June 2008
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An Urgent Communique to All New Yorkers
howsyrface:
If you haven’t been yet, please drop everything you are currently doing and head to MoMA and/or PS1 to check out the last day of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, because you will probably not have more fun at an Art Exhibit this year unless they’re handing out giant flyswatters at the upcoming Louis Bourgeouis/Giant Spiders Vs. Guggenheim exhibition.
Damn it, I wanted to see that...
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Bayville Adventure Park →
This is the totally sweet mini-golf course we went to this weekend, which features a rope-climbing thing that was pretty much completely boss.
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“According to the poll, 81% of male moviegoers and 66 percent of female...”
– The Weekend Gross: ‘The Dark Knight’ tracking extremely well
[DISCLAIMER: This is meant in no way to reflect any data or expectations on the part of my employers; I only post it because I’m friggin’ excited about the movie and am sensing a similar level of excitement out...
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Dara Torres - Profile - Olympic Swimming -... →
This piece kinda blew my mind. If this woman was a character in a novel, you’d find her unrealistic.
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If I won the lottery...
…I’d hire James Jean to paint a 30-foot mural of the X-Men fighting dinosaurs in my apartment’s entry hall.
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“Amazing amazing amazing Annie amazing amazing amazing amazing Norwegian amazing...”
– Popjustice - Annie’s ‘Songs Remind Me Of You’: amazing
The point is, there’s a 30-second clip. This is absolutely my most anticipated album of the year.
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Pitchfork: Devo Suing McDonald's Over Happy Meal... →
Good for them. Fuck that kind of trademark infringement. He said, while eating McDonald’s for breakfast. BUT THAT DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING.
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U.S. to Take North Korea Off Terror List -... →
As we all know, I despise the government of George W. Bush with a burning passion. And story after story keeps hitting about how corrupt, incompetent, and vicious these people are. But it’s only fair to say that there are certain things his administration has done right (he did at least try to get a reasonable immigration-reform bill passed; it was the wingnuts and deadenders in his party...
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USA Olympic Diving Trials - The Big Picture -... →
I would hide behind the usual “These pictures are so amazing, what an awesome blog The Big Picture is” excuse. But no, I just think divers are super-hot. So here you go: some hot, basically-naked boys making silly faces. Enjoy!
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What a 'Fun, Sexy Time' For Us: Jason Bateman... →
I continue to hold to my policy on all AD-movie-related stories: If this does not actually happen, I will systematically butcher everyone in the world responsible for getting my hopes up in this fashion. The cast and crew are, logically, excepted from this massacre.
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Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore... →
Whoa. This is kind of a big deal — the Florida state government is going to buy US Sugar entirely, just to shut them down and therefore halt the agriculture operations that disrupt the flow of water between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades (which are both in drastic shape). I didn’t think this sort of thing was politically possible in Florida. And I have to admit that the prospect of...
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Life's Little Disappointments, Vol. 5
Eating Pizzeria Pretzel Combos for lunch. Even though they are delicious. But they are not a meal replacement.
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Sweat! Sweeeaaaat!
Matthew: you know maybe it's time for people to make more songs like "The Power"
I'm going to write a letter to Basement Jaxx, hold on
me: hahahaha
That should be the sound of the next Justin Timberlake album
me: Timberlake & Timbaland all interviewing at MTV News, "We were in Missy's car and we found out the only thing she had in her CD booklet was C+C Music Factory bootlegs..."
Matthew: ha
underground extended remixes of C&C deep cuts
me: exactly
all from Holland
every single one from Holland
except for one from Japan
and all the CDs have blue backs
and the fonts that ship with Microsoft Paint
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kfan:
I love this meme.
You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have: 1. One weapon. 2. One song blasting on the speakers. 3. One famous person to fight alongside you. Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.
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My answers:
1. Swirling rainbows of death that shoot from the palms of my hands 2. “Jesus is Waiting” by Al...
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Electro-Shock Therapy →
Excellent Atlantic piece about the Chevy Volt, the plug-in car that will — hopefully — be making it to market by the end of 2010. Maybe. Fingers crossed. It is quite a story, though.
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Death and all his friends.
Matthew: this day has an odd feeling to it
are we in limbo now
me: perhaps that's what my visit from Beezlebub portended
We are being harrowed
Matthew: it was inevitable
me: Speaking of visits from Beezlebub
It turns out I like two songs on the new Coldplay album
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Last Night's Dream, Explicated
*****SPOILERS*****
BE WARNED! This post ruins the ending of the post about my dream below! DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE AVOIDING SPOILERS!!!!!!
*****END SPOILER SPACE*****
The Chinese setting is clearly the result of the Ruby Foo’s meal I’d just eaten a couple hours before that did not agree with me.
The hysterical girl is my sister, who was more than slightly drunk last night.
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Last Night's Dream
I am on what I guess was understood to be a high school field trip to China. One of the girls in our party has some kind of hysterical fit when we are at the top of a long, complicated rope bridge over a mist-filled chasm, and begins swinging the bridge on purpose, causing people far below us on another span of the bridge to slip all over the place and nearly fall off. She claims this is OK...
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Pitchfork Feature: Column: Poptimist #16 →
Lots of sharp insights by Tom Ewing on the identities and particular concerns of Marvel and DC.
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“A whole new vocabulary seems to be required. To say that the movie is not funny...”
– The Love Guru - Movie - Review - The New York Times. Mike Myers, the Darkseid of comedy.
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Must... Eat... Sweet Ride Nachos...: Denny's All... →
So apparently Denny’s is going after teenagers by playing indie rock and having the staff wear t-shirts and jeans between 10pm and 5am. This is kind of brilliant. Much of my youth between those hours was, in fact, spent at Denny’s, so it’s a shame they weren’t pandering to my generation at the time.
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How to nap - Boston.com →
I am not much of a napper but I learned useful things from this. Now I can be better at being lazy.
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“Sen. McCain insists that Americans must choose between our values and our...”
– TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Joe Biden Rips Rudy For Having “Zero National Security And Foreign Policy Experience”
Joe Biden is a pretty terrible politician on the campaign trail, but he’s a pretty smart dude in just about every other respect. I have to assume...
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A distressing thought.
So I am thinking about the R.E.M. tickets I purchased for the Madison Square Garden show.
Face value for the tickets was something like $69 each, I think. That’s expensive for mid-level seats on the side, but I’m over it. I bought four.
In total, with service charges, each of those tickets cost me approximately $81.25.
That means, for the privilege of using their website for two and...
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High School Tony Awards Honor Nation's Biggest... →
The Onion’s video segments are so amazingly great. This one pretty much skewers my entire life between ages 15 and 18.
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Chipotle Nutrition Facts Calculator 2.0 - How... →
It was a sad day when I discovered this. But it was sadder still when I started ignoring it. CHIPOTLE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
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“There’s a thin line between lyrics that speak to everyone and lyrics that...”
– Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends: Pitchfork Record Review
Thank you, Ryan Dombal. Bono, please take a note.
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Fight the Smears | Fight the Smears Home →
Thank God this exists, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be enough. This is going to be the nastiest, most heartbreaking election of my lifetime, I’m almost certain of it. The Swift Boat nonsense was nothing compared to the sleaze that’s going to be oozing out of every corner of this country during this race. Maybe it’s too early to lose hope, but I’m not...
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George Michael - “I Can’t Make You...
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Kathleen Sebelius, Completing The Obama Puzzle -... →
Right now, she’s my favorite pick for Obama’s VP. But I’m open to many suggestions (with the exception of Jim Webb, who I think would be more of a problem than people think).
EDIT: For the record, there are some links in the comments re: why I’m not crazy about Webb.
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Life's Little Disappointments, Vol. 4
Realizing that you will spend the rest of your time on this Earth in an unending, unwinnable battle against nose hair.
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Music - Trent Reznor’s Frustration and Fury - ... →
Who would’ve thought we’d live to see the day when Trent Reznor is plainly one of the best-adjusted people in the music industry? I cannot fucking WAIT to see NIN in August.
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“If my writing gets pretentious and overly serious, I’m happy to be called...”
– Getting The Memo: What I Learned From Stereogum
And there’s Mike Barthel getting today’s Award For Accuracy.
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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture:... →
I spent far too much time at work reading this, but it’s totally essential: Basically, it’s the oral history of the entire Internet, told by the people who built it, from the Arpanet to Pets.com to Obama’s campaign. Wow.
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Scoop It Up or Pay - On Patrol With Enforcers of... →
New York City employs 15 people who drive around the city fining anyone who doesn’t pick up their dogshit. Wow. At least they drive hybrids.
“Sometimes I think to myself, “I can’t believe I’m going to...”
– HIPSTER RUNOFF: What happens after U die?
(Via Matthew)
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“The other thing that people seem to forget is that Weezer is never supposed to...”
– FLUXBLOG: Our Last Summer As Indies
DING DING DING DING DING. Matthew wins today’s award for Accuracy.
Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having... →
(via pterodactyls) JINX! I just linked this from another source five minutes ago. By the rules of the Jinx HELPFULLY OUTLINED IN A POST ON FRIDAY, you can’t post until I say so. Or you owe me a Coke. OK maybe I didn’t read the rules that closely. SO SAYETH THE STRANGER FOLLOWING YOUR TUMBLR.
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Life's Little Disappointments, Vol. 3
When you’re eating a cheesesteak and some grease drips onto your nice pants from Express that you got on clearance and which fit you PERFECTLY and which everybody compliments you on (seriously a coworker even gave you a sexually-harassing-in-any-other-context comment on how nice your “muffin” looked in them) and when you’ve been afraid to wash these pants or do anything...
Dry cleaning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Perhaps I will begin posting one Wikipedia article every day on a common but unexamined topic. Or perhaps I will not.
Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can -... →
I can only hope that I’m as proud of one of my life’s accomplishments as this man was of his. (Thanks, Craig)
