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Charlie and the seal
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That sounds delicious…
… what’s in the sauce?
Oh yes sir, that’s an excellent choice. For our sauce we use only the finest, organic, free-range maître d’s.
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Barber anxiety
Are you always nervous that your new haircut isn’t going to turn out okay?
We’ve got your back.
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Bellevue Art Fair 2011
We had a wonderful time at the Bellevue art fair this weekend, wandering around checking out art, eating cheese steak sandwiches and people watching.
Leg warmers on a grand scale
Every year the art museum opens up its side walk to kids and lays out chalk for the budding artists. This year they also had crochet covers for all the light posts, giving the street a Dr. Seuss meets Pippy Longstocking meets Banksy feel.
Softness
The artist spent a day in a dairy farmer’s field, taking pictures of cows. This little (6") painting of a jersey calf was irresistible.
She also had a bunch of paintings that were almost irresistible ()
Paint and Wax
Along with Softness we also picked up a couple of little abstract landscapes in oil and wax by a nice guy named Christopher Bibby. The hard lines in the paintings are cut into the wax giving them some nice depth.
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Home invader
We’re not really sure how… but this little character made it into our guest bedroom this weekend.
It didn’t seem to mind being evicted.
The P-1000 is a polymimetic meat-form sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor.
You can shoot it, burn it… you can even try to grind it up. It will reform. It’s unstoppable.
Oh… it’s also delicious.
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Screamin’ good honey
Am I the only one who looks at a honey bear bottle and thinks of Edvard Munch?
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Monkey Trap
I brought some homemade gorp to work in a jar… a jar that is just the right size to catch a Reeves. Ook ook.
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Quote / Misquote
Reacting to the celebrations over the death of Osama bin Laden, Jessica Dovey, a 24 year-old teacher in Japan, posted her thoughts to Facebook and followed her excellent words with a quote from MLK. As is often the case, the Internet then proceeded to get it wrong. But it also got it right.
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
– Jessica Dovey
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of starts. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Through what were likely honest mistakes, Jessica’s original quote got mixed in with the MLK quote and the entire quote was misattributed to MLK. A fairly short cycle of denial, anger and acceptance quickly followed when fact checkers cried foul on the mis-quote then quickly ran down the original posting.
One of two things should have happened:
- The incorrect quote continued to be blindly repeated and retweeted until it sank into our collective consciousness, much like the Casablanca quote, "Play it again, Sam."
- Feeling it’s been duped, the Internet lashes out, redirecting the venom typically reserved for Rebecca Black and My Space into a childish attack on Jessica Dovey’s character.
In a blow to my cynicism, the end result was fairly rational. The original posting was tracked down, people recognized the innocent mistake and a mature discussion ensued.
Ah, Internet, you’ve made me proud by behaving like a grown-up. You can borrow the car keys for the dance on Friday.
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