Daily View, 3/17

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am English and French by heritage but I always embraced the possibility that "English" meant someone along the line had dabbled in some Irish and therefore I was just sort of a British Isles mutt, etc. This allows for a fucked up selective association with things that are Irish—Good luck? Celtic music? Fine. Catholicism? No thanks. Frat boys? Boston? Alien species, alien planet. Etc.

• The Gizmodo boys actually simulate the Frogger experience using a balcony, wireless technology and some unapologetic arcade nostalgia. I love it.


• The Childlike Empress lives!! I always wondered what happened to her. Byatch became a dancer, apparently. Sigh. Meanwhile, I'm still crushed that her Neverending Story co-star Barret Oliver quit the biz—I had such a crush on that kid.


• Dude, this is Hogwarts-tech awesome: Night Sky Plane Ceiling


• Howl's Moving Castle is finally out on DVD. This movie rocked my world. I love Miyazaki. So does the Village Voice.


• Recyclosaurus!


• Poor Elias Koteas. His skinhead-with-a-heart-of-gold is my dad's favorite Some Kind of Wonderful character. (Speaking of, I adored this movie like every other junior high girl in the 80s, but I watched it recently and it hasn't aged so well. Eric Stolz is kind of eerily beautiful in a way that's almost creepy, it seems painfully clear that Watts is a lesbian, and Lea Thompson and Craig Sheffer look like they're 35. Am I crazy? Only the music holds up—it's still one of the best 80s soundtracks ever.)


• More Gizmodo: I'm all for crazy shit like this, but wouldn't it give you back problems??


• This is as close to a suit as I ever want my wardrobe to get: the suit bag

Daily View, 3/3

• No kidding... Point Break LIVE... !!!! Will everything eventually become theatre? "The show has become an instant cult classic across the nation, and start practicing your Keanu-isms, because the starring role will be selected at random from the audience each night, and will read their entire script off of cue-cards!" Again... !!!!!


• Apparently this man is making a decent living and gaining odd, translated art cred by creating flowers out of photographs.


• Love Fred Astaire. Anytime there is an article I feel obligated to point it out to people. Slate links Fred Astaire and Louis Armstrong.


• Must explore further: create your own ringtones with something called Pocket Fuzz.


• There is now an iPod necktie. People commenting on this thoroughly ridiculous accessory mentioned jokingly that they were waiting for an iPod thong to come out next. And, lo, it became so (well, almost—the pod itself is wearing the thong). Anyway, it's one of many officially strange iPod accessories.


• More DIY, this time Nintendo-flavored: Make Your Own Mario


• The ex-perfume-slinger in me is stunned by silly shit like this.


• "In 2004, Sasha Cagen published the book Quirkyalone, which tries to give a positive spin on Western solitude. A quirkyalone, says Cagen, is 'a person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers to be alone rather than dating for the sake of being in a couple.' In her first formulation of the idea back in 2000, Cagen calculated that 5 percent of the U.S. population are quirkyalones." Only 5% of us?? Momus waxes on.