December 2008
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3 Worst Holidays
erikonymous:
mollylambert:
a. New Year’s Eve
b. Valentine’s Day
c. The 4th Of July
I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions, and I know some people hate Halloween (I’m not one of them). But seriously. I will take a hundred Arbor Days over these over-hyped partying clusterfucks.
I whole-heartedly agree with the first two. Any holiday that traditionally imposes successful romantic coupling is...
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The Books I Read In 2008
When I took my job at DC, the sheer quantity of free material we received pretty much crowded all other forms of reading out of my life. The fact that my subway commute has historically (at all the apartments I’ve lived in) been either less than half an hour long, broken up into two sections, or both, has also cut down on the amount of time I had to devote to reading. So at the beginning of...
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“Kenneth Adelman, a member of Donald Rumsfeld’s advisory Defense Policy Board:
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– An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
I could spend weeks excerpting quotes from this exceptionally good piece. Read it on your lunch break today or tomorrow.
This particular quote has a tangential relationship to the excellent Generation Kill, which I...
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Idolator - No. 11: The Year Of The Remix →
“Year Of The Remix” is an extremely thin conceit, but Matos fills the post with plenty of excellent examples. Loving the Pete Hammond remix of Alphabeat’s “Boyfriend.” This post will fill up plenty of playlist time at my office today!
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Shakespeare Video Games
howsyrface:
mollylambert:
Grand Theft Othello
Titus Rock Bandicus
Super Macbethtroid
The Merchant Of Zelda
Coriolanus Trigger
Henry VI: Goldeneye
The Merry Wives Of Warcraft
Shrew Fighter
Tony Hawk’s Hamlet
Super Mario and Juliet
Tetris Andronicus
Julius Pokemon induced Seizure
Super Smash Brothers of Verona
Two Gentlemen of Castlevania
Taming of the Solid Snake
Mario Karts of...
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Wonkette: A Children's Treasury Of Terms Of Abuse... →
I admit it, I laughed. Hard.
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Monopoly Repackaging by Andy Mangold →
This needs to be commercially produced and sold to me RIGHT NOW. Beautiful. (Via Daring Fireball)
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“I have just come to the stunning conclusion that The Incredible Hulk is a...”
– Cameron Kenley Hunt (via tmblg) (via takethecityandrun)
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Regrets? I've had a few.
I admit it, I wish I’d never posted that weird cyclops picture yesterday. It upsets me to look at it.
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I command you to read this. →
maura:
(via alexbalk)
as do i.
I agree. I just read this independently and it’s superb.
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“Obama is not so much using the left as a foil here as he is using division and...”
– TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree
The same post links to another blog entry that raises a very valid question: You wouldn’t ask us to “agree to disagree” with a racist, so why should we be asked to...
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Civic Literacy Test →
erikonymous:
dyfl:
erikonymous:
marco:
(via lfarm)
I got an 85% (28/33). I’m qualified to live here! Yay!
Got the same, 28/33. Still don’t get economics, but neither does Greenspan.
32 OUT OF 33 BITCHES!!! (With at least three lucky guesses.) You’re looking at your first gay president.
I am so voting for you, dude. Promise me that Andrew W.K. will be the poet at your inauguration.
...
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watched the x files movie last night.
raptoravatar:
natface:
jgh:
xzibit is in it, so i annoyed the boyf to high heaven by yelling YO DAWG at the screen whenever xzibit comes on
YO DAWG, I HERD U LIKE THE X-FILES AND MEMES, SO I SIGNED ON TO MAKE A CRAPPY X-FILES SEQUEL SO YOU CAN LAUGH AT XZIBIT MEMES WHILE WATCHING X-FILES
Did that help the movie not completely suck? Let me know, maybe I’ll try to watch it again.
(no i...
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Twitter / DC_NATION →
Well hey, look at that. We be on the Twitters now.
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Civic Literacy Test →
erikonymous:
marco:
(via lfarm)
I got an 85% (28/33). I’m qualified to live here! Yay!
Got the same, 28/33. Still don’t get economics, but neither does Greenspan.
32 OUT OF 33 BITCHES!!! (With at least three lucky guesses.) You’re looking at your first gay president.
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Dear Tumblr Please Settle This Debate Between...
pterodactyls:
sector19:
fatmanatee:
kiamatthews:
Which band would you be more embarrassed to admit to liking?
Fall Out Boy
or
My Chemical Romance
Clearly I am a FOB fan. Whatever. Patrick Stump has an amazing voice, they are a FUN band and they can and frequently take the piss out of themselves. MCR is full of sisies who sing about sissy things; they’re probably cutters and do shit...
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“That’s one parallel that came to my mind. The other, when I was feeling less...”
– Theater Review - ‘Shrek the Musical’ - The Belching Green Ogre at the Broadway Theater Has a Song in His Heart - NYTimes.com
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CBR News: "The Spirit" Producers Write Comics Arc →
I’ve decided that what this blog needs is more shameless hype of projects I’m working on. (Hopefully I won’t get in trouble for doing so.) This is gonna be a gorgeous book and you should check it out in February.
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“The real point is that it’s a movie about manning the fuck up. In fifteen years,...”
– Up With The Mob…
Urban Dictionary: cockneck →
Today’s word of the day. I particularly like the in-speech examples.
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KB Toys to liquidate →
maura:
I really hope deadmalls.com has server space for all the new pages it’s going to have to add in 2009.
When I was like nine, my mom’s coworker was married to a guy who managed our mall’s KB Toys. He always let me get Ninja Turtles action figures as soon as they came off the truck. I hope he jumped over to an Apple Store or something a while ago.
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“For the last 12 years, a single solitary whale whose vocalizations match no...”
– The Loneliest Mystery of the Deep || kuro5hin.org
This made me profoundly sad today. I’ll try to refrain from saying how much I feel like this whale sometimes, although I guess I just did.
(Via La Fugue D’Antoine)
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annals of the junk folder
maura:
Hello, To meet the Woofiest Men…. You have to use the best site. The site with features you won’t find at any other all guys site, even though they charge $100 or more a year for access (for what? a list of worn out profiles with fake pics????). To meet the best hunks, come to WoofHunt.com. The most profiles of all the all guy sites. Circle Jerk Vid-chat. Lube Tube Video...
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Lately I've been thinking about cutting high...
pterodactyls:
robot-heart:
It makes me a little nervous, but this morning, I’m psyching myself up for the task by reading a bunch of horrifying research on the evils of HFCS.
I cut it out about a year ago. Mostly - I can’t control what I eat at someone else’s house, etc. I’ve lost weight, my skin has improved, and I have more energy. Best decision I’ve ever made.
I honestly don’t see...
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“Throughout the intercepted conversations, Blagojevich also allegedly spent...”
– Talking Points Memo | Some Serious Chutzpah
Wow, what a scumbag. Plz 2 b going to jail now kthxbi.
Gotta say, our Democratic governors’ bench is not acquitting itself particularly well lately. For all of you Democratic governors who read my Tumblr: If you’re up to this kind of...
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“G.M.’s vice chairman, Robert A. Lutz, was more blunt in his defense of Mr....”
– White House Says Deal on Auto Bailout Appears to Be Close - NYTimes.com
Try “like blaming the mayor of a city that’s been told for years that it sits on top of a major fault line but nevertheless decided to pursue its plans for new housing constructed entirely of Jenga blocks”.
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Idiot plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
My favorite new phrase learned today.
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“Barack Obama’s top speechwriter Jon Favreau just got in a bit of trouble...”
– TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Sunday Roundup
Holy shit! He got SERVED. Hillary Clinton FTW on this one.
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America's Top 25 High Schools - MSN Encarta →
Hey, my high school is the 11th-best in the nation! Of course, my ex-boyfriend’s is the best. Did he hold this over me occasionally? Yes.
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Wow
So that’s what a really, really, really busy day feels like. Yeesh. At least it was just steady, basically manageable work and nothing was really on fire.
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“Well, I thought it was funny.”
– Stephen Colbert, summing up his life in six words.
L_G: I think mine would be something like, “Is this the only thing on?” or “Guess what? I saw a kitty!”
I’ll go with “Effing A! Better luck next time?”
(via hungryghoast)
Mine: “I’ll just worry about it later.”
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Soundtrack.
Today went from a totally squealing-victory-guitars morning to a Price Is Right-sad-horns afternoon kinda quickly. And I’m pretty sure it’s because I fucked something up. Sigh. Must try, for once, to not let it get me down. I am going to do my best to practice being 2009 Hyper-Competent Chris this month.
