Look who I found. Also: I just learned that Oscar the Grouch was orange in the first season.
Seriously, FUCK Frosty the fucking snowman. FUCK him.
The snow storm is scheduled to hit just in time for my flight to Mississippi.
(I took this at a red light in Jackson when I was home in October. It was 90 degrees, and I was driving barefoot.)
Home Depot, Despair
- Please wait for a product specialist to respond.
- You are now chatting with 'Naomi'
- Naomi: Welcome to Home Depot. I am a Major Appliance Product Specialist. How may I assist you today?
- Ashley: Hi, my landlord is asking me to pick out a gas stove, so I guess I need help
- Naomi: Sure!
- Naomi: I'll be happy to help you!
- Ashley: I was wondering which you would recommend
- Naomi: I will be happy to show you a few of our top selling models, but I am not able to recommend one name brand over another.
- Ashley: Ok
- Naomi: Would you like to view our models that have the best reviews?
- Ashley: Yes
- Naomi: Please bear with me while I research this for you.
- Ashley: ok thanks
- Naomi: Sure!
- Naomi: I will send you links of two models to view that are within your price range and have good reviews.
- Ashley: great
- Naomi: Click here to view gas range 1.
- Naomi: Click here to view range 2.
- Ashley: I guess I don't really know anything about stoves
- Ashley: As long as it works, then I guess I don't really care
- Naomi: I understand. Do you have any questions about either models?
- Ashley: Do you ever worry that we will have to sit in front of computers for the rest of our lives?
- Naomi: Yes, sometimes I do.
- Ashley: Me too
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INTERNET PENETRATION: 75%
“Three quarters of Americans (75%) are internet users, over 60 points more than were online in 1995 when only 14% of the country used the internet. The Web remains a place dominated by younger Americans; fully 87% of adults ages 18 to 29 go online and more than half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old.”
Also notable: “National Satisfaction” is at 28%
(via Pew Research Center, sent to me by Beau)
When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.
—
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
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readers by author.
I’m not Meaghan, but I’d have to say for Lorrie Moore: People who’ve been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush, and are brushing the can with the brush.this is some kind of wonderful:
Margaret Atwood Women whose favorite color is hunter green.
William Faulkner People who are good at crosswords.
Cormac McCarthy Men who don’t eat cream cheese.
Mark Twain Liars.
Nicole Krauss Girls who intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.
Anne Rice People who don’t use conditioner in their hair.
*where are lorrie moore and joan didion? meaghan, get on this.
And this makes the factoid that Tarantino once turned down a chance to direct an adaptation of The Moviegoer all too eerie, as I think his films have become a real-time application of Percy’s fictional preoccupation with dislocation. Tarantino’s films expose the Binx Bolling in us all, restless until we have a tidy border of cultural reference within which we can claim our stake. Most of his intricately scripted and arranged films are hardwired into the idea that his audience has nostalgic connections to all the bits of media history he is tossing out at us.
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The famous photograph of a daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, 1848. Look at this man. Doesn’t he look so much like Bill Murray?
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” — Edgar Allan Poe
(Yeah, that’s right. I just made a post about sunsets and crying.)
(photo viamoola)
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Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You
Should have taken acid with you
Take our clothes off in the swimming pool
Should have taken acid with you
Told my parents that I’m staying with you
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