March 2012
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February 2012
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Recent text conversation with a friend #1
Jason: Admit it, Mike. You just got a pottery wheel so you could have torrid love scenes with Patrick Swayze.
Me: LIKE Patrick Swayze not with him.
Jason: Ain't no shame in it, sir. Man was in Road House. Seriously, that's really cool about the pottery wheel.
Me: Thanks.
Jason: You going to try to sell any of your pieces at the farmers market this year? (the one in Easley)
Me: Maybe, I went once and my dad set up a small table a couple of times with his hot sauces. I only sold one item.
Jason: That sucks. You need to develop your artistic mystique, draw people in. Get a crazy lady to shoot you.
Me: Yes. The Simmons Fun Factory will be up and running soon.
Jason: It's a shame but if you want fame in the art world, you have to give up a limb or maybe and ear. The reason Thomas Kinkade is so popular? He allowed himself to be run over by a wheat thresher.
Me: Really? I did not know that.
Jason: His actual title is "The Painter of Light Who Is Just a Head and Torso" But that's hard to fit on coffee cups and stationary sets.
Me: True.
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Thanks Google maps for deciding that the location of the hotel my interview is being held was literally on the same ground as highway 85 between exits.
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Watchnpr:
nprmusic:
In honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, his daughter invited Jay Farrar (Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-Matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Jim James (My Morning Jacket) to find lyrics from among Guthrie’s archives that spoke to them and put the words to music.
You can feel loneliness and heartache in every note of the Jim James-led “Empty Bed Blues.”...
The New Hipster Cities of America
http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/02-21-12-00-05-the-new-hipster-cities-of-america/
Read the article but here is the list:
1. Chattanooga, Tennessee
2. Asheville, NC
3. Burlington, Vermont
4. Detroit, Michigan
runners up:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Richmond, Virginia
I have been trying to get a decent job in Asheville and Baltimore for years now.
I am such a...
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For Fish, Fear Smells Like Sugar
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223133004.htm
When one fish gets injured, the rest of the school takes off in fear, tipped off by a mysterious substance known as “Schreckstoff” (meaning “scary stuff” in German). Now, researchers reporting online on February 23 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have figured out what that scary stuff is really...
shanexcore asked: ohmysagan. you'll be seeing me around there some more. my go-to dish is the veggie burrito with a dr. pepper. ugh. sooo goood.
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Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running for the Republican nomination for president.
I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are running. They are – but only because the people listed in the first paragraph have given them...
Yes! I have a job interview this coming Tuesday for a position with starting wages of $15 to $18 an hour!
The Secret Life of Bees →
The decision-making power of honeybees is a prime example of what scientists call swarm intelligence. Clouds of locusts, schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites display it as well. And in the field of swarm intelligence, Seeley is a towering figure. For 40 years he has come up with experiments that have allowed him to decipher the rules honeybees use for their collective...
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Party Crasher →
Paul is running for President again this year, in a field that many Republicans find disappointing. And yet, while Paul is doing better, state by state, than he did in 2008, he has conspicuously failed to establish himself as this year’s Tea Party candidate. Polls have shown that voters who support the Tea Party are actually less likely to support Paul—some have gone for Newt Gingrich, whose...
http://www.ourfuture.org/node/71402 →
John Galt Is A Crybaby And So Are You
Being at Highwater Clay is being at a giant toy store.
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How your cat is making you crazy.
http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/1/
No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in thought, and his still-youthful, square-jawed face is framed by frizzy red hair that encircles his head like a ring of...
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories... →
This new model of memory isn’t just a theory—neuroscientists actually have a molecular explanation of how and why memories change. In fact, their definition of memory has broadened to encompass not only the cliché cinematic scenes from childhood but also the persisting mental loops of illnesses like PTSD and addiction—and even pain disorders like neuropathy. Unlike most brain research, the...
princessjinx asked: THAT sounds tasty. it took a lot longer to cook the egg than i had planned, and all of the water leaked out of the mushroom, so it was not as good as expected. just ... meh
