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Woodeye.com Glass Sale - Save up to 25%!
2007-08-14 21:40:00
To celebrate the launch of my all new, vastly improved online store and gallery, I am offering big savings on all my glasses. Mix and match any of my designs and different glass styles, and SAVE 10% when you buy 2 glasses, or SAVE 25% when you buy 4 or more! So get a set of painted and etched glasses from Woodeye.com in what ever color combination you would like, custom made just for you! Be sure to check out all my new designs as well, including my "Tribal Flames' design shown here. I hope you like my new site, and thanks for your support! - woodeye
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First Ever PostSecret Video Released
2007-08-12 21:34:00
If you're not aware of PostSecret, it's well worth a visit. Updated every Sunday, this project showcases handmade postcards created by diverse people united in their desire to air their secrets to the world. By turns funny, heartbreaking, indecipherable, and uplifting, this web site is a constant reminder that we are not alone in the world, that whatever we suffer, someone else has lived through the same, and worse. PostSecret has spawned 3 books and a national tour, and represents some of the best the Internet has to offer.
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Good advice from the Short Fat Man
2007-08-12 03:33:00
How many times have you met someone at a bar and then felt the need to post a personal ad, not to ask them out, but rather to give them advice on their life? Yeah, me neither, but "the Short Fat Man' (as he signed his post), felt obligated to reach out over Craigslist to let this poor unfortunate 23 year old "nubile tastiness" know just how naive she is about the world around her.It also makes for a funny read - here is a direct link to the posting.
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Erik Mongrain's unique guitar style
2007-08-11 00:15:00
You must listen to this jam, which I believe is called 'AirTap!' played by a very skilled new guitarist, Erik Mongrain. His first cd just came out, and if the rest is anything like this then he should have quite a future ahead of him!
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Read a Motherfucking Book
2007-08-09 21:48:00
We here at In the Weird do not approve of censorship, so we are presenting the full version of this controversial public service announcement. The language is rated R. The content is otherwise all Sesame Street. Or, view it in this format, in which the Anglo-Saxon expletives have been edited out and a brief interview can be found. Is this how to reach today's youth? Would previous generations have been more motivated to keep their noses clean if their elders had dropped a few more f-bombs? Is disdain for deodorant among the most pressing problems faced by modern adolescents? Click the link to learn more.
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Chupacabra Trophy
2007-07-31 22:09:00
i just don't see why there can't be a chupacabra. The Mexican goat-sucker is a secretive, elusive creature. These people found one dead in the road. They're going to mount it. I bet they can tell the difference between a chupacabra and a fox with mange. No pictures, unfortunately, but they are having some tests done. Seriously. Why can't there be a chupacabra?Thsi is a great book for little kids: The kindergarteners and first graders I read to loved it.i haven't read this one, but it looks wonderful and is well-reviewed.
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Battles - Atlas
2007-07-31 21:55:00
I had never heard of them before, but I am certainly digging on them now. I hope you other weirdos enjoy it as well.
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Christopher Walken Cooks A Chicken w/ Pears
2007-07-31 03:26:00
Ya know, it's Mr. Walken and he's cooking. This certainly isn't normal.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2007-07-28 00:50:00
Author: J. K. RowlingFirst line: The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.Why you should read this book: Rowling finishes up her bestselling series with slow-paced aplomb, overt spectacle, and a moderate yet restrained body count, tying up every loose end with enough intimate details to satisfy the most diehard fans. Every character makes a true showing according to his or her inner nature, legends abound, and the battle between good and evil is settled once and for all. Much darker and more bellicose than the rest of the series, but not beyond reason for the intelligent and well-adjusted child.Why you shouldn't read this book: You take umbrage at authors becoming so successful that no editor would dare to suggest that their novel would be even more perfect without a hundred fifty superfluous pages of beloved characters standing around, scratching their rears, wondering what's going on (or you take the deaths of fictional characters extrem...
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'Opulent Heat' Margarita Glass from Woodeye.com
2007-07-26 21:02:00
Continuing my series of new glasses, here is one of my newest designs on a goblet style margarita glass. The design is called 'Opulent Heat ' and is available in any color combination you would like, and will soon be available on a variety of other glass types including martini, wine, whiskey, and pint glasses. Every glass is made one at a time and signed by the artist... me! :)
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'Bubbling Arrows' Cobalt Blue Champagne Flutes from Woodeye.com
2007-07-24 20:06:00
Here is a another new glass design that just went online at Woodeye.com. This makes a stunning wedding toasting flute!
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'Spiral Diamond' - a new glass design at Woodeye.com
2007-07-23 20:18:00
Several new glass designs are going online at WWW.WOODEYE.COM including this new 'Spiral Diamond ' design available in any color combination you would like. The Martini and Wine glasses are online now, with Shot, DOF, Pint, and HiBall glasses all coming in the next couple days.
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Those Lucky Canadians
2007-07-14 02:11:00
First they have better health care and how this.Oh right, hello everyone. I'm back! My weir-dar hasn't been working lately, or perhaps out of laziness?I'll be right back.
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Victory for Humanity, the hard way
2007-06-24 03:51:00
Many of us at In the Weird attended Antioch College, that bastion of the bizarre, a bubble of bliss in the bible belt. Although the Board of Trustees is trying to close the college for what really can't be anything but a mainstream makeover, we're not pointing any fingers. We're keeping faith in the principles of activism and the folks who stick their necks out for what they believe. Some have said Reunion feels like a funeral, but Antioch is a phoenix. Here's the plan: the plan.I love you all. You guys do it up right.
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Prometeus - The Media Revolution
2007-06-20 08:48:00
This is quite frighteningly brilliant.
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Fear the Pollen Monsters!
2007-06-11 21:25:00
That's right... fear them for they are burrowing among your nose candy and looking for your brains... mmmm, your delicious brains!
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No comment
2007-06-01 23:37:00
New footage of the Loch Ness Monster?I guess you had to be there.
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Useful Advice
2007-05-31 02:11:00
You may or may not be aware of a syndicated New York Times column called "The Ethicist," to which you can write for advice on ethical dilemmas. IMO, it's kind of a stupid column. Sometimes the answers are pretty obvious, and other times I think the guy is just flat-out wrong. Then again, I have what might charitably be referred to as an ambiguous morality.At any rate, this guy on Gawker.com is The Unethicist. He takes the questions from the NYT column and responds to them...well, you can read it yourself to see how he responds.I am so pissed off I didn't think of this first.
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The Art of Mel Kadel
2007-05-29 10:05:00
I came across an amazing artist this evening and am sure that all three of our readers will agree that she is quite excellent indeed. All I could find out about her was this blurb ripped from from a bio page for her over at oolongtees.com (which warrants a look itself I might add... some very cool original t-shirts on display there)."Mel Kadel is originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. She now resides in Los Angeles, in a log cabin by the 5 freeway. She works using ancient papers, tiny pens, Q-tips and glue."Well her ancient paper and tiny pens are suiting her very, very well. Be sure to rummage around on her site, melkadel.com, in particular check out the photos link which has photos of a series of drawings and collaborations with sarcastically enlightened messages. I hope she is considering a book collection of these some day, I would sure as hell buy it.
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Japan is different from America
2007-05-25 08:42:00
Refreshing!
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The Art of Spirals
2007-05-18 21:32:00
I stumbled upon this collection of photos and photo manipulations of spirals and felt it was worthy of sharing with others. There are some stunning images in here as well as some highly unique photoshopped creations as well.
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The times, they are a-changin'
2007-05-16 20:49:00
A Seattle high school teacher is on paid administrative leave after telling his students, "I ought to take whoever is talking in my class, line them up against a wall and shoot them."It's hard being a teacher these days. You've got privileged kids, helicopter parents, No-Child-Left-Untested regulations. You have students with mosquito ringtones text-messaging each other in class, students buying custom papers off the internet, students whose behavior is determined by whether they've taken their Ritalin orally, ground it up to snort it, or sold it to a drug dealer. What you don't have is an authority to compel the kids to learn.This article scares me. Granted, there's nothing funny about school shootings, but this wasn't about school shootings. Even the dumbest of kids understood that the teacher was not threatening to kill them, as the article explains. In fact, he didn't say, "I will." He said, "I ought to." He never suggested he would hurt a child. High school kids, after a...
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Vienna, Austria: World Leader in Literate Smut
2007-05-12 08:18:00
I'm Feeling awfully proud of my Austria n heritage right now...Viennese Sex Hotline to Help LibraryA novel idea for municipal fundraising involves an Austrian actress reading from works of erotic literature.For the benefit of lonely people who hide with old books in the rear stacks -- or anyone who likes literate smut -- Vienna City Hall now runs an "Eros-hotline" to benefit its main library.Through May callers can pay €0.39 (53 US cents) per minute to hear an actress read from classic and modern erotic literature. Anne Bennent, an Austrian stage and film star, reads passages from the library's so-called "Secreta" collection of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.Callers will hear hot and heavy passages from German-language writers like Hans Carl Artmann, Annemarie Weber and Ferdinand Lasalle; or writers in German translation like Anaïs Nin."So far 158 people have phoned up," Vienna Library spokeswoman Suzie Wong told an Austrian news agency on Monday. "They'v...
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Intricately Painted Eggs by Paul Fanning
2007-05-10 22:30:00
My cousin Paul blew us all away last Christmas when he sent out a series of hand painted eggs he had crafted. Each egg is tapped and drained, and then painted or dyed (possibly both, I need to verify with him) with multiple colors in unique designs. Please take a look at his Flicker gallery to see more of his creations. Keep making more of these Paul, they freaking rock!
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Weird Works of Elizabeth McGrath
2007-05-09 22:45:00
Somewhere between dollmaking, a disturbing sideshow and a cryptozoological study, Elizabeth McGrath's works are beautiful and disturbing. Check out the octo-lady (St. Amphitrite) in "The Sailor's Valentine" gallery.And below: Merle the Maggot!From "Everything that Creeps"
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
2007-05-06 23:26:00
“Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?” asks Mary Roach. Some folks prefer not to think about what will happen to their body when they’re done with it. If they do think about it, most don’t think beyond the funeral, where their family will mourn as their remains are interred in the earth in a box, or the moment their cremains are scattered to the wind. Mary Roach is not most people, and she wanted to know: what happens to those of us who aren’t immediately laid to rest? If, for instance, we donate our remains to science, what then? In Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Roach answers this question, and many other questions that might not occur to the casual reader. How do forensic scientists learn about decomposition? Why do engineers need corpses? Are there better ecological alternatives for the disposal of human bodies?In smooth prose that is bubbling with curiosity at the same time that it slyly pokes fun at...
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I am not making this up
2007-05-06 03:11:00
Here's a great toy for those of you who can't get enough of the whole-molecule flavor of good old-fashioned nitrates. Find other inexplicably unmarketable entertainment for children like Whack the Camel, Senor Schnozzbot, Hair Putty, and Ethel the Opera Lobster at Gobler Toys.
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Little People All Around
2007-05-04 19:31:00
"My message is, don't pick on midgets or we will kick you in the knee."Usually try not rip stuff off from fark.com, but this quote was too good to pass up. While little people playing basketball isn't news to fans of Litt le People , Big World, it just makes for some good, positive entertainment, particularly in a world cobbled together from so many simultaneous tragedies.
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Internet Dating Tips #4
2007-05-02 03:51:00
Dear gawd, don't do it.There are some messed-up people on-line.
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Outlaw bread now, before it's too late!
2007-05-01 07:34:00
Please take a look at this hilarious list of reasons why bread is dangerous by "B.S. Wheatberry". It includes such gems as: "Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.""More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.""Brea d is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute."Remember, don't ever turn your back on a baker...(image above was unattributed and snagged from here)
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