March 2011
16 posts
February 2011
30 posts
Gorillaz - “Kids with Guns (Jamie T’s...
Rufus Wainwright's daughter's biological mother is... →
Her grandparents include Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III, and Kate McGarrigle; her aunt is Martha Wainwright.
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Ceilidh: hi Uncle Matthew!
Me: hi Ceilidh!
tu parles français?
bonjour!
Ceilidh: bonjour!
Me: ça va bien?
Josh [in background]: say "oui"
Ceilidh: oui!
Josh [in background]: say "poutine"
Ceilidh: poutine!
Me: poutine avec foie gras!
Ceilidh: what's that?
Me: um... it's duck... um...
let me talk to Daddy now
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A fun game to play with friends
Travis: [responding to something I'd just asked]
Me: hmmmm
interesting response...
Travis: oh for the last time, stop using me for psychological experiments!
Me: what an interesting reaction to someone saying "interesting response..."
Travis: ARGH!
Nick Drake - “Things Behind the Sun”
Recently-single people stories
Me: that's was a really boring story
T: oh come on!
Me: you just spent ten minutes telling me about a girl, who you met at *Honey*, giving you mixed signals all night
then you finished by leaving with someone else, who you initially introduced as the story's protagonist
T: well I typed it out to Luke, and he said it was one of the funniest things he's ever read
Me: did you use different words?
“You can use a hammer to build a house for a homeless person or you can use it to...”
– Margaret Atwood on digital publishing. “[E]very technology is a tool and every tool has three sides—a sharp side, a dull side and a stupid side.”
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An unexpected turn of conversation
While buying groceries, the middle-aged cashier taught me all about Pay Pass (basically, credit cards are magic now), and I gave her recipe ideas for kohlrabi.
Anonymity
I was writing a post about anonymity, how I’m getting lots of traffic in 2011 from people Googling “matthew gruman,” and how it’s all weirding me out. But then I noticed a hit from yesterday, Valentine’s Day, for “nude images of matt gruman” and I was far too entertained to continue.
A few years ago, my friend Travis and I made a stupid video parodying...
