I love that half these readers sent in Godzilla-flavored mashups. Also love the MST3K reference.
Entries categorized as ‘cool stuff’
Wired Readers School BP on the Proper Use of Photoshop
July 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Categories: contests · cool stuff · technology
First-ever reading accomplished. Internet friends’ reality confirmed.
July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
First of all, thank you so much to Greg Gerke and John Dermot Woods for inviting me to participate in the Soda Series #2 reading last night. I had so much fun, didn’t fall over or faint or anything, and got to listen to Matt Bell, John Madera, and Jeff Parker read some great material and share a really interesting conversation with them as well. (I even got to share my karaoke song with the crowd, which probably made them sad but maybe if they feel sorry for me they will buy a book if I ever publish one.)
Plus, I got to meet a whole bunch of my favorite online people, who I now can picture in my head as real, walking, talking, and very cool human beings. As John Madera said, “Sometimes it’s nice to feel like I’m not just a bag of bones sitting in front of my computer.” Amen. It was also a nice excuse to get to NYC for the weekend, celebrate our anniversary with my husband by gorging on ceviche, paella and sangria, hit up St. Mark’s, hang with old friends, and make new ones. A great weekend all around.
Categories: cool stuff · craft · writers
What Seven Year Itch?
July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
My husband and I have been married for seven years today. Damn. That’s a long time–over 25 percent of my whole life!–but it doesn’t seem like a long time. That’s because Chris is like the most fun best friend ever, and who the hell wouldn’t want to spend everything second they possible can hanging out with their most fun best friend?
It’s really the coolest thing about being an adult: you know when you were having SOOOO much fun with your best friend playing video games and eating Oreos and talking and talking at three in the morning and your friend’s mom called and said he/she had to come home and you were both like, oh, man, our fun has to end, what a bummer? Well, being married to Chris is like that except that there aren’t any moms to tell you to come home, and you can eat cookies and play video games and talk all night long if you want to. Being married is an awesome lifelong sleepover.
Happy anniversary, Chris. Now I’m hungry for Oreos.
Categories: cool stuff · random
Soda Series Reading in Brooklyn on July 18th
July 7, 2010 · Comments Off
What are you doing on July 18th at 7 pm? If you’re in NYC, you COULD be attending a really cool event in Brooklyn: Soda Series Installment #2.
The Soda Series is a bimonthly reading/conversation of writers at the Soda Bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, hosted by Greg Gerke and John Dermot Woods. This particular installment will be a conversation with Matt Bell, John Madera, Jeff Parker and me. I feel awfully humbled to be included alongside these ultra-talented and ultra-prolific writers, and I’m hoping to learn a lot from them during this event.
Hope to see some of you there, too, if you’re in the area. And thanks so much to Greg Gerke for inviting me to participate in such a cool reading series.
Categories: cool stuff · my work · smart people · writers
A Stormtrooper in Thom Browne?
June 21, 2010 · Comments Off
Um, yes. Um, awesome. More here.
Categories: cool stuff · fashion · film
Video Game Heaven
June 18, 2010 · Comments Off
Holy crap. This place looks like how I imagined heaven when I was a kid. I’m still drooling now.
Categories: cool stuff · video games
Ashes to Ashes to…
June 14, 2010 · Comments Off
This is an amazing art project. The artist, Wieki Somers, creates these pieces out of human remains–out of our ashes. The philosophy behind the project:
her project ‘consumer or conserve’ evaluates this notion of a second-life. she considers, how human ashes can be reused by means of rapid prototyping or 3D printing, so that we may afford someone a ‘second life’ as a rocking chair, vacuum cleaner, perhaps even a toaster? would we become more attached to these objects if this was the case? would our willingness to pay more for a product increase if it is made from human tissue or ashes?
Categories: art · cool stuff · rabid consumerism
A Story About Things that You Will Love
June 14, 2010 · Comments Off
Art by the amazing Matthew Lyons, whose site you should most certainly visit.
“Against Specificity.” By Douglas Watson. Who is apparently a genius. In Fifty-Two Stories. Read a bit:
On your way to the Thing Exchange, Thing B tucked under your arm, you run into someone—an unemployed magistrate, say, or a circus clown who comes up to you and says, I have scurvy. Give me an orange!
You say, Orange!
The clown lurches away.
You revolve through the front door of the Thing Exchange and into the lobby. Ah, the lobby. How grand, its pillars or frescoes or whatever! How high, its well-crafted ceiling! How long abandoned, the style in which it was built!
But you have not come here for the architecture. Holding Thing B tight against your side, as though it might leap from your grasp, you hurry across the lobby to the elevator. A sign reads, Things A-Q, Floor 2. You operate the elevator in the usual manner.
When the doors open and you step out onto Floor 2, a flutter somewhere near the center of you reminds you how very badly you want Thing A.
I want it considerably more than I ever wanted Thing B! you think.
Read this whole wonderful story here.
Categories: Writing · art · cool stuff
OH. MY. GOD. My top-number-one-of-all-time-ever dream car just went ON SALE.
June 3, 2010 · Comments Off
Dear god. If you buy me Categories: cool stuff · rabid consumerism
Small Stormtroopers, Big World
June 3, 2010 · Comments Off
If you love Star Wars* (and unless you were born after the 80s–which is mind-boggling to me, but that’s another issue altogether–you obviously do) you really need to check out this blog. Take my word for it.
*The original trilogy. Original ORIGINAL trilogy.
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