February 2012
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About Verb/Image
Verb/Image is about local, regional, and unavoidable topics in art, literature, advertising, and daily life.
Isaac Spradlin is an internationally-published arts and culture writer who spent seven years in the book business followed by two in nonprofit communications for an arts education outfit. He holds an MA in Arts Journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse...
November 2011
6 posts
Mac & cheese annual quota met. Broccoli & cheese casserole annual quota met. Southern sweet tea annual quota met. #sweetcheesus
Producers supply the vegetables.
RT @coketweet: This really is an insane clown posse. #fuckingmagnets
Bus stop tableaux.
“This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil.” #1Q84 p.203
If I spend good money on something like eyeglass frames, I expect that I won’t have to be some company’s cheap brand whore.
September 2011
3 posts
RT @kmartsurrealism: ikea is sort of a scary place http://t.co/4e3DO4a
Surprise birthday parties always happen on predictable days.
RT @DrSamuelJohnson: Long Island Iced Tea (n.) Goblet of fully FIVE Spirits, viz. Porto, Mercury, Tincture of Hemp, Laudanum & the TURPE …
August 2011
6 posts
RT @colsonwhitehead: The kind of town where nobody locks their doors at night. Nothing can stop the monsters, anyway.
Should I disc golf before the Arsenal v Manchester United game or after? Game broadcast at 11am.
Once a day, I’ll test the limits of your physics.
RT @GJMaupin: Jorge Luis Borges is trending? Thought that would only happen if Borges had thought up twitter (and called it #Inconsolabl …
RT @melissabroder: Post-structuralists are the least fun on roller coasters.
RT @RachelleGardner: This was an endcap at B&N today… someone has a sense of humor. http://t.co/BSmFBmu
January 2011
6 posts
RT @AnnRowanJames: SuperAwesome house OPEN SUNDAY 2-4! The sellers REALLY want to sell it and I think you should buy it. You deserve it- …
RT @thisnomadlife: has been convinced, “30 Rock” really is just “The Muppet Show” in disguise.
RT @Zonal_Marking: Kolo Toure and Robin van Persie embracing, presumably discussing which one got more of a kicking off Emmanuel Adebayor
RT @ShittingtonUK: When Justin Bieber starts his cutting phase, I bet he’ll be shocked when the beanie baby sand pours out.
Room repainted. Party hosted. Soccer viewed. Pints consumed. Household reorganized. Friends brunched. Aliens defeated. #Staycation
RT @NicLewis: Vanilla Ice, because he forgot your bread sticks. #comingbackin2011
December 2010
3 posts
Are there any great Scientologist thinkers? Have they philosophy/ethics? And what do they promise believers, even if only provisionally?
Yes
Done.
August 2010
26 posts
My midnight oil doesn’t burn quite as bright and steady as it once did. #sincereturningfromspace
Where’s them chickens and goats?#kystatefair
The poison ivy on my finger looks nasty #sincereturningfromspace
Arsenal on espn2 at 10am
Never use the word “surgery” in a voicemail.
Am I a sociopath, or an angel?
Would you care if the bread you bought had been a flys prison for an afternoon? Is that better than finding a dead fly in your bread?
I gotta say, it actually hit me before I acted that this could be a life-determining test of character. Or I could be on tv.
I looked around, untwisted the tie,set the fly free (to roam the grocery), then just barely tied it back, giving it a tampered-with look.
In your grocer’s bakery section, you hear a buzzing & notice a fly trapped inside the plastic bag around a sourdough loaf. What do you do?
Twitter Week 2010-08-17 →
Statements of fact about oneself are always more interesting when appended with “…since returning from space.”
Really digging this band called Vampire Weekend #sincereturningfromspace
I haven’t been driving well lately #sincereturningfromspace
St Joes picnic was only 10,000 lanyards short of a jailbait convention. #hoochies&choads
The aroma of this brand of lavender soap reminds me of gin and tonic.
Left the picnic, still behaving badly.
At the orphan picnic behaving badly
Maybe I should call Urban Outfitters a bloc-party waiting to happen. #TheSovietsWon http://yfrog.com/mqwnptj http://yfrog.com/nc148oj
Urban Outfitters guilty of BLOC-sploitation in new catalog. Welcome to capitalism, Budapest. You’re gonna love it. http://yfrog.com/m9fmbj
RT @daciampaglia: Why do ppl who see #Inception brag about being too dumb to get it as if being stupid is a virtue? #culturefail
Twitter Week 2010-08-10 →
Sad truth of digital media: destruction of the secondhand marketplace. I’ll miss the surprise of discovering amazing, random cds & books.
Best place in Louisville to buy flowers? (Note: this is not an apology bouquet.)
Ethiopian dinner makes my day.