I just need it to hold off from attacking me until after the marathon (11/01). And after Costa Rica (11/24–12/08). Mid-December would be the ideal window. Great, now I’m even trying to plan when the best time to contract swine flu would be?
I’ve recently become a little obsessed with visiting Acadia National Park in Maine.
Blue Boats (via snowdog?)
“The Sexy Dark Knight”: Awesome coloring job spotted at Bubba’s restaurant in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Post-it Note Reading Series is a sporadically-held event hosted by illustrator Arthur Jones. Jones invites writers to read short stories and projects, behind them, illustrations done entirely on yellow Post-it Notes. He likens it to “watching a comic strip read out loud, or attending a Power Point presentation that doesn’t suck.” Readers: Andrew Solomon, Mike Albo, Starlee Kine.
Monday, October 5
Admission: FREE, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8pm
reservations are recommended
Imagine this: You have to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about an unfamiliar topic, with slides you’ve never seen, to an audience eager to heckle and laugh at you. If you’re in your underwear, you’re having a nightmare. If you’re clothed, it’s called PowerPoint Karaoke. How fun is that? Hosted by ZOOMDOGGLE.com.
For more information: http://www.powerpointkaraoke2009.com/ http://www.zoomdoggle.com
(via MonkeyTown)
Jil wrote a great article about how we feel about some celebrities. (I make a cameo!) Seriously, it’s well worth your time to read.
Grandpa Plans Ahead
My mother traditionally requests a Christmas list by October. Furthermore, my birthday is only a month after Christmas, so my birthday presents are usually Christmas list leftovers. So that’s why I’ve started thinking about it this early. The things I want suggest that I’m really a seventy-year-old man. Basically if you ever want to buy me a present just try to think of something you might get your grandpa. Especially if it involves boats or sea creatures.
- Vintage-y globe and/or a map that includes misshapen continents and sea monsters… pretty much anything nautical especially if it is also old timey; and/or a compass that looks cool and is small enough to carry around (concrete jungle, y’all)
- The Oxford Atlas of the World, Sixteenth Edition (out soon! exciting!)
- Classy but not too classy hip flask (for whiskey)
- Subscription to The Economist
- Prescription sunglasses from See
- This poster, framed
Some Mad Men–inspired tips for how to upgrade your travel.
It’s Only Natural, This Thing for Books
“The work presents a meticulously fashioned fantasy of a library in which shelves have become obsolete, and books, like examples of living creatures, are displayed in illusionistic dioramas that evoke those of the American Museum of Natural History. In this kind of library the Dewey decimal system has been replaced by a subjective method of categorization about as straightforward as Symbolist poetry. Franz Kafka, J. G. Ballard, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Gertrude Stein find themselves grouped together in the depths of the North Atlantic, as writers whom Ms. Gonzalez-Foerster sees as links between Europe and the Americas. Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño share company in the desert. And Paul Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop and the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade are classified under the tropical, their books displayed in a rain-forest diorama in which the ruins of a Modernist house can be seen peeking out of the undergrowth.”
This weekend = 175. In the park (via tom gauld)
I really, really, really want to go back to Patagonia someday soon (maybe in 2011), including the Chilean side and Torres del Paine this time.
I’m From Barcelona, “Oversleeping”
