NPR reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, is predicting the 2016 hurricane ‘season,’ which beings June 1st, to be ‘near-normal.’ “Near-normal” in this case actually means
This is a great clip from Ridley Scott’s 2007 American Gangster. The context is that Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) and Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) have an exchange about their
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a f***ing tragedy. It’s a goddamn crying shame and the people in charge of that state are responsible for the future-ailments and deaths
McCain gave a couple normal one-liners on his march to fail becoming 44th POTUS.
The P90D is a $100K+ electric vehicle with some not-so-average options including “Autopilot Convenience Features.” Slow News Day take a model Model S P90D (that’s a mouthful the more you
Following up from Donald Trump’s recent conversation with the Washington Post Editorial Board, this week’s New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt is a brilliant melange of Trumpist expressions and thoughts
I’m sorry. I don’t intend for this blog to become a running stream of The Donald’s ‘normal’ references, but these are simply golden. I mean who says that? “My hands
These days it seems ‘duh’ that the boundary between the United States and Mexico lies along the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers. But these things aren’t always so obvious, and
The Stomp to the Nomination Continues.
[Finding stars and exoplanets these days seems an almost trivial, monthly affair. But back in November of 2008 it was anything but, especially with planets orbiting an … ordinary …
The New Normal is an exhibition of artwork made between 2001-2008 currently on view at Artists Space in Manhattan, NYC, and co-organized by the iCI (that acronym isn’t even defined
[This post is from the archives – it was originally published on June 12, 2008. All of the references in it – Pages, Labs – are since expired by the
Here’s a throwback Thursday post for ya. Back in October, 2008, Overheard in NY published this gem of an exchange at JFK airport: [h/t sebastosh who sent this over wayyy
Taking inspiration from Thomas and Sebastian of Patience Productions and their A Normal Day series, YouTuber Timtastic made his version of waking and getting the day going one trick at
Uploaded not even two months ago, this The Guardian video about the rise of Donald Trump in America as being consistent with recent political trends in Europe, opens with this
“Objection to the use of the word “normal” your honor!” Not my words. Rather the demur of the prosecutor in this scene from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, season 2 episode
The year was 2008. I was using Plaxo at the time as my online address book or rolodex – this was way before the now all-powerful search in Google Contacts
Courts aren’t supposed to be political, but file this one under politics because in the following quote by the recently deceased Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia, he makes mention of
It’s not all GOP chaos alone these days. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave this gem of a few lines to CNN’s Jake Tapper recently, somehow equating the
Monologue by Dr. Millard Rausch from 1978's Dawn of the Dead opens with a normal question and comments on the notion of normal life.
David Frum on why pols in general - and Marco Rubio specifically - "adhere to talking points"
Watch Larry David play Bernie Sanders as a not/normal human being.
NPR’s All Things Considered this week had a story about current affairs in Ferguson, MO, the city in St. Louis County where Michael Brown was shot and killed by police
Another pol-normal reference this morning, this time about “political rockstar” Senator Bernie Sanders who according to Ezra Koenig, lead singer for Vampire Weekend, “does not have the normal signifiers of
In contrast with not-your-father’s GOP anymore, NPR talked with Hassan Selim, imam at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and released the article In Iowa, Campaign Season Finds Muslims
In this quick, few-second clip – part of a longer, l337 segment on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show – Rachel Maddow paraphrases Donald J. Trump for his July 18, 2015
I found this ‘tattoo locations’ image online, somewhere; the Internet is a nebulous place. Strange is it designates stomach tattoos “will become humiliating 500% faster than normal” which implies any
Enough with the online references to normal, these images are from a real-world postage machine.
In late 2012, a year after the Occupy Movement had effectively reshaped the political protest landscape forever, Copenhagen-based Danske Bank – transliteration, “Danish Bank” – began rolling out their “New
PBS have a fascinating article with several pieces of media attached about the phenomenon of the street drug bath salts. I was lead to the story via the above GIF,
In X-Men: First Class (2011) there are not one or two or eleven but three instances of the word normal in the screenplay. The following scenes are shown in sequence,
I mean just look at how many more fireworks you can see on this screen compared to normal screens: Like at least two or three more!
BREAKING! NEWS! Must See: Celebrities doing ordinary everyday schmuck things like standing on subway platforms!
Molly Ball has a great piece for The Atlantic that dissects some of the currents flooding the GOP platform just two weeks before the Iowa caucus. And per usual these
VirtualDub was a great piece of free software for learning video editing waybackwhen on Windows. It was lite, capable of handling AVI (defacto source at the time), and did I
Philosoraptor is an image macro series featuring a clip art of a velociraptor deeply immersed in metaphysical inquiries or unraveling quirky paradoxes. -via Know Your Meme Fascinating how many macros
This is a total throwback post. I first caught wind of A Normal Day in mid-2009, when the first two videos were released; #3 came out in November 2010. You’ll
From one of the opening sequences of the CAPCOM title Okami, this shot shows Issun, the game’s guide embodied as a bouncing bug, asking the sun god Amaterasu, “The tree’s
spotted in a building in lower Manhattan; pictures were taken on 2008-10-04.
Talk Normal are a band duo from Brooklyn - here are some of their fonts from flyers.
I don’t even remember how I stumbled upon this one, but from “the web’s original travel blog” comes this story by Beth that takes place in Alaska – “a month’s
"It changed the blood flow in their brain from an abnormal pattern that we saw with concussion to a normal pattern that we saw with healthy people."
NPR reports: "Forgot Something Again? It's Probably Just Normal Aging"
The premise of Liquid Breathing has long been a fancy of sci-fi novelists and visionaries who apply the gimmick to space travel (think multi-lightyear stasis or hibernation) as much as
A study of the question 'what is normal?' in Quatermass screenplays.
laughing and not being normal is the opening track by Grimes on her fourth studio album
Leela and Amy hide out in an alley, and after glancing at how much of life is controlled by the tentacles...
Professional bag-of-gas and NRA dog-whistle-blower Wayne LaPierre stars in this NRA propaganda video where he gives a rambling, disassociated, and false-logic monologue that opens with a zinger you’d think was
Spotted while watching a promotional video for Portland, Oregon-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) – who are currently celebrating their 25th year – is this golden moment when an old geezer
Nowadays embedded video players have a visual language to designate settings like sound, play/pause, progress bar, and of course fullscreen. But there was a time when...
I originally encountered this instance of normal – one of my first on a foodstuff – back in October 2008. While inspecting the ingredients label for a jar of NewYork
"Mister Bauers was chosen for how remarkably average he is, extremely average in every category."
From the archives, in early 2012 Jeff Wysaski for Pleated-Jeans published this meme-list of 11 comparisons of Normal vs. Creepy, stating, ...
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The City on the Edge of Forever (original broadcast date 1967 April 6), Dr. McCoy gets accidentally injected with one hundred times
For the Miracle family 'normal' includes keeping more than 20 guns in the house, not all of them under lock-and-key. "And this is one of how many [guns] in the house?" "Twenty-two I think."
In 1991, Cuba’s economy began to implode. “The Special Period in the Time of Peace” was the government’s euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation.
