november

11.28.00

i just saw requiem for a dream this past weekend and i think it permanently altered me. darren aronofsky talks to entertainment weekly about the requiem website and batman. if you haven't seen this movie, go now, before it leaves the theaters.

skycar! skycar! i want i want i want a skycar!

11.26.00

i'm showing you this because deep down inside, i really love you. here's an animated step-by-step example on how to solve a rubiks cube in 41 moves! (via mister pants)

one of my favorite books is wind up bird chronicles by haruki murakami. very surreal. very strange. unfortunately, most of murakami's writing has yet to be translated to english. cnn interviews murakami and discusses some of his latest work.

11.25.00

ugh... soo... much... turkey...

here's something that's actually kind of funny regarding the presidential office. check out president clinton's last days on adcritic.

so dave says that i have to let people know about a billy corgan's christmas. of course i must do as i'm told.

remind me to tell you the joke about the man who takes his dead dog into the vet. it cracks me up. meanwhile - here's a weird web page about cat scans. (summer is sick in the head for sending me this link)

11.22.00

this sounds like some horrible genetic experiment gone wrong - but i just found a recipe for 'turducken' - a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey. bok quack gobble.

speaking about funny animals - chuck jones is, of course, a living god. the thing i've always loved about watching his cartoons is that the adults are rolling on the ground in laughter for entirely different reasons than the kids who are rolling on the ground in laughter. sometimes they're doubled over in hysterics for the exact same reason. pbs will air an in-depth documentary about chuck jones tonight. if you're living in san francisco, that will be kqed, channel 9. (jory knew i would love this link)

i thought i was the only one who hated ikea. i am alone no longer. salon writes an insightful rant against consumerism and old navy.

the la times writes about kung fu chicks and the venerable yuen woo ping!

the ultimate kung fu chick film has a very real possibility of garnering an oscar. unfortunately, the big thing that counts for crouching tiger, hidden dragon is that the pickins' are mighty slim this year.

scientists at the foresight conference on molecular nanotechnology discuss microscopic robots driven by wild strains of salmonella to travel in our bloodstreams and dispense medication. we live in the diamond age. (via robot wisdom)

11.16.00

what? no more mir? what is this world coming to?? now the only spacecraft i can make fun of anymore is the hubble telescope - and even that got fixed...

a fan's view of the homerpalooza 'festival' in seattle. lame or not, it doesn't seem like a bad way to waste a weekend. (thanks to isbister for the link)

here's something that's sure to flame up the ol' carpal tunnel - check your reflexes! (via eatonweb)

11.17.00

happy birthday, david dunstan!!

11.15.00

i'm trying to avoid any election links because i'm feeling totally oversaturated, so instead i'm going to tell you that monkeys make bad pets. (via robot wisdom)

now that you know all about angry monkeys, do you really want monkey brains controlling robot arms? i don't want to be the first up against the wall when the monkey brained robots attack.

yeah, sure, you can have your webvan and your kozmo and your online porn - but all i really want from the internet is... web toys! (via eatonweb)

an interactive beef chart! i didn't know that's what sweetbreads were... but i do know what glue is made out of. (via misterpants)

11.14.00

when i was in college, the madonna inn was always one of my favorite stopovers during my somewhat regular drives from santa cruz to los angeles. although i never stayed in any of the 108 theme rooms, i was delighted when my friends snuck me into the men's restroom so that i could look at the waterfall urinals. i'm only reminded of this because daniele just sent me the url for the adventure inn! the space suite with pool seems pretty sweet to me.

i used to be totally obsessed with david cronenberg. i loved the fact that he never financed any of his films with hollywood dollars. now that he's agreed to direct basic instinct two, i'm frightened. the fact that it's a sequel just makes the reality even that much more distressing.

here's a nice, easy-to-read accompaniment to your daily fucked company updates - the wall street journal's dotcom layoff spreadsheet. (via popculturejunkmail)

11.12.00

it's my birthday! i feel older, wiser, and taller. (well, hell, two out of three ain't bad)

11.10.00

...and speaking of amazons, when was the last time you really took a good look at the wonder woman lyrics? how could you possibly resist such classic poetry as "in your satin tights, fighting for your rights."

r. crumb has apparently just released an album in france with the band futur primitif - i couldn't find any other information on it, but i found some great artwork he did of blues artists.

a man arrested at the san francisco airport claims that the bags full of steroids taped to his body were for personal use. uhhh... yeah...

11.09.00

i believe that the next president should be decided by a decisive game of rock, paper, scissors.

this is really, really disturbing. but it's disturbing in that cool alien and invasion of the body snatchers kind of way. just be glad that you're not a stink ant.

once you've made your wildly successful, megablockbuster lego film, it's time for you to sign up with satan, hollywood agent of evil.

11.08.00

steven spielberg and lego have joined forces to create lego moviemaking sets! nuts to my job - i'm gonna make lego movies!

i was sulking around all day today about the election and then i got this weird link from isbister. distort the next president. you know you want to.

11.07.00

today at my polling place, there was a ballot-eating robot droid that sucked up my huge, poster-sized ballot and beeped at me. it was very cool.

you know, i should have guessed that laurie anderson has a website.

ok... i'm probably a little bit obsessed, but even i thought this was weird. do you have a bagel story?

john linnell of they might be giants talks about their upcoming live performance of flood, the new childrens album, and mp3's. (jason rocks for sending me this link.)

hey - has anyone tried any of these digital photo processing websites? so far, i've only been intrigued by ofoto and shutterfly, but i'm wondering if anyone is happy with what they've been using. anyway... let me know.

11.06.00

when i grow up, i want to skydive from space.

mr. and mrs. beaver of north carolina were killed by a sheep. i think i have an idea for a new children's book...

11.03.00

it just occured to me that my bacon factor is 2.

i was an assistant editor on the movie antz with sharon stone - sharon stone was in he said, she said with kevin bacon in 1991.

do i get a prize?

11.02.00

my sister just spent some time at the ice hotel in scandanavia - i'm very, very jealous. fortunately. i might get to book a cold room sooner than i thought, now that a new ice hotel is opening up in canada! (quebec, by the way, is much easier to say than jukkasjarvi)

jory and i visited the smart car factory in germany and drove a very cute red and black one through europe. our friend is desperately trying to import them into the states, but the customs gods are working against him. when, oh when, will i be able to drive my own smart car?!?

meanwhile, i'm working to restore my 1961 nash metropolitan. it's not a smart, but at least it's witty.

in my opinion the wittiest palindrome is "a man, a plan, a canal - panama," but this palindrome goes too far... (via memepool)

candy von dewd and the girls from latexploitia starts production this weekend. if anyone's looking for an amazon, we've got 'em.

vince tells me that the shoes are gone. what happened to the shoes?!?

11.01.00

wow. it's november. i can barely remember january through october happening.

the bagel battle between montreal and new yawk. (ross was apalled by the results.)

what is it with doctors who tell musicians that they're about to die? first it was johnny cash, now it's paul pena, from genghis blues. bluesman pena is told that "nope, you don't have cancer after all!" have a nice day.