December 2009
This decade...
(I’m stealing yowhatsthehaps’ style because I loved what she wrote)
This decade, I rang in the new millennium on the Las Vegas Strip then waited in line for three hours for a taxi, quit smoking, moved to LA in 1999 and made some of the best friends I’ll ever have, got “fired” from reviewing CDs for Pitchfork, got a car, got back in shape, got laid off, moved to San...
I have never watched Golden Girls.
frageelaytwit:
But if we want to analyze which M*A*S*H or Cheers character we are, I’m your girl.
I’m probably Cliff. Maybe Frasier sometimes, but mostly Cliff.
I'm watching a Golden Girls marathon and it has...
yowhatsthehaps:
I am totally a Rose. Totally.
So, any of you gonna need a roommate in 30 years? Something tells me I’ll be available.
Ooh! Ooh! I get to be Schneider!
I KNOW IT’S THE WRONG SHOW I JUST WANT TO BE SCHNEIDER!
An NC Tweetup, Perhaps...
So before my wife came through with a ticket to San Francisco, Melissa and I got talking, as we have before, about how there needs to be a “Carolina” get-together of some fine folks. Then, half-jokingly, we said it should be at South of the Border, which anyone who’s traveled I-95 will know is a world-class Tacky Roadside Attraction (seriously, HowStuffWorks named it the...
I meant "this decade"
What I said about Pan’s Labyrinth: “I can’t think of another movie besides Avatar that comes close to the originality of the world that Guillermo del Toro created for Pan’s Labyrinth.”
What I meant: I can’t think of another movie besides Avatar this decade that comes close to the originality of the world that Guillermo del Toro created for Pan’s Labyrinth. The key word, besides...
WatchThat flickering is not an illusion. It’s what my work monitor does every time it wakes up. It used to last about 15 seconds, then 30, then a minute, then five minutes. I will now go throw it out a window and demand a new one.
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen,...”
– Walker Evans (via louobedlam)
lights down. tree dismantled. presents put away.
inthefade:
Christmas zero.
Several times while growing up we didn’t take the tree down until the first week of February. We were festively lazy.
RIP Vic Chesnutt
The boy had his bath, put on his pajamas, then found me to read him “The Night Before Christmas.” He interrupted me on every page to say “What’s that?” “That’s Saint Nicholas.” What’s that?” “That’s a mouse.” “What’s that?” “That’s the father of the house.” “Like you!” We...
Yo, essdogg! I heard you like Words With Friends! →
redcloud:
Anybody who wants to submit screenshots, feel free.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s take a moment to recognize a Man of Action.
You rule, redcloud!
Guys, Words with Friends
I don’t know how to say this without sounding like I’m yelling at you to get off my fuckin’ lawn, so I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: can we either cut back on the WWF screenshots of words that should have been accepted but weren’t or can somebody create a “fuckyeahwordswithfriends” tumblr and post them all there? Seriously, it’s starting to look...
1 in 5 Divorces Blamed on Facebook →
Here’s where most people say “Don’t post stupid things to Facebook” when what we should really say — and heed — is “Don’t do stupid shit, period.”
“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate,...”
– H.L. Mencken
Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
adamisacson:
perpetua:
1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate) 5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k 6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k 7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k 8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k 9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k 10. Girls Album 19k
I don’t know the...
Who Is the Hipster of the Decade? - Gawker →
terrybain:
nickdouglas:
Vote for Carles! He’s neck-and-second-chin with the Hipster Grifter.
Sorry. I had to go for Dov. Because. Well. Dov. Jesus do I really fucking need a reason?
Dov is a Canadian who founded a company called American Apparel. YOUR ALTERNATE HIPSTER-OF-THE-DECADE ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
I’m not one to get caught up in the Hearts Race but I have to admit that I’m disappointed that more people didn’t heart this video, because I laughed my ass off even if I made it. Perhaps I’ve finally entered the gravitational grips of the “my kid is hilarious” black hole — in which case, I’m a lost cause and you should feel free to ignore my descent into...
Secret Tumblr Post
A lot of us make a lot of noise about how different we are from the rest of the people who aren’t us. But you… you truly are. Don’t change.
girlvanized:
gdub:
“The Utah “accent” is so flat an nonexistent that that, combined with the fact that the state is crawling with RM’s…who speak foreign languages made it a mecca for telemarketing jobs back in the ’80s and ’90s before those jobs started getting shipped overseas. If you’re from Utah or have spent significant time there you can recognize it, but besides saying things like “crick”...
