December 2009
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A quiet drink in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
– Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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brendaskaraoke.com →
What sort of entertainment did YOU have on Christmas?
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"I feel like a man with a paper asshole"
My dad said this the other day in reference to the feeling he gets when people buy his dinner or pay his way. After some googling, I am pretty sure he is using the phrase completely wrong (sources seem to concur that the phrase is “talking like a man with a paper asshole” and means that someone is talking nonsense), but I plan to use this phrase as much as I possible can now.
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The fact that I can make somebody laugh at this stuff - it can be very...
– Carrie Fisher
(via Vanity Fair, November 2009)
Oh well this is just fab.
Private - “My Secret Lover”
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Flesh of Your Flesh: Should You Eat Meat? →
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Forehead Slap
Stranger Lady: You look very nice today.
Me: Oh, well, thank you so much!
SL: I never get dressed up, except when I go see opera with my husband.
Me: Where do you find opera around here?
SL: Oh, we go to Bloomington.
Me: I went to IU!
SL: We love Bloomington. We go there all the time, and we eat at Chili's every time we are in town. We LOVE Chili's.
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"Creative Commons" →
“With the idea of communal living all too prone to conjure visions of student squalor or hippy homeliness, Villa van Vijven comes as a refreshing surprise. The strikingly sculptural bright orange building, reclining in the flat Dutch landscape, accommodates five families under a single, stylish roof. And there’s not a whiff of carob in the air.” - reporter Jane Szita
(via Dwell...
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15 free downloads from SPIN →
Tracks included by Florence and the Machine and Flight of the Conchords. Automatic download, don’t have to sign up for anything.
Thanks, SPIN
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We need “The Soup” and “Best Week Ever” - we need the...
– Kathy Griffin, a.k.a. my comedic hero, via Entertainment Weekly
this changed my life →
(via thetrifler)
I need to learn these moves.
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I mean, the parking lot here. Not much to see. But if you imagine yourself a...
– Rabbi Scott, “A Serious Man”
I need to see this movie right away.
(via Esquire November)
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Nutella-Stuffed Chocolate and Hazelnut Cookies →
I need to not look at the Oatmeal CookieBlog. EVER.
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The Parable of Horseshit →
Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the book “SuperFreakonomics,” climate change and The Parable of Horseshit in The New Yorker, Nov. 16, 2009
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She recalled being extremely happy eating lunch by herself in a hotel room in...
– Joan Didion referring to a character in a passage from her novel Democracy to answer the Proust questionnaire inquiry: “When and where were you happiest?”
(via Vanity Fair, November 2009)
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Sony Party-shot automatically takes photos for you →
“Relax and enjoy the party while the Party-shot™ personal photographer automatically takes your photos for you. Party-shot works with your TX1 or WX1 Cyber-shot® camera’s Face Detection and Smile Shutter™ technologies to automatically take photos at the event. Intelligent composition uses the rule of thirds to compose great shots and motion detection seeks out movement to take the...
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BLASPHEMY!
I love Rob Sheffield. If I had a Trapper Keeper, I would probably doodle his name all over it, or a combination of my first name and his last name. It would be written in bubble letters, and there would probably be some hearts and shooting stars and shit.
But I wanted to punch him a little bit when he wrote in his Rolling Stone review of the “New Moon” soundtrack: “Indeed, if...
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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....
– Eve Ensler, from her upcoming book I Am An Emotional Creature
(via “Lessons in How to Be a Woman,” Glamour, December 2009)
13-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Classmates... →
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I left the bar because I didn’t want to cheat on my boyfriend, and...
– JWOWW a.k.a. Jenni from MTV’s “Jersey Shore”
I wonder if perchance she joined this show to promote herself and her many business ventures. Call me old-fashioned, but I only respect the people who want to go on reality shows to find husbands and/or get drunk. This ham quote is...