My Grand Central number (which, like all phone numbers, used to belong to someone else) has started getting occasional collection calls for JHONNY GARCIA. I feel bad for JHONNY GARCIA; those collections people are goddamned animals.
I block each of these numbers as new ones pop up (thanks, Grand Central!), but I couldn’t resist leveraging Grand Central’s ability to create a custom outgoing message just for one given incoming phone number. Just this once.
Yes, fans of You Look Nice Today will recognize this voice as our newest addition to the program, Karl Van HÅt, but for purposes of my custom outgoing message to the Toyota Financing Center in Beaverton, OR, today he’s JHONNY GARCIA.
“ But what about the hearings on North Korea in which he made repeated references to “Kim Jong the Second”? In order to prevent any repetition of this idiotic gaffe, Helms’ staff propped up a piece of card on which was clearly written the pronunciation “Kim Jong ILL.” The senator from North Carolina duly made the adjustment, referring thenceforth to the North Korean despot as “Kim Jong the Third.
Christopher Hitchens, sharing an anecdote about the recently deceased cracker and national stain, Sen. Jesse Helms.
“ So, like, let me get this straight. God got this lady pregnant and made her have a baby and then killed it so you could get away with whatever shit you wanted as long as you felt sorry?
Overheard at the Beach (via glass)
“ These women are shining a light for thousands of Midwestern teenagers who aspire to someday also move to Williamsburg and catch Chlamydia from an art fraud with an ironic mullet and big, plastic clown glasses.
The Straightener in “Jezebelism” on MetaFilter.
Brandi snapped these photos of an amazing collection of handmade Simpsons cut-outs. Beautiful.
it turns out she’d made all of these wooden simpsons cutouts herself, from scratch, as a surprise for her son who was graduating from high school. she told us that he’d worked really hard and only took breaks to watch the simpsons. how awesome is that?
A few years ago, my Mom gave me a snapshot of her and my Dad that I’d never seen. It looks like it was about 1971 or so — well before Dad got sick — and they’re in somebody’s kitchen. I’m not sure whose. Dad’s sitting at the kitchen table, smoking a Winston and drinking a very bright red can of Coke. My Mom is standing next to him, leaning on him, laughing, and hugging his neck. She’s wearing yellow shorts and a small, metal-banded wristwatch, and she looks deliriously happy.
It’s just a snapshot, and I’m so happy I have it.
I’m starting to wonder if you have to have a kid to fully understand the appeal of the Flip. I don’t really think that’s the case, but being a new-ish parent really highlights why this dumb little piece-of-shit video camera is such a game-changer.
Say what you will about the (numerous) technical limitations of the Flip, but, in terms of catching the small, trivial stuff that ends up comprising the connective tissue of memories, it’s the real deal. 90% of the gold I get with the Flip would never have seemed “important enough” to shoot with my $1k HD camera — plus who carries a softball-sized video camera everywhere they go?
This thing paid for itself the day I turned it on and shot one evening of Eleanor’s bath-to-bedtime ritual, but I still never stop marveling at the little moments I end up capturing while just horsing around.
I don’t really think you have to be a parent to get the Flip, but watching your kid change and grow even over the space of the cumulative one hour of shooting in the camera’s memory tells an important story: all that stupid little stuff that’s not worth pulling “the good camera” out for is what it’s all about. That’s the stuff you’ll pray you had captured more of when you had the chance. I can already feel it, looking back at that bath and thinking, “Wow, I wish I’d shot hours of this.”
Every can of Coke, every funny hat â every minute where I might accidentally catch my little family being deliriously happy â man, that’s the stuff.
“ The jilted sense of priorities that adult life often entails are also another theme. The elevation of meaningless considerations of status and vanity over personal happiness and well being is continuously portrayed throughout the movie.
Wikipedia, on Brazil
After a long debate with their record company in the United States, Elektra Records, the band relented and agree to film a video, as long as the song was done completely live…12 cameras would be placed, “dividing” each band member into three blocks.
