Posts Tagged ‘ideas about happiness’
Be Happy: A flowchart
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Launching the hot dog of summer
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
A celebratory balloon launch found on the page of artist/fun maker Dickbird. Look at his site.
So, how to celebrate fall? Launch a squirrel? And a bunch of nuts, separately?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s party rules
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
“Visitors are requested not to break down doors in search of liquor, even when authorized to do so by the host and hostess … Weekend guests are respectfully notified that the invitation to stay over Monday issued by the host-hostess during the small hours of Sunday morning must not be taken seriously.”
Note it says the small hours of Sunday–quite the party people! Found in an article on The Seven Vices of Highly Creative People on Salon.
Image: jonbarad
A giant aquarium with whale sharks. A moment of floating peace.
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Put this on full screen and sit back for a moment.
Perhaps I will pursue my master PADI diver certification and get underwater again. I miss the way it feels to be surrounded by water. This music is what scuba diving feels like to your body.
WHALE SHARKS. They’re so awesome, and the holy grail of diving experiences.
Heavy metal themed salads and an indie rock sing-a-long
Monday, July 13th, 2009On Friday Audrey and I went on a whirlwind bike tour that ended up being 22 miles roundtrip for me, from SE to N to St Johns. First, a heavy metal salad competition. What is a heavy metal salad? Audrey called our friend Simms, of the band Metal Shakespeare Company, to ask. His response: something with maggots. I happened to have fancy-schmancy food magazine Donna Hay right in front of me with a recipe for white bean salad. For presentation, I hollowed out a red cabbage head, and voila, Maggoty Head Bean Salad.
Who loves cheese? Who?
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
This is Justin, hugging some cheese. He went to Lewis & Clark with us, and lived with Kirsten of Dress of the Month Club, but to me his biggest star point is being a writer for…Cat Fancy! Yeah!
Justin recently turned 30, ditched Portland, and moved to LA to become an actor. Isn’t that rad? Some people hit 30 and mope. He headed to the land of the stars, and blogs about trying to make it at Parade of Delusion. Good luck, dude! Way to chase the dream!
The secret to starting a dance party! Hang in there for 1 minute and 15 seconds
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Guys! This is the best video I’ve ever posted. I know it’s shaky in the beginning, but just wait for it.
So, the secrets to a dance party (is this MIA at the Gorge?): hold out for 1:15, and get a critical mass of 6 people.
My favorite point: At minute 2:20 when people are streaming by, check out the guy in the red American Appy undies and an umbrella hat.
Via bigboxcar, who admits to being one of the nerds (revolutionaries?) in the beginning. Well done!
Poem to live with: Delphiniums in a Window Box, by Dean Young
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009This poem appeared in the New Yorker’s May 18th, 2009 issue. I can’t stop reading it and I’m going to be a little bad and put the entire thing here, apologies to Dean Young. Buy his books.
Read it aloud.
Delphiniums in a Window Box
Every sunrise, even strangers’ eyes.
Not necessarily swans, even crows,
even the evening fusillade of bats.
That place where the creek goes underground,
how many weeks before I see you again?
Stacks of books, every page, characters’
rages and poets’ strange contraptions
of syntax and song, every song
even when there isn’t one.
Every thistle, splinter, butterfly
over the drainage ditches. Every stray.
Did you see the meteor shower?
Did it feel like something swallowed?
Every question, conversation
even with almost nothing, cricket, cloud,
because of you I’m talking to crickets, clouds,
confiding in a cat. Everyone says,
Come to your senses, and I do, of you.
Every touch electric, every taste you,
every smell, even burning sugar, every
cry and laugh. Toothpicked samples
at the farmers’ market, every melon,
plum, I come undone, undone.
*sigh* Oh how I want to go to Iowa for a MFA in poetry. The month I spent there studying with James Galvin was catatonically beautiful.
One of the few weddings I would like to be at
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009I’m not big on weddings. But this one, oh!
Favorite moment: Just before 1 minute in, the lady in purple being a tiger. Is everyone this attractive at British weddings? Sign me up.
Via A Cup of Jo, who is wisely cornering the wedding/relationship market writing about 30 somethings.
Totoro cream puffs for all
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Remember Anna the Red, maker of those crazy complex bento lunch boxes that made the blog rounds? This is her recipe for Totoro cream puffs. If you aren’t up on your pop culture (remember the Ambassadors of Cute?), Totoro is like the Mickey Mouse of Japan. I have a large stuffed Totoro at my house that people invariably end up hugging while watching movies.
Quick, someone host a potluck.
The making of A Softer World the comic photo blog
Monday, May 18th, 2009I’ve talked about A Softer World before, the photo comic blog with punchlines in the mouseovers. Well, here they are being adorable in a video, with a cameo from the creator of Dinosaur Comics. It includes the making of this comic entry, which I was going to post until the video popped up.
I thought they were still dating, but no, it turns out they started the project while dating but have since split, and managed to remain friends and keep the comic going, too, which is a serious triumph.
Hooray for happy cute people making things we can enjoy on the internet.
Also, I used Zemanta (as a plugin on WordPress) for the first time while writing this, and it suggested the links to both comics. Basically, it gives a bunch of suggestions to help tie the internet together. Right now it has an area of creative commons licensed photos, tags, articles from other blogs, and the links I used. The photos aren’t specific enough to my text, which may be because I’m not using the tags, but the suggested links were very handy and saved me opening a new window to hunt them down myself. It works with most publishing platforms.
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You are so close…
Monday, May 11th, 2009I read this photo+caption blog called Sexpigeon, and you should too. Sample post:
“You in the back: all it takes is a rearrangement of the fist to experience true love.”
So funny. He seems to spend the entire day wandering San Francisco, taking iPhone pictures and writing witty comments.
Bad me, I still haven’t distributed his postcards yet.
How was your weekend?
Sunday, May 10th, 2009Oh, mine was like this:
What I like about this is, what else would they be doing while waiting for that fire to catch? I can’t think of anything better.
where I also found this, awwww, for Mom’s Day:
Malaysian epic wedding adventures on Flickr
Friday, May 8th, 2009
I stumbled across this amazing Flickr stream, Sapex, by a wedding photographer in…Malaysia. I think. Kuala Lumpur Hilton comes up in one of the photos. Frankly I can’t figure out if my computer isn’t rendering the font or if this, on his blog, is the language. Knowing nothing about Malaysia, I looked it up, and it seems very cool. FYI the people are called Malays, and they’re mostly Islamic, though the country is a mix of cultures and religions, especially in Kuala Lumpur.
By the looks of it, they throw amazing weddings with fantastic party favors. All photos: Sapex. Each photo is linked so you can check out the rest of the party. I love Flickr!
A new url I bought for a friend’s birthday, GreenLightThatShit.com!
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009See, it was Fiona’s birthday, and we got to hanging out and talking with her friends (one of whom is going to give me bangs, hooray). And then we talked about ridiculous things that have been given the green light. Her: the song Let Me Smell Your Dick (“CDubbs, someone greenlighted this! Someone paid to make this video!”) and me: I Am Legend (a movie with Will Smith that has no explanation other than someone discovered a career breaking bit of info and he had to do this movie to keep it under wraps). Also: R. Kelley’s song Sex Weed, though Kells can do anything. (more…)
I’m attaching a carboard lightening bolt to my bike
Monday, April 27th, 2009Inspired by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
Bowling season
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Yesterday we tried to go bowling and failed miserably three times. The original planning couple got in a massive fight and cancelled, so Simms and I tried to rescue it by inviting friends, including Audrey (who I am writing a drunk cooking blog with). But then Audrey got on the door list to Bloc Party/Menomena (who have the greatest awful site ever) because, eventhough she claims she can’t find a date, she used to date the cutie from Menomena (the blonde cutie, they’re all cute). Then we all gave up and I ate a lot of Hammy’s pizza and drank an entire bottle of red wine, but forgot to tell Brandon about the second cancellation. He showed up at the bowling lanes.
Fun times fail, me.
April 21st is free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s!
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Search for a participating shop near you. I’ll be visiting the Pearl location, probably the Yamhill location near my work, and with any luck also the Hawthorne location. Free cones 12-8pm, peeps.
Fun times with Babe City Babes and Ferris Bueller flash mobs
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Two performance artist/ unemployed Brooklyn gals wander town, taking pictures of babes. Sounds like a blog to me. Check out Babe City Babes, by Mina Karimi and Kara Suhey. The lovely image at right is the blog background. Nicely done, ladies, nicely done.
Even radder? They formed a Ferris Bueller flash mob called Project Bueller (blog interview there, major media on their Wiki page), to recreate the parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. They even considered shouldering into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A note taped to Matthew Broderick’s door got no response, but it was the weather that did them–and 2,000 volunteers–in, and it looks like it never happened. There are pillow fights in cities all over, shouldn’t there be Ferris Bueller days?
Wait, let’s take a moment to watch it:
Ah.
I hope their project continues growing. Here’s the charming description from their Wikipedia entry: “Project Bueller is part of artist Mina Karimi’s ongoing performance art piece “Everything Will Be Okay” which focuses on fostering joy in the lives of everyday people in unexpected ways.” Not much more info though, even on their blog. I added Mina on Facebook, maybe I can ask her for updates there.
Related: How to dress your boyfriend as your nerd boyfriend
Update: They have a tote bag? Of course they have a tote bag. Check the little hearts in the letter holes.
New blog projects: Famous people take our picture and you get lost with a dog
Monday, April 6th, 2009I finally bought two urls I’ve been thinking about. Both of them are co-projects with other people. Neither is set up yet, so, you know, sneak peek! I linked them but be warned, nada there. You’ll note that, like this bloggy blog, they have unwieldy urls. I feel strongly about this–it’s an untapped area of the internet. Everything is linked anyway, why go around purchasing urls that are half a word or some crazy made up reference to a full thought?
