December 2010
12 posts
Chindōgu →
bestofwikipedia:
Chindo-gu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindo-gu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility...
“Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked it and feared it and...”
– Kingsley Amis, Take A Girl Like You
Hazy Memories of Watching Television as a Child...
I woke up, rolled over, and smelled a particularly dank part of the bedsheet (roughly the spot where my head was for the last leg of my sleep). Instantly, my mind conjured a distant memory of watching Oprah, maybe underneath a blanket in my parent’s basement and at probably about age 13, and listening to her say “The average male only washes his bedsheets once a month”, followed...
