Fun Facts to Know and Tell.
Some so-called superstitions have a solid basis in fact. For instance, if you're leafing through a magazine at a newsstand and a subscription card falls out and touches the floor before you can catch it, you will die before nightfall, because I will follow you home and kill you, I swear I will.
Kind of, a lot, like a Jack Handey. For those that wish there were two Jack Handey's out there in the world.
Anyway, i rediscovered McSweeney's this past week, when i was randomly going through their "Lists" feature, a collection of really funny and unnecessary lists about anything, and i laughed and laughed alone in my cold, cold basement. There are so many lists, so start with these:
- Things My Father Has Said to Me in Crowded Restaurants
- What People Said Tornadoes Sounded Like Before the Invention of the Freight Train (in Reverse Chronological Order)
- Pickup Lines to Use While Moving
- Topics of Conversation at My Cousin's House on Any Given Holiday
- What My Father Said About Thanksgiving, What I Thought, and What He Meant
- Relationship Advice I Might Give, Considering How My Last One Ended
- Text Messages That Would Have Been Helpful
Oh, bahaha!
2. Do you have an interest in photography that does not really exceed oh-wow-four-photos-in-one and i-wish-my-photos-looked-like-dreams? This is the Lomography Diana Dreamer Camera:
Adjectives Urban Outfitters Uses to Describe the Diana Dreamer Camera That Totally Appeal to Me
cult
dreamy
faithful
loving
classic
dreamy (yes, twice!)
endless
easy
off-the-wall
Also, check out Lomography Diana + Camera. It's also pretty cool but i can't write about cameras on this blog forever.
4. Do you like sunglasses? Sure you do! But do you like them as much as me? Yeah, why not! But do you like them enough to spend $108 US on one (vintage) pair? Why am i suddenly so materialistic? Oops, that was an aside. Anyway, these two pairs of sunglasses are really cool, but also super expensive. It's a good thing i don't put a lot of effort into being stylish -- i'd be poor. And we all know i'm leaving that economic position for after university.
5. I can't wait for this movie to be released in Canada so i can want to go see it, not go see it, wait for it on DVD, never find it at Blockbuster, and then buy it Previously Viewed for $4.99 six years later. But seriously, it looks so good.
6. There are a lot of things one could say about the following song. Could one, like me, say it better than Sean from Said the Gramophone? Probably not. All i will say is this: "you're the only thing in any room you're ever in"? Oh god. Can real life be better than that?
Elbow - Starlings [mp3]
5 comments:
so many great things on this blog! thank you for the nod. i'm so glad i discovered your work. i, too, have spent many solitary hours laughing at mcsweeney's lists. have you read the book? also, the western spaghetti of the previous post was wonderful!
thank you again. will be checking in regularly.
dreamy
hilarious
touching
informative
list-y
dreamy
and yes please to orange groves
Do you realize that there's an Urban Outfitters that opened on Princess? And do you also realize that "In Search of the Midnight Kiss" was reviewed in the New Yorker - and was called cliche?
This is Celine, btw.
you need to update this blog, ok?
i can't keep coming on here and being disappointed.
please rectify this situation with haste.
thank you
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