tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57546217204892789422024-03-13T20:24:32.233-07:00Clerk & Unwellkmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161422447697327335noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754621720489278942.post-53649008383646233102013-02-22T09:50:00.000-08:002013-02-22T09:55:10.780-08:00I still smell like stale tobacco but this time I don't miss you<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4f1h94OBIGrgorSGTliWldtCgtdU21n1juzWuq_-B-PJkfeGlDbdHd-cUn5G0sV6WTnmBMaFuyLd8lhqWHOsmS7h6ePvFnPcZp_wfQDNQXFNr85GeAlx9n9KHMdw7nMmbqKhYaYY9j8/s1600/tumblr_mamrfryDYh1r3gklmo1_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4f1h94OBIGrgorSGTliWldtCgtdU21n1juzWuq_-B-PJkfeGlDbdHd-cUn5G0sV6WTnmBMaFuyLd8lhqWHOsmS7h6ePvFnPcZp_wfQDNQXFNr85GeAlx9n9KHMdw7nMmbqKhYaYY9j8/s1600/tumblr_mamrfryDYh1r3gklmo1_1280.jpg" /></a><br />
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</div>Find the common link and it will solve this annoying little riddle. Annoying because it will still be keeping you up at night three days hence.<br />
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And, well, what else... It can be beautiful.<br />
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A lot of this is compounded by the need for these homes in traditionally "private" environments - they're either located on in the middle of vast property, or on the edge of "unadulterated nature" (although the latter concept certainly hasn't existed since Manifest Destiny was invented).<br />
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It's just a lot of having one's cake and eating it, too. And eating it surrounded by glass. But located far enough away from the proles that no one will be watching YOU, certainly.<br />
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As a remedy, I suggest we return to underground bookshops and cramped quarters that make you feel like you're being swallowed alive. Where's the harm?<br />
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<blockquote>I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!</blockquote><br />
The letter was in his <u>Memories</u>, published in 1919.<br />
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The OED has used this as historical context for adding OMG to their latest addition, along with other internet speak that I can't be bothered with recalling at the moment. Probably something like "fIRSt!!!111one1!!!1"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gillard (Aus.), Obama (US), Key (NZ), Medvedev (Rus.)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>OH MAN, THANKS GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH. From the good old days, with the Russian President that I would crop out if I weren't so lazy:<br />
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Best. Best ever.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Your legacy was a face. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You were a political activist, an artist, a force of the stormy Queens streets where you grew up, tuning in to your Philco to absorb the music and the heartbeat of every era. You moved to Greenwich when you were still a child, at 17, holding only your wits and your secret of your parents' Communism with you. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is your legacy. A face, a body clutching on to a more important body, being looked at by important men. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope the things that you pursued were wonderful. But I'll never know about them now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript">
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Images which can unequivocally evoke a song in one's memory, almost instantaneously. That is the internet. That is design. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;">All images © <a href="http://nourtohme.com/">Nour Tohme</a>, a French-Lebanese designer and illustrator out of Paris.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript">
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Thomas Birke photography <a href="http://www.photodonuts.com/thomas-birke">via</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript">
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Touche. Yours, Hamlet Neckline.<br />
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They may have more sheep than people, but they haven't let that stop them from making a mark on rural living.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.pondly.com/2011/02/dixon-house/">Via</a>. Design: Designgroup Stapleton Elliott. Location: Martinborough, NZ. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript">
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oh well, there's always... uh... nope. got nothing.<br />
never gonna get another chance, are you?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kudos to the Danish Parliament for a 7-1 vote allowing the construction of an underwater tunnel connecting the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland</span>. The proposed tunnel was voted over a proposed bridge that would span the 11.6 miles separating these two islands, both with connections to the mainland. The tunnel, it turns out, will be cheaper and more ecofriendly than an 18-km bridge. After completion of the tunnel, estimated around 2010, journey times between Hamburg and Coppenhagen will be reduced to 3 hours.</span><br />
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Ryan Gosling is dapper-looking young man who meets a sweet young blonde girl. They look very attractive together.<br />
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That Ryan Gosling, always getting married.<br />
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First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the inevitable abortion clinic visit.<br />
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Whoops! But lest you think everyone's just running around killing babies all the time, do note that there are times when everyone takes a nice, long break and just bums around the country in that quaint way that country folk do. (To add to the morbidity, there's also a dead dog featured in both films.)<br />
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Oh, and have I mentioned what these lovely ladies do for a living? Because it seems like different incantations of Ryan Gosling have managed to find the only two attractive, blonde ladies who happily pursue the study of medicine. Yes, with the blood and the guts and stuff. <i>That</i> medicine.<br />
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</div>And maybe this is a demand that Ryan insists on for all of his characters, but DAMN does dude smoke a lot of cigarettes and/or weed. Just constantly smoking, that guy.<br />
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</div>But good thing he's got the comfort of a good lady.<br />
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</div>That is until he brutally murders the one and gets divorced by the other. I would say "oh spoiler alert" but both of those are pretty much the entire movie plot summary, so what's the point.<br />
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The last similarity happens to be that you get to see both of these women topless in the shower with Ryan, but I won't repost those pictures here because c&uw doesn't need to carry a NSFW tag.<br />
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So, I'm not going to review these movies. There's enough people doing that. Needless to say, Michelle deserves her Oscar nod and more. She's exquisite and heartbreaking. Ryan, on the other hand... Does he even have to show up to set any more? The boy is undeniably good-looking, but we (the viewership) need to demand that he choose some variety for his next project. I suggest a bromance movie with Andrew Garfield and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Who wouldn't buy a ticket for <i>that</i>? No one. That's who.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">A former childrens' ward was converted to a library when Riverside became a rehabilitation hospital.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An old phone book found in the maintenance building.</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some more odds and ends that should consume your thoughts: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The largest maritime disaster in US History: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)">SS Sultana</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're feeling just a little too good about the world, the Australian government didn't issue a formal apology for the '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations">Stolen Generations</a>' until February of 2008. As late as 2000, during the Howard Government, the term 'Stolen Generation' was debated, since, according to John Herron, "only 10%" of aboriginal children were taken, and that didn't constitute a "generation." In matters of public, civil discourse... I can't even make this a logical argument. It's illogical not to get it. Anti-racism, anti-formalized racism, anti-genocide. Good?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Good. Now, need a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence_(film)">cheery film rec</a>? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript">
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