- Fireland (“You want a mint?” “I’m good.” “I said do you…)
“Your breath smells like the — and I do not use this word lightly — but it smells like the Holocaust.”
“Well, I’m on this cabbage diet until I can feel comfortable riding a bus with my shirt off.”
Sometimes I wish there were a button I could use to “favorite” Josh Allen’s entire life.
- More of the Best | MetaFilter The Best of American Crime Reporting, online, 2007–2009.
Please enjoy: links for 08/20/10
Please enjoy: links for 08/06/10
- extracts of local distance “Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.”
- How facts backfire — The Boston Globe
“The last five decades of political science have definitively established that most modern-day Americans lack even a basic understanding of how their country works.”
Is all this new research into cognitive biases and the myth of free will just laying the groundwork for some future
Captain Smash Adventures #101
So I’m sitting on the floor amidst all these half-unpacked boxes in my shitty motel room by the highway, the stripper I’ve been “running into” on a pretty regular basis idly picking a scab in my hand-me-down armchair.
We’re waiting for my recently-ex-wife to drop off the kid so I can feel shitty about myself for a weekend as he smirks and mutters his way through whatever activities I can come up with that don’t involve him staring at the computer while I get slowly drunk in… Read more »
Google Adwords intervention for ON-LOOKING program at or-bits.com
I have continued my Google Adwords experiments for the latest program at or-bits.com. It starts by hijacking Marialaura Ghidini’s curatorial statement with inappropriate ad links, and ends with poetry experiments on Google.com. Over the course of the program I will attempt to create a self-sustaining economy in which advertising on the site pays for advertising to the site. Please do not click the links on Google.com or this will surely fail.
IN OTHER WORDS:
or-bits.com presents
ON-LOOKING, its third online programme.
Featuring works by:
ALEXANDRA… Read more »
Please enjoy: links for 06/16/10
- or-bits.com > ON-LOOKING > ANDREW VENELL
- Annals of Americus | Notes from the Desk of Matthew Newton Go for the links, stay for the slow unspooling of the myth of the American Dream.
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
“contact high-five: n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job… a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.”
Pretty great.
Strobe warning: even if you don’t have epilepsy, this will probably at least give you a migraine.
