July 2008
20 posts
“A muffin has a fish center. A cupcake has icing on top, and has a center of pork...”
– You ask, we lie : We Are Scientists
In an interview in Metro, WAS claims that the advice column is written by Jonathan Safran Foer. Or was that a joke?
“I understand what Yao said, but I’m still ghetto. That’s not going...”
– Ron Artest fumes at Yao’s remark - sacbee.com
What a way to start a new relationship. Go Rockets
“That’s what being a grower in Humboldt County is like. You do jigsaw...”
– Says Emily, a marijuana sharecropper, in the (fascinating) New Yorker article, Dr. Kush.
“Because we are in such a system, we are always asking ourselves whether we are...”
– Tang Jie, a twenty-eight-year-old graduate student studying western philosphy in Shanghai, on Chinese goverment’s media censorship. From the article Angry Youth in The New Yorker.
DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist at McCarren Park Pool... →
DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) is performing tonight with Cut Chemist. I hear there’s going to be 8 turntables. I can’t make it, but I’ll start my day with a solute to the man with a full listening of Endtroducing, which, after more than 10 years of listening, still gives me goosebumps.
“flatbush ave=yet another bklyn street named by random compound word generator.”
– John Hodgman
3 tags
“Before these guys go, I want them to know that I had heard a rumor that they had...”
– Senator Barack Obama to Jeff Tweedy and two other members of Wilco, after their performance at a campaign stop. (via streamrunningover)
Barack owns an iPod?
“It’s a nice bonus for colleges to have a couple of extra bucks to use for...”
– As Textbooks Go ‘Custom,’ Students Pay - WSJ.com
Brian Napack, president of Macmillan, on the topic of kicking pack royalties to universities who sell (expensive) custom textbooks to their students, who are already struggling with the outrageous tuition bills.
“The crowded conditions of a salmon farm often promote ill-health among the...”
– Salmon Farming - Farm-Raised Salmon Problems
A doctor friend politley turned down an order of farm-raised salmon. I wondered why, now I know.
“Watson had been a brilliant engineer, geologist, actor, and writer, whose...”
– Susan Cheever, great-granddaughter of Thomas Watson and daughter of John Cheever, in her letter to The New Yorker
Josh Brolin the New Terminator (?) →
That’s just weird. And the new John Connor: Christian Bale.
tuneage.muxtape.com →