The Rodeo » Linkage http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog Because illogic is a lifestyle choice. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:54:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How To Nap http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2010/01/how-to-nap/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2010/01/how-to-nap/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:01:28 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=531 The Boston Globe has a great picture outlining how to successfully nap. Click through to see the whole thing.

How To Nap

RodeoClown: Looking forward to his afternoon train-nap.

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2010/01/how-to-nap/feed/ 5 Blonde http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/blonde/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/blonde/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:48:56 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=488 I was reminded of this joke yesterday. It’s really quite good.

RodeoClown: thought that I posted this yesterday, but apparently I didn’t…

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2009/07/blonde/feed/ 1 Losing the War http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/11/losing-the-war/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/11/losing-the-war/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:41:14 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/?p=379

Is it possible to say precisely when a war ends? When I was a kid there was a version of the boogeyman legend that we repeated to one another constantly, in tones of delicious dread. Hitler had survived the wreck of Germany and was still alive on a South American plantation, plotting his revenge against the world. Even as we played at recess and argued about our favorite TV shows, we worried that he was lurking out there, maybe right outside the school’s fences, waiting for a chance to snatch at young Allied warriors. But there was a point — unrecorded, unknown, but still undeniable — when even this tottering ghost of the fuhrer became too old and weak to trouble the sleep of the world any longer. The rumor died, and took the last terrors of the war with it. Then the cool rumor kids were passing around was that the Holocaust was a hoax.

War ends at the moment when peace permanently wins out. Not when the articles of surrender are signed or the last shot is fired, but when the last shout of a sidewalk battle fades, when the next generation starts to wonder whether the whole thing ever really happened. World War II ended as war always ends — by trailing off into nothingness and doubt. Its final monument has never been seen by mortal eyes. It’s a phantom image at the edge of a rumor: an unmarked grave in the depths of the South American jungle where a weird and decrepit old man, half forgotten by the world, at last entered the lists of oblivion.

-“Losing the War”, Lee Sandlin

Set aside an afternoon and read through Lee Sandlin’s Losing the War. It’ll take a while, but you can read it in chunks, and it is worth taking the time to do so. It is a haunting, and frightening look at World War Two, and war in general.

RodeoClown: praying.

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In any case, should you wish to see the stuff I like, you can do so here. Or grab the RSS feed, if you are that way inclined.

Enjoy.

RodeoClown: heteronymous.

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Whenever your job sucks, just think, it could always be worse.

RodeoClown: not complaining

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Johnny Cash covers it.
Reznor says “I haven’t listened to my version since then.”

Cash’s version is pretty awesome. I think it’s the video that makes it.
By changing the tone just a little, he turns it from a song about heroin addiction to a song about the whole of life.

It’s a little depressing. But that’s not a bad thing.

RodeoClown: also hurt. But different.

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RodeoClown: likes this.

]]> http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/04/stuff-christians-like/feed/ 3 You Ruined Everything http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/01/you-ruined-everything/ http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/01/you-ruined-everything/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:10:14 +0000 RodeoClown http://www.the-rodeo.com/blog/2008/01/you-ruined-everything/ One thousand, three hundred and sixty days ago we had Matthias, six hundred and fifty five days ago we had Jesse, and in thirty-five days we are due for number three. My life plans lie in tatters on that labour ward floor, cleaned up nearly four years ago.

And you know what… I don’t care.

This song perfectly encapsulates the feelings involved in having a child: regret, love, bills, vampirism. It made me cry.

Follow the link and then click on the song title to get the mp3.

You Ruined Everything – Jonathan Coulton

RodeoClown: wouldn’t change a thing.

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RodeoClown: happy pants.

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The Mario theme. Played with lightning as the instrument.

Steampunk Laptop
Do want.


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