2009 Salute To Idleness Vol. 3
Now that you are on the verge of being fired for having impure thoughts towards a certain someone, there’s no harm in mindlessly wandering the Intertubes in search of the wacky and wonderful things that make it such an interesting place.
Behold: things of which you have never before heard but you will now find utterly captivating.
- Miss Mussel has a predilection for practical things items we use every day that are also art as opposed to sculpture or paintings. As such, these are very appealing.
- Human behaviour at a Messiah concert is always more interesting to this bivalve than the actual music, a subject ever brilliant Matthew Guerrieri tackles in the Boston Globe.
- From The Tsking & Clucking Department: “Once they learn how animals are killed to make jackets, boots, and bags, we expect that they’ll be reaching for stickers before you can say Sugar Plum Fairy.” Ruiners.
- “Looking past the boxes of imported olive oil and pasta, you can see what is left of the apartment where Rudolph Hirt, a Swiss immigrant, and his wife Anna raised seven children and built one of the few Detroit businesses that would survive from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first.” Detroit writer James Griffioen takes on a tour of his local hardware store.
- News Flash: Public art is not always terrible
- Finally, just in case you were wondering, you should buy a few cases of bottled water and maybe some tuna. Proof that the end of the world is nigh has never been so concrete.
