Virtual Flaneurism

"You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride."

- Jodi Picault

Context: First at Drivers, next at douche Bicyclists, finally the response I can get on board with:

Yet another heartbreaking tale of camel vs. little person.

A portion of Ira Glass' mediation on storytelling:

(I like this section best, though the other three are definitely worth a gander -- especially if you consider yourself an artistic type)

JERRY: The thing about eating the Black and White cookie, Elaine, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate and yet somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie all our problems would be solved.

ELAINE: Your views on race relations are fascinating. You really should do an op-ed piece for the Times.

JERRY: Look to the cookie Elaine. Look to the cookie.

Most epic sleepover ever.

The kid's last line is great. Also, Ryan Matthews is unexpectedly attractive.

Oh, Don Hertzfeld, how the world has missed your morbid, horrendous humor.

Music Video - "Darling, It's Alright" - Francis and the Lights from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo.

Another from Ben.

Another addition from Ben:

This is beyond nightmarish.

Martha's B-Day 10-09-1985 from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo.

This app is amazing, though I will be floored if/when they come out with dictionaries beyond Spanish. Translation of pictograph-based languages - Mandarin, for example - would be insane.

Anyway, the implications of this application are enormous. Tower of Babel, here we come.

AIDAN KNIGHT - Knitting Something NIce For You from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

This is so absurd that it is, in turn, amazing.