A coffee shop where the employees all wear platform shoes, glitter make-up, orange spiked hair, feathers, and silver spaceman pants. It’s name: ZIGGY STARBUCKS! My friend Michael Krider made the following suggestions: Drink names: The Cafe Young Americano Caffeine Genie Sumatra-jet City When employees hand your money back after a sale, they say, “Here’s your […]
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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I bought a mug that has no handles on it at all. I noticed that the accompanying slip of paper said, “Most Copco travel mugs are intended for right or left hand use.” Well, yes, if there are no handles, that would make sense. It goes on, “If your mug is handled, the lid is […]
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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Cthulhu in ancient Rome Tennessee farmer David Lang’s disappearance into thin air Lovecraft’s victims’ tendency to write in diary/account as things happen to them: “It devours me!” A forgotten skeleton
Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Memories are passive fragments. — Scott Granneman
Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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“When nature calls, I answer on the first ring.” — Scott Granneman
Posted on September 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Modern tragedy in film: one man’s death invites the gaze & sympathy of millions, ignoring the other deaths that occur all around us all the time.
Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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This was written 15 January 2002, & the Hungry Buddha is gone now, but this is still an interesting description. Just got back from lunch at the Hungry Buddha. Man, that was good. It’s a small place on Washington Street in downtown St. Louis. There are signs all along the walls: “Buddha would bus his […]
Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I remember the first day I ever got on the Internet. I was an English teacher working at a camp for gifted high school students, and a technologist was there talking about this thing called “the Internet” and how it was going to change everything. It sounded fascinating, so when I returned home a few […]
Posted on October 11th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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The centrality of the network in modern life, thought, & technology is apparent in that both ends of the use stack – users & developers – now think of the network as a given. A developer doesn’t graft networking on to software later in the process; instead, software is built assuming the network. Users expect […]
Posted on October 6th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Some gathered thoughts on memory: Wanting to remember & forgetting, or knowing you’ll forget My father’s memories, & a chosen few passed along to me – of those chosen (or random) few, how many do I pass along? Emotion recollected not in tranquility, but sometimes in seething emotion, in inner turmoil or pain Flow of […]
Posted on October 1st, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Two things people have said about Jans: "With friends like Jans, who needs enemas?" "Jans is a social laxative – he loosens everyone up."
Posted on October 1st, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Responsibility: "I’ll do it." Accountability: "I’ll pay a price if I don’t do it right."
Posted on October 1st, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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In Hollywood there’s a meme known as “high concept”, the idea being that you can explain all there is to know about a movie in just a few words, ideally relating to another movie. So, for instance, you might describe a movie you’re looking to get a greenlight for as “Die Hard on a chicken […]
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I was walking around on Wash U’s campus a while back – I don’t remember where, exactly – when I looked down and noticed that I was walking over bricks that had been “donated” by folks who had given money to WU. This is standard practice a lot of places: donate $$$, get a brick […]
Posted on May 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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