Butter Days Will Haunt You

Our tree is blossoming outside of our windows. Two possums dance below it, celebrating spring, dancing to an inaudible soundtrack. I imagine Gershwin.

Tonight some wonderful things have happened. Work has reached fruition, some of which you can hear on this site’s eponymous Myspace. Others have occurred in the forum of a periodical many of us hold dear.

Circles and cycles are not named so, I am thinking, because we can do anything but point to certain moments and say that yes, here they are, happening. Here they are in motion. They are not starting and are not ending; they are moving moving moving. This is clear in certain seconds more than others. These are those moments; here are such things.

Tonight some wonderful things have happened. I am not surprised, but I am welling over, toppling in solemn celebration.

Our tree is blossoming, and this seems just about right to me. I could not have imagined it otherwise.

I am beginning to wonder what function this blog will serve as a centralizing force for the Brown diaspora. I picture a time, post-grad, when I will arrive at my job in the mornings and check new updates to budder days on my googlereader. Perhaps then people will actually post decent writing instead of place-holding, link-peppered paragraphs.

Obama ‘08 = an end to this. Just kidding. Obama used to have a spray on tan too. (Is that offensive?)

-Asian Correspondent David Gumbiner

There are a lot of things I don’t know. Probably because I spend most of my free time photoshopping myself into photos of Cillian Murphy. But today I was amazed to learn that yet another seemingly innocuous household item can get you high: duct tape. What? The feeling that came over me approximated how I feel every time I learn that another diet staple of mine is a carcinogen, usually while I’m chewing it. What’s next–HOPE???

-M

As some would argue, celebrity support for candidates can cause knee-jerk stupidity with the viral spread of a flash mob–and I’m not dumb enough to disagree here–but damn it if this isn’t both as oddly inspiring and abjectly banal as it will be when I get 12 copies of Oh, The Places You Will Go as a graduation gift in May.

The most-looked-at article on the BBC newsfeed is rarely consistent from day to day. But this week, extraordinary events across the world have propelled one article to the very top of the list for four straight days. I’m not kidding. You can even watch their wedding video (without sound, unfortunately).

In other internet news, comic groin-punching enthusiasts have finally formed a united front. Nad Shot brings the art of comic groin punching (and kneeing and kicking and gripping) out of the limiting paper realm and into the forum that best suits its bizarre nature and fleeting interest. Keep clicking “older posts.” You’ll be surprised how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

And now, this inexplicable animated gif.

-d

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

-dgb

Click on this link.

Then click on the picture. You will see a video.

It is obviously a video of a valiant sperm withstanding damages incurred by the desperate defensive maneuvers of a besieged egg. The Herculean soldier loses his tale in the onslaught but vigorously re-grows it and continues the fight.

NASA seems to think it is a comet named Encke, which, straying too close to the sun, had its tale mercilessly ripped off by something called a Coronal Mass Ejection.

Either way, I believe we could all learn something from this video. Please contemplate it.

-Devin

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In my spare time, I’ve created an 11-minute stop animation feature. It deals with the possibility (some say myth) of love at first sight. While the overall message is an optimistic one, it does touch on some sensitive issues, so only click on the link if you’re up for something that challenges your beliefs about relationships and the human condition. Anyway, here it is! Enjoy!

– Michelle