Costa Vasca, 06/09
Is it Skull Rock? Is it a giant horse snuffling in the sea? I never get tired of thinking about what’s in those caves.
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Costa Vasca, 06/09
Is it Skull Rock? Is it a giant horse snuffling in the sea? I never get tired of thinking about what’s in those caves.
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You know what i like about this kid? He loves me so much he’ll sleep on my damp bath towel. What is my damp bath towel doing on the couch, you ask? This is the part where i change the subject.
2 days ago • 2 notes1. Rinky-dinky
2. Hoity-toity
3. Hanky-panky
4. Jibber-jabber
5. Nitty-gritty
6. Itty-bitty
7. Fuddy-duddy
8. Willy-nilly
9. Dilly-dally
10. Fishmonger
9 months ago • 0 notes
light installation in Madrid - luzinterruptus
My own city, and i had no idea! Shows how much i get out.
9 months ago • 6 notesI have no idea where these things come from. Today, in the bottom of a drawer, i found this list with no explanation attached:
1 year ago • 0 notes- 2,000 weasels escape from somewhere
- In a kitchen, there is a big pile of dead dogs
- A gay man vacuums his house
Paul Curreri & Devon Sproule - Two Sleepy People [Hoagy Carmichael]
I was sitting in Café & Té this morning when a familiar phrase of music caught my ear. I thought, “Wait a second, is that… Hoagy Carmichael!?” And it was! It was so incongruous, sitting in a café in modern, business-like Madrid (and in the Serrano neighborhood, no less*) and hearing Hoagy Carmichael.
This is my favorite arrangement.
*Which, according to my source, is the most expensive place to live in Europe after London.
1 year ago • 0 notes
Mapa del Mundo, Jek Larson
I saw a print of this the other night hanging in the Basque House in Madrid. It’s quite funny, and we spent a long time looking at all of the details. Click for better resolution.
1 year ago • 0 notes
I just happened to stumble across the Wikipedia article for Dewey Decimal Classification this morning while i was looking for who knows what. I suppose i learned about the DDC when i was in elementary school, before the advent of online catalogues*, but i’ve never really given it much thought before this morning. The article says that the purpose of the DDC is “to classify all human knowledge”, which is just amazing to me. Now that the Internet has replaced libraries as the repository of all human knowledge (and then some), when is someone going to invent an Internet Classification System like the DDC? I suppose you could argue that this has already happened and it’s called The Google, but i don’t buy it. I want some numbers. I fantasize about the day when i can go to my local Internet branch and flip through a card catalogue the size of the Large Hadron Collider to find the website i need.
The Wikipedia article on Melvil Dewey is disappointingly sparse, but i am heartened by the fact that the article lists two biographies under “Further Reading”. I’m sure they’re scintillating.
*Incidentally, for someone who likes to collect, sort and label miscellany as much as i do, a card catalogue is the ultimate piece of furniture. Like an old-fashioned zoo, it keeps all of my things in orderly little cages, whereas they usually roam all over the house before crawling under the bed to die. If only i had one!
1 year ago • 0 notesToday on the internet i saw the Son and Father parts of the trinity referred to as “Dual Citizen and The Intergalactic Dad”. And i thought, “hmm. That’s something i’ve never heard before”.
(In the interest of citing my sources, the website is here, though i don’t think it’s particularly good linkage. [As if i have standards for that sort of thing.])
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