January 2011
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Françoise and The Alien
Desperately wanting to say something, Françoise looked at the alien, but words failed her. “B-O-N-J-O-U-R,” she thought, but her mouth would not move. Her instincts told her to reach for her camera—after all, she was the first human on Earth to witness such a sight—but her arms were paralyzed. Jean-Sébastien was in the other room napping. If only he knew!
The petrified...
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Proximity
Today on the train I watched a woman thumb through a copy of Us Weekly. When she reached a story about Elton John and his partner’s new child, she shook her head angrily and clicked her teeth in disapproval. She began to turn the pages so forcefully that the noise attracted attention from surrounding passengers. She immediately went back to normal when she landed on a interview revealing...
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The bridge would have to be 876,000 miles long
I read today that in an average lifetime, a human being will spend approximately six years dreaming. I am neither delighted nor disturbed by this idea, as this kind of statistic serves mostly as a numerical reminder that the majority of our lives is spent attending to things that we think are not actually our lives. Brushing our teeth. Sitting in traffic. Sleeping.
I remember accepting my first...
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Jay Reatard - Nightmares
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Decapitate your audience
The “Captivate Network” is a digital advertising network that runs top headlines and ads on small, flat-planel televisions in the elevators of many high-rise office buildings. Their slogan, which appears intermittently on the screen, is “Saving you from having to make awkward small talk: Captivate your audience.”
I take the elevator to the 19th floor every morning, to and...
