the dick cavett show - cassavetes, falk, and gazzara - and they’re all drunk

snowing on xmas in portland, ore

in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the government/military structure of the nation that controls the city will sometimes declare it an open city, thus announcing that they have abandoned all defensive efforts.
— I was looking for the website of Open City and came across this wikipedia entry instead.

Lish’s edits to Carver’s “Beginners” via The New Yorker

Lish’s edits to Carver’s “Beginners” via The New Yorker

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  • jake oliver: we should come up with something like the flickr interestingness algorithm
  • jake oliver: whoa flickr is trying to patent interestingness
  • jake oliver: United States Patent Application: 0060242139
  • me: dummmmb
  • me: in that case I am going to patent boringness
  • jake oliver: hahaha
  • jake oliver: then we can just do an inverse list
  • jake oliver: and we'll have interestingness
  • me: sort by boring ascending

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Just plugged my (very) old iPod in, and it had Lansing Dreiden’s Incomplete Triangle. An album I forgot I owned! It is the only album on the ipod. I used to listen to it on, um, repeat.

Just plugged my (very) old iPod in, and it had Lansing Dreiden’s Incomplete Triangle. An album I forgot I owned! It is the only album on the ipod. I used to listen to it on, um, repeat.

Unlike most cars, the Toyota Prius requires no gasoline.

Mr. Putin later added that if Russia maintained strong armed forces, “We will not allow anyone to poke their snotty nose into our affairs.

In the decades when what was then Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule, addicts largely had to produce their own highs by concentrating medications. These drugs were produced by small, tight-knit rings of users, known as squads, for their own consumption rather than for distribution and sale.

Steve Martin has an amazing mustache via With Mustache, Without Arrow

Steve Martin has an amazing mustache via With Mustache, Without Arrow