archives for Monday 10 July 2006
swedish polka metal
Monday 10 July 2006 | I like a cookie
We must recommend, and enthusiastically, the myspace page of one Revere Taylor, if only for the vastly entertaining first few seconds of the song played there—Finntroll’s “Forsvinn Du Som Lyser”—which few seconds I found myself replaying again and again, junkie mouse pressing the pleasure lever; such has been the depth of my malaise. They Might [...]
c•nt•p•d•s
Monday 10 July 2006 | I like a cookie
This afternoon in the library, looking for Dave Eggers’ story “After I Was Thrown into the River and Before I Drowned,” I instead came across a coffee-table tome about stinging creatures of the desert Southwest and immediately read it standing up, in that repelled-yet-fascinated way such books can inspire, turning the full-color pages very carefully [...]
suck my llama
Monday 10 July 2006 | I like a cookie
The exuberantly intellectual Alison Bechdel answers questions you’ve always meant to ask, as well as some that you’d never think of in a million years. Has your work been translated into Finnish? Why yes, it has. “Lepakkoelämää,” which supposedly means “Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For,” but could mean “suck my llama” for all [...]
