Archive for Randomness
“Talk to the Hand” Is Dead.
Thanks to this man.
Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your half-baked axioms and Golden Chanterelle frittatas for a toast. A toast to Mr. Grigory Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, THE MAN who found the solution to Henri Poincaré’s theorem known as “Poincaré’s Conjecture”, THE MYTH who quit researching as a member of the international mathematics community in disgust four years ago, is jobless, allegedly owns a cockroach-ridden flat but lives with his mother and sister and has refused the Clay Mathematics Institute’s $1,000,000 prize for his findings, and, THE LEGEND who refused a journalist’s mobile phone request for a statement by declaring:
“You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”
Hasta la Vista (Well, Until March 22nd)…
I will be in Argentina for a spell, but look forward to collecting as many photos of oddities for our collective mocking as possible.
Joey Chestnut, Have I Got a Treat for You…
Not since last year’s The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill exhibit…
…have I seen a hot dog quite so equally whimsical and terrifying.
Dear Mr. Wes Anderson…
Hi from Brooklyn! So, this is a little awkward, but were you filming on the Queens-bound V train this morning between 34th and Fifth Avenue? If you weren’t, would you care to explain the following? Exhibit A: 40’ish male wearing a purple faux fur coat with a live parrot atop left shoulder. Exhibit B: Presumably homeless, train-dwelling man wearing a kilt asleep beside a Food City grocery cart overflowing with collected plastic flowers. Exhibit C: A group of 15 year-old Read the rest of this entry »