quacky: —–+—+—–

you can’t make shit like this up.
you can’t make up shit like this.
shit like this you can’t make up.

♥ Bootus Al Hootus ♥
Gray and white cat with owl like eyes. He is a ham and is sometimes called Booty for short. His original name was Harvey, then Harvey Higginbotham (Higgs for short). A friend once said, “Isn’t that cat named Boots?”. He will answer to all names. He has two jobs, one as a grocery sacker at the Piggly Wiggly (where he goes by Higgy) and fills in at Matts Garage, where he is a tool gopher. We rent our house from him.

♥ Omen ♥
She came to be two nights after my B/F had dumped me and i thought my life was over. She was there at my door the next morning when i went to go get the news paper, i dident think N-E thing of it of corce and went back inside.about 4 hours later i find her in the liveing room of corce this was a suprize, but thin i remembered that i had left my up stairs bed room windo open. She has been with me through all my lifes ups and downs for the past 6 years now and i dont think i would be here today if it wornt for her…

McSweeney’s people write in little blurbs of food reviews. Hundreds of them.

I can’t believe how long it is, how long I’ll probably keep reading it, how much work I will avoid by reading it, it goes on forever and ever, and I can’t stop. It’s the best combination of food fetishism, pop lit, snarky humor, and excess.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Reviews of New Food

Question: how come so many of them take the form of a pleading epistle? Like “Oh you [insert reviewed foodstuff] … how I yearn for your [insert various gustatory properties]”

One of my favorite things to read every day, or at least as often as I can get to it, is AskMetafilter.

Here’s a good one that kind of explains in and of itself how you can spend a whole lot of time reading a web page: Pro-sex feminist - how to feel less threatened by porn?

Good parts:

I mean, if you give a baby a pacifier does that mean it doesn’t want its mothers milk?

when trying to imagine how the porn can be simply neutral or even possibly helpful, imagine that when you see “House Beautiful”, or “National Geographic”, or whatever floats your boat, that it doesn’t necessarily mean that you hate your house, or that you’re just dying to move to Morocco… But those images may give you some ideas about adding a spot of color to your living room, or where to go on holiday with your boyfriend.

When you look at it, it’s like looking at room designs, you can think: God, that’s ugly, or I never thought of doing that before, that seems like the perfect solution for the living room!

Also good: a link to a very memorable Savage Love episode Porn - No way.

Urban Dictionary: Tools

Some post ago I thought I should wonder about how there aren’t any syndication methods for The Urbandictionary. I don’t think they ended up doing what I had in mind. Because I thought there should be a way to just pull snips of data for various definitions.

They’ve got feeds now, but, I don’t find them very useful or interesting. I mean, kind of, but not all that much.

There’s a word of the day feed, and a new definitions today feed. The interesting part, is finding out the scale of how uninteresting most of the activity on urbandictionary really is. Hundreds of terms every day that I can’t even begin to care about.

Except ‘berserker‘ … I can always smile about that.

How to Eat Sushi Properly.

Things I didn’t know:
• sushi started as fast food
• When you touch the soy sauce with sushi, it has to be quick, almost like a fish jumping up from between the waves
• If you eat very rich fatty-tuna in the beginning, your tongue might become too numb to enjoy the sensitive taste of red snapper after that
• [that pinky ginger stuff] is called gari because of the sound it makes in your mouth, “gari gari,” a way of describing the sound of your teeth biting into a fiber-full substance
• rolled sushi is largely an invention of the US, especially the kind like avocado rolls, hot spicy tuna rolls, and many more complicated-named rolls, and has now been imported back to Japan as a hot trend

It’s a nice little series, I hope it continues, there are other sushi ‘howtos’ around … and they all kind of hang together for a sort of lore of sushi. Bourdain wrote a great section in Kitchen Confidential about eating in Japan, in particular a late night sushi bonanza, check it out.

Ooops. It’s a visual pun. Get it?

Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times

Bottled water costs far more than gasoline, per gallon.

For less than 1/4 the money we Mur-kens and other richies spend on our fancy bottled water, we could fix all the world’s poopy water.

— viva la boing

I found a guy’s weblog who wrote about doing a Google Maps Roadtrip, even before I did my US Hwy 12 roadtrip. He didn’t use the arrow/cursor keys though, so it sounds like he probably had sorer finger than I did.

Donny Cheung » Google Driving