Here you'll find the flotsam and jetsam from the collisions between my interests and the Internet, a bit of cosmic debris, and the small, crunchy bits that collect in the gutters of my mind. If you like what you find, you may also like the longer original works at Hidden City. On the other hand, if you are interested in the person behind this collection, you can find out more than you need to know here.
Curiosities
“A musical comedy, in fact, about a small-time mad scientist supervillain, the superhero he hates, and the Tess Trueheart drawn between them.”
“kindergarchy n. Rule or domination by children; the belief that children’s needs and preferences take precedence over those of their parents or other adults.”
Salty liquorice »
I bought a roll of Klene Zuote Drops in a Dutch market. I was expecting something different, but this is one of the first foodstuffs I could not manage to finish.
“Batman’s villains all work from a starting point of derangement or misplaced rage, but they’re also Type A enough to have plans and goals, for robberies, heists, control. From the first, the makers of the early Batman comic books felt Joker should be a mass killer, and that there shouldn’t be any reason why he kills, other than it introduces anarchy into Batman’s world. This was awful to think about back in ’40s drugstore America, when there wasn’t a serial killer with a new fetish greeting you in every airport bookstore and on the screen — a killer clown, imagine!”
Edison Hate Future by Warren Ellis »
“Love means never having to tell the authorities where I buried you.”
Weird. I don’t expect older European countries to collapse. http://ping.fm/2T8Xd
“The upshot of all this is that the question of “taste” remains a problem for the aesthetic capitalism that is premised upon satisfying it for everybody. In spite of personal differences and ostensible market indifference, not all tastes are equal. Some tastes are in fact more socially prestigious — today we would say cooler — than others.”
“Actually I think it is a very simple lyric, which is another reason why I’m very perplexed by people’s reaction to it. I see it as a relatively simple love song with some very sad imagery and about things passing away and never being the same again. I’ve always been amazed that people find that such a mystery.”
—Jimmy Webb, discussing MacArthur Park
“Consensus of Americans who actually enjoy Anheuser-Busch beers: “What do Belgians know about beer?”
“To the wicked, all things are wicked; but to the just, all things are just and right… How delightful to think that a justified person can do no wrong!” — from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner”
Soiled Doves of the Old West »
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Bacon flavored jelly beans from www.mcphee.com