Archive for December, 2000

12.29.00

I’ve become so accustomed to sardonic blog titles that I cheerfully clicked on Not So Manic Now expecting some witty little coed and a few snippets of his favorite Eminem lyrics. After reading a few posts, including one mention of a suicide attempt, I realized it was a “support blog” of sorts for people with […]

12.28.00

A friend and I were driving through the city when I spotted a spray-painted wall. GAP IS KILLING REDWOODS!
Me: Gap is killing redwoods? I suspect Gap is doing worse things to humanity than that.
Him: Yeah. Like popularizing the color orange.
4:31 p.m.

Thomas Lynch is a poet and an undertaker. I’m reading his prose autobiography […]

12.27.00

I’ve never asked my roommate about his living room bookshelf. It’s pretty small, so there aren’t too many books on it, but what’s there is pretty interesting. (As my friend Sam would say, “Interesting defined as something I wouldn’t necessarily want to put in my mouth.”)

Sex for One: The joy of self loving
Hitler’s Willing Executioners
A […]

12.22.00

CalFed ad on BART:
“YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE BANKS.”
Why do I suddenly feel like I should be wearing a shiny gold leotard and a cape?
11:01 a.m.

A quality rant from that other girl:
“I know this is going to sound really un-PC, but damn
[…]

12.21.00

This magazine ad for Christina Aguilera’s new album reads like a blurb for a porn video:
“Like her other hits from RCA’s Christina Aguilera, “Come On Over (All I Want is You)” finds the perky popster piping her tales of teen appetite.”
2:46 p.m.

11:29 a.m.

A woman and man walking up the subway stairs behind me:
She: …all relationships […]

12.20.00

Ack! I love the “12 Galaxies United in Protest” guy! For those of you who didn’t know who I was talking about awhile back, here’s a site devoted to him that Mr. Kottke tracked down.
4:19 p.m.

Found this fantastic email on a bowling newsgroup. It was a search engine thing, don’t ask:
Kathleen,
[…]

12.19.00

Stuff that creeps me out (second in a series):

This post from wrong answer: Walking back to the office from lunch this past week, I stepped on a hypodermic needle. Well, I stepped on the rig, not the needle part - thank god. It is things like this that make me think it might be […]

12.18.00

EMAIL MOMENT!
Scenario:
A friend who wants to start crashing more dot-com parties.
Excerpt:
Dot-com parties rule! Ok, so I’ve
only been to one, but it ruled! Ok, it was the most
homogenous party I’ve ever been to but it was oddly
comforting! And they played Pump Up the Jam!
1:55 p.m.

You always know something cool has died when […]

12.15.00

Most of you have probably seen this, I’ve gotten about five copies, but the photo is so worthwhile that you have to follow the link. Someone found a fried chicken head in their McNuggets.
12:18 p.m.

12.14.00

Kim Addonizio’s letter-perfect description of love:
“It’s the timbre of someone’s voice, the shape of their hands, the way they open a grapefruit or turn toward something that captures their attention. It’s the scar and the history of the scar, the pattern of small moles scattered on the forearm or belly, the words said or not […]