January 2012
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Virtually everyone I know has been terribly hurt...
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“Do you know the guy I’m talking about? He’s like 5’3”, has a prosthetic foot, and has a brown buzzcut but sometimes wears a hunting cap with silver faux fur lining inside the earflaps.”
“I’m not sure. What does his face look like?”
“…”
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)
PREMIUM THEMES STARTING AT JUST $9!
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The Giants win the pennant!
The Giants win the pennant!
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How to get free chapstick if you are entirely...
Go to a grocery store.
Fill up a cart with $300 worth of groceries.
Pick up a little tube of chapstick.
Get in line to check out.
Put everything on the little conveyor belt.
Hand the clerk the chapstick. 99% of the time, she or he will scan it and hand it back to you.
Put the chapstick in your pocket or purse. It has been scanned, so you are free to do so!
When all the groceries are...
Monopoly grossly misled me as to how often the...
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic...”
– Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job - Boing Boing (via felixsalmon)
In 1959, Hunter S. Thompson was fired from my hometown newspaper, the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, New York, “for kicking open the candy machine with his bare feet - again.” Legend has it...
“Robert Gibbs was often deployed to push back against the first lady, informing...”
– ‘The Obamas’: Book Reveals Friction Between Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama (UPDATE) (via felixsalmon)
From a story that is largely about how politics and idealism clash, this is an interesting sentence to choose to focus on.
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Jessica Valenti: Why The Washington Post's new... →
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction. In fact, I think it’s pretty terrible.*
I’m all for WaPo featuring more women covering...
“Abortion is a complicated issue and Santorum’s defense of the Catholic Church...”
– Something thoughtful in the comments section at TNR. (via popsins)
Don’t worry, some people I know on the internet are working on a poop-based-neologism bulwark that should pretty easily prevent him from becoming president. These people have lots of followers, so we should be OK.
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awpoops replied to your photo: Game. Changer.
Got my first Fan Mail!
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brianvan:
God, that is a terrible idea.
That’s unfair. We don’t yet know how many script fonts we’ll be able to choose from.
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Santorum effectively ties Romney
bricksandmortarandchewinggum:
A nation pauses to make thousands of anal sex jokes.
“The Rooty-Tooty Fresh ‘n Fruity has been there for me and people through...”
– Sarah Palin ordering breakfast.
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Someone photoshop Karp's face onto Lloyd Dobbler,...
sexandpolitics:
conky:
My ambition outstrips my skills, as usual.
it sucks but oh well
This far exceeds my expectations!
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Someone photoshop Karp's face onto Lloyd Dobbler,...
My ambition outstrips my skills, as usual.
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I'm the new top editor on #This isn't actual...
“A lesson for 2012 will be the need to shift our talent culture from one where...”
– AOL CEO Tim Armstrong writing incomprehensibly on losing editorial talent. Got that? (via ryanjmccarthy)
I’m pretty sure referring to employees as “talent” was one of those things that started ironically but was later earnestly adopted by those driving American capitalism’s...
December 2011
17 posts
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Important marital discussion about Christmas
Your mother says that every year.
No, YOUR mother says that every year.
No Ordinary Counterfeit →
longformorg:
Alarmingly sophisticated imitations of American currency have turned up all over the world and the false-paper trail leads to North Korea.
Stephen Mihm | New York Times Magazine | Jul 06
My favorite passage:
From all accounts, superb quality is a feature of much North Korean contraband: methamphetamine of extraordinarily high purity; counterfeit Viagra rumored to exceed the...
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“During the 2010 meetings, demonstrators engaged in acts of civil disobedience,...”
– Trials sought for protesters of Wake school board - Wake County - NewsObserver.com
The protesters were registering their distress at plans to end diversity-based school assignments aimed at achieving some modicum of racial and economic balance in schools. The folks behind that plan, including Board...
Yes internet, it's true.
Cold, calculated hate-mongering is just like that time they stopped making that show you like.
The kid has tried to climb into a basket of clean...
If he has kittens tonight, I’m gonna be pissed.
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“Today these choices are typically limited, typically vertical within one...”
– —Researchers to Design a Future Internet — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC
something something blog view.
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“John Noone is a designer who has worked with kids’ clothing retailers such...”
– —NPR
Those are both terrible shirts.
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November 2011
21 posts
“Angeluh. Samanthuh. Monuhhhhhhhh.”
– My Tony Danza impression, which I’ve been performing to the amusement of no one for almost 15 minutes.
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Sometimes I think I'm really good at finding...