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Nov
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The Police Department does not have a rough estimate of how many lush workers are out working lushes. It offers an exact number: 109.

That is far fewer than there once were. What do we know of these 109 criminals? All but two are men, and overwhelmingly middle-aged or older, some born in 1947, 1943, 1938 and even, in one case, 1931.

— Lush Workers Cut Wallets From the Pockets of Drunk Train Riders - NYTimes.com
Nov
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Auto-reblog for the greatest four-chord song of all time. That is quite a compositional trick—to sound like there’s much more going on than there is. 

cargohoo:

Brian Eno - The True Wheel

(via therichgirlsareweeping)

Nov
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(via The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Catch Me A Phoenix! by Carter Brown) —Thank you, Dafna, for pointing me toward this blog—!

(via The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Catch Me A Phoenix! by Carter Brown) —Thank you, Dafna, for pointing me toward this blog—!

Oct
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Hope Larson has a Tumblr devoted to her experiments with homemade ice cream. You know what to do. hopelarson: Bizcochito Ice Cream Inspired by the cinnamon and anise-flavored state cookie of New Mexico. I’m on my second draft of this flavor, and I think I’ve just about got it. I’m excited to road-test it on top of a nice pumpkin pie.

Hope Larson has a Tumblr devoted to her experiments with homemade ice cream. You know what to do.

hopelarson:

Bizcochito Ice Cream

Inspired by the cinnamon and anise-flavored state cookie of New Mexico. I’m on my second draft of this flavor, and I think I’ve just about got it. I’m excited to road-test it on top of a nice pumpkin pie.

Oct
29th
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Auto-reblog for Family Fodder content. Hey, I recognize that album cover!

newwavetimewarp:

Family Fodder’s Schizophrenia Party EP came out October 29, 1981. Here’s the epic and amazing “Dinosaur Sex.”

Oct
27th
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The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was a popular children’s birthday-party venue that was run out of several locations in North Toronto, including strip malls at Eglinton and Avenue Road, Bathurst and Eglinton, and Woodbine and Highway 7. Every weekend, a new group of unsuspecting middle-class parents would drop off their seven- to 12-year-olds for an hour or two of birthday revelry. Former partygoers recall those afternoons as replete with bodily endangerment, ritual humiliation and untold health-code violations, all presided over by a bunch of vaguely sociopathic teenagers. They were the most outrageous, most envied, most startlingly fun birthday parties a generation of kids ever attended. (via The Grid TO | Down the rabbit hole) —Read the comments, too. Really.

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was a popular children’s birthday-party venue that was run out of several locations in North Toronto, including strip malls at Eglinton and Avenue Road, Bathurst and Eglinton, and Woodbine and Highway 7. Every weekend, a new group of unsuspecting middle-class parents would drop off their seven- to 12-year-olds for an hour or two of birthday revelry. Former partygoers recall those afternoons as replete with bodily endangerment, ritual humiliation and untold health-code violations, all presided over by a bunch of vaguely sociopathic teenagers. They were the most outrageous, most envied, most startlingly fun birthday parties a generation of kids ever attended. (via The Grid TO | Down the rabbit hole) —Read the comments, too. Really.

Oct
25th
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hands of the Uffizi (by minicloud)

hands of the Uffizi (by minicloud)

Oct
21st
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Don’t think of it as homework, or as a test to see if you “get it right” — think about it as one of those shopping-spree sweepstakes that TV networks used to do, where you’re standing with an empty shopping cart in front of a vast expanse of awesome stuff ready for you to grab and explore. If you do it that way, there’s nothing “intimidating” about it. (via You’ve come a long way, Jaime: or how I learned to stop worrying and love Love and Rockets | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment)

Don’t think of it as homework, or as a test to see if you “get it right” — think about it as one of those shopping-spree sweepstakes that TV networks used to do, where you’re standing with an empty shopping cart in front of a vast expanse of awesome stuff ready for you to grab and explore. If you do it that way, there’s nothing “intimidating” about it. (via You’ve come a long way, Jaime: or how I learned to stop worrying and love Love and Rockets | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment)

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Better to appear on the obituary pages as a cult figure at 84 than as a Grammy-winning member of the “Club of 27.” (via Fran Landesman | HiLobrow)

Better to appear on the obituary pages as a cult figure at 84 than as a Grammy-winning member of the “Club of 27.” (via Fran Landesman | HiLobrow)

Oct
20th
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History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow (by SansGil—Gil Cocker)

Magnificent.