The Tory Party

What I Did on my Winter Vacation

I visited my love man in New Mexico and have stories to share. But this will have to suffice for now.

Shirt by Steve & Barry’s. Holes by Smith & Wesson

Looking cool until I try putting the magazine in upside-down

Video for “Hot in Herre” by Tiga

You need this in your life right now. I haven’t figured out how to embed YouTube on WordPress so click, click, click away:

My personal scream-out-loud happy moment is at 2:17.

ENJOY.

Certainties in West Virginia

On the road to Chicago:

#1 – “In West Virginia, there’ll be snow.”
#2 – “How do you know? Did you look it up?”
#1 – “They just do. It’s like, ‘West Virginia, what should we do today?’ ‘Let’s hit a deer on the highway and have snow for no reason.’”

Twenty Degrees

If you want to shoot a post-apocalyptic movie in North Carolina, you don’t need to block off Times Square or digitally remove people. You just wait until January. When it snows/ices in that special NC way, for which I will now try to coin the term “snices,” and does that thing where it melts to slush during the day and freezes over at night, turning asphalt into a lovely sort of black glass, things slow down, sure.

But when it gets below twenty-five degrees, PEOPLE DISAPPEAR.

I just got back from a six mile run, starting and ending *on campus*, traveling up and down a street they like to call “Main Street,” and I only saw one other pedestrian the whole time — and that was a fellow jogger at Salem Lake.

Does this mean everyone else is crazy? Or that I am? Discuss.

And, yeah, it’s Sunday morning, not a lot of activity in general. And Lord knows some productions are out there braving it.

Usavich

9 out of 10 on the Oshiri Kagiri Mushii scale

Shown to me by Random_Tangent.

If I told you this was a series of Japanese animated shorts about two rabbits in prison, would you be interested?

What if I said it used some kind of painterly 3-D cel-shading technique?

What if I said I’m watching them… again… and I don’t know why?

What if I said it helps to watch them in order?

GO NOW.