January 2009
100 posts
And you thought Gilmore Girls references were...
JACK: Well, don't you want to ask Bobbi where she'd like to go?
GRACE: She would like to go to Schraft's in 1952 and be discovered by Swifty Lazar.
JACK: Grace, you know I don't speak Jewish.
Find the man in the coffee beans! →
MENSA, here I come.
“Scotch tape, either change your name or get me drunk. I nearly choked last...”
– Stephen Colbert
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The Word We Love To Hate by Jesse Sheidlower →
Recently, strangers I meet seem particularly peeved by people who use literally to mean figuratively (the ones who say things like “he literally exploded with rage”).
I’ve never met Jesse Sheidlower but you can rest assured I would be one of those strangers.
jennabee:
capricious:
inspection 12 - you can...
Looking for:
chimp-shitbitch-kittenscrazy:
Gemini by The Alan Parsons Project. I am unable to find it ANYWHERE. I have hunted for the old vinyl (can’t even find it on e-bay!) and so on but I am getting no where.
If any of you have this (so random, I know. I am not holding my breath), please help me out! This was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid and I want it!
Google Shopping...
Though we are not Lily and Marshall, I’m going to go ahead and share with you what I ate today anyway:
-a bowl of oatmeal with some maple syrup
-jalapenos wrapped in swiss cheese
-an avocado with hot sauce
I have the weirdest eating habits of anyone I know.
Yeaaaah →
That was the greatest thing I ever experienced at 2:50pm on a Wednesday.
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The Classical station got too repetitive in weeks past, so I now have the Easy Listening station on. Ray Peterson is singing “Tell Laura I Love Her” and all I can think is that High Fidelity is such a great movie. I heard John Cusack is an asshole-y coke fiend in real life but I still think we’d get along famously.
“We are bound up in a delicate network of interdependence because, as we say in...”
– Desmond Tutu (via ariah)
What India Hates About Slumdog Millionaire →
ariah:
The problem with Slumdog is that the Western world lacks a diversity of images about India and Indians that would make the success and popularity of a film like Slumdog more acceptable to the Indian public. When Indian films become popular in the West, they are almost always, with few exceptions, narratives of poverty or of long ago history. India is portrayed as either poor, dirty and...
"Did you see my bull?"
crazyfor-you:
Oy.
So uh…my boss’ husband just bought her and I cans of bear spray. Why, oh why, would we even *think* of using such nonsense in the tightly enclosed space that is our office building??
Because, my dear Tumblettes, we were just set completely on edge by a man who wandered in looking for “classes, a job, and a wife.” He claimed to have held a 5.0 GPA at the University of Arizona,...
93-year-old man has unpaid electric bills, freezes... →
I understand that water, electricity, etc. aren’t free but this is sick(ening). I know there’s a tendency to post pictures and quotes about all the love and beauty in this world on here and while I do believe it’s important not to lose sight of such, that doesn’t mean we can or should ignore the harsh realities of our society.
one word →
amyd:
found via Christine Mason Miller’s website
for some reason i find this simple writing exercise very intimidating.
Perhaps I will try this later. Any new form of procrastination is readily welcome.
Rwandan soldiers enter (DR) Congo →
Rwandan troops have entered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for a joint operation with the Congolese against a Rwandan Hutu militia.
A UN spokesman told the BBC about 2,000 Rwandan troops had crossed the border. DR Congo and Rwanda agreed last month to take joint action against the FDLR militia, whose leaders have been linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Correspondents say the...
jennabee:
My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good...
accept/except
Not interchangeable, learn the difference.
Aren’t homonyms a quintessential part of early elementary school curriculum?
Most of my pet peeves in life pertain to basic spelling and grammar.
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined...
vforvelociraptor:
grayandgreen:
MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.
DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.
MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.
FRIEND...
-If you get a dog, be able to pronounce/spell its breed. Specifically, it’s dachshund, not dotson.
-I’m currently snacking on a roll of SweetTarts (not the best idea, considering I don’t have dental insurance but sugar makes me happy) and all self-control goes out the window when the next one up is pink or purple (my favorite flavors in this instance).
How awesome was last night’s live edition of The Daily Show? Extraordinarily.
I especially liked this little tidbit because, really, who doesn’t enjoy a chess joke, quickly made all the funnier by a follow-up gay joke? Well, I’m sure plenty of people but I’m certainly not one of them.
Obama/Guantanamo Bay →
The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay within a year and halting any war crimes trials in the meantime.
Closing the facility in Cuba “would further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,” read the draft prepared...
For some reason, the word ‘rigmarole’ just popped into my head.
“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
– Bernard Baruch (via Gmail Quote of the Day)
President Obama's Inaugural Address →
katoleary:
thedailywhat:
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words...
worst feeling:
scout:
so you really want cereal. go to the kitchen. take out a bowl. take out a spoon. pour cereal. open the fridge.
NO MILK. FUCK.
While I prefer my cereal straight out of the box, I have a friend who uses water in lieu of milk (he’s convinced himself he’s lactose intolerant).
crazyfor-you:
sweetsweetcaroline:
copycats:
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I would very much like for RAND to open a satellite office (and give me a job, obviously) in NY. Get on that, thanks.
My life would theoretically be so much better if I lived in Washington, DC.
Joe Esposito - You’re the Best (via)
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skysignal:
ataraxic:
unexcitable:
“La Valse...
Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find... →
Another piece I enjoyed reading in this morning’s edition of the NYT.
Excerpted:
In the world of “Peanuts,” of course, Schroeder was the Beethoven-obsessed music nerd who lost patience when Lucy interrupted his practice and who called time-outs as a baseball catcher to share composer trivia with the pitcher. Yet musicologists and art curators have learned that there was much more than a...
Fair enough!
friend: go shit in the ocean!!!!!!!
me: That sounds way less rude in Yiddish.
friend: what doesnt sound less rude in yiddish???