from Pavement’s third-to-last show and they’re very much worth a grab and multiple listens.
Top-notch sound captures the band...
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Way Wrong Zero
Since Sitepoint’s being poky about posting my comment on this ill-conceived corn bolus on the “myth” of Inbox Zero, I’m pasting my response here.
For posterity and whatnot.
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It’s a funny thing, Alyssa. Even though I’m the guy who wrote the Inbox Zero articles, and although I’ve now spent almost a year re-reading, editing, and expanding those articles...
“To say that Alex Chilton is the reason I’m in a band is to understate his...”
– wtfk
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“December boys got it bad”
Big Star - “September Gurls” (1974)
In 1987, “September Gurls” was the song that made me start a band. Just so I could know what it felt like to play that perfect pop song.
Although I sucked at guitar, was a tuneless and sharp singer, and, in retrospect, horribly mangled multiple lines of the lyrics, it still felt transcendent to play that song. Those verses...
A Conversation with Paul Ford, the Now-Former Web Editor of Harper’s Magazine - The Awl
Choire: What is your favorite Alex Chilton video, song or tale?
Paul: My favorite tale is from Our Band Could Be Your Life, when he shut down Gibby Haynes’s rampage through the Netherlands:
Moments later a man entered the dressing room and asked if he could borrow a guitar....
Watchyourmonkeycalled:
The best thing ever made by people?
Definitely beats the pyramids.
merlinmann's google-docs-css at master - GitHub →
“A surpassingly hasty Google Docs style sheet by Merlin Mann.”
Per today’s (soon-to-be-posted) MacBreak.
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