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Martha Stewart's pictures from P-Diddy's birthday bash...

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Martha Stewart's pictures from P-Diddy's birthday bash...:

I’m not joking when I say this shit is HI-LAR-IOUS. Be sure to read her picture comments, as that is the best part. My favourite? “Holla at me!” Oh, Martha.

my favorite: “I was happy to meet rapper Nelly.”

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Cory: Listen, how do you expect me to see good in anything when I feel so bad in here? This is just a painting.
Topanga: This is a masterpiece.
Cory: No. We’re a masterpiece.
Boy Meets World 5.20 - “Starry Night”

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thenotes: Sorry: the state of reading is quite simply never as...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:02:05 -0500

thenotes:

Sorry: the state of reading is quite simply never as bad as people make it out to be. If it were, would there be the constant deafening roar of a million hysterical readers telling us we aren’t reading as much as we used to?

And just what sort of reading do we mean here, or wherever we’re stirring up a literary moral panic? Plenty of people who never pick up a newspaper or sprawling nonfiction book are reading acutely written political and cultural commentary online every day. If, as I suspect, fiction is what we talk about when we talk about the death of reading, then the worry is even more unfounded: don’t ever start giving a shit about how other people choose to entertain themselves. I’m not about to argue that Twilight isn’t intellectually bankrupt, but we may want to remember that back in Cervantes’ day, all contemporary fiction was considered escapist, hollow and ultimately dangerous trash by those who weren’t on the bandwagon. Don Quixote himself is an association of absurd fantasies and the feeble-mindedness that allows them to prosper.

Except, of course, the vividness of our errant knight’s hallucinations belie an intensely focused cognitive power that undercuts the notion of reader as unwitting prey. What self-righteous readers hate most about the latest Bad Popular Book, be it by Dan Brown or Danielle Steel, is the level of engagement its fans have with the material, their ability to fully enter a world. I think we long to experience the undeniable rapture and ecstasy of purpose evidenced by midnight book releases and awkward attempts and fan fiction. We talk about such things as though they are somehow beneath us, because we know we will never feel about Joyce and O’Connor and other Important Literature the way these devotees feel about their idols. We relish distance and resist real intimacy or fixation at all costs. And though critical detachment may allow us to mitigate some bias only important in matters of cold evaluation, it keeps us from truly losing ourselves in that rare place which is half the author’s making and half our own.

Tom Waits Interview.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:49 -0500

aar0n:

This is a great interview. Here are a few of my favourite bits :

Q: What’s heaven for you?

A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.

Q: What’s wrong with the world?

A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?

A: A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try. Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo? It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was elated. Moral solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.

Q: Do you have words to live by?

A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.

Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000…what is the origin of the word bedlam?

A: It’s a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem outside London. The hospital began admitting mental patients in the late fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it became a lunatic asylum. The word bedlam came to be used for any madhouse- and by extension, for any scene of noisy confusion.
Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

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adayum: I am not fucking with you. I really do have a hole dent...

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adayum:

I am not fucking with you. I really do have a ~~hole~~ dent in my chest.

i have one, too. people have asked to eat cereal out of it.

my mom sasses me via text

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:55:00 -0500

mom: are you a twi-hard? ha ha!
me: hahaha, no, where did you hear that phrase?
mom: i made it up!
me: you did not
mom: they just said it on leno!
me: why are you watching leno?
mom: i don't know! he has dakota fanning on. she's charming
me: she's cute. she was homecoming queen at her hs!
mom: i know, they showed the picture. what else you got?

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tiny bat earrings from giles & brother.

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tiny bat earrings from giles & brother.