This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 7 December, 2005.
I always liked the typography and graphic design on this little label. I find myself sometimes more interested in the materials, artificial aging, graphis, and fonts of the labels of these clothes than I do the clothes themselves - these people really know how to brand.
Best Firefox skin I have used in some time - Apple’y, customizable, light colored. A great replacement since my GraphiteFox theme is outdated.
Sounds like some heavy duty shit. Very rugged and masculine. Only the best from American Eagle
since no one has commented on this post i will, thanks to Chester Wilson i no longer bomb tests
Wearing these heavy duty pants causes anywhere from a 2x to 6x jump in my virility levels. 60% of the time … they work all the time.
Adam - I loved the part where we got there late so we were passing these costumed runners the whole time … there went a woman with a stroller, two santa clauses, some elves with a canoe … this year I saw a bunch of Pac-Men and a lot people dressed as presents. We'll have to have a memorial run next year - you guys in?
This is hilarious, guys. I'm out of good ideas, but somebody keep the Top Thirty Chuck Norris Facts ( http://www.4q.cc/chuck/index.php?topthirty ) thing going.
Ok, ok … one more:
In his study of fruit flies, Chester Wilson discovered the secret to immortality (which he kept for himself), Lipitor, Advil, IcyHot, and Viagra.
The closest I ever came to dying was over two years ago. Like many teenage near-death experiences, this one was entirely unexpected and so quickly recovered from that it barely registered as a blip on my adolescent radar screen. And yet, looking back now, I can frame the event in my mind: an inch or two one way, a half second more slowly or quickly, and I would exist either in a vegetative state or as a memory of existence, whose tenure on earth would be marked in cold marble on a sunny hill near a church in Woodbury.
After you complete a set of bench presses, you “rack” a long bar on a steel support above you. This places the center of the bar directly above your forehead. One workout, I set the bar down carelessly, resting its left side on the bevelled edge of the rack, rather than securely on it. As I rocked myself into a sitting position, I felt a 185 pound bar graze the back of my head, crashing like a piledriver to the floor. Had I gotten up a moment later, the bar would have directly met my forehead as I rocked upright, and would have slammed by head back to the bench, concentrating its entire downward momentum on a single point on my skull.
This story is not interesting because I did not die. However, it got me thinking just how much I take my life for granted. True, humans are not built to take joy with each new day - we are built to assume, gloss over, take for granted … but these are traits worth overcoming.
I have decided to remind myself of life. Not as some heavy-handed philosophical exercise, but as a way to be Happy. That reminder will take a musical form: I will play more piano, record another album, love the gift of 15 years of playing that I have been given. Plan your own reminder, too - we’ll try this together.
Turbo Minivan - I’d just like to point out how unbelievably cool it is that this guy turbocharged the same model as my first car: an old-school 1980s Dodge Caravan / Plymouth (Chrysler) Voyager.
I didn't have a 185 pound weight fall on my head, but I had a 10 pound digging bar land right on the back of my head. I became quite dizzy and tested my vital functions by driving my car. Then there was that time the semi hit me on the freeway. Or when I did a poor front flip onto the asphalt with my rollerblades… then there was that time….
In and ready!
Although I don't know Chester Wilson. I heard he is teaming up with the Pepsi company to put viagra into soft drinks. Pepsi intends to market the soft drink as Mount and Do. I heard it was really Chester's idea though, those Pepsi bastards.
Count me in too.