Hay

We saw some of this stuff at a construction site on the walk back from dinner. I pointed it out, and the following conversation ensued:

Me: Hay.
Meaghan: What is it?
Me: *points*
Meaghan: Oh, hay!
Me: Heeeyyyy...

My friend Jen wants to get "microdermal piercings".

This is what she envisions

This is how it will actually be

Congrats, Jen. You know Kung-Fu

Insomnia and existentialism don't mix

So here I am, at 2:50 am, reading me some internets because I can't sleep, when I stumble across this new Abstruse Goose. The implications are pretty frightening, and have left me feeling like a prisoner inside my own head.

Now I'll never get to sleep.

In other news, I recently discovered that Allie Bosch, the brilliant author and cartoonist behind Hyperbole and a Half, is EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE. I have been struck in the face by a speeding train of ineluctable joy.

Infamy

10 and 70 years ago, terror rained down on from the skies, and both times, we fought back. From Guadalcanal to Kabul, heroes were made as we confronted evil head on. But from California internment camps to Guantanamo Bay, we sometimes infamously took out our fear and our anger on the wrong people, abandoning the very fundamental ideals we strove to project. Here's to the men and women doing their best to navigate the murky field of battle between good and evil.

Random Thoughts I

I've found that if a person is prone to accusing others of X, then that person is probably guilty of X on a regular basis.

Of course, by that logic, I've just proven myself a hypocrite*. Which is true!

QED

*and also bad at logic

Monetizing this blog

Because it's really easy, I just added ads to my blog. I doubt that enough people read me for it to make a difference, but in case I end up making significant bank, here's what I'm going to do - at the end of each calendar year, I'll come up with a list of charities I think are worthwhile. I'll put it up to a vote, and donate 100% to that charity.

Ingrid Michaelson reblog

If there was ever any doubt as to who my celebrity crush of the year is: Ingrid Michaelson - TwitterSong!

Link Dump I

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/11/ant-works-spectacular-nasa-experiment.html?utm_source=wahoha.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wahoha

http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/35-mind-blowing-watercolor-paintings-by-steve-hanks-02082010.html

credit card nostalgia

looking through a credit card statement enables an odd brand of reminiscence... trains, airplanes, bars, restaurants, and soda jerks. too bad i paid the tattoo artist in cash, that memory is literally gone forever

Chrysalis of indolence

I'm completely stressed out, but I'm still engaged in a regimen of 90% fucking-around and 10% actual work. Which means I'm developing a Pavlovian association between procrastination and wanting to auto-defenestrate. Conditioned response: I'm going to emerge as the most productive person on the planet!

Help me coin a new word

I want to make up a word, for that moment when the time SINCE the end of some era equals the time DURING. Like when you're 4 years out of college, or when you're twice as old as your younger sibling, or when it's been 18 years (or 16 or 30 as the case may be) since you first had sex. Or how I started playing the guitar 12 years ago, when I was 12. You get the idea. What should we call it? Once we come up with the perfect word we're going viral with this thing, and it's going to be the first UNIVERSAL COGNATE, part of every lexicon in every language in the world.