February 2012
16 posts
On Leap Day
It must be super-strange to be born on Leap Day. On the one hand, your birthday, only arriving every four years, becomes, like the Olympics or the World Cup, an event. You’re encouraged to take the opportunity to go all out—Björk could come and sing you a song from the perspective of the ocean before you blow out the candles on your cake or Zinedine Zidane could headbutt an Italian in...
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Things Found in the Beards of ZZ Top
The models from the “Legs” video
A mint-condition Nolan Ryan rookie card
Two families of armadillos (unrelated)
Bits of Frito pie in various forms of decay
116 lbs of sand
A concert by The Fabulous Thunderbirds from September 12, 1986
Three proven oil reserves
A recently-abandoned cockfighting ring
Five other beards
An idea for a Facebook-like website written on a BBQ...
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Potions → Storychord →
I wrote a short story for Storychord! Storychord is an awesome online publication that features one story, one image, and one song, each by different authors/artists, every issue. Check it out, please.
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Stuff I've Learned About Downton Abbey From People...
“Maggie Smith’s in it. And she’s a bitch. But a fun bitch.”
“It’s like Gosford Park and Upstairs, Downstairs.”
“Owen Sleater from Boardwalk Empire was on it for, like, a second.”
“It’s during WWI.”
“There’s a butler, maybe the head butler— Is that what you even call them, “The Head Butler”?...
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On of Montreal's Paralytic Stalks
I’m going to be harsh but only because I care, because this band has had some of the best records (and live shows) of the last decade: of Montreal’s Paralytic Stalks is a slog of an album with few, fleeting moments of joy. Not that it has to be joyous—Kevin Barnes can make a “dark” album (there’s been a darkness to the lyrics for years...
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On Luck
One of the things I like so far about HBO’s new David Milch/Michael Mann horse racing series Luck, is the relationship between Chester “Ace” Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Gus Demetriou (Dennis Farina). I have no idea how long these two have known one another*. There’s an employer/employee formality to some of their interactions that makes time ambiguous. Ace...
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