Link Escapism
| July 28th, 2007Rather than post about being melancholy, about wondering if I will ever be able to give up worrying about the possibility of my life being meaningful on any substantial level, about the fact that, freshly-bathed, I resemble a big, pink, fruit-salad-stuffed sea mammal, slightly moist and rolled in dog-hair, I will digress through link blogging:
- Merlin’s 5ives Page always deserves a regular visit. Currently, my faves are Five things you might do with all that ass, Five terrible fake reality tv shows, Five things, besides “your ride,” that you might wish to “pimp” and Five nouns from which it can be difficult to scrub the scent of utter bullshit. Especially meaningful to me in particular were: “poet” listed under Five titles you shouldn’t be allowed to give yourself and a new hip-hop name for myself, should I ever need one - MC Chalk (because I’m brittle and very white).
- What would happen if Charles Bukowski had written Peanuts? Well, thanks to talented people and the internet, now you can find out. I laughed at this as hard as D laughed at this.
- Today I learned, while perusing morbid WWI pics, about a cartoonist namedAlbert Hahn. He drew many cartoons - around 4000 in his short life - but I felt a connection to this one (Originally captioned After four years of war - militarism speaks: “Have trust in me. I do not work fast, but the peace I will bring eventually will be very complete.”):
- I have played with longer exposures at night, wanging my camera about to make light trails, but this Sprint commercial takes that type of creativity to a whole new level. Here is the creator’s website, where there are lots more videos.
- China had it righter, sooner. I will add this map to my list of reasons that superiority should not be assigned to a group simply because they broadcast best or loudest.
- Speaking of maps, when I was little, my brother, Laxity, and I would draw maps - quite elaborate pieces of artwork fully filled in with geographical and urban landmarks, a key and other information. This world-building suited me, as I have always liked the creation better than the use. I love building D&D characters, but the play is less gratifying. I used to join MUDs and MOOs and ingratiate myself to the admins so that I would be allowed to build things. Heck, as some of you know, I can get more caught up in the creating or re/designing of this page rather than posting on it. All of that aside, however, what I am currently curious about is this: most if not all of the maps I created as a kid were of islands. What does this say about me? If I were to draw a map now, I believe I would also draw an island more often than not. Perhaps an island within a raft’s life away from another island, but an island nonetheless…
- Donna (without whom I would be far less informed on many subjects) has pointed out this piece by Richard Baynton that well explains why I am so picky about where I shop. Or, I at least seem picky to some. I should be far, far pickier.
- Cheap-ass summbitch that I am, I will probably make (rather than buy) one of these and one of these. Sad for the Signals people that I came upon these two things after just reading my recent ReadyMade.
There. Wasn’t that better than reading my nighttime neuroticisms?
