My Thai NameFrom Juniper:
“…In Thai, ‘an’ is a classifier meaning ‘thing.’ Them Thais march through category from general to specific, then move on to number and finish with classifier. As in ‘bia singh neung gao’ or ‘beer singha one glass.’
Anyway, ‘an’ is a thing and ‘dee’ is the very common word meaning ‘good.’ If I […]
It’s 3 PM on Sunday and I’m out at my parents’ house, prepping to go to Burning Man next weekend. I just spent the past three hours herding and trapping seven wild raccoons with a bamboo pole and garden hose. And microwaved shrimp.
My mother works at the Alexander Lindsay Museum, a wildlife conservancy that […]
So scientists have theorized that the speed of light may not be entirely constant. In fact, it may be a little slower than it once was. In an even tighter twist, this actually supports several modern theories of the 26-dimensional universe. Personally, I can’t really grasp the implications, but I did find the Yahoo! News […]
I once lived with an “artist” who would labor for six months on a mound of clay, shaping and mishaping and reshaping it into an ever less interesting lump. With oblivious pretension, she would endow it with political meaning, making one tired “statement” after another out of tiled turds and two-by-fours. She had none of […]
My friend Peter is a copy editor. He lives to root around your objects and participles. I’m sure his brain grinds to a halting overload when he comes across script like the above. But even nearer the top of the list of reasons not to write like a dyslexic stutterer riding a pogo-stick: Lipgloss Assassin […]
New Cake…GASP! After several years, Cake has finally released a new album: Comfort Eagle. Guess what? They sound EXACTLY the same. We waited 3 years for this? Anyway, here’s a song from it in MP3 format, courtesy of Morpheus (the best Napster alternative I’ve seen yet - nay, verily, a Napster replacement). I feel no […]
A desolate plateauthis one’s for Huculak:
I told the police officer my situation, that my bus would be leaving in 7 hours and that I couldn’t afford a hotel for 7 hours,the cop said, “I can appreciate your situation, I’m not allowed to let anyone sleep here, but just stay in the lobby upstairs.”
“hmmmm.”
This reminds me […]
Ha! These are fucking great! Apparently Craigslist is now allowing users to rate postings and keeping a best-of.
You ever have one of those days where you’re just not quite excited about your computer anymore? You know, it doesn’t seem as trick as it did when you first got it? Well, if you’ve ever thought of […]
So I’ve set side the next couple of weekends to prepare for Burning Man. On my first visit, last year, I arrived there and felt instantly bored. Not bored, but restless, because I realized I could do whatever I wanted, however I wanted, and I hadn’t prepared or brought along a single fun thing to […]
VonChorsen Launches!Vas is VonChorsen, you ask? Just my best friend’s long-anticipated blog. It is also the very first barnacle to grace the hull of Mania Hill (I’m hosting it). In today’s posting you will hear about how Bill Clinton was lucky enough run into Jeff, just walking down the street. I’ll bet Bill never thought […]