My Stupid Life

The Squirrels of Fairyland, by Michael

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:19 -0700

Click to see this wonderful Flickr set of photos.

Photo

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:48:34 -0700

"And while sea cucumbers are vile — eating them is like eating thick slices of lip —..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:18:52 -0700

“And while sea cucumbers are vile — eating them is like eating thick slices of lip — they’re exactly the kind of thing that generations of immigrant mothers-in-law have lovingly served up to their gagging families in the name of health. So, needless to say, I made a special trip out to Chinatown, and returned home with a bag of gross undersea flesh tubes for my mom-in-law to cook up.”

- An accent on love / Cherishing our immigrant parents — malapropisms, cultural disconnects and all by Jeff Wang.

thatchriscastillo: Watch them catch them underwears.

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:00:33 -0700

thatchriscastillo:

Watch them catch them underwears.

The truth.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:03:25 -0700

The truth.

YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Loverboy-working for the weekend (via...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:14:58 -0700

YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Loverboy-working for the weekend (via Ryder276)

cockenblog: WILL SMITH WEDNESDAY Wednesday is looking pretty...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:03:12 -0700

cockenblog:

WILL SMITH WEDNESDAY

Wednesday is looking pretty good so far.

Just one recent example: last Tuesday, I had at one point...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:49:39 -0700

Just one recent example: last Tuesday, I had at one point studied a map of Queens with my sons. Later that day I spilled some yogurt. Sure enough, I ended up having a feature-length dream the following night about getting a yogurt stain in the shape of Queens on my pants. Worse, my dreaming self found this very upsetting, and I woke up all exhausted.

From Christoph Niemann’s’s amazing blog. It was difficult to choose just one drawing to post!

Good Night and Tough Luck - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

Photography retrospective for my high school art teacher, Joan...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:20:11 -0700

Photography retrospective for my high school art teacher, Joan Frederick.

This was too good not to re-blog. Bike thieves...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:58:33 -0700

This was too good not to re-blog. Bike thieves suck.

kluthvonreuter:

(via darrel) bike thieves have been a topic lately.

Breakfast.

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:55:27 -0700

Breakfast.

iPhoto hilarity.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:01:12 -0700

I have always liked using iPhoto to organize my photo library, and now I love it even more since it has face detection to identify people in my photos. Oh, iPhoto, you crack me up so, so much.

Michael is not Mr. Miyagi, or the Karate Kid. Let me be very clear on this.

Definitely, NOT Michael Flores.

This is slowly turning to a squirrels only tumblr. Well, not...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:03:31 -0700

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

Hey, Mr. Squirrel!

You dropped your celery.

Guess he's not hungry anymore!

This is slowly turning to a squirrels only tumblr. Well, not really. What’s news lately…

New computer!
Finished watching Battlestar Galactica!
New apartment (maybe)!
New illustrations for things (maybe)!

I totally wouldn’t mind, if you bought me this.

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:41:23 -0700

I totally wouldn’t mind, if you bought me this.

Mary Anne’s painting is INSANE. I’m looking forward...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:11:45 -0700

Mary Anne’s painting is INSANE. I’m looking forward to seeing this IN REAL LIFE.

crappytaxidermy: Photographed by Lebovox

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:58:39 -0700

crappytaxidermy:

Photographed by Lebovox

yo looks like a freak

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:58:15 -0700

ragbag:

here is some interesting news about kids in baltimore [deflator alert: it has nothing to do with the wire or omar little]. it concerns a grass-roots trend of adopting yo as a gender neutral pronoun.

[The] Street term ‘Yo’ is being used by kids as a gender-neutral replacement for ‘he’ and ‘she’, according to researchers.

Language experts in the US say since at least 2004 students have been saying “yo” as a substitute for gender specific pronouns and the trend is growing. The study, published in this week’s New Scientist, found middle-school and high-school students in Baltimore, Maryland, used the word in sentences such as, “Yo put his foot up” and “Yo looks like a freak”.

Dennis Baron, a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has written extensively about the failure of invented words that have not been picked up as pronoun substitutes. He described the emergence of “yo” as significant because it has not been planted and was a grass-roots phenomenon.
He said: “Most of the gender-neutral pronouns are artificial coinages that are then marketed - unsuccessfully - to users”.

i have not been this jazzed up from the linguistic inventions of children since the genesis of nicaraguan sign language. but then i read the following line WHICH TOTALLY BLEW MY BUZZ:

feminist scholar Brenda Wrigley said “yo” sounds “crass and disrespectful. It is something a younger person would shout down the street as a greeting, but not something I’d like to see used in writing.”

as far as i am concerned: this world needs more innovative baltimorean teenagers and fewer feminist scholar brenda wrigleys.

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distractions | inspirations: Get High Now (Without Drugs) Get me...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:48:01 -0700

distractions | inspirations: Get High Now (Without Drugs)

Get me to a bookstore! Nancy’s book is finally out! Well, it’s not really her book, but she did the illustrations for it, and that’s really all I care about ;-)

Hhahahahhaha! danmeth: METH MINUTE 39: Sex Machine! James Brown...

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:50:50 -0700

Hhahahahhaha!

danmeth:

METH MINUTE 39: Sex Machine!

James Brown never quite explained himself until now…

A peek into the past and…the future? The photo is my...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:21:44 -0700

Annie circa 1992

Annie circa 2048

A peek into the past and…the future?

The photo is my submission to the We Have Lasers!!!!!!!!!! tumblelog. The drawing is an artist rendering of what you folks have to look forward to in 39 years. It was made by the always amazing Michael who needs to update his frakkin’ website with a new song!