Nerdly Nerding: The Gallery Talk
So one of the things I do at work is walk people around the museum and tell them stuff.
Here’s a picture of me working my mojo:
However, when I do this, I channel the spirit of Randy “Macho Man” Savage:
Funny article about the man born as Randy Poffo: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52287
Finalist in George Plimpton Haiku contest!
The George Plimpton Project (http://plimptonproject.org/) is holding a haiku contest on the subject of George. I entered a couple of haikus based on the time I found the book Paper Lion (read it!) in an airport shop in Guatemala City. It was (if I remember correctly) literally the only English book in any of the shops.
They’re finalists in the contest! $200 up for grabs and bragging rights. Here they are:
> A Guatemalan
> Airport, a lone book, tattered,
> George as a Lion
> A distant airport
> Shop, A single English book
> George in a jersey
Yeah, not fine literature, but you try working the word Guatemala into a haiku.
Snap Crackle Pop = Insta-Fatwa
I thought this picture from Yahoo news could be the funniest thing of the day:
But then my friend Nini took it one step further:
Death to Imperialist cereals!
9/11 – A Conspiracy…
of predictable graphic design? You decide as you check out the ads for the two 9/11 related specials, both advertised in the Sunday Times, both appearing at 8 PM on 9/10, only 10 pages apart.
From Wired: What to fear
Among the “It’s been 5 years, please be fearful” coverage, here’s a neat little chart from Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html) of what is more likely to kill you than terrorism based on statistics from 1995-2005. Go get those hernia checks.
| S E V E R E Driving off the road: 254,419 Falling: 146,542 Accidental poisoning: 140,327 |
| H I G H Dying from work: 59,730 Walking down the street: 52,000. Accidentally drowning: 38,302 |
| E L E V A T E D Killed by the flu: 19,415 Dying from a hernia: 16,742 |
| G U A R D E D Accidental firing of a gun: 8,536 Electrocution: 5,171 |
| L O W Being shot by law enforcement: 3,949 Terrorism: 3147 Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554 |
McSweeney’s Posting
So after a few unfruitful attempts at submitting lists, I finally got a piece up on McSweeney’s:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/8/23hart.html