November 2009
1 post
May 2009
9 posts
Still recovering from the worst brunch ever. You don’t get to call dodgy yellow mayonnaise “hollandaise sauce”. Christ on a fucking bike.
L: “Why is it called Glen 20? What’s so special about Glen? Or 20? Why not Jodie 5?”
Who needs Discourse Wars when you can unfollow and block people? Hmmm.
Somebody tell @barrysaunders, whatever he’s saying, that I can no longer hear him.
April 2009
208 posts
Apocalipstick. (On a pig?)
‘Look at me,’ he said before he killed himself, ‘I wanted to be a miniaturist and I’ve got elephantiasis instead!’
Going old school: Darren Tofts’ Memory Trade.
It reminds me that Andrew Trevillian and Terence Hogan were such a significant influence in late ’90s Australian print design.
Just bumped into @ragamouf at the station. Luckily wasn’t caught out listening to Toto. Phew.
Ah, >140 char DMs get broken into parts. The count is still misleading, though.
What is it with Tw clients that still give you 140 chars in DMs when they don’t display the “d username” syntax? Am I missing something?
Throat itchy. Feel like lying down.
Sharing custom-created eBooks from Stanza for Desktop to iPhone has totally made my day. http://www.lexcycle.com/stanza
http://www.xtranormal.com/
Turning off the Internet.
Aha! :) RT @zizekspeaks: Answer this: what can meteorology teach us about racism?
To all future Fashion Week buyers who get in touch: show me the money! Thanks Austrade.
RT @plasticbagUK: I worked it out on the plane. Monocle is the world’s most high-class in-flight magazine.
Lolcat as allegory of relations with cultural others, and of the politics of ventriloquy.
And of course, Crispin Porter have their own problems with, uh, stereotypes: http://is.gd/v34n
Fond memory: Nike PR drone saying “Look, you’re either for global capitalism, or you’re against it.”
Remember how they initially marketed iLife, before “Get a Mac”? “Microsoft Office for the rest of your life.”
(OMG it’s a FAKE GIRL.) Fuckers.
I think I’ve worked out the fashion weirdness: there’s an emerging streetwear brand that has the same name as the brand I trade under.
Fast Company calling Crispin Porter Bogusky vs TBWA a “draw” is insane. While “Get a Mac” was iffy, “I’ve been made into stereotype” = FAIL.
The low point of “Get a Mac” being “your sexy (guy in drag) can’t compare to our sexy (Gisele Bundchen)” http://is.gd/v2ZP
Been getting vaguely spammy fashion related enquiries lately. I haven’t worked in the fashion industry for several years. Huh?
Finally watched D.C. Fontana’s “Yesteryear” over lunch, and now understand from where the Abrams film partly drew its inspiration. #startrek
Was caught in another vivid dream loop this morning. Fatal moment: dreaming that I was a dream researcher. D’oh.
Tony Chakar on catastrophic space: http://is.gd/uOyz
Set the world on fire.
Just lost a swathe of text when I forgot that it was in my clipboard. Recommendations for good clipboard utility for OS X?
Week-old croissants are something I could have done without.
Sorting out basic methodological issues that should have been settled a few years ago. My bad.
Aches.
Cancel a new tweet in Tweetie, and focus returns to the main window. Actually *send* a new tweet, and nothing has focus. Annoyo.
Eleanor Arnason wrote one of my favourite novels of the ’90s, Ring of Swords. This week, she was laid off from her day job. Damn.
Gmail on the iPhone should let you increase its HTML5 offline cache, dammit.
Having Ellen Tigh namecheck Derrida was a bit much, though.
Loved Bradley Thompson and David Weddle’s CSI episode, with “Astro Quest”, Kate Vernon as a semiotics prof, and Ron Moore as an angry fan!
Christ. I need http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/
Plus, Totoro and Catbus! I feel all snuggly.
Unpacked some of my old Be@rbrick dolls that had been languishing in a box for six months. Joy!
The capacity to weave complex cultures around the experiences of food and sex is one of the greatest achievements of our species.
BTW, “old chicken” is not a code phrase.
Four years down the track, and I’m still reading non-stop about genocide, dispossession, war, mourning, loss. Cheery stuff.
My instinct is to say that Potter is reactionary in the same way that Lynch is reactionary, but that’s a little too easy, isn’t it?
Cold Lazarus more reactionary than I remember. Must’ve been influenced by my crush on Ciaran Hinds.
Reheating coffee. Avoiding wok maintenance. Reading second-hand accounts of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. I’m going to hell. A special hell.