Here's a book for Jesse: The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?

Yeah, I didn't even read the article yet, but don't get me started.

Also, I know I'm late, but that Chris Benoit story is so sad and crazy.

Also also, I spent all day in a room mostly listening to a someone who kept using "language" as a verb.

Dear Paul McCartney,

Why did you write the catchiest song in the history of EVER, and then sell it to Apple so they can put it in iTunes commercials and taunt me until the END OF TIME??!?

no love, Me

(P.S. Loved you in Wings.)

I need to remember to make a work safe playlist on my iPod.

Signed,

Just suddenly became aware that Zack de la Roche was screaming "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" very loudly

Thanks for the earworm, doll.

Less pleasant link: American Cockroach.

In her American Cockroach project, Chalmers records the half-imaginary life of the domestic pest known as the cockroach. The roaches are and aren't exactly your kitchen sink generic water bugs-Chalmers orders them from a biological supply company, tends and feeds the creatures, and then gives them roles in a series of elaborately constructed theatrical set pieces which she films and photographs with the solemnity and precision of a family portrait photographer.

I warned you, so I don't want to hear about it.

Site also has genetically engineered mice.

I warned you, so I don't want to hear about it.

You know, everyone talks about what good actors they are, but I think they're just phoning it in.

Yeah, I won't be clicking that link.

That reminds me, at a meeting the other day, talk veered into what this very large, muscular, toughlooking coworker would do if one of the mice crawled up his pant leg (it isn't unprecendented. The local mice are bold.) He announced he'd be the one shrieking down the hall without his pants. Not thinking, I muttered, I did that once. which got some raised eyebrows.

Oops. I had to hastily describe when I was 15 and a roach in my dad's office crawled up my multilayered skirt and my response was to strip off the skirt and stand on the table. I left off the part about it being right in front of the window that faces the campus library. During class change.

Please stop talking about roaches. Thank you.

What. Jesse. said.

Hey, I'm just sharing the extent of my revulsion. And, well, humiliation.

from the NY Post:

June 26, 2007 -- ALAN Cumming may love his new flick, "Suffering Man's Charity" - but not too many others did at its premiere at the Core Club. Some scenes in the dark comedy - about a "failed composer turned music teacher with a weakness for impoverished young men" - were too much for the crowd. During a gruesome torture scene involving a scantily clad David Boreanaz and a whip,several people left and a woman fainted. Cumming - who adapted, directed, produced and stars in the movie - was unfazed and partied with Paper magazine execs afterward.