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   27 August 2008   
Sioux City Journal: Olive Garden arrives

gregbrown:

I can’t help but giggle at articles like this. They’re just so genuinely happy, and in a way that doesn’t care what everyone else thinks about it. :D
(1) I’m going to quote YM: “Hey, that Sioux City Olive Garden article that’s being passed around like a tub of ice cream in a beach haus full of stoners, did anyone stop to notice that it’s from December 2006? 2-thou-fuckin-six, people! The world was much different and younger then. You could go to a mall and find excitement.”

(2) Is it a good thing that they are genuinely happy and don’t care what anyone thinks when the item in question is a fucking OLIVE GARDEN? That whole “they’re happy and they don’t care what anyone else thinks” thing is only cute when it’s not celebrating the lifeless excesses of consumerism.
Jean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen in this 1986 short. Two of my favorite people in conversation. I am in heaven. [Open Culture]
He is not a writer of style but a writer of themes. He is ideal for dinner parties and for engaging in our national sport - talking about a book without having read it.


Eric Nalleau, “Au secours Houellebecq revient” (“Help! Houellebecq is Back!”)
   26 August 2008   
One thing I do not get about the new Tumblr
Why are reblogs called “notes” now? That doesn’t make any sense.
What I said was, "No, really. Julia Allison is a camgirl now."

melissa:

forwardretreat:

Repeat:

Am. Cracking. Cyanide. Capsules. Now.

From the video art blah blah blah, Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century. Based on a quick IM review: “ART IS DEAD. ALLISON IS ART.”
This is so bad it is painful to watch. These girls already broadcast (lifecast?) their every movement, why do we need to see them captured in yet another narcissistic video portrait? Not to mention these video effects are awful. Why is video art stuck in the late 1980s?
I wish I had discovered Michel Houellebecq as an undergraduate, but I am nevertheless happy to be reading him at all.
I don’t know what the general consensus is these days, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Chip Kidd is horribly overrated as a designer. Not that he’s not incredibly competent, he’s just boring. Everything he does looks dated. And his cover for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was just god-fucking-awful.
OH GOD this new Tumblr Explore thing is so cool!
They ought to install a self-checkout at the library.
nickmcglynn: BE AFARID!! Buy things at Walmart!

nickmcglynn:

BE AFARID!! Buy things at Walmart!