August 2009
30 posts
“I recall being told, when I first moved to Los Angeles and was living on an...”
– I’ve tried to read everything I can about the fires currently raging in Southern California, as the area’s palpable sense of pending doom has long been a morbid fascination of mine. Invariably, when such things take place, as they often tend to do, I’m reminded of Joan Didion’s essay “The Santa Ana”...
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WatchGizmodo’s Summermodo, brought to you by Heineken Light! Video by Mike Byhoff and Blakeley.
Related: Gawker Sales has a Vimeo account but not a Tumblr? Gotta get working on that.
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James
gawker:
get me a beer.
If this isn’t Batty or Cascio, the answer is no.
bananasmusicclub:
Weezer - “(If You’re Wondering...
Watch“You have fruit and vegetable trees. That’s where fruits and vegetables come from.”
The world’s smartest woman has the answer to all of California’s problems.
FYI
Today’s Gawker outage was a result of a DDOS attack against Consumerist, according to a memo that I’m too lazy to copy/paste. Details can be found in Deustch at http://serversupportforum.de/forum/server-down/30511-ddos-attack-von-illusion-botnetz.html).
Thanks to Tom and Co who have been working pretty much round the clock to get that handled. If I bothered with the memo paste-age,...
“Burned, tired and like a kite”
– Kuna unleashes wisdom on us about kite surfing.
Today was a bit of a wash because of the rain this afternoon, but a few of us managed to make it out to the ocean this evening for some late day surfing and skim boarding. Now we’re listening to a sublime cover band rip through santeria.
I...
