time for taxes

hey ma


alright

guys

its march 25. what has even happened to the days? i don't even know. what is everyone up to?
here are some things that have been happening. 1) im wearing a sweatshirt 2) but its almost spring! 3) im going back to silver spring 4) but only for a little while this time, then im coming back to be someone's assistant/slave! 5) which is great news! 6) i know, i know im 26 now but 7) what even is a career? look at these hungry turtles!

datenite

i obviously have not yet seen "date night" but can already tell that this is an important relic we can leave future generations. more so than health care, more so than personal legacies, i am proud that my grandchildren might one day be able to zootn'reboot date night starring steve carell and tina fey on their mini-trons. also hot tub time machine.

But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

-Annie Dillard

if she was only ordinary ...

school's


out

ahhh i have to surrender my computer!

here is a melody of everything i meant to put here before but now i can't because i don't have a computer anymore. please enjoy responsibly. american dreams all around. if you want to sell your crusty laptop, please let me know. if you want to sell it for bananas, please definitely let me know

im not sure

but i think i just read that unemployment covers 1/26 of your salary? this means that while unemployed i will make 12 dollars.

best GIF ever

i've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.



ignore this terrible drug.

found: miss new booty

this is super pretty, but it's wrong in like 100 ways. or rather, instructions for food consumption cannot really be summed up in a triangle. i watched a ton of planet earth last night, including the last disc, "future" which was super chaotic and but chock full of really interesting brains. my biggest take-away was that, as resources become increasingly scarce, food intake will move from westernized, personal choice to basic availability - but what will be available in the future has a lot to do with personal choices right now.

i never thought about it like this before but its almost like you need to make a list of the top 5 things that are important to you - is it whales? seriously, is it? because krill are disappearing. i mean, there are a lot of different paths to take here and there really isn't a super clear route. that's why you will need to make a list. if you are able to distill things that are most important to you, then there can be food choices. oh yeah and protein or whatever but supposedly a lot of people get more protein than they even realize like from beans.

this example list if from 'FOUND' i really like the earnestness with which this person addresses their wine intake:

los abrazos rotos

march

i'd love to

found: jonah lehrer's blog

Bergson defined comedy as what happens when the mechanical is foisted upon the living, when man is momentarily machine-like

what do whales eat?

has anyone ever watched the "future" disc in the planet earth box set?

when people come together there is the possibility for play, for discourse, or for separate madness. bodies placed together in a room can interact in so many different ways.

c.a.r. + a.c.m.

which one?

nerd class

pastes

andrew just taught me about wheat paste!
look out life, im about to get everything so stiiicky

green roofing

camera 1


camera 2


so awesome.
project by goode green

NYT Science Channel.

So great

Might I recommend A Minute With Wolves?

honey lets go everywhere

ice cream road trip

this morning there were enormous flaky pie crust snowdrops falling at my window - the kind that are amazing and wet and the size of flattened fists. the problem though is that none of them were sticking, so outside is the world of slushy-boot.

winter has been long. and bodies love sunshine.
let's get real - i only have 5 more days of work and then it's wide open spaces.

for the past 2 days i've been dreaming about ice cream but it's too cold to really get serious on it. let's go somewhere warm, ok? mexico? chad? nepal? i don't know, let's go

tunneling for evermore

this is how we meet the molepeople.
any dream will do

transofrmation station

when you make a life decision and share it with people, something beautiful happens where they want to support or identify or just commune with you in the new.

lately it seems like people have been dropping wisdom and love bombs left and right. im really thankful for this life fumigation


thanks you guys, lets kick it in 2010

octopus, nancy

if you know anything about octopi, you know that they are amazing.
nancy says that if you are in a room with an octopus, doing something that the octopus thinks looks fun, like bouncing a ball or twirling a pen or eating a crab, then when you leave the room, the octopus will climb out of its tank and do what you were doing too and then cover its tracks and get back in the tank.

i tried to find footage of this on youtube but instead found this sweet latin underwater freakshow. so great. question: are these not aliens?

There is more than just a nice face and making love.

Salon has this series called Americans Talk About Love.

It's super good, and really drives home the idea that what we are talking about when we talk about America is not in fact one whole thing.but.rather.infinite particles on one wild beast.

My favorite for right now is Gerd and Dina, German immigrants who met because their spouses were fucking. Enjoy!

http://www.salon.com/life/americans_talk_about_love/index.html

guys, sorry i've been gone for so long. i should probably give you an update about what's been going on:

1) i quit my job. i don't even have another one. but quitting's the thing. you should do it too, it feels really good it's not even scary

2) i went to the blizzard. it's different than what you might think. but if you're reading this you are probably in the blizzard. so. sorry guys, i hope you can drive again soon. on the other hand, it's pretty amazing walking in the soggy streets of maryland. also in the snow there's no excuse not to cuddle.

3) im at a desk listening to donuts and reading ovid. anything can be real.

4) now that i don't have a job, ill probably get a dog and name him pablo.

so i don't have a job or a car or a new york state license or know anything about anything, and i can't help wondering what happens next, but i do know some things. for instance, look at this picture:

it's crazy.

also, go home and write and call your friend or your mom and then smoke and stay up really late and then read this poem. it's great.

smell/sex

**

In one small experiment on sexual response to food scents, vaginal and penile blood flow was measured in 31 men and women who wore masks emitting various food aromas. This was the study that found men susceptible to the scent of doughnuts mingled with licorice. For women, first place for most arousing was a tie between baby powder and the combination of Good & Plenty candy with cucumber. Coming in second was a combination of Good & Plenty and banana nut bread.

The study, conducted by the Smell and Taste Research Foundation in Chicago, also found that the aroma of cherries caused a sharp drop in excitation among women, as did the smell of meat cooked over charcoal.

** important fact: the sexiest measured smell is a combination of lavender and pumpkins. this makes perfect sense about thanksgiving and the pilgrims.