Tumble Weed

Stuff that just doesn't seem to fit in Vox, LiveJournal, Blogger, or AllConsuming.

Mostly conversations and links that tumble across my path.

Feel free to email me if you have a comment: lrperlle at yahoo dot com.

Shopping

L: So we only went in there for a switch blade, but then we wandered around a while and ended up at Borders and Petco and...
E: *laughing*
L: Why are you laughing?
E: I'm just wondering how many people have ever started a story with, "So we only went in for the switch blade."

Apr
25th

Fri

Cannibals

L: In a post-apocalyptic world I'm not sure I would be able to find the point.
E: To survive? Isn't that always the point?
L: But if I'm like one of the only survivors running from gangs of cannibals or zombies, it's hard to see a point.
E: What is the point anyway? We're all just running from metaphysical cannibals anyway.
L: Well that's bleak.

Apr
20th

Sun

Human Calendar Really cool calendar concept.

Apr
15th

Tue

Eggs

L: Wow, I just read the craziest thing.
E: What was it?
L: The Story of the Eye
E: What's it about?
L: Um...a murderous egg fetish.

Apr
4th

Fri

Butter Tea Recipe

Man from Bhutan: Then you blend the salt and butter together.
B: OK, and what kind of tea do you use?
Man from Bhutan: Well, in Bhutan we use a special kind of tea. But here, we just use Lipton.

Apr
1st

Tue

Working in sales

In 1969 Jack Kroll from Newsweek interviewed David and Albert Mayles about their film Salesman. Seeing the film as nothing more than a depressing take on the illegitamacy of the sales world, Kroll asked what was the film’s point.

The men responded (and I’m paraphrasing) by saying this film illustrated how life isn’t that different for so many other people. And if this is the existence of so many people, it begs the question “what could it or should it be instead?”

Mar
28th

Fri

Commitment

L: Get this. They quit their jobs and sold their house.
B: And then spent a year in Europe?
L: Yeah, that's commitment to a dream.
B: That's what I call overwhelming.
L: True. I mean what do you think they did when they got back to reality?
B: No, I mean, how much would you remember with a schedule like that? It would all blur together.

Mar
25th

Tue

Power Favorite poem by Adrienne Rich

Mar
24th

Mon

Shovels

L: What's that sound?
*looks in back of car*
B: Shovels.
L: You have eight dirt encrusted shovels in your back seat.
B: Yeah.
L: You know, that' gonna look really bad if we happen to get pulled over.

Mar
23rd

Sun

Animated stick people Just a cool, animated picture. Order in chaos.