January 2012
10 posts
“Note: This space is not meant for banner ads or other promotions. Please...”
– Facebook, on uploading a cover photo. Man, I really just wanted to keep picking the same cover photo as everyone else.
“Now that we made this feature that no one really wanted in the first place, NO HAVING FUN WITH IT. NO FUN. AND NO MAKING IT USEFUL. YA HEAR?”
“The overwhelming desire to protect young girls from the corruptions of...”
– What Caitlin Flanagan’s new book “Girl Land” gets wrong about girls. (via ampersandean)
Sorry for the random post—blogged onto the wrong site and then Tumblr went crazy and I couldn’t fix it immediately!
Got a few dollars? →
Are you feeling down about your over-consumption this holiday season? Maybe toss a few bucks over this way. My friend’s brother, Brandon, is raising money for the Special Olympics by doing the Annual Penguin Plunge. He is one of my favorite people in the world and his efforts help ensure that everyone gets to play sports!
I had a ridiculously good day today.
That is all.
December 2011
22 posts
The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
I hope this gets loads of press!
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and...
“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story
(via wreckandsalvage)
“This was primarily a U.S. event and we wanted to make sure the Western media was...”
– U.S. military spokesman Col. Barry Johnson, explaining why Iraqi media weren’t invited to the U.S.’s Iraq withdrawal ceremony. (via officialssay)
I think this neatly summarizes my massive ambivalence about the end of the war. Good luck cleaning up the mess, Iraq.
“I think these are the debutantes and these are the STD cells…”
– Hanging out with people who are studying for their art history final.
distorte:
Amazon and Barnes & Noble let you sample the first chapter of every digital title they carry, and you can do so without leaving your couch, or ever having to feel harsh winter sunlight on your skin. The sounds of humans living will trouble you no more. You will never again feel cold, tired, frustrated on footpaths. Say goodbye to the twinge of pedestrianism in your hamstrings....
“The speaker charged with explaining Anonymous’ idiosyncrasies was Biella...”
– This woman gets me. And by me, I mean my thesis on hactivism and all its complications.
"But for the camera, you smile" →
ofanotherfashion:
Dressed to the nines and going to Manzanar internment camp. ”In an act as seemingly trivial and trite as smiling for the camera, these women interrupt and take some control of the historical, political, and visual frames through which they’re being viewed. And in this way, these kinds of photographs exemplify precisely the goals at the heart of this alternative archive: to...
I love my friends.
Friend: [Redacted] was having a conversation with someone--he won't tell me who--in which they listed the female leaders on campus you wouldn't want to fuck with. Guess who's on the list?
[We point at each other]
Friend: Exxxxxactly.
Portrait Hall of Fame!!
perezhamilton:
He’s just grabbing his balls like it ain’t no thang!!
Check out this RIDICulous portrait of Joost de Hertoghe painted by our favorite queen artist Anthony van Dyck.
He should have gotten his beauty sleep before his big portrait day, that boy is looking exhausted!! And what is he pointing to?? Maybe he’s yelling at his stylist for putting him in that hideous shiny bag??
Better...
The Dalai Lama is on Google Plus. I’m so proud that he is my Spiritual Leader of Choice.
“See, when talking about “origins” or “reality,” we can no longer do so without...”
– Gaga Stigmata
Love the MTN video so, so much.
November 2011
23 posts
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Charlie Brooker on CoD3 →
I can’t play first person video games. Yes, even Portal. (I had to stop because I felt to guilty about killing the adorable robots.) But I am absolutely obsessed with reading about them, thinking about them, and talking about them to the point that my friends—the ones who are also doing theses by choice and are a cross-section of the geekiest people alive in their own special...
Sgt. Pepper's Strawberry Jam: A lull →
peppersjam:
I’ve been quiet for a little while, but not for lack of listening to tons of great new music. I’ll be posting a lot soon.
And I will (knock on wood) be fixing my concert slump—mediocre Das Racist concert followed by missed Ra Ra Riot (and Yellow Ostrich, and Delicate Steve) concert snafu—this…
“Mediocre” is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about Das Racist...
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Our office-of-finding-careers sent us an e-mail about how it can get us jobs. The e-mail was written in Comic Sans. I am no longer sure I can trust my career to our office-of-finding-careers.
Confession:
I used to think that Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman were the same person.
They are not.
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Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's... →
Just read it; it will make you laugh.
In Case You Were on the Fence About Seeing the...
One of the last songs is composed and performed by Andrew Bird, which I did not know until I heard The Whistle.
Internet, you get an A+
Pepper Spray reviews on Amazon.
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Too Much Violence and Pepper Spray →
Glad to see The Atlantic is back on it with this great combination of history, theory, and raw footage. Great piece.
The article does ask for “a call for restraint,” which I would disagree with semantically. This should be a call for humanity, for the protection of rights, for common decency… Restraint implies that this violence is a natural, a-okay action for police, one that...
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Helpful Collection of Video Clips that Are No... →
On a Happier Note... →
Wired’s list of Vaporware from 2001 is endearing. The words “Dot-Com economy” are used, and everyone pines over World of Warcraft III* and 3G. Everybody come read my thesis research with me!
* I still maintain that Orcs & Humans was the most fun to play. (I liked the boats. I can’t explain it.)
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HMM.
Peculiar how all of a sudden there’s no coverage of Occupy Wall Street at all on NYT, or any positive coverage on the Atlantic, and that it got bumped down on The New Yorker.
I’ve read rumors—unsubstantiated—that Bloomberg was sending detectives to New York newspapers to ask them not to print anything about the brutality until he could conduct an investigation (let me save...
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“Among the most effective chants of the O.W.S. protesters has been a simple...”
– Whose Police? from The New Yorker.
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“…as he and I were locked in place, he said to me, from behind his plastic...”
– Last Night at Zuccotti Park from n+1