January 2012
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I FaceTimed with my dad tonight on his new iPad, cos he wanted to learn how, and I was coughing a lot and he said it was all the bong hits and then he laughed a lot and said that he used to cough like that back when he was young. I wanted to say, WTF I bought you that iPad for Christmas, you know I don’t sit around getting high all day.
But I was coughing too much.
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“Hipster dudes don’t wear skinny jeans anymore.”
– Vice magazine1
Thought about going through Dos and Don’ts to find out what they allegedly do wear but I really don’t hate myself that much. ↩
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“The selection of a Republican candidate for the... →
“… — and I mean this seriously — …”
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Whenever I tell people that consuming some quantity of late-in-the-day caffeine would risk a relatively-high (25%+) chance of my having trouble sleeping that night, someone inevitably tries to get real with me about how “caffeine doesn’t affect them.” Do people do this to you? (A) I don’t care, at all (B) That doesn’t at all make you “real” (C) Then why do...
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I do want to point out that the Bullshit Klosterman Tune-Yards piece commits the most popular crime of hack music writing from the last year: “How could anyone possibly like Tune-Yards if I simultaneously do not? They must be pretending to like it because x, y, z entirely made-up extraneous factors.”
"I think the reason I find geek culture so... →
alexmacpherson:
maura:
More at the link, and to all of it: Yes. YES.
A victim complex and at the same time a completely unwarranted superiority complex. Also, bad posture.
100 times this.
I know that I can be an asshole about taking pictures of the various cats in my life, but the fundamental difference between getting down on your knees to take a photo of a feline and having your DSLR lens pointed 3 inches from your child’s face for an entire subway ride is that a cat does not understand the social implications of the photographic act. A cat is not going to become a bratty...
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Worst people in any office:
drinkyourjuice:
People who microwave popcorn.
People who microwave curry.
People who leave banana peels in trash bins near other people’s desks.
xoJane: Leave Paula Deen Alone →
The thing about being fat is that you turn into public property. You are an object, not a person, and this makes you fair game for being shredded. This goes double if you are a woman, particularly a woman celebrity; by being publicly fat, Paula was already a target for people who loved making classist comments about her food, and by being pushed into a public disclosure of a private health...
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Swizz Beats Owns MegaUpload →
bmichael:
spaceagehustle:
According to this Page 6 article. A timely news story for the day, since MegaUpload would most likely be obliterated if SOPA/PIPA pass, as would this site possibly. Find out more and let your voice be heard.
-Flex
What. The? Fuck!
“Swizz Beats owns MegaUpload”
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I always LOL really hard when a girl tags herself on #trashyfriday on Instagram. “She doesn’t even go here!”
This is a video of a tween from Houston doing ballet to “Dust and Water” by Antony and the Johnsons. Sometimes camp really does multiply sentiment.
If you’re going to Swanlights at Radio City, this is probably as good preparation as any.
Spice Girls London 2012 Olympics performance is a... →
ohrohin:
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
No joke: the Downtown DMV is playing original mix “Din Daa Daa,” George Kranz.
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My mom used to tell this story to 6-year-old me about this made-up boy she knew growing up in Western Pennsylvania who was such devil child he got coal for Christmas, but she could never tell it right, because she’s too nice. So, while, ultimately, the boy deserved the coal he got — the rules for Santa being as they were — you couldn’t help but feel sick at his fate and his...
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And now for three months of uninterrupted miserable fucking winter hell.
December 2011
16 posts
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God, people on Tumblr’s parents live in some nice fucking houses.
The America’s Test Kitchen chocolate chip cookie calls for MELTED BUTTER, toasted to a GOLDEN BROWN and a “nutty aroma” and they come out DELICIOUS fuck ALL OF YOU and your ROOM TEMPERATURING to HELL.
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It was really a banner year for bullshit thinkpiece template: “Why do we love [thing that allegedly sucks]?” I guess people just can’t stop themselves from pretending to be confused about why people like Rihanna, The Black-Eyed Peas, The Kardashians, Tim Tebow, Herman Cain, Odd Future, Bon Iver, etc. etc. etc., despite that in reality it’s not even remotely difficult to distill these...
There is this thing where when you don’t blog or IM or email about something that annoys you, if someone then brings it up in casual conversation, you’ll maybe have so much ammunition from stewing on it that you’ll just explode into a crazy freak who says alienatingly mean things about other people’s interests. Which is all to say that I’ve had about enough of Louis...
Maybe five years ago — approximately ten years after Starbucks became “a thing,” whenever that was — we started to get the reverse trend pieces about how Starbucks actually helped create a larger market for coffeeshops and coffeeshop culture. I’m not going to pretend I know that coffeeshops are “better off,” but they are indeed still around.
I’m...