January 2010
32 posts
Greg: i bought a lime at safeway that is the size and shape of a large lemon
Matthew: i bought a lime that was the size and shape of a shitake mushroom
Greg: i bought a lime that is the size and shape of the 3rd copy of the declaration of independance
Matthew: i bought a lime that is the size and shape of prince edward island. I keep it in Nunavut
Greg: i bought a lime that is the size and shape of the goodyear blimp, i rent it out for major sporting events
Matthew: i bought a lime that is the size and shape of money that i give this guy from lethbridge in exchange for his lime that's the size and shape of the goodyear blimp
Greg: i bought a lime the size and shape of a ATM machine to deposit my lime shaped and sized moneys
Matthew: aaaaaand scene
Nina Simone - “I Shall Be Released”
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Overheard in Mount Pleasant
Girl 1: and there's just more of then in the arts scene
Girl 2: yeah, cause it's more exclusive
Girl 1: even though they're poor
Girl 2: right
dah dah dah dah dah ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh →
I get a lot of funny search terms leading people to my sites, but having the #1 result for “dah dah dah dah dah ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” is a dream I never knew I had.
Rheostatics - “Deconstruct Me,...
Friend trolling
Matthew: I don't even know people who can draw, let alone animate!
all my artists friends are these poor hygiene losers
Dany: ... :(
Matthew: this one asshole even lives in Mississauga!
can you believe that?!
Dany: I live in Oakville now, Douchebag.
Epic fail.
Matthew: I don't know what an Oakville is
Good Mt. Pleasant news (finally)!
According to the City, that temporary shelter on Broadway near Fraser (which, by the way, allows pets and carts), is applying for rezoning to create “an 11-story building with Commercial space at-grade on East Broadway; Broadway Youth Resource Centre on the first and second floors; 103 Social Housing units; and 24 Market Rental Dwelling Units.”
Fingers crossed that we don’t end...
6 CodeIgniter Hacks for the Masters →
Worth it for the unique validation extension.
I made a little jam with my niece’s phone...
“Everything starts somewhere
Except the times it don’t
make any sense to...”
– A couple years ago, I made a Fold-over poetry game to promote Canadian Literature at an academic conference. It’s a digital version of the fold-over stories you used to make as a kid (i.e. write a line, fold the paper over, give it to someone who write line two with only seeing the line...
Lady Gaga named Polaroid creative director →
(blownspeakers)
For M3l
UBC Arts Career Expo 2010 →
I’m a panelist at this year’s UBC Arts Career Expo, in the “My BA Has Nothing to Do with My Career” session—should be pretty fun. If your concerned about life after university with an Arts degree, and want to hear about how I ended up with a career I love that has almost nothing to do with my education (after spending eight years in post-secondary schools studying...
Families are Formed Through Copulation
I got a Google Alert alerting me that a book review I wrote was in Google Book Search. The author’s linked the review from a number of sites, so I’m sure it’s a “this was attached to an ISBN algorithm” that did it, but it’s pretty cool that “matthewgruman.com” is listed as a source. It’s also gave me an opportunity to über-dork out and add MLA...
“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
– Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America (1967). (via ryanedwardmiller)
“It has snowed more than 40 hours in Montreal since Lhasa’s departure.”
– LHASA DE SELA DIES IN MONTREAL, AGED 37…
Bummer: Tim Hortons & Wendy’s To Open In... →
(via blownspeakers)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want...”
– Albert Einstein (via libraryland) (via thehermitage) (via childrensbooks)