October 2009
81 posts
September 2009
82 posts
The Sundress Conspiracy...
screwrocknroll:
Me: You can tell me! You all have a plan, don’t you? It’s my belief that there’s a memo that goes out on a certain day, to every girl attending a university, and on that one spring day, the first warm day of the year, you all wear sundresses. Erin: Yep Me: I KNEW IT Erin: Now you can tell me… does it work?
On the first day of fall a memo goes out to...
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Clinic - “The...
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Having a Bon Iver
One of the things that happens when you are in a slightly unwillingly transitional phase and you realize that you no longer have any reason to be anywhere at any particular time and you are in your late twenties and trying really hard is you start fantasizing about renting a cabin in the middle of somewhere Upper Midwest for the winter and getting some real work done, away from this blasted...
Women are not actually discussed in this story... →
In the name of objectivity, we frame our debates about women by not actually talking about people.
Voxtrot - “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters &...
Citizen Bloggers Eliminated from Senate's Shield... →
Via P.
Sorry? I guess?
hungryghoast:
Deborah: Craig, we killed William Safire.
me: “we”?
Deborah: me: so I guess all of the intelligent conservatives are dead except for Safire he’s next. Craig: You’re next, Safire! YA HEAR ME!!?!?
September 18, 2009.\
me: oh. shit.
What I didn’t write in that last post is that it was my fault.
"It also tapped into the lighter side of the... →
William Safire died today of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79. He was one of Nixon’s speechwriters, a pundit, a novelist, and a marvelous grammarian. No, his political views didn’t always align with mine, but I loved reading his On Language columns (which were also handy teaching tools when I didn’t have a lesson plan!) and the breadth and complexity of his resume is inspiring....
Bob Dylan - “Buckets of Rain”
Little...
Someone is going to do the comparison of the... →
While I can’t imagine being 29 years old and in charge of the major city that is hosting the G20, the assumption that any protests are going to be extremely violent and disruptive is always insanely disturbing.
See also: anything involving the RNC protests in St. Paul.
Knockin' the boots
I would like a new pair of boots for the fall season. Last year I bought some cheap black boots at DSW but the zippers broke on both of them within six weeks. This year I can’t afford expensive boots, but would prefer that if I’m getting them cheap, at least they should be used so I don’t feel like I’m contributing to the Mounds of Useless Cheap Shit Sitting In The World...
turnlizer:
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
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Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Otis Redding -...
Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense... →
hungryghoast:
azspot:
Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately — but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.
The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to “any organization” that has been charged with...
Monsters of Folk - “Map of the World”
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Television shows my mother has liked
Guiding Light
The Young and the Restless
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
Magnum, P.I.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Mystery!
Remington Steele
Ally McBeal
Masterpiece
Law & Order
The Real World: Seattle
Ed
JAG
Project Runway
Mad Men
Castle
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Moustache twirl to Andy and Mike
Bookland
There’s a scene in Hannah and Her Sisters where Lee and Elliott are in a bookstore that is just crammed with books, and there’s no space at all. Even though similar bookstores still exist, with homemade-looking shelves and every edition of every book you’d ever want— there are two in Dinkytown here in Minneapolis, Magers and Quinn has a similar feel, and I’m sure...
Sleater-Kinney - “Milkshake N’...
I am super excited about movies this weekend,...
“Mixing Alice in Wonderland, Star Wars, Ben-Hur and German expressionism, Tron...”
– Netflix copy for Tron. Friends, I beat the “very long wait” at Netflix, waiting only about a week or so for my copy of Tron to arrive. Now I have it: the great Disney movie that inspired a generation of programmers, memesters and trolls!
I’ve never seen Tron, save for the race...
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Ted Leo /...
The Notebook Purge
Today I am ripping out all of the pages of grad school notebooks that don’t make any sense anymore; the “ethics of creating emotion” and “mechanical solidarity” mean nothing to me now! Also included in these notebooks are to-do lists and long-term goals. Finally, a prevalent page throughout these notebooks is this:
toothbrush/paste
hairbrush
glasses
contacts...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED →
Five Major Research Universities Agree to "Timely... →
Thx, P.
From whence did I download this mp3 of Amanda...
The Big Day
Ok, America, are you ready? Today is one of the greatest days of the year. That’s right, season three of Gossip Girl premieres tonight!
I loved the beginning of season two of Gossip Girl, but by episode 8 I was extremely bored and decided to give it up. However, it turns out that instead of Yale, much of this season’s action will take place at dear old NYU, my alma mater, so I have to...
Girls - “Big Bad Mean Motherfucker”
I...
Caster Semenya is not a hermaphrodite. →
There are so many ways that being male or female can vary genetically (XXY, XYY, Androgen Insensitivity), and the term “intersex,” rather than “hermaphrodite,” refers to them all. There are a lot of intersex people in the world, and Thomas Roger’s analysis of this issue is excellent.
