December 2009
Best Music of the 2000s, I Think, Though in...
2000: The Beatles. They were more than the Fab Four, Mom. They went on to make some really trippy stuff. Look, I’ve had Abbey Road out of the library for like two weeks. We’re done with this conversation. I’m going to go listen to “Her Majesty” five more times. Tell Dad I’m really into the Beatles.
2001: So Steve, you’re saying you like Ben Folds un-ironically? Oh thank god.
2002: Tom Waits,...
The Decade in Maureen Dowd's Pop Cultural... →
Hahah she’s so terrible.
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in...
"7) do most people who work in offices use gchat...
choire:
Leon’s 21 questions are killing me. (“1) is there something i could do that’s like legos but isn’t legos? something that doesn’t have as much stigma attached to it?”)
THINGS THAT BORE ME IN 2010
“Softcore misogyny”
Will Leitch reviews "Up in the Air" →
“If you can’t shut it down on New Year’s Eve…when can you?”
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Things we should not talk about in 2010 →
me: I'm going to be good until New Years Eve and then it's out the window
John: haha, I like how you say that like its a long time away and not the day after tomorrow
"The Loony With His Pants On Fire" by Andrew...
I like this kind of attitude toward trust-fundies with powder shoved down their privates and syringes that don’t work:
In fact, there is a growing tinge of mockery of this terrorist for toasting his testicles. This dude who can’t light a fuse is gonna raise the terror threat level to orange? Please. It strikes me as practically British – laughing at the Nazis all the way to the rubble pile...
2009: The Quiz →
I only got 17 out of 29 right.
“At the height of the controversy about Obama’s citizenship, Tom DeLay asked Chris Matthews, “Will you ask the President to show me his gift certificate”“
LOL
Top ten bills passed by the 111th United States...
10. Water Quality Investment Act 9. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act 8. COPS Improvement Act. 7. Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights. 6. “Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act” 5. Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. 4. Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. 3. Affordable Health Care for America Act. 2. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 1. American Clean...
If Star Wars had Facebook..... →
“Is anyone actually still making fruitcake unironically?”
Shoplifting from American Apparel- Review by...
Last night, I took a break from Proust to read ‘Shoplifting from American Apparel,’ the 2k9 novella by Tao Lin. It was slightly jarring to the extent that both works, though loosely autobiographical and by/about writers, fall at opposite ends of a certain kind of spectrum: if Proust writes about memory, emotion and the careful dissection of one’s entire past in order to place it...
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“This summer a friend mentioned that, as an upper-middle-class New Yorker in his...”
What’s funny, though, and what’s important, is... →
Your Boyfriend Sucks: Jezebel’s Worst Fictional...
Dean, Gilmore Girls:
The Reformed Nice Guy: “I know I dumped you in front of the entire town, accusing you of having feelings for the rebel dude in the leather jacket, but I wasn’t wrong, was I? And now that he’s broken your heart, I’m back to help you put it together again. So what if I’m married? I don’t love her. I love you. I’ve always loved you. I...
Annals of Adulthood
Elyse: Smell this.
Me: No way!
Elyse: I smelled yours last time even though you KNEW it was really bad
Me: Fine.....It's borderline. Dump it and use mine.
Elyse: Ok, thanks.
Me: We are even now.
Elyse: No. Nuh uh. Yours was waaay worse last time.
Me: Fine. I owe you one more milk sniff and then we're even.
Elyse: Ok.
The End of the 00s: The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by... →
