August 2008
17 posts
I am married.
OMFGLEAVINGTOGETMARRIED
For a crazy moment there, I was laboring under the misapprehension that I’d invented the term “Social Not-Working”
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Here Comes Astrozombie
I posted this the other day and entirely forgot to follow up. Within hours of posting the lyrics, the talented (not to mention handsome and debonair) Max Sparber (astrozombie from Metafilter) decided to take a crack at setting them to music. The resulting demo is a masterpiece of bone dry, tex-mex heart break and, if I had the contacts, I’d be on the phone to the Handsome Family to flog it.
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Uh?
We need someone good. And thorough. →
Petrol Caps - Who knew?
Turns out there’s a really simple, unforgettable way of telling which side your petrol cap is on which, if true, is my new favourite thing.
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I don’t want to be all “OMFG, you have...
The Work Blog
This is how its going to work, right? I’m going to make a series of increasingly outlandish posts to the work blog in an effort to “start something” - even if that something is just a lot of action from the peanut gallery. What the fuck though, I figure. At least I’m enjoying myself.
In Banbury. Cross.
Hamlet - as a Facebook news feed. →
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My Accursed Hat
I just posted this to Metafilter - it being a song that I’ve been meaning to write a tune to for many years. I’d always envisaged it as a Handsome Family / Johnny Cash thing to be intoned portentiously rather than sung. That is all.
Cousin Bill on the telly
In the family’s never-ceasing search for fame, no casualties are taken. Here Billy The Mo (quite literally my tallest cousin,) suffers the indignity of
a) Big Brother’s Big Mouth and,
b) Electrocution
…all in the name of What-Passes-For-Entertainment.
The torture (to Bill) begins at 5m 30s.
Carpet fitters, it turns out, do not fuck around. I have rarely seen such speed or heard such noise.
Uploading the Eagles for rhetorical purposes.