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1. Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with herbs and bake until crusty; serve to everyone but Jeff.

Fourteen passive-aggressive appetizers from the New Yorker via kottke

linking to the new yorker probably makes me bourgeoisie-aspirational.  w/e.

]]> http://jnapieralski.com/post/300/feed Martha Stewart DMV Blog http://jnapieralski.com/post/298 http://jnapieralski.com/post/298#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:15:48 +0000 jdn http://jnapieralski.com/?p=298

NYS DMV ballpoint pen vending machines.

via Martha Stewart’s Blog

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Eddie Gaedel’s (right, batting) Wikipedia entry is not to be missed.  0 career at bats, 0/0 batting average, 1 BB, 1.000 on base percentage.

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Steve Schofield takes pictures of people in costume. Seems trite, but stick with it.

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“I’m not here to make friends”

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I was also getting fonder and fonder of Lou Reed’s Transformer. My prog friends thought Lou Reed was a joke. [...] They would say “Do you like this because it’s funny that he can’t sing?” and I’d say, “No, that’s not it,” and they’d say, “Well it has to be, there’s no good guitar,” and I said, “It’s different from that.”

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats in a 2004 interview w/ The Believer

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from The Book of Accidents (1831) via Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

]]> http://jnapieralski.com/post/285/feed Dodgers win with no hits http://jnapieralski.com/post/282 http://jnapieralski.com/post/282#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:50:08 +0000 jdn http://jnapieralski.com/?p=282 The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win without getting a hit.

Box score and Recap from ESPN

via SportsFilter

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Gallery of old cereal boxes

]]> http://jnapieralski.com/post/280/feed Simultaneous Release http://jnapieralski.com/post/279 http://jnapieralski.com/post/279#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:28:09 +0000 jdn http://jnapieralski.com/?p=279 like everybody else, i guess i don’t listen to much FM radio. but when i do, i realize i should do it more often.

heard this today: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California:

I’m not a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, but when it comes to lyrics, you’re not going to do much better in two words than that SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE line

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Geto Boys

]]> http://jnapieralski.com/post/276/feed George Carlin dead http://jnapieralski.com/post/273 http://jnapieralski.com/post/273#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:14:38 +0000 jdn http://jnapieralski.com/?p=273 George Carlin dead at 71


a routine about euphemism and “soft language”

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

I’m tired of hearing about innocent victims. It’s fiction. If you live on this planet you’re guilty. Period, fuck you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

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Britain’s most unwanted dog finally finds new owners after 11 years in a rescue centre

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