I love Christoph Niemann’s LEGO renderings of NYC geography and everyday minutiae.
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Feel free to bribe me, too, Cash4gold
On Friday, The Consumerist published a follow-up to a story about a blogger who tried Cash4gold of TV infomercial fame, found out that (surprise, surprise) the company rips people off, and blogged the experience. The blogger has since been offered $3,000 (not in gold, I imagine) by said sleazy enterprise to delete the post.
One President, thousands of words
My friend April sent me this link to some incredible inauguration photos. See some of the millions of people worldwide who were reveling in the moment.
Not a sad clown
My favorite of the New Yorker cartoons I have on my refrigerator:
Steal this quote
Jim Jarmusch in the Winter 2004 issue of MovieMaker Magazine:
Failing at FAIL Blog
I can’t bring myself to leave this apartment. I really need to get out now.
But first behold my submission to FAIL Blog, which I love unrequitedly. It didn’t choose my picture, but I’ll get over it:
Of packrats and perfection
Anytime I’m home, my mom asks me to go through the boxes upon boxes I’ve filled in fits of nostalgic packrattery. Hindsight doesn’t always help, because even when I know I didn’t miss having that note my best friend in sixth grade wrote me, complete with Cheetos smudges, I get all gooey (though less so when the item is literally gooey). “I can’t throw this out,” I think. “Someday, my kids or biographers might want to see this.”
Birds make great Christmas gifts!
Below are some ads I found in Corpus Christi’s local classifieds publication. They should tell you all you need to know about the town where I grew up.
The teachings of Life Coach
My dear Life Coach wrote this beautiful, thoughtful post over the weekend. I got to play editor before it went live and was really impressed. He’s taught me a few things about relationships. Here are some Life Coach pearls of wisdom:
The last time I checked, I was a woman
I just read Philip Galanes’s Social Q’s column from yesterday. All the questions and answers were good. But as a gender-neutral blogger, I really liked this:
