“Just assume that every time you yell over nothing majorly life-threatening you’re actively destroying your relationship. This one always gets me. I don’t know how people who yell and fuss constantly can expect anyone to stick around. It’s total self-sabotage, and only maladjusted people will tolerate it.”
“People called her a train wreck, but that’s too simplistic. A train wrecks and is then cleaned up, something Smith rarely was. She wasn’t a train wreck; she was a fireworks display, and it was different every night.” Anna Nicole Smith died five years ago today.
“I upload photos to Flickr almost daily, blethered on Twitter with some regularity and most recently have fallen in love with Path. But the place that used to be my heart and soul online? Nada. It used to be that our home pages were the one place we had to express ourselves. Now, we’re torn hither and yon across the internet.” Heather completely nailed why I decided to start blogging again.
“Uwe Boll has confirmed that the film will have a time travel story where Dolph Lundgren will play a former military officer who is attacked by ninjas and sent through a time vortex where he gets stuck in medieval times. Boll has also gone on to confirm that a dragon will be included in the film.” I really need to see In the Name of the King 2, obviously. (I saw the first installment in the theater!)
The Straight Man’s Guide to Getting Hit on by Gays: “1. This will probably never happen to you anyway, so stop being paranoid. Gays mostly stick to their own, and besides, you’re probably not attractive enough to get past our raptor-like imperfection detectors. The reason we’re looking at you like that is because we’re judging you, not lusting.”
The amazing Brandon Bird, Painter of Might* finally has a blog, hurrah hurrah. And he’s created yet another painting I love and require on my walls: Pax Cybertronia. Everything is better with Jack McCoy.
Selections From H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter, by Luke Burns: “Toffee Nugget: Few men dare ask the question “What is toffee, exactly?” All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.” [ via onfocus ]
How much would you expect surcharges would be a for $23 concert ticket? $3? $5? Ticketmaster would like it very much if you’d bend over and take $17.05 worth of fees in the ass, making the real cost to you of one ticket come out to $40.05.
(Meanwhile Fandango is basically in the same business but only charges $1.50 or so. WTF! Oh Pearl Jam, why did you betray us way back when…)
35-year-old yoga teacher/performance artist/blogger spends a year living according to the dictum of Oprah Winfrey: “With some of the things, like the clothes, in the beginning I was like, ‘How dare she tell me what to wear! I’m an individual!'” Ms. Okrant said. “But recently, when I went shopping with my mom, I was really excited to fulfill some of the rules. I felt kind of proud of myself. It takes a huge amount of pressure off to be handed a spiritual path.”
And yes, you guys, this is somehow from the New York Times and not The Onion.
I love it when people mash two of my favorite things together to come up with something awesome, and then actually manage to get it into production. Say, for example, Donkey Kong Jenga, now available for preorder for $24.99—a new instant must-have for nerds who like to have friends over. [ via Topless Robot ]