January 2009
82 posts
I was just starting to think, what a shame it is that Tyler Perry’s House of Payne is on TBS, just because, despite election a half-breed Muslin, Americans still hate black people, because it seems just as stupid and incompetently unfunny as any other bad network sitcom, especially the highly rated ones, and then the token stereotypical gay guy marriage-counselor came on, and I thought,...
Israel Rejects Cease-Fire Calls, Continues... →
December 2008
27 posts
The Internet Is Never Gonna Give Rick Astley Up →
(via idolator)
I started using this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-nqyfR_w4
I thought of a better caption to the grab below:
Israel: R U real?
February 2 = new phone
Me: Have you heard of Erykah Badu?
Mom: Yeah.
Me: I wasn't sure how much of a household name she was.
Mom: Well, she was on Oprah...
I know there’s a recession, but heroin use still can’t come back into fashion. Okay? OKAY!?
Uncle: Well, you're a hipster...
Me (disgusted): I don't live in Brooklyn.
Hopefully Caroline Kennedy gets the seat, so she can be assassinated, too!
– me to mother
I teach Chinese kids math on Saturday mornings at 9 am for $12/hr. It was my only income this semester, for a variety of awful reasons.
Anyway, I just became oddly scared by the thought they they might be expecting some sort of holiday present (“CANDY!”) from me this week, and I realized that my inability to indulge them in such things as “fun” and “games” is...
Praising this album is pretty redundant (especially at this point!), but I’m still spinning this shit, and this one’s a late bloomer. That sample is pretty amazing.
Wall Street Journal via Idolator:
Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers. The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider’s customers making music available online for others to...
This song makes me, like, wanna cry. Maybe I will.
NYT via Gawker:
“Cosmetic surgery is going to become the new S.U.V., something that you can do without, that is less justifiable for you and your family,” said Dr. Pitts-Taylor.
Jesus God, when will people stop using that dreadful the new whatever phrasing?
Why do women like soup? Is it for perceived health benefits? Is it because it’s...
– http://www.slate.com/id/2206835/sidebar/2206929/
I would say that this is the best song off the last Badu, which is inexplicably nearly a year old, but it’s really hard to say.
These Dilla tribute tracks keep getting better.