nbatattoos:

upnorthtrips:

PROFILIN’: BIRDMAN

Great narrative. Note that the big jump in tattoos (between the teal Hornets jersey with #12 and the white Hornets jersey with #1) took place during Andersen’s two year suspension. So impressed with this work by Up North Trips.

bitshare:

It all started when a letter was left in a neighbors mailbox. The premise for the letter was that David was not pleased with his neighbor Justin’s newly installed floodlight that beamed straight into David’s house across the street. As so illustratively depicted in the drawing pictured inset. With “A” being Justin’s house and light, and “B” being David’s house where the light is shining. “C” is a dog. Now, let the neighborly love ensue.

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Terrific!

What year penetration of a technology reached 50 percent penetration:

• Electricity: 1924
• Cars: 1925
• Radio: 1931
• Stove: 1937
• Refrigerator: 1942
• Telephone: 1946
• Washing machine: 1964
• Dryer: 1970
• Color TV: 1972
• Air conditioning: 1973
• Microwave: 1985
• VCR: 1987
• Dishwasher: 1996
• Computer: 1996
• Cell phone: 2000
• Internet: 2001
• Smartphones: 2012 

immutableinscrutable:

The summer of 1992. It was at the Knitting Factory, the late set—11 pm?—on a Monday night. I had turned 22 five days beforehand. (technically speaking, I had played a couple other gigs under the name Soul Coughing, but this was the lineup that made the albums)

My bandmates agreed to it because…