February 2010
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WatchLately, I’ve been trying to choose my favorite New Pornographers album, and I think it’s probably not this one, but I do like it!
(“Chump Change”, New Pornographers)
January 2010
69 posts
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“It was like a fucking Real Housewives episode!”
– Kathy Griffin, on Obama’s televised exchange with the House Republicans. (via barthel)
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Watch(“Cherished”, Dusty Springfield)
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I live next to a firehouse, so I’m used to sleeping through sirens and other apocalyptic emergency-associated noises. Lately, though, when there’s sirens, I’ve waking up and flipping shit and gasping for breath and wondering if I should evacuate or if it’s even worth it, because, holy shit. Not good.
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Because obviously.
(“Jolene”, Dolly...
Wish they had a “people who actually read” version of the State of the Union. It would have, like, complex clauses! They could release it in tandem with the transcript. It would be eight pages long instead of sixteen and not have bad jokes or one-sentence-long paragraphs. And it would be a good read, and best of all I wouldn’t be nearly as annoyed with it. Do it.
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Can I start this thing now? It’s on Hulu, right? Is it like a DVR? Can I just start now? When’s the last time I watched one of these? The last couple, fuck no, too risky (blood pressure). What do I usually do? I usually watch like 20 minutes and then get bored and turn on Roseanne reruns, right?
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Finally going to see Hurt Locker tonight. Hoping to be disturbed / for a good cry. Mainly so that I am numbed for the SOTU, because I can’t handle that ish in an unaltered emotional state.
hump day treat for the barbies →
molls:
leave it to nicki to rap over annie lennox
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The laptop I use every day has its screen hacked off (it broke) and is instead attached to a probably-7-year-old-ish-? hand-me-down LCD. It has a nonfunctional cd drive, and it runs Windows Vista.
I remember when I first learned about the term ‘alliteration’ I was like, “You cannot be serious. That doesn’t get its own term! That’s not wordplay!” Was very unimpressed as a whatever-year-old.
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barthel:
I had mostly stopped watching The Daily Show, because watching Jon Stewart give advice about political strategy was like watching a puppy try to play a clarinet, but then last night it was 11, and I had nothing else to do, so I turned it on.
emphasis mine
“Well I’m an atheist mostly just because the last thing I want to think is...”
– fake sample dialogue
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Pretty sure I talked about David Foster Wallace to people I’d never met before, and who also didn’t know who that was, at a party last night.
You know how there are things, that other people do, that you hate—pet peeves or whatever—and you normally judge people harshly for doing them, but then when someone close to you does one, you don’t feel any different about them—you don’t think they are actually stupid or actually annoying—you think that maybe it’s cute and/or charming? I guess Larry...
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So there is a taqueria that I don’t have to cross the street to get to.
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matthewgallaway:
GPOYW and other rambling thoughts. Quote (with a lil gender modification!) by Proust, who I’m STILL reading (about 50 percent done, I’d say).
Vicariously excited for hypothetical/planned dahlias.
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I can’t really describe why I like the new Spoon record so very much except to say that (1) I feel trusted listening to it and (2) it’s gr8 for zoning out and playing FreeCell. Oh and (3) I started liking everything I didn’t like about it.
Remember what an LOL humorism was when you first learned about it? “Black bile WTF!?!”
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I found it →
Oh, web archive.
Thursday, April 11th, 2002
Baiting Radiohead Fans with the Googleyminotaur
Early last year, Radiohead created an interactive bot called “Googlyminotaur” that you could put on your Instant Messenger buddy-list. The idea was that it would provide services such as personalized horoscopes, movie listings (Capitol Records’ marketing department needed some...
There used to be this piece on Pitchfork, but they took it offline “forever” ago, where one of their writers pretended to a chatbot, and the piece was a transcript of some of the chats. Either that or he talked to a chatbot, but I think it was he pretended to be a bot, like Smarterchild. I remember one of the responses was, “I like downloading and uploading equally,” or...
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Scary Movie-style ‘comedy’ ft. scene with buzzworthy-ish Hollywood faded beauty (today, I guess, that would be Sophia Loren) trying to use wrinkle release spray on her face.
Reading everything written about "Precious" right...
Since when do I like things this much?
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“It hurt!”
– Precious, on childbirth.
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“Indulge yourself in an unforgettable DOVE (R) chocolate experience — an oh so...”
– “Give in to Mint” Dove ice cream description.
I’m pretty sure whoever wrote this isn’t actually talking about ice cream.
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wrinkle release spray > the iPhone
“There is no one, nothing, no medicines, no explanations for why my daughter is...”
– Jeudy Francia, outside St. Esprit Hospital in Port-au-Prince
This is on the NYT frontpage right now. It’s pretty devastating, how people speak.
chainofknives:
RIP Jay Reatard. I don’t really...
On Monday, the PBS NewsHour ran a ten-minute piece called, “Despite Years of Crushing Poverty, Hope Grows in Haiti.” I had been watching Diane Sawyer, my mother’s favorite—although she hates Diane’s new newscast because have you watched the evening news lately? No, but that’s not what my mom hates, my mom hates that World News keeps talking about terrorism...
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Every part of that story reads like satire. Sometimes things like that are “not funny cos they’re true”, but not this one.
“James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may...”
– “Audiences experience ‘Avatar’ blues”, CNN
LOL. Not that I can’t relate (although I have not and will not* see the film, not because I necessarily don’t want to).
*Except maybe on DVD in, like, 2014—I dunno. (Also I guess we’ll all be using BluRay...
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“Somebody is quoted saying something mean and/or racist in a new book” > “OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA BE KILLED BY ARABS!”
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