18 5 / 2013
OMG I'M THE ADULT
A blog about the moment when you realize OMG I’M THE ADULT HERE. Send your stories to OMGIMTHEADULT at Gmail.com
This is a blog I used to run. It’s got some fun stories.
17 5 / 2013
Me on Carson Daly. Talking about Anonymous and Occupy like an uber caffeinated New Yorker, on network TV
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14 5 / 2013
The incredibly intricate and captivating custom animal sculptures by Creatures From El, Ellen June.
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14 5 / 2013
"But from public space, all you can see is a Koons, a balloon dog. You can’t see the vastly smaller, sadder balloon rat, held up in protest by the teamsters. It’s almost as good a joke, if not good art, but anyway it does not matter, because it is on the other side of the gated entrance, and therefore, is not art at all."
Sarah Nicole Prickett, juxtapozing Koons and Scabby the Rat, like one does if they are just that fucking apt.
Who Are the People That Get to Make This Thing We Call Art?- Bullett
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Everything in this essay is GOLD.
10 5 / 2013
One in eight Americans will test positive for glitter at some point in thier lives.
10 5 / 2013
09 5 / 2013
No, this is a variation on a circle parry and a counter circle parry. Both are commonly taught in French and Italian style foil fencing.
A circle parry is when you avoid your opponents blade by moving your blade around theirs in a circle. A counter circle parry is circling around your opponents circle so that they can’t get their blade past to stab you.
When two fencers know each other well, this often happens. It becomes a game of chicken, it only ends when someone is willing to risk leaving an opening so that they can launch a different attack.
The foil version of this happens at least once a practice on my college fencing team. The only difference is that the blades are horizontal rather than diagonal.
Bolded for sadness
ALL the fight arrangers need to be looking at the European swordfighting manuals a WHOLE lot more…
(mutter)
(also, the Turning Your Back thing, the “complete spin-around”. My iaido instructor would have curled. his. lip. I can just hear him now. “Did God make you an idiot last night all of a sudden? Am I wasting my time? Never turn your back on an opponent until they’re lying on the ground and can’t get back up. Numbskull.”)(more muttering)
09 5 / 2013
Title cards to the original nine Fleischer Studios Superman theatrical shorts. What’s great about these - which I couldn’t capture due to my deficient GIF animating technology - is that a number of them are themselves animated. The “magnetic” part of “The Magnetic Telescope” flickers like a neon sign, the “Terror on the Midway” spotlight moves, etc.
I’ve never understood why we’ve never seen the Mechanical Monsters again. Such great designs.
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09 5 / 2013
The unbearable lightness of walking through your childhood neighborhood on Google Maps.
