grab bag 1 - mcsweeney's, jello art, chickens

a little grab bag of things today, to tie over the scant but loyal readership - stay tuned for scandalous halloween photos to be posted...

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an old post from mcsweeney's, but possibly my favorite, from "open letters to people or entities who are unlikely to respond":


AN OPEN LETTER TO EVERYONE WHO, WHEN APPROACHING THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE SUITE WHERE I AM THE RECEPTIONIST, TURNS THE HANDLE DOWN, THEN PUSHES THE DOOR IN, THEREBY CAUSING A LOUD OBNOXIOUS BANGING SOUND, LOOKS UP AT ME WITH FEAR AND FRUSTRATION IN THEIR EYES, TURNS THE HANDLE UP THIS TIME, BUT STILL PUSHES THE DOOR IN, CAUSING THAT SAME OBNOXIOUS BANGING SOUND, GIVING ME THE SAME TERRIFIED LOOK, THEN RINGS THE DOORBELL, WHICH IS EVEN LOUDER AND MORE PIERCING, THEN STANDS THERE, PETRIFIED, ANGRY AT MY INCOMPETENCE TO UNLOCK THE DOOR WITH THE REMOTE-CONTROL DEVICE.

March 22, 2005


To you people,


Pull.

PULL the door open. Turn the handle any old way you want. But then PULL. Don't push. Stop pushing the door. Pull. Pull it. The door will open if you pull it. I can't stand that banging sound. No, it's not locked. It's unlocked. I unlocked it. Yes, I see you there. And I unlocked it. It works. The battery is not dead. I checked. I'm not playing a trick on you. Stop looking at me like that. And stop ringing the doorbell. Just pull. Pull the door.

Pull.
Pull.
Pull.


Pull,
Kurt Chiang



[lol. i think he has the perfect rhythm there.]

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check this out - san francisco in jello!!! awesome.



look at those colors.



doesn't that remind you of full house? (shut up. marcos, you know it does.) see the full album here, and espeically check out the cooooool bay bridge photo. (did someone say...earthquake?)

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and finally, a little bit of web sillyness borrowed from miss meiris:

chicken aerobics. dance, puppet, dance!