"Ah, so he's a humorist, the author of this Austin Power." -My dad, after I told him about the "one million dollars" gag.

So, I figured, I typed this up anyway, might as well post it here. From the issue of McSweeney's I bought because it came with a They Might Be Giants soundtrack. I don't know if there's significance to the varying capitalization of 's'mores', but in any case it is sic.

( The Life of Doug )

I figured it out myself, in the end: It was Neal Stephenson's The Big U. That's where I know "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" from.

Although I guess that's not strictly true, since the version in The Big U goes like this:

Tenuring and tenuring in the ivory tower ( Read more... )

Okay, so, based on everyone's knowledge of me, where could I know the quote "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" from, besides the original poem? Wherever it is, this place I'm thinking of, it was probably said as a joke there. It can be anything: Video game, movie, TV show, book... I'm ruling out music because I searched for songs that ( Read more... )

I love this photo so much:


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If I had the ability or the patience to make music videos, they would look like this. In terms of the cutting matching the rhythm of the music precisely.

Once upon a time, when I was still minoring in linguistics, I tried to find a copy of W.E. Crum's Coptic Dictionary to download.

Here's what I got when I tried searching for it on my BitTorrent search engine of choice. Herbie, once again, don't look.

( Crum! )

A meme! I haven't done these in a while.

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.


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John Hodgman had a great post about David Foster Wallace that really made me want to read an article he wrote. It doesn't seem to exist in downloadable, ebook form like the rest of his stuff, but I found it here: http://scilib.univ.kiev.ua/doc.php?6847233

For years the kids' channel here would stop showing sitcom reruns at ten PM, at which point it would start showing movies for adults, usually not very recent ones. This was called Second Showing, which sounds better in Hebrew, and had a neat little Film Noir-style animation depicting detectives, dames, murder, celluloid and clapboards to let people ( Read more... )