January 15, 2009 by jjosh
Sorry I haven’t been posting as of late, but I’m in LA for work and also I
have
(otherwise known as "pinkeye"!!!) which is surreal and not much fun. I will tell you this though: if you go on an airplane wearing an eye patch, people will hold doors open for you. Eye hurts, can’t look at screen any more. Talk soon.
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January 9, 2009 by jjosh
sometimes I think about how fun it mus be to be Spike Jonze, have some crazy idea and then make it happen…but wait, I get that feeling sometimes (see that Charlie Kaufman promo)…there’s something so epic about this…taken via kottke’s best links of 2008 list which is worth a visit on its own…this is 6 minutes, so wait to watch until you can really drink in the slo-mo…(also maybe let it load the whole way and then skip in :44 past all the intro nonsense…I can’t get the seek pref to work with yt high quality embedding, anyone know why?)…
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January 8, 2009 by jjosh
There is nothing like the satisfaction of setting a goal and then achieving it.
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January 7, 2009 by jjosh
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January 7, 2009 by jjosh
This month’s banner is from the Christmas card that Maxine gave me…there’s something I love about the surreal look to those characters, like they’re right out of a dream…
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January 6, 2009 by jjosh
by Lucy Knisley, in a roundabout way via
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January 4, 2009 by phone
Stöllen. better late than never.
This is the first year I made the traditional Granger/Sommer recipe without my mother being there to offer direction (i.e., "without adult supervision"), and I think they turned out pretty delicious. I didn’t really mess with the recipe — I added extra rum (just because) and the only candied cherries I could find were green, but other than that, it’s the classic 1 pound of butter, half a box of powdered sugar, candied fruit-style recipe. I’m going to give one to my mom and one to my aunt and get some official reviews later. One thing I need to remember for next year is that it really does take ALL DAY to make them.
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January 3, 2009 by jjosh
I like meteor showers…I’ve had some great viewing experiences with the Perseids and the Pleides…once at my great Aunt and Uncle’s cabin on a mountain up in CT where there is no electricity, we saw tons and tons of shooting stars…
and once with MT, MA and EB we drove out to Sky Meadows and snuck under the barrier to have a midnight picnic and saw lots of shooting stars…I think it was MA’s first shooting star? Highlight was when we suddenly heard the sound of a pack of coyotes howling at the moon, loud, and not that far away…
Until today I’d never heard of the Quadrantids, but spaceweather.com has this to say about it:
"Although the Quadrantids are a major shower, they are seldom observed. One reason is weather. The shower peaks in early January when northern winter is in full swing. Storms and cold tend to keep observers inside."
Well yes. Even though it is awesome to imagine Earth intersecting the remains of an asteroid/comet that blew up 500 years ago, I think the cold will be keeping me inside tonight. That and because it’s NYC, I’m imagining I’d have to go wayyyyyyyy out to get away from the light pollution. There’s apparently a shower-viewing event going on in Pelham Park(?) in the Bronx, but yeah, I’ll be home.
And before you say it, I know, I know, "the old Josh would have gone."
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January 2, 2009 by josh e-mail
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January 1, 2009 by jjosh
Even though I’m trying to take it a bit gently on this New Year’s Day, this hit me the right way…
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December 31, 2008 by jjosh
I’ve checked in with a bunch of webcomics over the years, ever since the internet started saying that webcomics would be the new salvation for the comic book world. But none of them have ever held my attention for more than a few episodes (webisodes?). I liked Cat and Girl, and have already expressed my love of Wigu, but none of them have captivated me the way Dash Shaw’s "Bodyworld" has. Earlier in the Fall I read his "Bottomless Belly Button" and thought it was fun and ok (all the characters are drawn normally except for one who’s got a frog head). Maybe a bit too much in the comic-self-confessional genre for me.
But "Bodyworld" is fantastic. An oddball mix of z-movie alternate reality, semi-sci-fi teen drama with a little kung fu action film mixed in, "Bodyworld" has got something for everyone: weird hallucingenic drugs, strange semi-steamy love scenes, nunchuks, aliens. Super highly recommended…
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December 30, 2008 by jjosh
even though they’re set up in opposition, it still seems like they both believe in love…
Malcolm McLaren “Love Will…(Keep Us Together/Tear Us Apart)”
via Fluxtumblr
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December 27, 2008 by jjosh
Ny fog
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December 26, 2008 by phone
pavement & tile
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December 26, 2008 by jjosh
possibly the greatest modern Christmas song ever.
Wow, and that video’s kind of great too, right? I have this real soft spot for Robert Earl Keen. When I was living in England, from 81 – 86, I used to stay up late and set my tape recorder recording when John Peel would start his show. That was the only place to hear hip hop and I was so into rap and breakdancing and stuff. I would dub the rap tracks of the show and build these great 80’s hip-hop compilations. No clue what happened to these tapes.
I couldn’t care less about all the other stuff he was playing, I was just waiting for the rap. The other stuff was "really weird". Years later when I was in high school and really into listening to Top 40 radio, I came across one of those tapes of John Peel’s show. At that point I wasn’t really into the hip-hop OR the "really weird" stuff. But there was this one song that I couldn’t stop listening to. I put it on a mix I made for myself and listened to it over and over. I knew I didn’t like country, but this didn’t seem like country, even it did have that little voice-break bit when he sings a few of the phrases. And it was a waltz. And it had a TROMBONE!
Even now when I hear it it speaks to the ridiculous high school romantic in me; it just totally hits that late-night feeling, and it’s old-timey and sweet, and the narrator is obviously more confident in his story-telling than his romantic prowess. But by the end, all is right with the world. Damn this song is sweet.
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