Ugh. It’s that vacuous time of year, the middle of July, when time simultaneously moves at humid hyper speed and sticky slow-mo. I have no idea what I did this week. I do remember sweeping the kitchen floor with a broke-ass broom for what seemed like four hours yet I can’t remember much else. Oh! I do remember getting violently angry at the television when some show called “Rock of Love” came on. Shoot, I don’t even know how the television got tuned to VH1. Lord that’s embarrassing to admit.

1. I Listen To Bands That Don’t Even Exist Yet tshirt - I don’t care if quasi-ironic hipster tshirts are 5-years ago. This shirt rules. [via]
2. “Make the Logo Bigger!” - Anyone who has done design work for others has heard the god-awful phrase “could you just make the logo bigger?” about 10,000 times. A group of advertising guys do a metal tribute to the phenomenon. Hilarious enough that the designers here were rolling in laughter, and I’ve been walking around the house singing it (complete with falsetto) all week. And yes, I set up a hotkey so that with the push of a button it automatically starts playing whenever a client gets unruly the time is right.
3. Design By Humans - More shirt geekery. There are some truly beautiful shirts by the designers. I love this one in particular.
4. The Simpsons’ theme song by one dude with two guitars - It’s crap like this that the internet is made for. How much richer is my life after seeing this? Between this and the lolcats…
5. Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead - This is one of the books I read on vacation. The title is rather alarmist and overly dramatic. Nonetheless it is an enlightening book for someone like myself who previously had no knowledge of how today’s economy was shaped by my parents’ generation. At it’s worst, the book is statistically heavy. At it’s best, it’s incisive and thought-provoking. Not one for the beach, unless you’re weird as hell like I am.

And while I don’t know if I changed my boxers this morning, I am fully aware that our recent efforts to be more energy conscious have been entirely offset by the fact that we’re leaking natural gas. We got a letter saying so from the gas company. It basically said, “your gas meter is leaking. We left it on though. Fix it yourself.”

Guess I know what I’m doing this weekend.