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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-30

“He who goes fathering / Gives frightful hostages to hazardry.” — Thomas Hardy # http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1523 i admire these writers for caring enough about their people to go into the cold fighting. via @scalzi # it’s banned book week. go out and read a banned book. carefully consider what the writer says, and why your society [...]

Give me Robin Hood and I will be a merry man

I don’t know, good horse, As we trot in this dark here That robbing the rich is for worse or for best They take it by stealing and lying and gambling And I take it my way, my shiny Black Bess. – Woody Guthrie, The Unwelcome Guest Music is the only way to access certain [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-29

new theory: i will become a nomadic expatriate. i will make movies and books and music with one arm waving free, circled by the circus sands # graham crackers are the new excellent food. #

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-28

Hunting a runaway goat in downtown fuquay. # Stuck in a thicket in the dark in the woods near walmart. Feels like nam. # Running through sepia tinted meadow, wet with rain… Looking for the goat. # Giving up on the woods… Walking through parking lots now. Going to cruise around; still looking. # Dan [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-27

@acarvin when did you get confirmation? sad times, these. # for everybody else, paul newman is dead. cancer at 83. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26913988/ #

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-26

today is the beard-off. five hours of hirsute manliness left, and then it’s back to looking like a 12 year old. # hirsute? more like hirsweet # beard-off at 4. # beard: gone. my face is clean # @ryanquattlebaum my face alternatively burns and goes numb, and i look very different indeed. it’s like losing [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-25

in midconversation, my 60 year old neighbor just walked around the corner of my house and peed on it. apt metaphor for our country’s leader. # greeeoorg… still sick. producing viscid, radioactive mucus. # "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-24

the singularity will be stretchy http://tinyurl.com/4eta3d # officially out of bookshelves, after 3 weeks. back to piles on the ground… # discovered 33 1/3, a series of commentaries on music–1 album per book–via mike. good to learn how to talk about music. http://is.gd/34Go # @acarvin congrats! # "she appeared to me in symbols: she was [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-23

Myspace to sell no drm mp3s? Are they relevant again? # cs4 will be so so so much better. it does for animators what as3 did for developers. also, new 3d manipulation. http://is.gd/30Cg # @jephjacques congratulations! # @smoonen i’m shaving, and so is this other guy at work. performance art is probably the closest description… [...]

The Beard Off

It’s a duel. Involving shaving. Image courtesy of Tofer Moran.