these things and more: Archive

“Finally, she asked, “Could I fax from one machine… to another… and make a copy...”

– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I Will Fax Anything.

Jul 27th

CHANGE THROUGH ______________ →

This is a thing that I’ve been co-organizing for a while. It’s fun. We get cool people to come and talk for five minutes about how their area of expertise is important to social change. And then we get dialogue-y on it. And then we go home, and we do things to make what we talked about come true in our homes and neighbourhoods. This week we’re talking about design. COOL

Jul 26th

CBC: The Age of Persuasion | "The Sound of... →

This was just a very good episode.

Jun 4th

http://greatgatsbygame.com/ →

Combine your love of the Roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and NES games.

Feb 17th

Guide to Being Don Draper Manual →

In my family, we do a gift draw for Christmas presents. This year I drew my brother-in-law, and I made him this Guide to Being Don Draper Manual. I put it in a box with the materials listed in the table of contents. Here you go, Internet. Print it double-sided and fold it in half, then staple or sew up the fold so it makes a little book. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Dec 30th

How to Tell Your Friends from Your Frenemies -... →

No. Shut up, eHow.

Dec 27th

Big City Talk

Me: I find in smaller cities/towns people are like, aggressively kind. It's a bit freaky. I hate asking for directions in small towns because they'll practically follow you down the street to make sure you're not lost, which is really nice of them but also, yikes. 
Tim: Also kind of unnecessary, right? Like, there's only one gas station in town to turn left at. 
Me: Yeah, exactly!
Tim: The weirdness of that kind of reminds me of Infinite Jest a little...which is a little like saying it reminds me of the Bible, in that, okay, maybe, but which part exactly?

Dec 2nd

Nov 21st

The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens →

We saw Sufjan Stevens at the Orpheum last week and he played all the songs off his newest album (and some from the All Delighted People EP) and it was just really really great. So you should listen to it.

Nov 3rd

“That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic...”

– It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers - Colin Nissan, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2009

Oct 9th

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Things my mom said about some music I made her...

Andrew Bird, Souverian: “This isn’t bad…I didn’t say it’s good, it’s not bad, that’s all.” CocoRosie, West Side: “What is all that crunching noise? She has a pretty voice, why is she messing it up with the crunching noise?…Hmph. Art is no excuse to turn something pretty into something ugly.” Arcade Fire, The Suburbs: “How...

Sep 23rd

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Sep 21st

Watch

The Paris Quintet - Practice Makes Perfect Short film about the film they are going to make. By Benny Scheutze, who you might know from Hey Ocean!, DRMHLLR, and Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party.

Sep 8th

Is this happening at every screening?

We went to a nearly sold-out theatre to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on Sunday. The trailer for Devil: the words “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan” came up, and everyone - everyone - first groaned, and then laughed so hard that people were still coughing and giggling well into the next trailer. I hear from the internet that this is not an isolated incident.

Aug 26th

Aug 10th

"Comic Sans" - The Incongruous Quarterly →

warrenhaas: booksinthekitchen: It’s totally ready. Read my short story by clicking above (or here), and then click around the site a little and see what else they’ve got. It looks pretty fantastic from here. Go now! You’ll like it, I promise.

Jul 31st

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2010 Expanded Street Food Program Locations -... →

Tylor put together a map of where Vancouver’s new street meat vendors will go. SO EXCITED FOR STREET SATAY

Jul 13th

tallguywrites: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew... →

I like this very, very much. People against vaccinations, especially the MMR vaccination, drive me totally bonkers.

Jun 28th

“I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like...”

– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

Jun 21st

Jun 16th

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“Why are you giving me the finger? Let’s talk about it. Because we walk out...”

– Fugazi’s Master Class in Stage Banter The bit about ice cream is also great.

Jun 10th

Jun 6th

These are my friends. They are fantastic. →

Do you know this band? One of their drummers is also the drummer in my bands, London Spy and Friends From School and the one we’ve been working on that doesn’t have a name. Topless is an awesome band. You should listen to their songs, all of them are fun. I know their website is ridiculous, but it advocates less Nickelback for children and I think we can all get behind that.

Jun 4th

I have an opinion and it means nothing in the face...

There’s two words for The xx and their album “xx”: so withholding.

Jun 2nd

May 23rd

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"Megyn Kelly gives a nice demonstration in... →

Aw maaaaan. It makes me so sad when willfully ignorant people insist on broadcasting their opinion on an issue they know absolutely nothing about, and then muzzle the one guy who might be able to help them. And it makes me even more sad when loud old people don’t understand the Internet. But I’m grateful the anchor didn’t “take it to the iPad” or “check the...

May 13th

May 9th

Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid In the Hudson - Mark... →

Do you guys read this webcomic? The art is amazing, and it’s a pretty gripping plot to boot. I always get a little flutter in my chest when I see updates for this in my RSS feed.

May 6th

This is a problem.

Every time I eat an open-faced-peanut-butter-and-honey sandwich, the honey slides off the bread and drips and gets everywhere. I have never seen anyone else have this much trouble eating an open-faced-peanut-butter-and-honey sandwich. I think I am sandwich-eating challenged.

May 5th

Apr 29th

CREAMWOLF - Flash Game →

You are a werewolf ice cream truck man. Objective: fatten the neighbourhood kids up on your ice cream, then entice them back to your secret hideout on the full moon so you can devour them. I can’t stop playing this game.

Apr 28th

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Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic.... →

Pretty interesting interview with the guy who plays Pete Campbell on Mad Men. My favourite part is where he argues with a guy about a rock: “I picked out one rock, in the river, like a 650lb rock,” he says. “A monster stuck between two other rocks. We were in the river and we got it moving but this guy comes out shouting, ‘You can’t take my rock!’ I’m ...

Apr 27th

Apr 24th

Apr 23rd

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GOOD Magazine Transparencies Archive →

These only contain American data, and some of them are kind of sad, but they are very very pretty.

Apr 22nd

Apr 21st

“pierre bouvier, he is the guy who made Simple Plan,but chuck comeau helped him...”

– (via Urban Dictionary, all errors left intact) There are so many things here (not even counting the whole entry!) that are really, really funny.

Apr 20th

Apr 17th

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Apr 16th

Walls - Shout Out Louds This is nice to listen to...

Apr 15th

I wish I'd had the nerve...

…to take a photo, because I know no one will believe me when I say that I saw a minivan, driven by two dudes, that was painted (even the windows! Even the hubcaps!) to look like camo. It had Alaskan plates.

Mar 25th

“Never trust a man in camo.”

– That’s what everyone is thinking when men wear camo casually. I’m sorry. You’re just going to have to try to be less terrifying.

Mar 14th