2008

Sep

Me want join this

Playing tips from the pros

One of the odd rituals I've come to...

Has been putting band-aids over my nippies. It’s all part of the routine now.

This is a verbal attack? A little whiney, sure.

Gaudy chairs

The other night as I was running home from the gymnasium, I got a glimpse of the inside of this...

How did I reply to an e-mail before I even received it?

Gocco: Two third of Japanese households can't...

Seriously, how do these people afford to eat...

While reading the Tim and Eric interview...

Graphic from a The Believer interview proving that it is...

While his delivery is a bit stiff, I find this a pretty ballsy ad from Stand Up to Cancer.

Friend Alex, just back from Alaska

'Twas on boing boing, but I'll repost...god...

Jeff already linked to this, but man, this is Dave (and Norm!) and his finest. What a complete...

Vidkun Quisling: Noun!

Consumering: Oooooooooooooh.

Look at the comments section and click on the...

How to make an awesome cut off shirt: one old white t-shirt...

I don't know if I actually believe this,...

A friend of mine here in Dublin used to be a roadie for a small local band, nothing special. One of...

Here’s another video featuring that creepy chess boy from some months back, and an equally...

The Times writes about the tremendous MFK...

Hadron Collider man speaks at TED

Earth-destroying black holes be damned, I'm...

Nulla dies sine linea

Just watched Ken Burns’ doc on Thomas Jefferson. In all, pretty standard stuff, but what...

“I *love* that the collective readership of this site knows...”
— Jason Kottke regarding a...

Aintitcool: Your one stop shop for all things...

Hoping my name will land somewhere on this...

Because I am often in possession of a tool...

Bruce wrote the title track for the new...

Coy mistress: Mission Accomplished!

Remember how last week I mentioned that big bump in hits the site got after being posted on my...

This makes me unspeakably sad.

Courtesy of Chris: crazies on the teevee!

Aug

“We’ll be seeing ya. We’re only just getting...”
— Bruce at the conclusion of...

Image B: On the same homepage, a blurb about a new Bentley...

Image A: Various headlines about the hurricane heading for...

I am listening to the bootleg from when...

And I was thinking about how it seems like a truck almost ran my little car over—that would...

Best friends! ;-) Super cute!

Google image search results page for the...

Seriously—what if you saw a pterodactyl swoop over...

Cosmic stardust

Curse that Bryson book—it’s got me feeling all kinds of universally insignificant. I...

Now I realize that I have a lot more...

But I demand they all begin posting more and more frequently on their blogs.

Speaking of smug, here is a phrase I...

Mettre de l’eau dans son vin. Literally: water down one’s wine aka take it down a notch,...

I always forget how much I love tofu...

In Thai and Chinese dishes? Where it’s fried? With eggplant? Or pumpkin squash? Hot damn, son,...

A little pig man walk cycle.

Some Muybridge for your post-Beijing pondering.

A burger to rival Father's Office's and...

Friend Benjamin and I attended a Human Giant show last night. Despite the fact that the gang...

Santiago Calatrava's preferred shade of...

Breezy New Yorker profile of Calatrava

My choice for 2008 SecDef: Joe Biden’s mom.

“It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care....”
— Rousing stuff to be sure....

Reputation be damned, I love this sketch.

Summer, don't go!

Pretty awesome that we had this on as kids. That opening title sequence will forever remain branded...

Top 100 Universities in 2007

Pretty neato (and occasionally gross) Olympic...

Finished Zadie Smith, now onto Bill...

Really enjoyed The Autograph Man. A bit more abstract thematically than White Teeth, but her writing...

You can't beat that

Yesterday I roasted a bunch of sliced tomaotes for hours upon hours with salt and olive oil. I also...

I recalled reading this some time ago:...

They filmed part of this next to my dad's...

This is actually a Washington Post...

J. Freedom du Lac

Video of Max Weinberg singing/shouting...

I love this picture of a Bruce holding one of the many signs...

As Jeff said, Thank god idiots are the ones...

It's all in the execution I suppose

Roommate Charles was watching an infomercial this morning involving Billy Mays and a hamburger...

One of the great “What the…?” moments of the tour: Bruce opening with “And...

Endings (x3)

Man, tough times. A) The Olympics are over. I don’t know whether it was because of Roommate...

“JUNE 26 Filmed at La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s masterpiece....”
— Oh, Woody.

Photographic documentation of one of the all-time great...

Random amusing idea

For a one-act sort of story, I was thinking, what if there’s this moderately famous celebrity,...

Your bittersweet Bruce setlist update,...

August 24 / Kansas City, MO / Sprint Center Notes: With the E Street Band headlining the...

In the library

Good christ, people are coughing up lungs here, people. If I don’t come down with cholera by...

Alright!

FROM NETFLIX: You have 481 movies in your Queue The Wire: Season 5: Disc 3Arriving on or around:...

New Mac Keyboard

Partly due to a my aversion to putting hot metal boxes on my groin, and partly due to my increasing...

Google analytics photo of the countries where people have...

Rockin all over the world

Yesterday I posted a link to a video I embedded here on the BTX and ended up getting around three...

Average Joe vs. Olympians

“It was first time we were coming to US, Greg and his flat...”
— Our new Lithuanian friends...

I googled one of my favorite college...

Just throwing this out there

Does the end of The Philadelphia Story strike anyone as kind of odd? Specifically I’m talking...

With only two shows left on Bruce's...

super chouette...le yawn...

The New York New Museum. I love the HELL YES! rainbow. That...

The Wire news of the day: Slander! Libel!...

Great photo from a Times article on Mykonos.

Okay then, gentlemen.

Because it’s my site, that’s why!

My this is a fun performance. I, ahem, got to see this at Giants Stadium. (God, I am an addict.)

Have you heard? There’s good rocking in Nashville.

The Boss points to something awesome in Hershey. Because let...

Genius child actor of the day: Virginia Weidler in The...

Actress who plays a French bank teller in episode three of...

Kristin White is going to Paris tomorrow. Guh.

A restaurant I will visit on my next...

Perbacco in the East Village. Consider yourselves educated!

Today's delanceyplace.com newsletter...

“When, at the stroke of New Year 1920, the U.S. formally went ‘dry,’ most...

“Now, ABC Studios has their loosely autobiographical script...”
— How delightfully quirky!...

Who thought this was a good idea on any level?

I was trying to take a better screen cap, but figured it’s easier just to let you watch it...

Jillian: HE HELD MY HAND

Sister Kristin White went here for dinner the...

Oh, hello, Bruce, Jillian and Turbo.

Just thought of this...say, now, that's not...

SFO Nectarine dessert just that

“But on he soldiered, leading into “Mary’s...”
— Jillian’s big moment as...

"We decided with our attorneys that the best...

Yale - 1; MIT - 0

Why are the Olympics so depressing?

Between Alicia Sacramone, that nice Chinese hurdler, and last night’s Lolo Jones race, I am...

Jackson and Del Toro: Did they even look at...

What’s that, you say? You want a Born to Run outtake? Okay, how about this one, “Lovers...

“Bruce is a joke out here. He’s more of an east coast...”
— Roommate Nick continuing his...

MY MIND IS BLOWN

Turbo, Lexy, Jillian and Jillian’s mom are 10th, 11th, et al., in line for the pit at...

What is it about aintitcoolers that...

I was reading aintitcool today and it seems everyone there, from Harry and his gang to the...

I love the payoff with the “bum-bum-bum-bump” joke and the female group. I was surprised...

Re: that weird tape everyone's wearing at the...

For you geetar players out there, a pretty...

How not to act: USA vs. China

Re: the below list of books

I recently borrowed Words That Work from my local library—pretty terrible. Pretty much a way...

Olympic 100 meter hurdler I’d marry tomorrow: Lolo...

Neat picture of Olympic women’s fencing.

Randy Pausch on achieving childhood dreams.

Okay, no more boring lists. Here is a picture of a kitty...

From a sticky I maintain on my computer:...

Collections of Nothing william davies kingthe piano player kurt vonnegutThe Known World edward p...

A list of sites found on my oft...

43 Folders Aintitcool Big Contrarian Bizarro Blog Boing Boing BusinessWeek Online Candy Chang City...

From Aziz Ansari's tumblr, Hilton Hotels: How...

Eating well

So I’ve been doing this marathon training stuff and all the cross training stuffs too, and...

In case you didn’t watch the below video, this screen...

J Date: how not to act

On that note...

This is what makes the Internet great in that HP commercial kind of way.

Wunner them fun reviews with pictures of The...

Like your mom during a Hallmark...

Maybe it’s the marathon training, or perhaps it’s my newfound obsession with tennis, but...

Tennis

Aye yi yi. Played Friend Carl in a best of five match today. I won the first two sets 7-6, 7-5, and...

Just in: my new LA Leggers shirt. AWESOME. Also,...

A photo of Joan Rivers from many faces ago.