January 2012
65 posts
me: what would you usually say to a waiter when you depart a restaurant in hong kong? me: asking because I’m drawing a comic on the act of overusing phrases of languages one doesn’t speak; not because I’m planning to pretend to speak canto Brian: they usually say bye and you usually say bye me: yes, but in the actual language Brian: we actually say bye. Brian: “bye”...
December 2011
87 posts
Juni: Are the walls brutalist? Brian: somewhat Brian: but it’s an exterior-interior Brian: bare concrete is really quite brutalist Brian: but i don’t mind, if the whole place is really going to be a repurposed bunker Brian: more reverse engineering Brian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25762890@N02/5858599694/ Brian: at first i liked this studio then i realized the grey area on the left...
ZINN: You see the walls of Minas Tirith up close here. Albert Speer would have been proud. Notice the grand scale, the “great works” emphasis of Gondorian architecture. The fascist uniformity of their battle dress. Compare it to the folk artwork of Orcish armor—their improvisatory use of shrunken heads and Mannish skulls, for instance. There’s something very beautiful about it to me.
CHOMSKY: A...
Frogurt, The Simpsons, and US-China Relations
me: people call it frogurt now? me: not froyo? Dan: People have been calling it Frogurt since The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV me: how recent was this? Dan: …94? me: very old Dan: 92 Dan: clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxJ2QXyzSc me: wow, look at that me: Chinese people were in American cartoons before any Chinese people EVER stepped inside America me: and by “any Chinese...
me: would it not be anachronistic if Mary the Virgin and Mary Magdalene were both in the ad? did they ever coexist? Dan: We’re having modern shoes on the bodies of 60s rockers with BC heads. I think we can manage with a bit of anachronism. me : me : yay! they’ve met me : but Jesus is an infant, and Mary Magdalene is an adult me : it’s like…Star Wars! like little Anakin...
emilyh:
i’m going to get some fried chicken & sashimi & go to the mountains by myself & eat and look at the mountains and cityscape and stuff. maybe bring a book.
Words With Friends (that Alec Baldwin game)!
Dan: playing COD doesn’t help you at all me: I know, but I want to eventually spell codpiece Dan: do you have PIECE? me: no… Dan: are you anywhere close to it? me: no…. Dan: Then you’d have better luck spelling it by keeping the C in your rack me: but The Lord Jesus Christ My Savior will provide me with the letters when I need them Dan: what if I put an S after COD? me:...
Brian: you know, i want to do some facial symmetry testing Brian: somebody said that the fact that i can flip my parting any time i like and still look about the same suggests strong facial symmetry Juni: speaking of anatomical beauty, http://miyukiohashi.tumblr.com/ Juni: BRB BUYING CONTE Brian: right now? Brian: at 01:30 Juni: yes Brian: where the fuck is there going to be an art store open...
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Kuchisake-onna
“In Japanese mythology, Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女 Kuchisake-onna?) (“Slit-Mouth Woman”) is a woman who is mutilated by a jealous husband and returns as a malicious spirit. […] Children walking alone at night may encounter a woman wearing a surgical mask, this [sic] is not an unusual sight in Japan as people wear them to protect others from their colds or sickness. The woman will...
