Jul
17
2010
Lifetime endorsement
get phree!
My name is Anthony. This is the dead end on the internet where I sometimes drive to dump old couches and other stuff.
getphree [at] gmail [dot] com
Jul
10
2010
Ugh. Wishing this was Swedish.
Blase
I don’t care how smart or dumb you
are
or how smart or dumb I can be
Encountering someone who can’t spell ‘specialist’
or can’t click a mouse
does not make me feel smarter
it makes me feel
nothing
Percentiles are pointless
I’m so burned out on everyone
and on myself
Just let me drink smoothies and lounge around
forever
Just leave me alone and go drink smoothies
away from me
or don’t
if you’re too dumb to know what’s good for you
When I was a child I admired smart people
and now I only respect thoughtful people
Last year I was proud of myself for knowing all the best places
to urinate in this city
one hundred dark private corners
and now I realize that anyplace
is a good target
for a golden shower
Jul
8
2010
Becoming the crowd
My first (maybe last) Wikipedia entry, in the False Dilemma article:
Examples in popular culture
One example of false dilemma occurs in the music video “Eenie Meenie” by Sean Kingston and featuring Justin Bieber.[5] In the video, hundreds of fertile young women are seen attending a party in a high-rise condo with few males other than Kingston and Bieber. The female attendees are given a round robin high-pressure sales pitch to choose between a dichotomy of the two. Kingston sings, “She’s indecisive / can’t decide / keeps on lookin’ / from left to right,” and Bieber sings, “Can’t make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind / please don’t waste my time, time, time, time, time.” In one final scene, a befuddled girl stands between Kingston and Bieber. The two singers see her indecision as a sign of her character (“Shawty is a eenie meenie miny moe lova” and “you seem like the type to love ‘em and leave ‘em”) but no mention is made that would indicate her confusion is due to her disinterest in either of the black and white options she’s been presented. Bieber contemptuously tells the girl “you don’t have to roll the dice” when, in application, randomness is the only solution to a false dilemma if one is to avoid a decision based upon fallacious reasoning.
Jul
7
2010
Feels good…
Inbox zero. Work inbox zero. Voicemail zero.
Let the Right One In is being remade? Isn’t that movie only two years old… and perfect as is?
And the title is being changed to something that alters the entire narrative mode. Blockheads.
Jul
6
2010
Look at this pretty bird I flew across the Atlantic. Brick is high fat, Dutch process, cut with alkali. Best cocoa available.
Jul
4
2010
Jul
2
2010
Free Business Consultation
To the enterprising restaurateur on Forsyth Road:
You convinced the Department of Business & Professional Licenses to grant you a license to operate a restaurant out of an RV that is clearly your domicile.
You convinced a landowner to let you sell food from the same spot every day.
Now, to convince people to buy your food, maybe you should stop washing your laundry in a bucket during daytime business hours.
Jul
1
2010
Since The Dawn Of Recorded Time
From 1200 miles I remotely controlled a computer that was connected to the internet through a tethered cell phone. The users stood on the roof of their truck in the woods at dusk, on the side of the Adirondack Mountains…
And all of it was done to help them get setup in a virtual classroom video conference.
Spaceship Earth did not even predict this.
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