Hanging car deodorizers are actually odorizers. What if they were realistic? You could have mundane smells like old feet, cabbage fart, cat piss, smoldering cigarette, dank mildew, bacon.
While you're at it, check out the "bacon/meat" section at Archie McPhee.
archive for September of 2005
car odorizers
posted by janet on September 25, 2005shiver me timbers
posted by janet on September 19, 2005
Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2005!
Some ideas t' help you celebrate:
From Andrew at The Poor Man:
Has anyone else ever noticed the freaky one-to-one correspondence between pirate slang and gangstah rap slang? Seriously, the more you think about it, the more out of control it is.
Some ideas t' help you celebrate:
- Translate a webpage in t' pirate
- Reflect on pirates n' global warmin'
- Play t' Flyin' Spaghetti Monster game
From Andrew at The Poor Man:
Has anyone else ever noticed the freaky one-to-one correspondence between pirate slang and gangstah rap slang? Seriously, the more you think about it, the more out of control it is.
| Gangstah | Pirate |
| fo'ties | bottles o' rum |
| bling bling | booty |
| Yo! | Avast! |
| Homey | Matey |
| Bee-atch | Scurvey dog |
| Pop a cap in yo ass | Make you walk the plank |
| Word | Arrrrrrrrr |
| Beat down | Keel haul |
| Wack MC | Land lubber |
| Playah | Swashbuckler |
| Mack Daddy | Cap'n |
| Jacking | Plundering |
| Rap | Sea Shanties |
| The joint | The brig |
| Crew | Crew |
dawn at lokelani ranch
posted by janet on September 16, 2005
Sometimes the best way to remember a place is to hear it.
Listen to dawn at my friend Roland Barker's place near Sleeping Giant on Kauai. It's a lush 2-acre retreat, and you can pretty much live off the land there, getting fat and happy from coconuts, avocados, mangos, lettuces, and lychee.
Thank you to Roland for making the recording for me. This is much better than the sound I captured and lost.
Listen to dawn at my friend Roland Barker's place near Sleeping Giant on Kauai. It's a lush 2-acre retreat, and you can pretty much live off the land there, getting fat and happy from coconuts, avocados, mangos, lettuces, and lychee.
Thank you to Roland for making the recording for me. This is much better than the sound I captured and lost.
disturbing voter mascots
posted by janet on September 03, 2005
Edward and I couldn't believe the design of our Seattle "Local Voters Pamphlet" for 2005 when we got it a couple of weeks ago—this is supposed to engender confidence?? Cathy Sorbo does a hilarious deconstruction in today's Saturday Spin column in the P-I.
The art direction seems more appropriate for a school lunch menu or an elementary school pamphlet explaining the birds and the bees. In fact, the pen seems to know just where to put her tip on the ballot. Weee!
The art direction seems more appropriate for a school lunch menu or an elementary school pamphlet explaining the birds and the bees. In fact, the pen seems to know just where to put her tip on the ballot. Weee!
not sexy enough
posted by janet on September 02, 2005
From a Reuters article:
The former head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that handles the infrastructure of the nation's waterways, said the damage in New Orleans probably would have been much less extensive had flood-control efforts been fully funded over the years.
"Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in," said Mike Parker, a former Mississippi congressman who headed the engineering agency from 2001 to 2002.
Parker also noted "If we do stuff now it's not going to have an effect tomorrow. These projects are huge, they're expensive and they're not sexy."
NOT SEXY? I guess it's naive of me to expect our leaders to make funding decisions based on reason.
not sexy
Image: Vincent Laforet/Sipa Press
sexy
Image: Associated Press
The former head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that handles the infrastructure of the nation's waterways, said the damage in New Orleans probably would have been much less extensive had flood-control efforts been fully funded over the years.
"Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in," said Mike Parker, a former Mississippi congressman who headed the engineering agency from 2001 to 2002.
Parker also noted "If we do stuff now it's not going to have an effect tomorrow. These projects are huge, they're expensive and they're not sexy."
NOT SEXY? I guess it's naive of me to expect our leaders to make funding decisions based on reason.
not sexy
Image: Vincent Laforet/Sipa Press
sexy
Image: Associated Press
