December 2009
30 posts
If you can ever eat another fast food/grocery... →
Rosie O'Donnell is Dating a Commenter from Her...
I’m basically posting this just to express my continued awe in the forensic journalism going on over on ONTD. They’re like CSI: The Internet over there.
“You need to manage distribution, which might mean standing in post office lines with a baby on your hip and a garbage bag filled with 30 self-packed boxes to ship.”
That’s right: if you want to sell crafts on Etsy, they make you have a baby! (Also, what a ridiculous whiny article. My diamond shoes are too tight!)
Answers to Morrissey's Questions, Part 1
Has the world changed or have I changed?
- Morrissey, 26
Change is constant in both people and worlds, so the only answer is both.
Just Spent a Lovely Day In Carroll Gardens
I snuck in outside food to Brothers, bought some vintage birthday cards for cheap at a thrift store, picked up my copy of Going Rogue from the library, got some wine to mull tonight with friends, and skipped home listening to The Queen is Dead and marveling at the sunset over the brownstones. It was a nice day, kind of like Smiley Face without the conflict. (wink).
Anyway, then I just got home...
Every Generation Discovers Everything For...
The joke about strapping toast to the back of a cat to defy gravity is so old that my first crush ever in 7th grade stole it from a comedian and made it in class and that’s how I first fell in crush with him. (Hey Jon B! You were right, it was Duh-MEE Moore. I owe you a Coke.)
Ding Dong
It is bad to take pleasure in a man’s death, unless that man is Oral Roberts, who pioneered televangelism, most famously telling his followers in 1987 that he would die if they did not help him meet his fundraising goal. The money, of course, went to support his lavish lifestyle. My parents gave him money that year, though much later they kind of came to their senses but only for...
“Cameron has never made a movie just to show off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit...”
– Avatar — Film Review
All the words in this sentence are wrong.
(via skybarn)
“There is no underlining novel or myth to generate his story.” (“Underlining?”)
Also the Dances with Wolves comparison. LOL. Tutunka Owachee!
Alec Baldwin/Jack Donaghy's "Misogynist" Scenes... →
I can’t stop watching this. Seeing the bullying parts all together like this completely change the tone of the character. Our darling Jack suddenly seems like a menace, a threat, a really bad guy who everyone would hate. Though the “misogynist” thing is weird — Jack is this mean and dismissive to a lot of people, and follows plenty of women around like a puppy dog. I guess...
Abed!
“You know, six months ago, I was making poop jokes or watching birds, or walking the aisle of a grocery store just cause it feels comforting. Every time I miss home I’ll go to a grocery store and walk the aisles. And usually I’ll get dental floss, that’s my go to, if I‘m feeling nostalgic, or if I’m feeling lonely, and then I’ll come home … what was I talking about?”
Vulture’s...
The GOP Has Problems
Sometimes I forget that I have two Republican friends. This conversation happened last night:
Regular Normal friend: So what are her parents like?
Me: Oh, you know, Southern. They’re total Republicans, of course, but at least they drink.
(Awkward silence, then laughter)
Me: I’m sorry (Republican friend)! I forgot you were a Republican.
Republican friend: No worries. Happens all...
Joe Clark is listing everyone he contacts in book... →
spiers:
katiebakes:
nickdouglas:
Now this is a daring idea. I only sold one book to the first editor I talked to (she was the best possible editor my book could have had), so I really can’t tell if Joe’s project is brilliant or foolhardy. I do hope it gets attention.
I was REALLY excited to read this but when I clicked over I didn’t really understand it. I mean, i GOT it, and I enjoyed it,...
Videogum Inside Jokes, Memes, etc.
werttrew:
A preliminary list of inside jokes, catchphrases, snowclones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone) and memes that are prevalent on Videogum.
))<>(( //Back and forth. Forever. Reference to a scene from You, Me, and Everyone We Know (see clip). A child gets involved in a creepy discussion with someone online, and the symbol ))<>(( represents the child’s saying he wanted...
“Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the...”
– http://jezebel.com/5417973/heroine-alert-diane-savino-ny-state-senator
Today, Remember the Poor Cheetah Victims
I hope everyone who reads this realizes it’s way too silly and made-up to take seriously on any level, so having said that I do feel a strange mixture of pride and embarrassment that the men in this article are three of my best guy friends. I would LOVE to see a riposte to this…surely these three cheetah victims, all in their mid-to-late thirties, also have something in common to which...
Simpatico
“If it wouldn’t enrage my wife, I’d get Amy Grant’s face tattooed on my bicep, because last year her music saved me from the depths of hopelessness. You know?”
- John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats on Vulture today. (Related: tomorrow night Bell House omg!)