An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau. I like it. I need to come back to it again and again when I’m creating designs.
Popular Baby Names – Social Security Administration
I saw this link (Popular Baby Names) once, a few years ago, and have been trying to remember where it was located ever since. Turns out it was the Social Security Administration, not the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s come up in discussions a number of times, and I kept saying “there’s this link…” Well, here it is: An analysis of popular baby names based on Social Security applications, going back each year to the late 1800’s. Ah, the good old days, when Mildred was the #9 most popular girl’s name in the country, and Gertrude made it at #22. Guys, don’t laugh, Walter was #11, Clarence #18.
It’s also scary to look at the stats for the 1990’s…. with 8 different variations on the name Brittney. I hate last names as first names, especially for girls. Courtney, Brittany, Shelby, Taylor, Madison—-yuck, yuck, yuck. I’m going to name my daughter Mabel. That’ll show them.
Okay, that’s a little extreme. How about Eleanor?
Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs
Okay, you have to be an Indigo Girls fan for this one: Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs. There’s a parody of “Don’t Give That Girl a Gun” entitled “Go Give That Girl Some Gum.” Now that’s funny. Also a christmas version of “Burn All the Letters” that’s called “Return All The Sweaters.” It may not be Weird Al caliber writing, but they get off some good ones.
On the other hand, there’s no Indigo Girls fan fiction out there. Hmmm. I’m sensing an untapped market.
Also, it’s smart, it’s funny, sometimes you have to look up what they’re talking about, but here it is, Cat and Girl the cartoon. And you know it’s cool, because they live next door to Death, and he comes over to play Parcheesi. Parcheesi is cool. I like the one where they first see Death in a restaurant, and they freak out because they want to meet him, but they’re afraid to go over to him, so they just shout “We like your work” as he’s leaving.
Indigo Girls
New favorite lyric: “You are so baroque; all of those words, just to tell me no.” — from”Yield”, Become You, the Indigo Girls
In a Snob-Free Zone
In a Snob-Free Zone, By Joseph Epstein
My cousin Sherwin’s way into the snob-free zone was simple enough: Care only about one’s work, judge people only by their skill at their own work, and permit nothing else outside one’s work to signify in any serious way. View the rest of the world as a more or less amusing carnival at which one happens to have earned–through, of course, one’s work–a good seat. Judge all things by their intrinsic quality, and consider status a waste of time. One of the reasons I liked him so much is that he brought all this off without any contortion of his essentially kind character.
Outsider Videos
This is really cool — the best of underground “outsider” video. Orson Welles drunk. Anna Nicole Smith stoned. A wierd movie pitch. Part of a cult recruitment video. Just watch.
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?
We got some work to do now.
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?
We need some help from you now.
Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you…
pretending you got a sliver.
But you’re not fooling me, cause I can see,
the way you shake and shiver.
You know we got a mystery to solve,
so Scooby-Doo be ready for your act.
(Scooby-Doo) Uh-uh Uh-uh
Don’t hold back!
And Scooby-Doo if you come through
you’re going to have yourself a scooby snack!
That’s a fact!
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, here are you.
You’re ready and you’re willing.
If we can count on you Scooby-Doo,
I know you’ll catch that villain.
(2014 update – not a clue why I was posting the Scooby-Do theme song here.)
Banned Books Links
Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. Banned Books Week is held annually on the second to last week of September.
American Library Association on Banned Books Week
University of Pennsylvania Banned Books Page
And older page on banned books, but with lots of good info on the history of banning books.
Junkbot Lego Game
I spent a couple hours last night Junkbot, playing this online game from Lego. Unbelievable addictive. Very cool.
Cecelia, you’re breaking my heart
Cecelia, you’re breaking my heart
you’re shaking my confidence daily.
Cecelia, I’m down on my knees
I’m begging you please to come home.
Making love in the afternoon with Cecelia
Up in my bedroom
I get up to wash my face
when I come back to bed
someone’s taken my place.
Cecelia, you’re breaking my heart
you’re shaking my confidence daily.
Cecelia, I’m down on my knees
I’m begging you please to come home.
Jubilation,
She loves me again,
I fall on the floor and I’m laughing
Okay, doesn’t this song seem a bit unfinished? Shouldn’t their be a couple of verses before the “jubilation” verse that explain why she came back? I’m just going to make up my own version of the song so I know what happened in between.
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