Eves Garden:
full gallery of pics - :)
check the awesome bicycle powered water pump , and the "brick oven pizza/bread stove" - gotta love it...
i thought and still think its quite brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKdlOb-sOew not embeddable at the moment but you can see it by clicking the aforementioned link... :( click and you will leave the page - if you want to come back hit the back arrow or button at the top of your webpage.... ummm i think he came on a spaceship from cleveland, why else would he come here - lol
'nother classic. "keeps it a little too hot for my taste4"
Zach Galifianakis, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim were commissioned by Absolut Vodka to make a film for their website. They were told they could do anything they wanted as long as they mentioned the product.
...now i know they will be just fine:
Barack Obama: He Completes Us
The earthly son of a goat herder and an anthropologist, one man seems ready enough-ish to lead.
Express yourself, by removing parts of your expression. How to get pretty without using any ugly words.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
from their faqs page about why the site is different from straight up polling:
"There are several principal ways that the FiveThityEight methodology differs from other poll compilations:
Firstly, we assign each poll a weighting based on that pollster's historical track record, the poll's sample size, and the recentness of the poll. More reliable polls are weighted more heavily in our averages.
Secondly, we include a regression estimate based on the demographics in each state among our 'polls', which helps to account for outlier polls and to keep the polling in its proper context.
Thirdly, we use an inferential process to compute a rolling trendline that allows us to adjust results in states that have not been polled recently and make them ‘current’.
Fourthly, we simulate the election 10,000 times for each site update in order to provide a probabilistic assessment of electoral outcomes based on a historical analysis of polling data since 1952. The simulation further accounts for the fact that similar states are likely to move together, e.g. future polling movement in states like Michigan and Ohio, or North and South Carolina, is likely to be in the same direction."
Made by a 19-year-old in Australia.
roller skating rinks as the epitome of cool, i think we almost forgot about pagers even existing by now... morrisey and morris day...
Thanks L-train
quote from another bloggy - "Is God voting Dem this year? Focus On The Family asked God to dump rain on Obama's big speech tonight. But apparently they didn't pray hard enough. In other news, a hurricane is predicted to hit New Orleans on Labor Day, the first day of the GOP convention."
why did water ice develop in philly and not the south or the hot and arid west? anyone have a boat load of money and want to open a few rita's franchises in florida and L.A.?"think of the purest fallen snow on a winter morn, drizzel it with cherry struzzle, and have the hand of G_d touch it." the hand of G_d is the secret ingredient because it ain't no snow cone!
... kelly rocks it yo - "let me borrow that top" - he plays the dad, the daughter and the brother. oh and lesbian aunt susan - i almost forgot...
"ur such a deck!"
if you thought that was nice then look up "kelly shoes"
i got lost in liz for hours. if you did too maybe you are about halfway through her v-blogs or whatever they are. so maybe at this point you need a little silliness. so we return to our previously scheduled levity:
"Dear black people"
no dierect links because she has a gazillion video blog installments, by way of introduction she is the editor of the philadelphia weekly - so check them here. i suggest starting at the beginning chronologically and getting to know the fun, charming, and seemingly sort of perfect liz before continuing on in time to her rather harrowing descriptions of her mental illenss and experiences with schock therapy - yes, they were still doing it in the 90s and they still do it today!
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=lspikol&page=2
"this is the first rap song about getting high with dinosaurs" - if you watch the whole thing and it doesnt get stuck in your head might be something wrong....
"terydactly took my whole package of pepperidge farms ---- t-rex set off the fire alarm ------ but he cant turn it off cause he's got tiny arms"
Everything that has happened since 2001 - Shock therapy and how to use it to reduce adults to a childlike state... as explained by the CIA:
more here....
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film
LA DOCTRINA DEL SHOCK
Materiales en español http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/materiales-espanol
I have actually wondered in the past what it must be like to live with one of these "anouncer voices" - annoying? comforting? crazy-making?
... my lovely lady lumps... I think she finally realized what the word "Ironic" actually means :)
"they buy me all these ice-eys...."
The Christmas Tree
"Come on, help me clean up after the tree - who wants baileys?"
for those who remember ray foster - for some reason this makes me think of his mother - she wasnt exactly the same - but there was some kindred jersey thing between her and the christmas tree "lady" - may Ray and his Mother both rest in peace :(
From http://videogum.com - "John Roberts's "The Christmas Tree," posted December 12, 2006, which was nominated for an Emmy. AN EMMY!"
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattymoo
"Living in philly you wouldnt expect something like this is five minutes away. theres trees - some mountain-esqe things. you know you're close when you hear the hootin and hollerin. its sort of like a secret society of people who know about the devils pool."
crazed working class guys put on sparkles and feathers and then yell in their silly philly macho accents - perfect! "Im a trucker and i come here and i touch feathers and i get teased about it - i got several tattoos on my body and their sayin - yo boo - how you gonna do dat?"
"it's awl about now dude, it's awl about vi-tory!" says the guy in pretty pretty feathers and spangles.
makes me realize how it is that i can possibly stand the crowded and sometimes nasty nature of the del valley - but come on - who can't love some of these characters. example 1:
Philly Roller Girls:
As you may already know i send a fairly constant stream of videos and and other articles of interest that i find on the series of tubes we call the internet. well, i have decided to just post them all here and then send a link to the recent posts every week or so. i will probably add things to this blog almost daily since i find at least one thing of interest out there per-diem. hopefully you will check back in more often but i will bug my friends and any others who ask for it with a weekly email listing the latest additions and a link to them. ok - here goes...
