Today was…

…crimping phone cables, driving a pickup truck, mountains, goat shit, a soppressata sandwich, shoveling aforementioned goat shit, ikea boxes, rain, chocolate chip cookies, installing print software, miter sawing, a chipmunk, saw dust, my head lamp, cedar paneling, fish cakes, lemon cake, bourbon, wooden mobiles and finally more bourbon. 

all in all, a good day.

these colors don’t run…but maybe they should.

How do I get a jumpsuit like this?

A Headless Bald Man

It’s a surprise their empire didn’t last longer given that they could figure out stuff as awesome as this!

Catalunya 2009

You don’t have to like moto-racing to appreciate this because there’s something special about seeing the two best at what they do go head to head. This is Frasier and Ali, Federer vs Nadal, Magic vs Bird, Westley against Inigo Montoya… all while doing something that frankly doesn’t seem like it should be possible on two wheels. It’s awesome. 

(Source: vimeo.com)

This is rad as effin’ hell. Toy cars gone wild…Awesome. 

Stickers Gone Wild

This artist let thousands of kids cover her exhibit with stickers. Straight up awesome.

awesome . cheap booze | not . enabling

A post-racial halloween

We must truly be in post-racial america because today I took two very white, very blond little kids trick-or-treating and no less than three separate people referred to me as the “dad.”

Since everyone knows how hard it is to adopt cute white babies and I look nothing like a small blond child people must assume there is some crazy recessive gene action going on.

Otherwise, I really have no explanation.

I need this in my apartment

Some dreams can come true…Nike’s making 1500 of these bad boys and auctioning them off on ebay. The first pair sold for $37,000…anyone got forty grand they can lend me?

(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

An email i just received from someone i do not know

Subject: “Well…”

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truer words

‎”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great men and women, like their words, live on to remind us how we might understand singular moments like these…and maybe live a little bit better by them.

Stuck

They should close down LaGuardia Airport and just use it to sell cars because if there’s anything this place is good at is having expensive stuff sitting around and not going anywhere, staff who can’t (or won’t) answer your questions directly and lines of unhappy customers wishing they could afford and were someplace better. It’s as if their slogan was, “Welcome to LaGuardia, fuck you.”

I was on a flight once, descending to land when the pilot said, just before telling us that it was going to take 40 minutes to reach our gate, “Welcome to the parking lot known as LaGuardia Airport.” You said it friend. Now if you can call the pilot of flight 6039 and tell him to effin’ take off already I’d appreciate it because I’ve been here for hours.