Saturday,
4 July
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(via hobart)Hi, I’m Hobart. I’m a cop from the ‘70’s, and I’ve traveled to the future to solve the mystery of my future. Or, I mean. My children’s future. And the future of my children’s children. Maybe there’s a murder in there. Or some flannel. Wallpaper. Future. Also, I’m going to learn how to text.
(via hobart)

Hi, I’m Hobart. I’m a cop from the ‘70’s, and I’ve traveled to the future to solve the mystery of my future. Or, I mean. My children’s future. And the future of my children’s children. Maybe there’s a murder in there. Or some flannel. Wallpaper. Future. Also, I’m going to learn how to text.
Friday,
3 July
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ArtPrize

thefrancakes:

saraholwerda:

Hey guys I’m doing ArtPrize!

I paid my dues and wrote my statements.  I hope now to be matched with the venue of my dreams!

My Profile.

P.S. while ArtPrize is an ‘open’ competition, it seems the better venues have a jury system.  Which makes sense, but also belies the implied promise of an equal and open competitive environment.  It’s still political.  And we’re not even voting yet!  (ArtPrize’s huge cash awards are done by popular vote.  Grand Rapids International Art Idol?)

At this point, I’m hoping to attract a venue, so at the very least I didn’t waste $50.

thelink to her profile didn’t work for me, but i wanted to check it out!

Weird, maybe she did it wrong. She didn’t even show up in the SEARCH!

Thursday,
2 July
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Millenia

brainitches:

brain itches theme has just passed a THOUSAND users!

Thanks to everyone using it. I feel cool.

-adamholwerda

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karenabad:

Virgile by Flying V


“Virgile is very shy guy who’s trying to date a charming girl by turning himself into funny and manly characters.”

This is short enough to enjoy whenever, and the animation style is a mixture of things I’ve seen before and things I haven’t, and I think it works. The girl is not very “charming,” after all. The only thing that really surprises me about this is that it’s not an advertisement for some drink.

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Re-

sarahb:

lowindustrial:

We spend our lives rereading and rewatching and relistening and relearning. We eat the same things over and over. We end up loving people who remind us of other people. We perform these rituals, this spacetime origami, because the basic fact of our n-dimensional existence is this: Most things can be recalled and some things can be revisited but precious little can be relived.

This is going to be one of the main themes of a novel I will write in the future.

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This General Tso is good...

But the fried rice tastes like dog food. I know, because I used to eat it every once in a while.
Wednesday,
1 July
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GPOYW: García Márquez edition.
GPOYW: García Márquez edition.
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danhacker:

Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewers in Raleigh at Cameron Village

From what I’ve been reading no one has yet to figure out what these disgusting blob-like creatures are. They are apparently covering the walls of the sewers underneath the Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh. This could easily be a viral marketing hoax but they look very convincing. Supposedly they might be a form of bryozoans. Either way, they are gross and let’s hope they don’t hatch and kill us all.

Aww man, someone should go down there with a torch and a shotgun. Kill it with fire!

Tuesday,
30 June
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asprettyasasong: supersonicelectronic: 1Q84 Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, 1Q84 (Which can be read as 1984 in Japanese) is now out in Japan. It’s over 1,000 pages long (In 2 volumes) and focuses on the lives of a man and woman who are searching for each other from ages 10 to 30. Unfortunately, an English version might take as many as 2 years to reach bookshelves. :( The novel sold out across Japan (literally, all copies of the book were sold) on the first day of release. The novel has been described as a “complex and surreal narrative.” There have been mentions of Murakami being selected as the Nobel Prize winner for Literature for this book (Not that it hasn’t been mentioned before). As for me, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for it to be translated and delivered to the states. Hey I want to read it.

asprettyasasong:

supersonicelectronic:

1Q84

Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, 1Q84 (Which can be read as 1984 in Japanese) is now out in Japan. It’s over 1,000 pages long (In 2 volumes) and focuses on the lives of a man and woman who are searching for each other from ages 10 to 30. Unfortunately, an English version might take as many as 2 years to reach bookshelves. :(

The novel sold out across Japan (literally, all copies of the book were sold) on the first day of release. The novel has been described as a “complex and surreal narrative.” There have been mentions of Murakami being selected as the Nobel Prize winner for Literature for this book (Not that it hasn’t been mentioned before). As for me, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for it to be translated and delivered to the states.

Hey I want to read it.

Sunday,
28 June
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Dear Woman of My Dreams

Hi. I hope I won’t have to say this to you in real life, because you’ll sidle up next to me and give me the “I’ve been waiting for you,” grin.

So we won’t say hi. I’ll stammer and step back, trying to regain my balance, and then perhaps I’ll ask your name and offer to buy you a drink.

But you’ll laugh it off.

“It’s too early,” you’ll say, “And besides, we have the rest of our lives.”

Friday,
26 June
∞ SEO for Tumblr Blogs
I’m in this!
Thursday,
25 June
∞ Aww man. I haven’t Twittered since Florida? And I’ve been to Chicago and North Carolina and THE MOON since then!
Wednesday,
24 June
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GPOYW: King Me edition.
GPOYW: King Me edition.
Tuesday,
23 June
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Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore

I just finished this book.
Wednesday,
17 June
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Dumblr

I’ve noticed average post length on Tumblr has gone down tremendously. It’s tidbits that show up on my Dashboard nowadays, not bigbits.

Reading back on some of my older posts, I realized I’m doing the same thing. I spout a short thought or repost a picture and add a line or two, and you know what? I don’t think that’s what I thought I would do with Tumblr.

Used to be a Livejournal/Blogger user, and for a while I fed those into Tumblr along with some of my other RSS-related content (comics, Twitter) and used this thing as sort of an aggregator of all my online doings and beings. Then the blogging stopped, the livejournaling stopped, and I quit my webcomic. I rarely tweet, and if I do it’s usually about something random and ineffectual.

Instead, Tumblr has become my only vein of creation that bleeds onto the net. It’s become my blogging surrogate, my journal, and my comic-posting ground. All in one spot, only it all comes from here - not from other places like before.

Posts should be longer, more substantive. I don’t want to use Tumblr like the rest of the people I follow, and their daily life-status updates. I don’t want to reblog funny pictures or quotes. I don’t want to wonder why my Tumblarity is at 15 when it was at 20 five minutes ago.  There’s so much more potential here, so much more intelligence I’m wasting on stupidity instead.

This might be my last post for a while.