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Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit? While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit?

While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

A batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher 

The Moth Radio Hour 1

One of the greatest stories ever told.

Fiction.

Fiction.

“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.” Maira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic. Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com

“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.”

Maira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic.

Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com

Signs Of The Times 

Queens, NY-based designer Cardon Webb roamed around his neighborhood finding ugly handmade signs. Instead of just tossing them out to protect our type sensibilities, he redesigned them into fabulous eye-catching posters.

I think I need this dude to make awesome fliers for the assorted electronics I am trying to sell on Craigslist. I simply don’t have the free time these days to make another parody rap video with my microwave singing “this is why i’m hot”.

Adidas collabo with FreeDarko!

After Dwight Howard broke the shot clock last night (an obvious metaphor highlighting his ability to mess with the spacetime continuum and tip the Planck scale) you owe it to yourself to watch this (and the Derrick Rose one too).

durham, north carolina guide 

I need to get back to Durham soon. This will serve as a reminder.

It is my hope that Durham continues in its trend of growing density and urban revitalization while maintaining its appealing grittiness, its tough-kid nature, its supportive vibe.
I snapped this Polaroid circa 2005. The guy was singing a song about Star Trek to entice people to bid on the painting of Uhura. He wanted $100. A totally logical business strategy. Having just seen the new Star Trek film, I wish I would’ve bought that painting. Is it possible I am related to Captain Christopher Pike? Probably not, considering he is a fictional character from the future. But, what if I named a son Christopher? Nah, that’s just what J.J. Abrams would expect me to do. I’m not your deus ex machina, J.J.

I snapped this Polaroid circa 2005. The guy was singing a song about Star Trek to entice people to bid on the painting of Uhura. He wanted $100. A totally logical business strategy.

Having just seen the new Star Trek film, I wish I would’ve bought that painting.

Is it possible I am related to Captain Christopher Pike? Probably not, considering he is a fictional character from the future. But, what if I named a son Christopher? Nah, that’s just what J.J. Abrams would expect me to do. I’m not your deus ex machina, J.J.

New York’s Finest Norman Rockwell would’ve had a field day with this sequence of events from tonight’s Yankees game: Cop catches homerun ball. Cop hands ball to young boy. Boy taps cop on shoulder to get his attention and shakes his hand in thanks. Cop sits down, knowing he did a very cool thing. This quadtych is an exaggerated amalgamation of every foul ball story from my youth. One time, a guy in the section below me caught a ball and threw it my way. I went over to him and shook his hand and everybody in the Tidewater Tides AAA stadium clapped. I was embarrassed, but it was awesome. Another time, we were entering the stadium late and a foul ball hit a car in the parking lot. A cop grabbed it and gave it to me. Turns out the ball was hit by Gary Carter, on minor league rehab assignment. A few innings later, I convinced the cop to enter the locker room and get the ball signed for me.

New York’s Finest

Norman Rockwell would’ve had a field day with this sequence of events from tonight’s Yankees game: Cop catches homerun ball. Cop hands ball to young boy. Boy taps cop on shoulder to get his attention and shakes his hand in thanks. Cop sits down, knowing he did a very cool thing.

This quadtych is an exaggerated amalgamation of every foul ball story from my youth. One time, a guy in the section below me caught a ball and threw it my way. I went over to him and shook his hand and everybody in the Tidewater Tides AAA stadium clapped. I was embarrassed, but it was awesome. Another time, we were entering the stadium late and a foul ball hit a car in the parking lot. A cop grabbed it and gave it to me. Turns out the ball was hit by Gary Carter, on minor league rehab assignment. A few innings later, I convinced the cop to enter the locker room and get the ball signed for me.

Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas: NYTimes.com In discussing his often fantastical, sometimes silly, sometimes visionary concepts, he has said, “If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous … [It may be that] I have decided an idea has no practical worth and would never be likely to be adopted seriously (like most of my ideas), but I like it anyway.” I like it too. Want to team up to build a car with a built-in water fountain (using filtered rainwater, obviously)?

Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas: NYTimes.com

In discussing his often fantastical, sometimes silly, sometimes visionary concepts, he has said, “If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous … [It may be that] I have decided an idea has no practical worth and would never be likely to be adopted seriously (like most of my ideas), but I like it anyway.”

I like it too. Want to team up to build a car with a built-in water fountain (using filtered rainwater, obviously)?

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