November 2011
1 post
Ted Leo - Stove by a Whale
October 2011
5 posts
“If you’re young and want to make a ton of money, I have a piece of advice...”
– Occupy Wall Street - Gawker stories - Gawker
“Rep. Hank Johnson, (D–Ga.), explaining why he was concerned for the U.S....”
– Famous for Being Fatuous: Celebs and Pols Say the Darnedest Things—Especially about Science: Scientific American
September 2011
3 posts
1 tag
steve albini has a food blog. →
steve albini has a food blog.
“Paz de la Huerta won the world series of poker using Garbage Pail Kid cards.”
– Planet Paz | The Hairpin
“By the way, how many sons and daughters, husbands and wives, or sisters and...”
– Here’s why Longshore workers are so angry | The Stand
August 2011
5 posts
oh my GOD you guys
nebraska-admiral:
bthny:
HHS regulations are not the same thing as laws!
HHS is not Congress!
I also kind of misspoke/exaggerated about free birth control; it’s still not free, but if you have insurance there won’t be co-pays. If you don’t have insurance you’ll still be screwed.
oh my god
The problem is there was never a Schoolhouse Rock about how a guideline comes to be, or an executive...
Curtis Mayfield - Trippin’ Out
This one has...
The Cutting Class: The Language of Gender →
thecuttingclass:
The fashion media has a way of sensationalising trends - everything with a scrap of colour has been dubbed “colour blocking” recently, and it only takes a couple of celebrity pictures before they start heralding the new must have bag, the new must have shoe that replaced the must have bag or of…
July 2011
4 posts
“I guess it just goes to show that now that Johnny Cash has passed away,...”
– Tom Kenny | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
The Ventures - Games People Play
June 2011
4 posts
“There are 6 different farting applications for the Palm Pre.”
– Flatulence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
bar prep blows
things i have been doing:
waking up and changing from pajamas into sweatpants;
sitting at my computer for 10 hours at a time;
cursing word for redlining words that definitely exist (e.g. “articulable,” “executory”);
failing mulitple choice tests;
maintaining a constant intake of diet coke, coffee, omega III, and gingko biloba;
crying about how i didn’t take...
April 2011
4 posts
“scratch a racist, and you’ll find a wigger (a term I’ve seen several...”
– 3quarksdaily: Selected Minor Works: Don’t Check My Chromosome
Chuck Berry - Memphis, Tennessee
One of my...
March 2011
15 posts
Very Tough Love | This American Life →
This is the best because it’s a fine example of good investigative reporting. This is the worst because things like this actually exist.
“Oil is like a chastity belt for starches that just really wanna get it on.”
– The Food Lab: Homemade Tater Tots, Sweet Potater Tots, Twice Baked Potater Tots, And More! | Serious Eats
“I came to a depressing conclusion about the source of my disillusionment: An...”
– Worst economy ever: The perfect time to start a law firm? - Leslie Fenton - Open Salon
“Soren Dayton, a GOP operative and executive at New Media Strategies, is reported...”
– ThinkProgress » Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical ‘Sock Puppets’
“Step back from the brink, Americans, and emulate always the principled and civil...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents.
Costs and Benefits of Bicycling Investments in... →
Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients... →
“sure enough im in a room with a bunch of jaw dropped roots
14 ready to get on...”
– Hypnagogics x ?uestlove
?uestlove’s celebrity stories. brilliant.
February 2011
21 posts
“Tipper requires an aperitif prior to snack time. She will show you where the...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Important Instructions for the Babysitters of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Children.
Young Man With a Ham
James Tate
I’m watching him from my window. He’s clutching the ham as if it were a football everyone wants to steal. He keeps looking over his shoulder and stopping to make sure the ham is secure in his grip. No one’s on the street but him. But wait, old Mr. Wilson, who lives down the street from me, has suddenly appeared in his fedora and suspenders...
The Truth the Dead Know
Anne Sexton
Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I am tired of being brave. We drive to the Cape. I cultivate myself where the sun gutters from the sky, where the sea swings in like an iron gate and we touch. In another country people die. My darling, the wind falls in like...
