January 2009
118 posts
Feist - “Mushaboom”
My dripping city...
Animal sounds in different languages →
unburyingthelead:spaceships:
Small dog barking:
Japanese - “kian kian” vs. Swedish - “bjäbb-bjäbb”
Days of entertainment packed into one table!
Irony
Communications is not one of the disciplines represented on Academic Earth.
The White Stripes - “Hotel Yorba”
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"Maybe this was mail from a single demented... →
Aimee Mann - “Momentum”
Even when...
Thursday's There. I said it.
I am bored with sans-serif fonts, so I changed my fonts. Why are sans-serif fonts the fonts of internet greatness? I may find out if I watch Helvetica or learn more about design, but I haven’t done either of those things yet, so I’m just going to keep plugging for Palatino Linotype all the time.
Sans-serif sucks! It’s unreadable in large doses!
There. I said it.
The Mountain Goats - “Cotton”
"The point may soon come when there are more... →
Having worked for a press that kinda sometimes printed vanity books and always published books that only returned measly amounts of money to authors, I’ve always been completely fascinated by the amount of people who spend hours of writing and research time and been satisfied with just, you know, having a book out.
The above story makes it pretty clear that even the publishers don’t...
The Hold Steady - “Certain Songs”
how to make an impression on the students who...
me: also: I am steadfast in my resolution to play "oxford comma" before my punctuation lecture
Craig: haha
dude
you should play it
and watch the kids jam along to it
and then like
rip the cd out of the thing
and smash it
and be like "I GIVE A FUCK"
"I DO!"
and then just stare the class down
LESSON OVER
These pants
Although they have a fairly conservative green wool exterior, I know that my pants are lined in leopard-print sateen. I suspect this is because Express had a bunch of leopard-print sateen leftover from the leopard-print sateen era, but I like to think the reason is that the Express knows I’m secretly a jungle cat. When I feel the spotted sateen on my legs (or, uhh, my longjohns), I feel like...
The "Stuff White People Like" guy is going to be...
Should I punch him?
Duran Duran - “New Moon on Monday”
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Brian Jonestown Massacre - “Let’s...
Franz Ferdinand - “Live Alone”
Franz...
Thursday's There. I Said It.
hungryghoast:
Hipster Runoff? I don’t get it.
I mean, yeh, ok, I guess i sorta “get” why people like it, i’ve even been amused by it once and I enjoyed that funny Radiohead remix they did, but man… How is this still around? How is this still being referenced and aped? Am i missing something here or is it really just the constant, repetitive, childish snark that it seems?
Don’t get me wrong, I...
Reluctance
My iPod currently has 10110 songs on it and I do not want to update it because I like its binary glory.
Thursday's There. I said it.
Tumblr Radar is consistently disappointing. It does not reflect the content of its users. I thought it would get better when the format switched, but it didn’t really; the crappiness became compacted.
How many times are you going to post songs from “Once,” Tumblr Radar? Would you like to post a few more quotes about how we should appreciate life? Oh, how about you post a meme...
SUV smashes into Planned Parenthood office in St.... →
joshnumbersix:sveden:
What a complete tool.
The Who - “Pinball Wizard”
The National - “So Far Around the...
Admittedly
Not only am I super excited about this whole new president thing, but I am also excited about the fact that I begin teaching my editing class on a day when it’s incredibly easy to do comparative news critique.
“One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the...”
– Macon Phillips, director of new media for the White House, talking about the comprehensive new site’s focus on user participation. (via Greg Storey: matthewb: tumblelikeyougiveadamn)
En Vogue - “Free Your Mind”
Modest Mouse - “Styrofoam Boots / It’s...
“Their office has been raided three times, the type destroyed, their family horse...”
– From “Plucky Girl Editors” in The Journalist, August 14, 1897. According to the article, three young women, the eldest of which was “not yet 25,” ran “the only two papers in the United States which are managed exclusively by girls” in Maryville, MO. The Daily...