11 June 2009

goddammit baby you know i ain't lyin' to you i'm only gonna tell you one tiiiiimeahhhyeah.

made the rounds a while back, but this isn't my first late-to-the-rodeo: the david lee roth soundboard.

it's so much fun i don't even know what to do with myself.

UPDATE: now i know what to do with myself! litter my workout mix with the mp3 versions.

09 June 2009

one of those things where it's like, fuck, i almost had this idea a while back.

but it's just splendidly done.

SHORT TAKES ON BOOKS THAT DON’T EXIST.

eg,

Workshop
by Nick Lowey
MFA students writing—and failing to write—form the subject of Lowey’s debut, a collection of linked stories that mines the liminal space between earnest frustration and the grinding tedium of endless failure. Other writers have trod this turf with less success, but Lowey displays an enviable judiciousness and a keen eye: a box of cheap wine is described as “a store-brand Lethe, a vermillion river of solace and forgetting.”

03 June 2009