I heart Aquatic Ape Theory!

Things that make me cry in my cubicle. Part VIII.

I'm a total softy for dancing and weddings.

This is what I have been saying!

Wow.

"The past isn't dead yet. It isn't even past." Go here now.

A Beautiful Problemette

Okay, people, I have a problem. It's not really a big problem, like the failure of the economy, the fact that Sarah Palin might one day be president, or the shooting pain in my stomach. No, it's more of a problemette. And a beautiful problemette at that.

I am obsessed with We Heart It, a "visual bookmark for everyone." I can't stop. Because look at this!
And how much do you love this!And apparently there is a photographic technique known as bokeh and I love it and want to have its babies?And color!
I can't stop. I have been doing this for hours. And when I think I can get away, I end up checking the Flickr Hive Mind and FFFFOUND and getting sucked back in. I need help. Send help. How do you expect one woman to fight the pretty, pretty, prettiness, colors, birds, bokeh, christmas lights, skeletons, Alice in Wonderland, clouds, pretty color prettiness? I'm weak. I can't stop.

Or you can come on over and obsess with me - I'm kissonwetglass .

Meme Dispersal II

Things that make me cry in my cubicle. Part III

Days with My Father by Philip Toledano

How I Spent the Last Hour at Work.

Since I am a dork and enjoy playing the game of Telephone almost as much as I enjoy pondering the fallibility of language, I am madly in love with the Lost in Translation web app created by Carl Tashian, which translates a phrase back and forth between several different languages. "The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original...Something is lost and sometimes something is gained."

I decided to "babelize" some of my favorite quotes. "Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why," from Vonnegut becomes, "Here that interests them, hung before amber. Because it does not have, it is." I kind-of like it.

Andrew Bird sings, "In time you need to learn to love the ebb just like the flow." Lost in Translation replies, "In the time you must learn, because one sufficiently appreciates the later river like the river." It's like something a zen robot would say! I know what I am going to be for Halloween!

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake" from Fight Club becomes "They are not pretty and only tape." Hmm. True dat?

Marianne Williamson calls us to awaken with the words "It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." Ten translations later we arrive at, "It is our light, not our density, of that scares to majority we." Actually, I think it is the presidency of George W. Bush that scares to majority we.

Joseph Campbell tells it like it is when he writes, "I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive in our bodies." This babelizes into "Task that, observes the interior in true, a experience of being the alive creature who our experiences of the duration in the only physical surface that resonances in ours to being the greatest piece of the secret and the truth, since then that really we create the enthusiasm, to be alive in our bodies." Wait, where can I get the greatest piece of the secret and the truth?

Maybe these are too complex. Let's keep is simple. Let's try the classic "There is no spoon." End result? "It has spoon" Well, there is only one thing to say to that. Whoa.

Warning: Dancing to this song may cause your brain to re-wire itself

I mean...it's just so...I'm not sure what...it's like...CANNOT.STOP.LISTENING.

I am so transfixed by this. I really think it might be re-wiring my brain. After all, how often do the Eminem-related neurons get to talk with the Eurhytmics-related neurons? NEVER. Granted, the first time I heard it was at Flipside after four days of eating nothing but intoxicants and breakfast tacos, so my judgement might be a little skewed. But it's good, right? You want to listen to it again, right? Plus, I don't know what happens around 1:37, but I do know you should not fight it.

All this Iran talk is making me nervous.

From marriedtothesea.com

"I need to mate, and you'll probably do as well as anyone else"

A short black comedy about relationships - I Guess You'll Do.

I am so white

The Stuff White People Like items that painfully apply to me.

Religions their parents don't belong to
Organic Food
Diversity
Making you feel bad for not going outside
Wes Anderson Movies
Tea
Having Black Friends
Gifted Children
Hating Their Parents
Awareness
Not Having a TV
80's Night
Vegan/Vegetarianism
Breakfast Places
Apple Products
Indie Music
Sushi
Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
Irony
Living by the Water
Sarah Silverman
Apologies
Juno
Natural Medicine
Toyota Prius
Recycling
Michel Gondry
Mos Def
Difficult Break-ups
Modern Furniture
Graduate School (Actually, I have come to loath graduate school, which is, well, ironic, considering that I am in my third graduate program and am a graduate program coordinator. Whatevs)
Hating Corporations
Having Gay Friends

I'll be dead by December 2050

DEAD AT 74

cancer

Myspace Stuff

Except for the bones and skin part.

I don't know who made this or where it came from, but...YES.

Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies

"Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures." More images are over here.

(Thanks to David for the link, and also, more generally, for being ultra-distilled magic).

Food for thought

If you want to think about animals, play, nature and emotions, head over here

If you want to think about politics, neurobiology, and tolerance for ambiguity go this way

I burn with capitalist desire.

Oh dear. Just when I thought I could start saving money, I discover Etsy. Handmade purses with birds on them! Necklaces with skulls and roses! Beautiful random things you didn't know existed like glass thumbtacks! I don't need any of it! So much handmade goodness, so little money. In less than 24 hours I have already spent $45 dollars and fallen in love with Tracy Antonik's work.

I burn with capitalist desire.
My purchases define my identity.
You should buy something for me.

Damn you, internet.

"I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect." - That Joey fella from A Softer World.

I'm kind-of in love with Jabberwocky.

One Sentence Stories. Go here now.

"One night on ecstasy, I stopped a fight between two drag queens in the ladies restroom and then I made them give each other a hug." - petalthrow

"As I lay on the operating room table, I held my breath to watch the heart monitor slow down and then let it go to watch it speed up again." - truth will prevail

"I think I've been making smart enough decisions so far, considering that my future self hasn't traveled back in time and beaten the crap out of me." - Mr. Johnson

"I know 18 digits of pi and can recite the quadratic equation, but I still need to make an L with my hand to find out where left is." - Jabberwocky

"When asked to name the one person absent from her life that she missed the most, she responded, "'The person I hoped I'd be by this point in my life.'" - Sheryl

I cannot stop laughing.

Video: "And I think we're dead."

I have had the exact same conversation, although thankfully not with a 911 operator.