May 2009
“To act fairly would be to follow the rules. To act capriciously is to be the...”
– Daring Fireball: Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer
Speaking of beeping:
Leave it to Tony’s inspiring writing to reach into a forgotten corner of my brain and pull out something I’d been meaning to jot down.
You ever go outside in the early morning, as the sun’s coming up, and listen carefully to birdsong? I do it almost every morning. Sometimes I try to join in, whistling back the best match I can manage, wondering if I fooled any of them. The week...
“What you’re talking about is what the illiterate call the ‘back...”
– David Mamet, from On Directing Film.
How not to talk about it.
You know when, at the bathroom sink at work, there’s water pooling up near the counter’s edge? And as you lean against it to wash your hands, your pants soak it up, making it look like you peed into a hidden trough inside your drawers, except that the trough tipped over and spilled? And then you’re blotting, paper towels both inside and outside your pants, trying to remove - or...
“Customers who used to come to us two or three times a week now limit themselves...”
– From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade - TIME
At least the Bad Pun Wishing Well is open for business.
“Michael Hausauer, a psychotherapist in Oakland, Calif., said teenagers had a...”
– Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers - NYTimes.com
The Replacements, “I’ll Be You”
I thought about making some t-shirts one time but...
While you (I) were (was) out:
The lawn got mowed and the hedges trimmed. The order is downright French.
The café lights went up on the back deck. Even Frencher.
Bikes were ridden. Rust flaked off the chain. So to speak.
Two out of three boys played in the Memorial Day baseball tournament.
Jack’s team almost won the tournament, losing the final game in the first little league game that was genuinely exciting to...
The neighbor’s “band practice.”...
To clarify: With the one exception that I've had...
SENT FROM GERDHOUSE.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
Beck (25)
David Byrne (23)
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians (16)
John Denver (14)
Billy Joel (13)
This is what happens when my kids’ music is scrobbled along with my own. I mean please, who listens to Beck??
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I uploaded my Twootenanny photos, but dumb flickr...
That’s dumb. Beyond words. And I’m impatient now. I’ll return to adding those photos to the flickr group when other activities like sleeping, eating, lovemaking, breathing, etc are no longer of greater interest. (Probably tomorrow morning.)
Meanwhile, there are scores of Twootenanny photos you can check out in my flickr stream.
Here’s the whole set:...
Twootenanny 2009 on Flickr →
I started that Flickr group your mom warned you about. There’s nothing in it yet. Please join and add your photos. I know there are some great ones out there, because I watched them being snapped. I can’t wait to see your amazing mugs again.
XOXO//GB
(PS, I’ll put the rest of my pics up tonight. It’s too gorgeous out today to spend any more time at the computer.)
Okay. If @ladawn, @luckyshirt, and @jkresen can...
WHOA WHOA, I WAS JUST KIDDING!
The Squirrel Cage is OPEN, and we are ON. No worries, sorry for the false alarm.
I just wanted an excuse to use “Shazbot!” in a sentence after reading Ben’s post earlier. So I invented something stupid, typed this post, unthinkingly put it in the queue, then walked outside to do some gardening and forgot about it. Seriously, I hope I didn’t freak TOO many people out. I...
SHAZBOT! TURNS OUT THE SQUIRREL CAGE IS CLOSED ON...
I HOPE YOUR NOT MAD.
Julie picks up with part two of the Tumblr...