Peter Vidani
Remembering my mom's criteria for a Halloween costume
- Is it warm?
October 2009
Lee Clow's work with Apple
flavorwire.com
Lee Clow is stepping down today, so I did a top ten tribute.
“I'm going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, "Aren't those gourds straining your neck?" And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not.”
—Colin Nissan, It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
Mixed Feelings
wired.com
For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads — the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth’s magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly.
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Miles Davis - So What
Something to put a spring in your step today, and tomorrow, and however many weeks this song is stuck in your head.
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Something terrifying is going on at the USAA call center
This is what happens when you call USAA at midnight because you’re locked out of your account. Okay:
A) I don’t know how to say that.
B) Please hold while I change my pants, crap them a second and third time, then cry in the shower.
C) I saw District 9. This does not end well.
- Eric: Let's bring a flask.. I don't even own a flask.
- Peter: Let's just fill our cheeks with it and swallow when we want to.
- Peter: And then I'm going to make a chat post and quote myself! [ed: I did not say this part]
Owl in a box.
guy:
A women finds an injured owl on the side of the road and manages to get it to an animal rescue group. The photos are amazing.
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Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall
