January 2011
21 posts
December 2010
13 posts
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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technicoloring:
Traveling is like a sickness, sometimes. Suitcases, gasoline. Miniature disposable toothbrushes, dreary hum in your ears barely blocked out by cushions of cotton, leather, polyester. Baggage carousel/information desk/bar code ticket. Underwear, socks. Currency exchange window. Food in small…
sluffing
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the cocktail party practice of smiling and nodding when you have absolutely no idea what someone just said, a method of smoothing over built-in glitches in conversation, an archaic medium that marries the bandwidth of a planetarium with the fidelity of a tin can telephone, for which we compensate by wrapping the earth with fiberoptic cables until it looks like a...
