Edward Gorey was born yesterday (Feb 22) in 1925. I recommend a visit to his house in Yarmouth Port, MA, if you are in the area.
“Why, in 2012, do we still have these?”
— David Letterman on Armadillos, with Jack Hanna
Morning Chat
B: anything new
me: everyone exploded
and monkeys are running the office
a pretzel came to life and said it wanted to file a complaint
B: against who
me: against art
!
B: makes sense
Early Valentine: Joshua Beckman from Your Time Has Come.
Tokyo police battle a papier-mâché rhino as part of a drill.
I remember sitting in my room staring at the cassette tape cover of Whitney Houston’s first album.
“If the world sort of ended, like Independence Day, when it all blew up and Morgan Freeman was there and said, “Right, we need to get all the builders and…” There’d be no place for Ricky if that happened. I’d be at the front of the queue fixing everything, Ricky’d be standing there, going, “Oh, I’ll tell some jokes.” Well, there’s no time for jokes, is there? We’ve got a world to rebuild! So when it comes down to it, I reckon I’m more useful than Ricky and Steve.”
— A.V. Club interview with Karl Pilkington
Franz Erhard Walther, Work as Action. On view at Dia:Beacon. Super fun.
The Three Degrees, “When Will I See You Again?” on Top of the Pops 1974. So sparkly.
Wile E. Coyote finally caught the Road Runner!
Jim Henson, “Robot,” 1963. Produced for a meeting of Bell Communications executives, found in the AT&T archives.
