A couple shareable limericks from 70-year-old artist Ernest McCarty:
There once was a man from Lyme
Who married three girls at a time.
When asked, “Why the third?”
He said, “One’s absurd,
And two is always a crime.”A young midget couple from Pfaff
Enjoys sex play with a laugh.
When lust rears its head,
They lie on the bed
And perform thirty-four and a half.
(via Luke)
“The Blue Boy” original oil painting, on display at the Huntington. It was painted in 1770 by Thomas Gainsborough. My grandparents had a print in their Hawaii house. Spooked the hell out of me.
I just found a folder full of static HTML files on my server that were posted on this site back in the nineties. They are the biographies of some of the best chess grandmasters including Alexander Alekhine, Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, Paul Morphy, Siegbert Tarrasch, Emanuel Lasker, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Akiba Kivolovic Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Jose Raoul Capablanca, Richard Reti, Miguel Najdorf, Sammy Reshevsky, and Sultan Khan.
I had a new skin put on my djembe a few months ago, and it’s starting to break in. Last night I tuned it using the Mali Weave, creating the first row of diamonds.
25 years ago this morning. I was a junior in high school here on the west coast. It was 1st period. Where were you?
January 28th, 1986 at 11:39am EDT – The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on its 10th flight during mission STS-51-L. The explosion occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and was actually the result of [click to continue…]
Creative Copy Challenge is website that offers the creative community a quick way to crush writers block and unleash our muses by creating a story that contains ten random words or phrases. I’ve participated in a handful of these exercises, which you can check out here.
A couple days ago while sitting at a table at Harrah’s, I got a Twitter IM from the website’s creator Shane Arthur asking me if I’d be interested in choosing the ten words for the next Creative Copy Challenge #113, scheduled to go live today.
Of course I would! Drum roll, please:
1. Under
2. Angels
3. Code
4. Tunnels
5. Incognito
6. Quota
7. Dog
8. War
9. Wife
10. Puzzle
I’ll be having some fun watching these come in all day before posting mine. Meanwhile, feel free to get in there!
