Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Global War On Bedbugs: Letters from Bedbug City. George Orwell had bedbugs. Down and Out in Paris and London opens with the owner of a hotel in Paris hollering a reminder at one of her patrons not to squash bedbugs against the wallpaper. They bothered him all over Paris. He eventually stumbled upon a remedy, though not before going hungry one night after knocking a bug into a half a liter of milk on which he had spent his last eighty centimes. One of his friends recommended sprinkling black pepper all over his sheets. Pepper didn’t kill them, but it kept them off his bed. Chekhov also had bedbugs. Bob Slocum, the narrator of Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, has “visions these days when I am lying alone in strange beds in hotels or motels, trying to put myself to sleep, of being assailed by filthy hordes of stinging fleas or bedbugs against which I am utterly inept because I am too squeamish to endure them and have no other place to go.” Maureen came to New York in December, and we went to Atlantic City for a couple days. A.O.
10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children While most things we experienced as tots in that headiest of eras seems pretty self-explanatory (plaid was everywhere, Leonardo DiCaprio was the molten ball of light around which the solar system turned, and there was no color too bright for your sweatpants) there are some things that will be a bit harder to explain. Here, a primer for when your future children want to know what the hell you were doing with your boxy, multicolored electronics. 1. Topanga was at some point in human history considered not only a legitimate first name for a human being, but the kind of name that would inspire in malleable teenage boys a life-long infatuation. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Tagged *NSYNC, 90s Porn, Avatar, Backstreet Boys, Beanie babies, Culture & Art, Fern Gully, James Cameron, Justin Timberlake, Lisa Frank, nostalgia, Spice Girls, Tomagotchi, Uncategorized
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How to use a semicolon McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Thirteen Writing Prompts. [Originally published May 4, 2006.] Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument. Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon. A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Derailing for Dummies EYEZMAZE --FLASH GAME-- why americans should never be allowed to travel I had someone ask for an aisle seats so that his or her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?" I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I got a call from a man who asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada?" Another man called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. A nice lady just called. A woman called and asked, "Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know who's luggage belongs to who?" I just got off the phone with a man who asked, "How do I know which plane to get on?" A woman called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-cola on one of those computer planes." A businessman called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China.
Anne Rice FAQ Whoo, tough one here. This is a question, as you can imagine, that leads into some dangerous waters. Let's start with age: While there is nothing in the text which specifically states Armand's age when Marius saves him we do know that he's forever trapped in the body of a 17 year old. Text in TVA suggests that Marius knew Armand for 2 years before turning him, which would place him at age 15 when the two of them first met. However, text in TVA also suggests that Armand only just entered puberty when under Marius's care which would make him either a late bloomer or a much younger 11-13. It is canon that the two of them were lovers when Armand was still mortal. So it can now be said that at the very least Marius took an at least 15 year old Armand for his lover. Does this make him a pedophile? What's the verdict, then? I'll let her words speak for themselves (this was taken from the message on her phone line, the number of which was listed earlier): "Good morning everybody.
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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.