August 2010
56 posts
I fall sleep to the dirges of the barges and the rolling rattle of trains. Pittsburgh is beautiful at night, even when you can’t see it.
“It’s been a long time
Still shaking my wings.
Well, I’m a glad...”
– Jethro Tull - “To Cry You a Song”
“You know how women have a base of makeup? I have a base of depression. ...”
– Rob Reiner
“Don’t call me at work again
No, no, the boss still hates me
I’m just tired and...”
– They Might Be Giants - “They’ll Need a Crane” (via @hotdogsladies)
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kristinross asked: You should correct errors I make when I'm typing questions too fast. This isn't a question. It's in the book of rules.
kristinross asked: How long with you still be my friend if I continue with this JGL nonsense? Am I allowed to talk about it on the podcast?
MegaMiscellanea — Wrath, etc. →
Now that I’ve managed to get 2 years worth of blog posts out of the MySpace ghetto, I can finally delete my MySpace page. Now that I’ve imported them into my Wordpress blog over at jamesforeman.com, I can finally move ON.
Speaking of moving on, the linked post is the first one I wrote after my marriage went up in smoke. I hesitate to even call it a marriage because it lasted such...
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“And so thought I
I can go
Where they won’t”
– Festival - “Bind Us All”
“What I say about libertarians verses liberals is I will gladly help you build a...”
– Penn Jillette
“I’m more afraid of being annoyed than I am of natural disasters.”
– Reverend Jennifer (revjen.com)
Nicholson Baker's books for Kindle [amazon.com] →
Although Mr. Baker doesn’t particularly like the Kindle itself, he does read ebooks (on his iPhone). I’m happy to see the recent additions of a few more of his books to the Kindle store - including a bunch I haven’t read.
I recommend starting with Checkpoint, a very short and very funny dialogue between two characters who really don’t like then-President George W. Bush...
“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when...”
– excerpt from a letter by a former slave to his former owner (via BoingBoing)
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How Inception could probably have been better
There are SPOILERS below, and helpful bullet points:
- there is apparently a whole industry around dream infiltration, but there isn’t a lot in the movie apart from the main characters’ direct interactions with it. For instance, we don’t see what effects this might have on society. One would think those changes would be significant. It also appears to be underground to a...
“I’ll be your bad boy,
I’ll be your bad boy”
– Queen - “March of the Black Queen”
Anonymous asked: Yea, I recognize that that is a pretty big maybe.
Anonymous asked: I was importing contacts to the Facebook Friend Finder and you were one of the people it suggested I contact. You honestly hadn't crossed my mind in at least a year, and that realization made me a little sad. So, how often do you think about the people who are no longer in your life?
“But they are just people
And I’m not afraid”
– Talking Heads - “Making Flippy Floppy”
My friend and all around amazing person Lindsay...
