This never happened to Pablo Picasso.

Photo

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:23:43 +1100

Cutting my fringe with my stanley knife, while trying to print...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:20:00 +1100

Cutting my fringe with my stanley knife, while trying to print with the printer from hell, Brokeback Mountain playing in the background and eating an iced tea icypole I made earlier this evening. At four am. On a Sunday.

University, I wish I knew how to quit you.

borisyeltsin: (via planettampon)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:28:01 +1100

borisyeltsin: (via planettampon)

vaughnshirley: Via “The Berlin Wall: A Lesson in Change”, The...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:52:01 +1100

vaughnshirley:

Via “The Berlin Wall: A Lesson in Change”, The Atlantic:

There’s been a lot of discussion, this week, about whether President Obama has fulfilled enough promises or expectations of change since his election a year ago. “I voted for him, and I really thought everything would be different,” one disappointed voter from Iowa said in a televised interview.

It would be easy to dismiss the expectations of such voters as unrealistic or naive, but we often expect more from big watershed events, and in more sweeping, immediate fashion, than life dishes out. Consider, for example, another important anniversary coming up on Monday: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

On November 9, 1989, after weeks of protest and slow chiseling away of the East German Politburo’s power, the East German government announced that henceforth, East Berliners could travel freely to the west. Faced with massive crowds at the border checkpoints, the guards opened the gates, and people streamed through. A party erupted on top of the wall, and people started hacking away at it with hammers and picks.

It was a celebration and global party; the end of an era that had brought incalculable pain to millions of Germans separated from family members and death to thousands, over the years, who had tried to cross over to the west anyway. I wrote about some of the sacrifices, and the lingering legacy of the Wall, in an essay on this site last May, after a German artist released an exhibit sparked by the anniversary of the Wall’s demise.

Full Article.

(via somethingchanged)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:51:05 +1100

(via somethingchanged)

okayjokesover: look tash, some ladies posing with grug! he was...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:16:46 +1100

okayjokesover:

look tash, some ladies posing with grug! he was just there, hangin’ out on king st, as you do.

My life has just been made.

okayjokesover: semisetadrift: helloboys: Max Rooke dressed as Grug for today’s Mad Monday. FORM...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:06:30 +1100

okayjokesover:

semisetadrift:

helloboys:

Max Rooke dressed as Grug for today’s Mad Monday. FORM AN ORDERLY QUEUE LADIES. BEHIND ME OBVIOUSLY.

I love Max Rooke Monday. I will miss it tomorrow.

[G]

This was a post from way back in September but I just went on an excursion to Shoppingtown and saw a Grug poster in the window of Dymocks. I’m not going to pretend it didn’t make me squeal with glee.

did you ever see that photo i posted on twitter a while ago that was of jenn and mish with a man in a grug suit outside better read than dead? that was a classy picture.

No I did not and I wish to see it now.

thedarkspark: The Pastels

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:47:46 +1100

thedarkspark:

The Pastels

John Safran has rejected your friend request.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:45:03 +1100

John Safran has rejected your friend request.:

secondgradefresh:

winnr:

Sorry Whitey, but you have not satisfied the criteria to be my friend. If you have a hot Eurasian female friend, please direct her to this site.

John Safran

Sorry Whitey, but you have not satisfied the criteria to be my friend. If you have a hot Eurasian female friend, please direct her to this site.

John Safran

NB - If you are not Asian/Eurasian but a hot ethnic type nevertheless (Burgher, Persian, Latina etc) please hang out in Carlisle Street, East St Kilda so I can hit on you at the bus stop.

I am amused that Jenny Kee is now in his “top friends” list. Jenny Kee: the ultimate Eurasian babe?

helloboys: Max Rooke dressed as Grug for today’s Mad Monday. ...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:37:00 +1100

helloboys:

Max Rooke dressed as Grug for today’s Mad Monday. FORM AN ORDERLY QUEUE LADIES. BEHIND ME OBVIOUSLY.

I love Max Rooke Monday. I will miss it tomorrow.

[G]

This was a post from way back in September but I just went on an excursion to Shoppingtown and saw a Grug poster in the window of Dymocks. I’m not going to pretend it didn’t make me squeal with glee.

tristn: How is Patrick Swayze doing?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:28:36 +1100

tristn:

How is Patrick Swayze doing?

I wish I could remember the Berlin Wall coming down.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:06:00 +1100

brentgilliard:

It is the most recent example of Big History that I can think of.

But I was only two years old in 1989.

As do I; I would have been just shy of two years at the time. In fact, I was just thinking about this the other day. Thankfully, our national broadcaster is freakishly in-tune with my interests and there’s a programme on this Tuesday, “Where Is The Wall?” which looks to be an interesting take on the dismantling of the wall.

"It’s never too early to talk to your kids about typography."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:23:17 +1100

“It’s never too early to talk to your kids about typography.”

- Ellen Lupton (via ramonahamiltonlindsay)

Will Ferguson on Canadian humour and identity

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:22:25 +1100

Will Ferguson on Canadian humour and identity:

brentgilliard:

TO: Canadians are considered a pretty witty people. Why is so much of our fiction so humourless?

WF: I don’t know really. We have a strange relationship to humour and identity in general in Canada. Take Stephen Leacock. The Americans loved him for his British wit and the British loved him for his Yankee humour. He got that his whole life, being mistaken for a Brit or an American. That strikes me as a typically Canadian thing. We have a British literary tradition and American pop culture roots. We’re inundated with American pop culture, but it’s not our culture. Whenever you get a culture that’s swarmed with another culture, the people from the first culture tend to become observers. We’re outsiders to American pop culture, so we can look at it in a way they can’t, yet it’s not our culture. That outsiderness naturally leads us toward satire but even more toward spoof and parody. Satire is humour with an agenda, with a reason. Spoof is affectionate, it’s humour that plays on the form not the content. Canadians are great at spoof, it’s what we specialize in, doing an affectionate, fake version of something familiar, like the Scary Movie franchise. Those movies aren’t making a comment about the content of horror movies, they’re just playing with the form. I honestly don’t know why that hasn’t made its way into much of our fiction.