January 2010
50 posts
Building bike
This is a work in progress, but I’m almost done. I need a spanner to tighten the lock ring against the cog and then I can put the chain on. Last night I bought a chain whip and a bottom bracket tool (did not know these were things). Other than that I need to saw off some of the fork, install the brake cable+lever and put the grip tape on. I think. We’ll find out. I’ve done...
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– You know who
“Stimulants during the day, depressants at night, bikerides in between.”
J.D. Salinger died →
thespokenword asked: Thanks for the follow. Do you work on campus?
“Worst word ever: buoy. Kinda fun to say but you see it in writing and you want...”
“My body and I have come to a mutual disagreement: I poison it daily and it...”
“I want a mortgage like I want cancer.”
Today is (statistically) the most depressing day... →
heartmatter:
…apparently
Don’t want to rub it in, but it’s a sunny 64 degrees in Chapel Hill today. Nice as fuck out.
Requoting PatRob to sound like Quentin Tarantino
“They were under the heel of the [fucking] French [OK?]. And they got together and swore a pact to the [fucking] Devil [all right?]…They said [like], ‘We will serve you if you get us free from the [fucking] prince [OK?].’ True story. And so the Devil said [like], ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ They kicked the [fucking] French out, the Haitians [fucking] revolted [all right], and got themselves free. But...
Let's play pretend
Now, let’s pretend we’re all just batshit crazy and assume that Haiti did indeed make a deal with the devil. Devil deals and voodoo — I don’t know about you but that sounds kinda badass to me.
“They were under the heel of the French. And they got together and swore a pact...”
– Patty Pat Robertson!
WatchGroup ride in Helsinki. I want to go to there.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own...
http://chasblackman.tumblr.com/ask
Somebody needs to throw together a Conan insanity...
Conan’s ginger mug where that nutty dog face usually is.
“A pattern emerges. OK, now, repeat that in your head, but replace it and put it...”
“Like his father, who serves in the novel as a kind of emblematic prologue to...”
– ?
“Conan is a national treasure, Leno is a roob with a desk.”
– No, roob is not a word, yes it is a combo of rube and boob.
TV addicts risk heart disease, study finds →
Addictions
When you know exactly what to do to make your body go ahhhhhhhhhh.
I remembered this scene in a meeting yesterday and...
Charlie: Man these guys are crazy, I can't believe they bought all my pills.
Buster: Ahh you know what they say, nobody parties like a jockey.
Charlie: I was not familiar with that expression buster I didn't even know you guys could talk.
Buster: so...you want that job or not?
Charlie: I tell you what, I got a little something I gotta straighten out with the mafia, you know how that goes....
Buster: Oh sure.
Charlie: But when that's done, maybe. Cause there's somethin' about that horse, Buster. You know it's like we looked at each other and then there was eye contact and I was lookin' at the horse and the horse was lookin' at me and then it hit me, I think maybe, I was a centaur in my past life.
Buster: Well somethin' tells me you were probably never half man half horse but hell, what do I know, all I know is you got a great attitude so come on you old son-of-a-gun and and let buster do a line off your boner.
“This is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it...”
– Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten (via ajourneyroundmyskull)
MADVILLAIN - SAVIOR BEANS →
Yesssssssssssssssssssssss
This is what my credit card statement looks like
Books
Food
Coffee
Booze
Books
Food
Food
Booze
Coffee
Books
Something I’m not sure what it is…
Food
Coffee
Coffee
Food
Books
Gas
Booze
Here's the plan
I’m gonna try to read these in 2010:
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Brother Karamazov
The Idiot
Gogol
Dead Souls
Short story collection (must read The Nose and The Overcoat)
Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
War and Peace (originally title War, What is it Good For?) [Chances are I will not be reading this one…]
Death of Ivan I. & Other Stories
Mikhail Bulgakov
Master and...
The Master and Margarita
But worse things were to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweler’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party — namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other.
“Whatever gets you through the night.”
Raise your hand if you’re wearing the same clothes from last night.