Thursday, January 16, 2003

“‘A person may choose what he cannot see,’ he said, as if explaining something very obvious to a very foolish individual. ‘A person may mention a bird’s name even if the creature is not present and correct: crow, quail, hummingbird, bulbul, mynah, parrot, kite. A person may even select a flying creature of his own invention, for example winged horse, flying turtle, airborne whale, space serpent, aeromouse. To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it — well, that’s a way of bringing the said thing into being.’”
—Salman Rushdie
(from Haroun and the Sea of Stories)

Tonight, in addition to work and yummy Thai food, DDR Max (very fun!), a hot bath at last (divine!), and some frightening links:

Aeromouse!


Comments


And via Zannah, but too scary to link to from the entry itself, here’s a frightening article (with picture) of the man who set the world record for piercings with 702 surgical needles.

yukino @ 03:54 AM | 2003/01/17

“To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness…”

It’s a beautiful quote. Apparently it also describes what someone did when they came up with “prayer panties”… *shudder*

I will think twice before eating another maraschino. :)

pixel @ 03:59 AM | 2003/01/17

Never click the link without getting a warning. Never click the link without getting a warning. Never click the link without getting a warning. Guess who I’m going to try to get to screen all these links for me from now on. :D

Loli @ 10:33 AM | 2003/01/17

Maraschino cherries aren’t that scary if you just think of them as sweet cherry pickles.

Jen Davis @ 12:19 PM | 2003/01/17

Bleach! Bleaching agents! Does this frighten nobody?

yukino @ 12:24 PM | 2003/01/17

We world-premiered a staged reading of the Haroun script at St. Olaf my senior year. It was lovely.

freesia @ 12:26 PM | 2003/01/17

bleach is good for you ;-)

hey, this had you written all over it.
http://www.iloveegg.com/

rosebaby @ 05:36 PM | 2003/01/17

Some would-be biblical phrases God left on the editing room floor:

“And the Lord said, let there be prayer panties.”

” And manna and thongs rained down on the Israelites, and there was much rejoicing.”

“I am the alpha and the omega. It was *I* who put ‘Jesus’ in G-string!”

TheCheerfulOne @ 08:59 AM | 2003/01/19

after reading about food escapades amongst you and the gaw, i swear i want to be invited to lunch one day! yum. salivate.

rosebaby @ 04:55 PM | 2003/01/19

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