matthew.gruman.org

26 Aug
Via @MargaretAtwood

Via @MargaretAtwood

23 Aug

tomwaits:

Today is the day!  Tune in to Tom Waits’ Private Listening Party and get more info at http://www.tomwaits.com/news

First time in my life, I’m looking forward to October.

#tom waits #bad as me

22 Aug

Tim Minchin - “F Sharp”

If you like note interval humour (but let’s be honest here, who doesn’t?), you’ll love this.

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RIP Jack Layton

Before the last election, my brother took his two daughters (then 1 and 3) to an NDP rally in Edmonton to see Jack Layton speak. The older one asked why there were so many people:

Him: you know how Ms. Johnson runs your pre-school classroom?
Her: yeah
Him: well Jack Layton wants to run the whole country
Her: woah…

She spent the next half hour watching him talk in silent amazement.

21 Aug

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16 Aug
I’ve just realized this was my 1000th “like” here on Tumblr, and it’s mighty appropriate. I caught the first episode of Freaks and Geeks on TV way back in the late 90s with my older brother. We both loved it immediately and will both refer to it as “my favourite show” when it comes up in conversation. For their first wedding anniversary, my sister-in-law’s sister bought them the DVD box set. The next time I visited we of course watched a few episodes, but there wasn’t enough time for me to catch all the unaired ones. On the way home, my then-girlfriend picked me up at the airport: Her: hi!Me: heya! can we stop by Best Buy on the way home?Her: sure, why?Me: I have to buy the Freaks and Geeks boxed set seriously, like right now Best show ever.

I’ve just realized this was my 1000th “like” here on Tumblr, and it’s mighty appropriate. I caught the first episode of Freaks and Geeks on TV way back in the late 90s with my older brother. We both loved it immediately and will both refer to it as “my favourite show” when it comes up in conversation.

For their first wedding anniversary, my sister-in-law’s sister bought them the DVD box set. The next time I visited we of course watched a few episodes, but there wasn’t enough time for me to catch all the unaired ones. On the way home, my then-girlfriend picked me up at the airport:

Her: hi!
Me: heya!
can we stop by Best Buy on the way home?
Her: sure, why?
Me: I have to buy the Freaks and Geeks boxed set
seriously, like right now

Best show ever.

(via aspaceinvader)

#Oh gahd, the anxiety. #Me as a child.

15 Aug
When I was buying herbs this year, I decided to pick up a small romaine lettuce plant and see how it would grow in a fairly small pot. For most of the summer it stayed small, but I was able to cut a few leaves off here and there for sandwiches—very fresh and delicious. I haven’t eaten any for a few weeks now, and this has happened. It’s about a foot and half tall.

When I was buying herbs this year, I decided to pick up a small romaine lettuce plant and see how it would grow in a fairly small pot. For most of the summer it stayed small, but I was able to cut a few leaves off here and there for sandwiches—very fresh and delicious.

I haven’t eaten any for a few weeks now, and this has happened. It’s about a foot and half tall.

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[Dany Larivière] joked that his ex-wife, Isabelle Prévost, had always wanted a big rock, quipping that this one was between 18 and 24 “carat-tonnes.

— Mayor dumps gift-wrapped 20-tonne boulder on ex-wife’s lawn

#quebec

14 Aug
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Kate Nash - “Happy Merry”

#doo doo doo da doo doo

13 Aug
I don’t consider myself superstitious at all—I walk under ladders, meow at any black cats crossing my path, and when I have to pick a number I always go with thirteen (it’s always available). But when I worked at an ESL camp 7-8 years ago, one of the Chinese students gave me this thing (talisman?) to defeat any nightmares that try entering my home. I’ve had it nailed near every bedroom window I’ve slept in since. Just now I realized it had been flipped over, and the sword was facing inwards instead of outwards. Without a second’s pause I thought “well *that’s* why I haven’t been sleeping well lately!” and turned it back around.

I don’t consider myself superstitious at all—I walk under ladders, meow at any black cats crossing my path, and when I have to pick a number I always go with thirteen (it’s always available). But when I worked at an ESL camp 7-8 years ago, one of the Chinese students gave me this thing (talisman?) to defeat any nightmares that try entering my home. I’ve had it nailed near every bedroom window I’ve slept in since.

Just now I realized it had been flipped over, and the sword was facing inwards instead of outwards. Without a second’s pause I thought “well *that’s* why I haven’t been sleeping well lately!” and turned it back around.

#superstition

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#kafka's coffee #chalkboard in the bathroom

11 Aug

blownspeakers:

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

Bronwen and I are just reminiscing about 2005 and talking about using the phrase “fit but he/she knows it” in every day conversation.

I fully support this initiative.

10 Aug
[Sherlock Holmes’] career has been a long one - though it is possible to exaggerate it; decrepit gentlemen who approach me and declare that his adventures formed the reading of their boyhood do not meet the response from me which they seem to expect. One is not anxious to have one’s personal dates handled so unkindly.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

07 Aug
Also, if we got a divorce, she would get half of my money; making me ostensibly poor, yet still paying her to just get *pounded* by other dudes. Which will happen because she is still smoking hot, whereas I look like a Nazi propaganda cartoon of a Jew.

Also, if we got a divorce, she would get half of my money; making me ostensibly poor, yet still paying her to just get *pounded* by other dudes. Which will happen because she is still smoking hot, whereas I look like a Nazi propaganda cartoon of a Jew.

#The League

05 Aug

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

#we all feel this way right?

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