November 2010
79 posts
Graffiti?
Observed in Halifax:
On the side of American Apparel:
Fashion Rapes. Go Naked
On the site that will hold the controversial convention centre:
Culture Not Convention
“Rule 199: You’re not supposed to like your job.”
– Esquire - The Rules
anxious
dark, uneasy, listless
restless
“Captain America: He was Steve Rogers, but then Steve Rogers died but now Rogers...”
– WikiLeaks to Expose Superhero Identities
“Rule 184: No one finds out you’re a tea drinker until after you’ve...”
– Esquire - The Rules
Just saw my regular bartender on the street when I went out for coffee.
It was weird to see him out in the daylight.
And with me sober.
“Rule 314: Be wary the man who shakes your hand while remaining in his seat.”
– Esquire - The Rules
The Universe in Scale →
“Money can’t change people, it can just help them be who they are.”
– Grandpa Simpson
“The suicide bombers of today are merely spiritual descendants of the Japanese...”
– Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black
“I had heard about him from my brother, who had seen him in Ann Arbour, and the...”
– Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black
“He who hesitates is sometimes saved.”
– James Thurber, Fables for Our Time
sister-hot (noun)
Sure she’s kinda hot, like in a girl next door, friendly enough, might have went to elementary school with her kind of way. But not really enough to qualify her as being actually hot. She’s sister hot. Like a sister.
“Rule 223: The man who wears a bunny suit is a greater man than the one who wears...”
– Esquire - The Rules
The furies of Halifax are never happy until they have their daily allotment of umbrellas and dreams.
“Rule 478: Nobody cares about your dreams.”
– Esquire - The Rules
User: I forget my password, can you reset it?
Me: Sure! What do you want your new password to be?
User: I don't know, I want it to be easy.
Me: Easy?
User: Well, easyish. I want it to be easyish.
Me: How do you spell that?
User: What?
Me: E-A-S-Y-I-S-H, that's now your new password. Easyish.
“The researchers open the paper by citing a New York Times article on dating at...”
– A study confirms every suspicion you ever had about high-school dating - Slate.com
100 Interviews: #31. ISAIAH TAYLOR (OF THE BAHA... →
100interviews:
Isaiah laughs a little, but not enough to convince me he’s not going to finish our call by hanging up on me. “It’s the girls at the party,” he says finally. “It’s when you’re having party and guys show up to the party and they’re hitting on the girls at the party and the girls say, ‘Well, who let the dogs out?’ Do you know what I mean?”
“I often wonder that and I’d probably be flipping burgers because I...”
– Paul Bissonnette - Q&A with the Vancouver Sun
“Rule 241: The calla lily is the best flower.”
– Esquire - The Rules
“Rule 170: The Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever is the most precisely named dog...”
– Esquire - The Rules
Random thought:
What if Facebook was evil?
Like not ‘control the world’ evil, but simply ‘screw you over’ evil.
Imagine this: randomly every couple of months, Facebook pokes a few of your friends (or just random strangers) on your behalf, sends a couple misguided friend requests, uploads a picture of a pig and tags three of your friends and then ‘breaks up’...
Today would be the perfect day to slip away for afternoon latte
