from tamnonlinear, who writes the good kind of stories:

Seven Things That Never Happened to Tam Lin.

a small thing, for now: Halloween thoughts and some bits of lovely ghost stories, from Neil Gaiman, in the New York Times today.

a few links, first.
from nacht_musik, who knows how to make me smile:
Kermit the Frog and Sandra Bullock, with another Mahna song...Phenomena! (even better, the phrase "Ik zie allemaal rare beestjes...")

from Zoz:
a series of video clips on/by Tats Cru, with some good footage of the creation of their Big Jimmy memorial mural, and other bits from their time ( Read more... )

i spent the latter half of the day thinking that today was Friday, rather than Thursday, and now it's nearly two in the morning and time to sleep soon, especially if i'm back to needing so much more sleep than normal. more science tomorrow, and maybe my data and my chip will behave properly ( Read more... )

a pair of links, from the Haus list & tamnonlinear, respectively:

geeky music visual fun
and
ridiculous equine cuteness (aka OMG PONIES!!)

and lyrics to the song i was just listening to.
"Galuppi Baldasare" (Kris Delmhorst ( Read more... )

you should go look at this:
a picture, posted originally to urban_decay, of a building on West Franklin St, in Baltimore.

from asarwate, via ergodicity: from Sepia Mutiny, a video clip of a song in the 1981 Tamil film Ellaam Inbamayam, in which there is, indeed, some of the funk. complete with gold-fringed vest and shiny shiny boots.

from hammercock, perhaps an even more odd-expression-producing video: Yatta!

from tparnell: OMG PONIES!!! on Slashdot.

from officialgaiman: the trailer for Terry Gilliam' ( Read more... )

i made it to work yesterday for all of two hours, had dinner with pumapreysize, and slept for most of the rest of the day. i've now been sick for a month, with two breaks in the plague for the two courses of antibiotics. the sore throat and coughing is (*knock on wood*) mostly gone, my head is only a little stuffy, but the one symptom that's kept up the whole ( Read more... )

from asarwate, a George Saunders column in the New Yorker. he's the fellow who wrote CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, along with several other very strange and sometimes disturbing books. about halfway through the column, he takes a moment to bitch about music-these-days, and quotes some lyrics...and i laughed out loud, because i swear i heard exactly that ( Read more... )

from vrfranco: the trailer for Brokeback to the Future. "It was an experiment in time...but the one variable they forgot was love." hee!

politics, from rjmwell: more notes on wiretapping, along with the transcript of Gen. Michael Hayden's address to the National Press Clubfrom the Majikthise blog: "At a public appearance, Bush's pointman in the Office of ( Read more... )