23 October 2015

fiscal responsibility

nerds doing nerd stuff

here's the costumes from the chicago classic simpsons trivia costume contest. if you don't know what they're referencing, well, i just can't help you. but here's what jumi and i did:





sorry y'all, nashville is OVER.

It’s a very Nashville way of dressing up standard-issue gentrification in the familiar textures of the city’s heritage — akin to the fiddles and banjos tacked onto pop-country songs that share more musical DNA with hair metal than the Highwaymen. “Authenticity is very important in Nashville,” someone once told me. “If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
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Leonard Cohen, who recorded two of his best albums in Nashville, once sang, “We are ugly, but we have the music.” After every block is lined with towering fake bungalows, after every dive bar is either plowed under or rebranded with artisanal cocktails, after every plank of reclaimed barn wood has been upcycled to provide ambience for boutique comfort food that only the already-comfortable can afford, after every bit of character has been scrubbed out of the alleys and arcades, we may wonder if Music City still has the music after all, and ponder what we lost when we gazed into our gleaming new towers and fell in love with the reflection. (via)

sarah silverman on fresh air

bonus link : terry gross profile in the times. adorable.

fridayz w/o flim


"too many beavers in all the wrong places"


Back in the 1940s, Idaho’s Fish and Game Department had a problem: too many beavers in all the wrong places. So they devised a plan to parachute those unwelcome beavers into new habitats. And now somebody has found footage of those parachuting beavers, and it’s wonderful. (via)
beaver parachuting around the 7-minute mark, but there's not much need to skip any of this.
 
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