SM: oh man, mom let me have her old joy of cooking from the 60s
which my dad rebound in his bookbinding days
it is awesome
me: oh, no way
is everything 30% butter?
SM: it has recipes for, like, possum
and how to skin a squirrel

SM: okay, i'm looking at the joy of cooking right now, and there is a chapter called "stuffings, dressings, farces or ( Read more... )

So I decided, kind of out of the blue, that "Susie the Bear" would be a great band name. From there, I leaped to this excellent plan: generate band names by looking up your favorite books on Amazon and checking out their "statistically improbable phrases." I really think Exit Clov may have gotten to this idea before me, but it's a good idea ( Read more... )

It now acts partly as a time capsule of my musical tastes... no way I would put hip-hop under not valid/not proficient now. I also find it funny that one of the entries in valid/proficient is "Good." (That'd be the Morphine album, not the adjective.)

( Tunder & Jess' Music Classification System )

One of the magazines I have to look through for work is an independent publishing magazine. The last one had, I shit you not, a nine-page ad for a vanity press called 1st Books. Nine pages of awful cover scans and even awfuller short synopses written by the authors. I think there's definitely a found poem in there somewhere. I collected some ( Read more... )