Too perfect

Okay, I realize it may have been debunked today, but I sent this link out to a few friends with the headline "Too fucking perfect"... A mute piano man identitied to police by a street mime. You couldn't write this shit. I swear this is all a plot to sell movie rights. It's a giant performance art piece.


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A writer's best friend

Have you been crippled with curiosity about the state of the white out industry? Wonder no more! (From Clive)


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Mike Nesmith's MOM invented Liquid Paper? Well, hornswoggle me. I can't wait for that question to come up in trivia so I can wow my friends and crush my enemies.

Edited by author 06-10-2005 12:32 PM
Ancient Chinese proverb

Writing fortune cookie fortunes sounds more fun than, well, naming IKEA products or Benjamin Moore paints. Lau on his Wonton career:

These days, he cycles selections from his vast oeuvre in and out of circulation. He is worried that readers will notice that the cookies are in reruns, which might result in Wonton’s losing its edge on the competition. (This is unlikely. Although there are about forty fortune-cookie companies in the United States, few have Wonton’s manufacturing capabilities.) So Lau has decided to bring in new blood. The company will soon advertise for a new fortune writer, and Lau will make the transition to editor. “Maybe when I retire I’ll write again—perhaps a book about writing fortunes,” he said. Returning to form, he summarized the thrust of the book with two simple axioms. “Don’t have too complicated a mind,” he said. “Think in ten-word sentences.”

I bet there'll be stiff competition for this job.

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So sue me, I'm a fucking dweeb...

Um, if anyone out there is rich and wants to make my life, please please please buy me this?

Please?


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I hear ya (I'm a fucking dweeb too), but you'd need a Mellon grant to afford that thing with the price it probably will fetch. A lot cheaper to eBay a Graflex and a conversion kit and make one yourself. It might not be screen used, but it looks exactly the same.

Here's my own saber (snagged the flash for $10!). Not 100% accurate, but close.

Odd books found in a second-hand bookstore
Pretty much what the headline says.

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Great first loins

Er, lines. Sorry. (From Moby)


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Melville junior

Arrr! For younguns who need a visual introduction to the life of the white whale. Also good for teaching first year students. (Thanks Jim)


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Couldn't resist popping in for this one...

Porno magazines rot slower than mainstream rags. This means they will be the last printed matter to decay in the landfills. Archeologists of the future, rejoice! (From BoingBoing)


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When I first read this, I thought it said "pomo" not "porno".

"Porno" is just a pomo spelling of "pomo"...

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That explains why it feels dirty.

Bruce Sterling's honorary degree

Comes with implant that forces all automatic doors to say, "Welcome Doctor Sterling" when he crosses their thresholds. (From BoingBoing)


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The art of the Toastmaster

Butter only goes on one side, you see... That, and: speak up.


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