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Category Archives: so pitted
“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.”
“Hey, there’s the comedian. He doesn’t seem funny.” No shit. Because I’m trippin’ out, man. Here you are surrounded by those you know well. And here I am, fish outta water struggling to breathe. Tell you what…you be funny now. … Continue reading
Nude
The hard drives don’t sound like Thom Yorke, Thom Yorke sounds like a hard drive.
LeRoy Grannis
† August 12, 1917—February 3, 2011
Posted in photography, so pitted, sports
Tagged California, LeRoy Grannis, photography, surfing
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Taking assholes to task
Via A Continuous Lean.
Posted in lol, so pitted, sports, things that I want, win
Tagged assholes, Cleveland Browns, football, lawyers
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Cardiel
In the past seven months since I moved back to California I think I have spent more time injured than not (most injuries not even skate-related). I’m not sure if watching Cardiel—in all his ragged glory—makes me feel inspired, or … Continue reading
Posted in animals, media, skateboarding, so pitted, sports, win
Tagged All Hail Cardiel, Bad Shit, John Cardiel
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Cabinet insert
Found this in an old issue of Cabinet magazine (Issue 18, Fictional States, Summer 2005). I now love Die Keure even more. [click image to enlarge]
Posted in art, design, fail, grammar, graphic design, literature, printing, so pitted, win, writing
Tagged Belgium, Cabinet magazine, Die Keure
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Alan Partridge to return!!!!
Radio Norwich: Up with the Partridge. Alan: You’re joining me, Alan Partridge, and Peter Baxendale Thomas of the Norfolk Farmer’s Union. Now, yesterday I, sort of, trod in a rather large farmer’s pat when I made some comments about intensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Partridge, farmers, Steve Coogan
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Infinite Jest, page 160
Bodies bodies everywhere. A tennis ball is the ultimate body, kid. We’re coming to the crux of what I have to try to impart to you before we get out there and start actuating this fearsome potential of yours. Jim, … Continue reading
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The Lake
The Lake Edgar Allan Poe, 1927 In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black … Continue reading
Posted in animation, art, illustration, literature, music, so pitted
Tagged Adam Shecter, Antony and the Johnsons, Edgar Allan Poe
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HERSTORY vs. HISTORY
Pretty epic riot grrrl mix by Ceci Moss: I HATE HISTORY.
Infinite Jest, page 158
roared by. Jim, she never intuited the gentle and cunning economy behind this man’s quote harsh sloppy unstudied approach to objects. The way he’d oh so clearly practiced a chair’s back-leg tilt over and over. The way he’d studied objects … Continue reading
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Tagged David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Gee’s Bend
Sally Bennett Jones, 1944–1988. Center medallion of triangles, surrounded by multiple borders, 1966, cotton, 86 x 77″ Linda Pettway, born 1929. “Logcabin” — single-block variation, tied with yarn, ca. 1975, corduroy, 88 x 78″ Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, 1911–1991. “Housetop” — … Continue reading
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Timeline of the burrito
The timeline of the burrito documents the use of the burrito, a food made with tortillas and filling found in Mexico and the United States. Hand-held take-out foods like the burrito have a long history. Before the Spanish colonization of … Continue reading
But above all this…
Dolly Parton, 1973 Via Emma Cooper.
Infinite Jest, page 157
WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ Jim not that way Jim. That’s no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard … Continue reading
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Tagged David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Zebra floss
A zebra cleans a hippo’s teeth in an enclosure at Zurich Zoo. Thought to be one of the most aggressive animals in the world the hippo allowed the zebra to floss its teeth for fifteen minutes Telegraph