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Thu Oct 11

Okay, now I'm officially over there for good

So, don’t come here no more expecting anything new.

Alternatively, if you came here via the Wordpress site to see what nonsense I’ve drummed up in the past, welcome, please have a look around. The Tumblog stretches back 9 pages to my first posts back in March of this year.

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Wed Oct 10

Bork

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Tue Oct 9

In The Mausoleum by Beirut

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[insert first title here]

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So, Now I'm Over There

I’ll double up my links for a little bit, but you should probably look over there from now on.

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Sun Oct 7

This is making me think that Yoni was right, that This Is Good.

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Thu Oct 4

“If you watch The Wonder Years without the voiceovers, it’s 95% people staring at each other.” [via]

This is reminiscent of the experiment to remove Garfield’s thought bubbles from each strip, leaving a surreal depiction of a very lonely Jon Arbuckle and his cat.

Apparently, that experiment has led to a new online effort to submit alternate versions of Garfield strips without Garfield’s thoughts, called simply “Arbuckle”. Uneven results - I think I prefer the altered Jim Davis strips.

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Wed Oct 3

The trailer for Be Kind Rewind is now out, and I highly recommend that you watch it as soon as possible.

It seems like this is at the tail end of when it could possibly come out, being centered on a practically extinct format - not just the VHS tape, but also the neighborhood video store.

Other great things seem to spin out of this - the shared vibe and excitement of a local community audience, and the creative power of DIY individuals over the lawyerly dominance of the great Hollywood machine.

Of course, there is this thing called YouTube these days (heard of it?), but I don’t think I know anyone who wouldn’t prefer what this movie’s hypothesizing over thumbprint, dithered video by the masses.

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playoffs vs. class

As the picture below might not be clear, it is a picture of Fenway from about 6 pm tonight. I had class from 7 to 10, and was able to check in on the score midway through the class after completing my exam.

Later on, at about 9:30 or so, my Physics teacher interrupted her lecture to urgently ask anyone if they knew what the score was, when practically the entire class told her that the score was not only 4-0, but that the game was already over. Then she resumed her lecture.

(as her portion of the ‘tell us something about yourself’ introductory go-around, she mentioned that her favorite figure in all of professional sports was Mike Lowell)

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(for Yoni)

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Sun Sep 30

Not new by any means, but the flash game fl0w remains as the best meditative “videogame” that I’ve ever played.

The game’s author Jenova Chen originally made it as his senior thesis at USC, and a while back he remade fl0w for the PS3’s online realm. It looks gorgeous.

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Fri Sep 28

Star Wars viewing order thread

Kottke (a recent dad) asks for suggestions as to how to indoctrinate his newborn into the movies, which viewing order, etc.

Not by any means the first time a discussion thread like this has started up, but what I found to be most interesting was this suggestion:

Star Wars
Empire
Phantom Menace
Clones
Sith
Jedi

The idea there is that after the big cliffhanger of Empire, you go back and see the backstory behind how Vader became Vader before seeing how it all ends. The downside is that you have to brave all of the recent Lucas crap.

Also, somewhat related is this video in which Patton Oswalt describes what he’d do with a Time Machine. The video actually cuts off his routine by a little bit - the whole thing is on his recent stand-up album Werewolves and Lollipops.

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Thu Sep 27

A classic from the Archives:

Noah-Wan Kenobi or Obi-Wan Pomerantz?

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Odd to come across two completely different uses of stop-motion animation in one day.

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Fantoche (2 times)

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