January 2012
15 posts
2 tags
people to shoot in the face
microaggressions:
My band and I go backstage before the show, to set up and sound check. The bouncer asks me to leave, saying “girlfriends aren’t allowed backstage.” When I tell him I’m a musician, he makes me go get my instrument and play it, to prove that I’m actually in the band. This (or some variant) happens to me at almost every new venue we play.
December 2011
34 posts
Watchdavidtoc:
Someone still isn’t doing their job.
As I was biking around the cars parked in the bike lane last night, I saw a cop leaning against the Wawa and shouted “Yo, are these violators gonna be ticketed?”
He laughed and shouted back “not my department.”
GRACE AMBROSE: Art v. Science or Why I Do What I... →
g-m-a:
Some friends met me at the Courtauld Gallery for the afternoon. I had the kind of hangover that makes you say “I am never letting that poison we call alcohol cross my lips ever again,” it was bitter cold, I was tired, we were all hungry. I talked to them about a lot of art — I stood in front of Cezannes and waxed poetic about single red brushstrokes and his understanding of optics and...
Watchdavidtoc:
The sign is a lie.
Watchdavidtoc:
38 & Spruce. It’s about time.
Coming soon: license plate pics of cars that were parked in front of Wawa this morning in the bike lane I use to get to work.
“MANY OF US like to believe that all adults possess the same capacity to make...”
“Putin is very good. Putin loves you. Putin makes your life happy. Love Putin and...”
– Russian Robocall
If you meet a guy named Bob around Clark Park who’s about 60, grey, mustache, smallish, a Vietnam vet, and wears his veteran ID around his neck in a holder with pyramid studs on it, do right by him. You don’t have to give him money if you don’t have it, but talk to him. He’s a good guy.
copyright police and sue for infringement
So why invent police? What are they for? In “The Institutional Revolution,” the economic historian Douglas W. Allen theorizes that their purpose was to preserve manufactured goods from theft. Before the nineteenth century, Allen writes, theft was easy to detect. If your transport was a horse, you could recognize it. (For that matter, it could recognize you.) Not only was your coat hand sewn, but a...
“Now I don my electric axe
I’m gunna lay you on your back
All psyched and...”
– Pentagram
A nervous energy starts to itch my entire system and a thick familiar taste begins to coat my tongue. I need a cigarette.
[Yes. I know. The previous occupant of this morph was a heavy smoker. The habit might be difficult to shake this time.]
This resleeve just keeps getting better by the minute. I hate smoking. Booze, fine. I can handle my alcohol, but smoking always makes me feel like shit. Every...
November 2011
39 posts
thewordunheard:
kkludgy:
I saw Iron Man for the first time last night, and I could not get over the gaping scientific inaccuracies. Half of the stuff in that movie did not even make sense. I mean, I get that it’s based on a comic, whatever.
They got a few MIT references wrong, but the guy’s brass rat did pretty much look correct. so, points for that.
I couldn’t get over them either, but...