December 2010
Just found out today via Splitsider that Girls Are...
I’ve been reading that website off and on for years and never found it anything but disturbing and uncomfortable.
It’s supposed to be funny? Really?
note to self:
insomnius:
do not try to catch up on over a week’s worth of Tumblr all in one go. Even Instapaper will not save you. You will start to skim over things you actually care about and stress out about whether Tumblr will go down or some other weird computer thing will happen and make you lose your place.
And you’ll start talking to yourself on the internet.
Hah, WELCOME TO MY LIFE.
“The reduction in the minimum wage has been controversial on social grounds but...”
– Bailout has steadied us for difficult road ahead - The Irish Times
The fourth in a series of opinion pieces on the current economic situation this week: previously mentioned here, the liberal essayist and the political scientist; today, the hard-headed, straight-talking economist. Right? Well,...
likeaphoenixignition:
somethingchanged:
The...
What my day was like:
Even though I stayed in the town where my parents live for an extra day in order to get my car fixed, it was still making ominous noises on the drive back to Richmond Monday night. So since I had the day off today, I woke up at 9 AM (after staying up until after 3) to take the car to the shop. Came back to the house and went back to bed by 10, only to be awoken at 11:30 by the owner of one of the...
lookuplookup:
The Lemonheads, “The Outdoor...
“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of...”
– Julian Assange, on why he was accused of two counts of rape. Yeah. Ok. (via sex-ads)
This motherfucker is rolling with such a huge case of hubris that it makes it harder and harder to be all “innocent until proven guilty” about the rape charges. He just acts like the kind of guy who’d commit date...
“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of...”
– Julian Assange, on why he was accused of two counts of rape. Yeah. Ok. (via sex-ads)
This motherfucker is rolling with such a huge case of hubris that it makes it harder and harder to be all “innocent until proven guilty” about the rape charges. He just acts like the kind of guy who’d commit date...
Online Notebook: 'He called the essay “a naughty,... →
tomewing:
Seriously, a return to the things they seek would be regression, and it would get boring really fucking fast. How many times can someone review a record with a snarky one-line quip? Yeah, I know: “Ryan Adams, Gold: pyrite.” HAW HAW HAW, that’s genius, right? But no—in reality, that kind of shit is good for one worthwhile review a year, MAYBE.
If I was an editor - with, like, money...
hardcorefornerds:
andrewtsks:
Moss Icon - Hate...
'He called the essay “a naughty, naughty...
rendit:
Which isn’t to say Meltzer was reluctant to join the party. In his piece, Meltzer made a strong case that Elvis Presley should be the next to go. “Elvis oughta die real soon,” Meltzer wrote. “He deserves it both because he’s no good no more (so he deserves to die like a dirty dog) and because he’s still okay or used to be (so he deserves a better peace than all the cretins squawking at...
"I'd ask to hear the music you've created, but... →
maura:
Train has a lot of fans! They are pretty displeased! (80 comments!!) And also they’ve apparently never heard Parts & Labor or those indiepop records I played on.
Wait, Chris was that fucking INSANE drummer or Parts & Labor’s Mapmaker LP? I officially forgive him for pissing me off with his Salem F2K post (I know, like he cares, but still).
(For the sadly deprived among...
Moss Icon - Hate In Me
Sometimes it’s so...
“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of...”
– Julian Assange, on why he was accused of two counts of rape. Yeah. Ok. (via sex-ads)
This motherfucker is rolling with such a huge case of hubris that it makes it harder and harder to be all “innocent until proven guilty” about the rape charges. He just acts like the kind of guy...
isabelthespy:
jonathanbogart replied to your post: i miss wanting
If you don’t write for publication I’ll be so mad at you.
aww, what a lovely thing to say! even if it makes you sound exactly like verbatim like my mother every time i show her like anything i’ve written. but you know, it’s not exactly that i’m lazy? …well, no, it’s like a lot like i’m lazy about most things, and the whole like...
Peter King: Barack Obama praises Philadelphia... →
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie was surprised to hear the president’s voice on the phone. Barack Obama had two things to discuss with Lurie: the redemption of Michael Vick and the alternative-energy plans Lurie unveiled this fall for Lincoln Financial Field. I talked about the Vick story on NBC last night.
“The president wanted to talk about two things, but the first was Michael,”...
“Here’s the thing. A gift is never a gift for a woman when it comes from a man....”
– Susannah Breslin, whom I am feeling more and more ambivalent about of late.
I know that the quoted statement is what capitalist culture wants us all to think, but shouldn’t we be doing our best NOT to uncritically accept, and then embody, such a materialist stereotype?
I don’t think I...
“So, I don’t get it. Is Gervais an Atheist because he’s never had an occasion to...”
– Play a record, A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist (via jgh-2)
(via tanya77)
I don’t understand this response. (This isn’t mean or accusatory, just because tone is so hard to read on the Internet - I’m just trying to understand. So, definitely not trying to start any flame...
“I took her in my arms and mashed my mouth up against hers… . “Bite me! Bite...”
– rereading james m. cain, the postman always rings twice. it’s not often i can pinpoint the exact moment i fell in love with a book, but this is definitely it.
ETA: 6000th post! i approve.
(via isabelthespy)
FUCK YEAH.
thenotes:
Diddy Dirty Money /// “Coming Home...
“Well, what is my business? Do I know? Did I ever know? Let’s not go into that....”
– raymond chandler, the little sister. you’re like, “why read a detective writer who admittedly did not give a shit about plot,” and i’m like: “an ectoplasm with a private license. AN ECTOPLASM WITH A PRIVATE LICENSE.” and this entire paragraph (part of a really truly stunning larger passage), voiced...
Anonymous asked: This is not a question but more of a comment on your last post (I don't know how to reply to posts): but I find that it's because most people are frightened by any kind of confrontation of intimacy. It's easier to fall into it and give companionship by accident (if that makes sense) but far more difficult to say, without walls, I'm lonely. I don't know why. It...
Anonymous asked: This is not a question but more of a comment on your last post (I don't know how to reply to posts): but I find that it's because most people are frightened by any kind of confrontation of intimacy. It's easier to fall into it and give companionship by accident (if that makes sense) but far more difficult to say, without walls, I'm lonely. I don't know why. It...
princepsfemina asked: I think my dad was suggesting that as soon as Obama became president, he should have pressured the House to elect someone else as Speaker. My dad understands how the legislative branch works, even if he is a misogynist. Having a black president and a radical female progressive from San Francisco as third in line is too much for the country to get behind, in my dad's opinion. I mean, I can see...
princepsfemina asked: I think my dad was suggesting that as soon as Obama became president, he should have pressured the House to elect someone else as Speaker. My dad understands how the legislative branch works, even if he is a misogynist. Having a black president and a radical female progressive from San Francisco as third in line is too much for the country to get behind, in my dad's opinion. I mean, I can see...