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Here's a collection of lovingly crafted buyable weirdness that you just won't find anywhere else..
See Jimmy, that’s the New York Stock Exchange. That’s where people traded incredibly convoluted financial instruments that no one really understood until one day the whole thing went BOOM!
“In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.”
Behind the Dude: Steve Buscemi on "The Big Lebowski" : Rolling Stone
Topic: Arts
9:59 pm EDT, Sep 8, 2008
I don't know how big this is but there's this new theory that Donny is just a figment of Walter's imagination. Like he's an old army buddy that had died or something. It almost works. There's the "your phone is ringin', Dude" "thanks, Donny?" [exchange]. But that's the only acknowledgement that the Dude makes of Donny. If you watch those scenes, it's like Donny would come in, Walter gets so upset and it's like the Dude never hears it.
I painted this for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown when George Washington and the Continentals traunched the British. The county would not dignify it with a response, however, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate kindly wrote me an e-mail saying they would "pass it along to the staff".
Book Review - Morning Spy, Evening Spy By Colin MacKinnon (washingtonian.com)
Topic: Arts
6:57 am EDT, Aug 11, 2008
The book jacket of Colin MacKinnon’s Morning Spy, Evening Spy says the novel “holds its own with the best of John le Carré.” Lots of espionage thrillers are promoted as being like le Carré’s. And yes, MacKinnon’s novel is full of spies and foreign intrigue. But MacKinnon is no le Carré. And that’s just fine.
While le Carré’s novels are crammed with the atmospherics and tactics of British intelligence services, MacKinnon provides a good window into how the CIA operates. (In his author’s note, he thanks Gene Poteat and John Waller of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers “for our conversations about how spies live their lives.”) While le Carré’s best novels focus on the West’s war with the Soviet Union before 1991, MacKinnon—former director of the American Institute of Iranian Studies in Tehran—takes us from Washington into the center of today’s conflict in the Middle East, providing interesting insights into how and why 9/11 happened. And while le Carré’s novels can be dense and sometimes slow and hard to follow, MacKinnon’s writing is sharp and fast-moving.
I can't recommend this book enough - a spy novel from someone that can actually write.
