Archive for May 22nd, 2008

  • I like it, but do you have one in magenta?

    Left over from when Terry Gilliam was designing choppers for the Soviet Air Force?

  • Debbie Downer, is that you?

    The NYT celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge by recounting a horrific stampede a few days after its opening:
    Celebrating an Engineering Marvel, Born in Tragedy - New York Times Blog

    The Brooklyn Bridge: a marvel of engineering, or a death trap? Both, within the first week of its opening.
    The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge [...]

  • yeah, well, it can’t hold a candle to football

    Surfing and the fascist aesthetic // TLS
    If there is a hierarchical, aristocratic aspect to surfing, the deathliness that shadows its appeal in this novel also evokes a fascist aesthetic. The hunt for more and more hazardous waves to conquer indicates an aspiration towards an ineffable, mystic extremity, at once terrifying and swathed in a [...]

  • ministry of hate

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVVX9aTNKB4

    Rod Parsley is all over cable in Central Ohio. Unfortunately, no one seems to have a clip of the time a few years ago (we actually happened to see it) when he suggested that the US Supreme Court should be beheaded.