December 2009
“Ladies are great, Tiger, but how many kisses do you need? Google says that a...”
– Philippe is as always a font of wisdom and gullibility in equal measure.
Todd Barry, “Birthdays”
And so good...
“Under the circumstances, investing additional resources in defending airplanes...”
– Matt you-oughta-know-by-now Yglesias.
Totally Wire'd
tomewing:
I stopped listening to drone and noise music because I sold out to The Man: it’s good for many things but not for commuting. But maybe 2010 should be when I rediscover this side of my tastes a bit (and try to write about it more).
Wait, it’s not good for commuting? Tastes vary, etc., but some of my favorite commutes have been those in which I just put on a long, gnarled record...
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Ah, Schopy. Where would P. G. Wodehouse’s heroes at moments of glumness have to turn to if not you?
I have a prediction to make:
sometimesagreatnotion:
Tumblr is going to be really really crappy and emo to read in the week between Christmas and New Years when everybody is either 1) posting their New Year’s Resolutions/This Will Be The Year I Am Finally Happy/2010! stuff or 2) re-blogging other people’s stuff like that.
In that spirit, let me just say:
Thanks to everyone who’s followed this Tumblr, its first...
Lil Wayne vs. Sleigh Bells, “Fireman On The...
How I Spent My Christmas Vacation.
1. I walked home from midnight Mass smoking my pipe for the first time all winter. (Well of course I have a pipe; and of course I almost never smoke it. I can’t even get it together enough to keep up a decent vice.) It’s not that I don’t have ample opportunity to be alone during the rest of the year, but that one fifteen-minute walk, everyone else piling into the car and racing...
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From the TED speakers list: "Sheryl Crow's... →
cureforbedbugs:
aceterrier:
Avril came before Michelle, at least in my part of the world, and Michelle was considered a local girl here.
Quick clarification: The straight dashes in my makeshift chart suggest what are basically contemporaries (Michelle/Avril/Pink all being in “group 1” so to speak). As for importance, I still think there’s as much Michelle as Avril in the sound of the second...
From the TED speakers list: "Sheryl Crow's... →
cureforbedbugs:
maura:
God help us all.
Sheryl Crow, particularly through her early-decade work with John Shanks, has been an important figure in teen confessional (roughly (Vol. 1) Michelle Branch—Pink/Perry—Avril —> (Vol. 2) Ashlee/Kelly/Lindsay —> (Vol. 3) P!nk mk 2-Katy-…who else am I forgetting in the new guard, aside from Taylor Swift who seems to have shifted the mold a bit...
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Watchsteveagee:
liezlwashere:
yourkitchensink:
The trailer for the new Karate Kid just ruined America’s Christmas.
NO. Fuck you karate kid remake.
FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Hey, I liked the original when I was ten too, but this looks way better. I’m so down with having Danny be a black kid I’m starting to wonder why I was ever cool with Ralph Macchio in the first...
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WatchSpeaking of Buster Keaton’s One Week. Take twenty minutes out of your day and enjoy.
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On Titles, And The Meanings Thereof.
The title of this tumblelog, which you wouldn’t necessarily know about if you only read it via the Dashboard, is Exist Yesterday.
As noted obliquely here, the title came about because the closest textual matter at hand when it came time to tack up a shingle was a large Wendy’s fountain-drink cup bearing the legend “Today’s salads didn’t exist yesterday.” (I...
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Don’t do it.
sometimesagreatnotion:
austra:
If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.
If you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it.
If you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do...
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“‘Normal, psychologically healthy men share porn,’ says Rob, 31. ‘It’s a way of...”
– (via.) (via onlyconnect)
I can’t tell from the site whether that article was an Onionesque parody of a weekend style piece or not. It reads better as one, certainly.
How To Write An "A" Paper (The Only Way I Know).
1) Write up a one-page proposal an hour before it’s due on the first thing that comes into your head, running quick searches on the university library’s catalog in order to pad out the bibliography.
2) Do nothing for two months.
3) The night before the paper is due, go to the library and set up your laptop to write. Get down maybe a page and a half in eight hours; spend the rest of...
“she couldn’t sing about love, or the lack of it, without a pretense of being...”
– The Factual Opinion: The Top 30 Albums of 2009: #26
when did she ever say she couldn’t sing about those things, guy?
(via desnoise)
If we’re going to start demanding that music critics source their blanket statements, we’re not going to have a lot of music criticism left.
Which...
DFW Grammar Challenge →
fightwithknives:
tumbledore:
David Foster Wallace crafted this grammar challenge. There is one crucial error in punctuation, usage, or grammar in each of the sentences below:
1. He and I hardly see one another.
2. I’d cringe at the naked vulnerability of his sentences left wandering around without periods and the ambiguity of his uncrossed “t”s.
3. My brother called to find out if I was...
“So it’s also worth sparing a few words for the potentially demoralized voters...”
– As long as Matt Yglesias keeps up with the righteous rhetoric, I’ll keep quoting him.
Iyaz, “Replay”
Making a song about...
