October 2010
September 2010
David Sedaris on His New Book, Bestiary, Hippo... →
absurdlakefront:
jockohomo:
“In his new book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, writer, radio star, and amateur zoologist David Sedaris takes an artistic leap away from memoir and essay to channel a dark and dirty Aesop. In sixteen brief tales, Sedaris introduces readers to snotty warblers, lab rats who experience Schadenfreude, and a certain parasite that sings in a hippo’s...
Nothing says "We vow to improve office...
mercurypdx:
…finding out a coworker was let go because the email you sent them bounced with “No Such User at this address”.
What? No cake/pie going away party? Oh that’s right… you need to give notice to get one of those.
This reminds Billy of the time he spent a good week working on creative concepts for a soft drink client while working in New Zealand — probably put a good 30 hours...
An Air Conditioner Fell Six Stories and Landed on... →
siddman:
We’ll be walking down the street and suddenly, for no reason, an air conditioner will fall loose from its mooring and plummet down atop of us, squishing us like Wile E. Coyote under an anvil-shaped boulder. Seriously — have you seen the way people install those things? Many don’t know that you need to use window brackets when you put in a unit. In fact, it’s illegal not to. (Intel...
Dear Mr. Karp... thanks for the QUEUE update. Now...
...And another thing... we are getting the sneaky...
Anyone else getting that same feeling?
Dear Mr. Karp... and why you so slow these last...
Dear Mr. Karp.... you said you were going to fix...
100 Best First Lines from Novels - American Book... →
peterwknox:
They forgot Fear and Loathing (“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”)
