July 2008
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“If you think about it, the whole premise of Star Trek is really absurd: every...”
– The Hurting
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“That’s Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes of the Washington Post, who...”
– The Washington Monthly
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Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape... →
This is the best Onion article since “Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs; ‘Oh, Shit’ Says Humanity.” Thank you Craig.
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perpetua:
Elliott Smith was unavailable, but...
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Travelogue.
I am in the Dallas airport on my way to the San Diego Comic-Con, which, y’know, God help me. I am craving a cheeseburger very hard even though it’s still breakfast time in Texas (and only 10 in NYC, let’s be honest). I also should have stopped at the nice bookstore in the nice terminal where I landed, because the “Borders” in my connecting terminal pretty much only...
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Action Alert
It is time to bring back the (catch)phrase “Homey don’t play that.”
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“I didn’t show up to the festival until around 7 PM, just a little while...”
– FLUXBLOG: You Must Be Supercool To Proceed - YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!
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Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!! - →
Comics artists draw their favorite literary figures or characters. AWESOME.
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Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones →
“Grawlix.” I love it.
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An extraordinarily biased review of THE DARK...
It was really, really, really good.
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ALERT ALERT HRRWONK HRRWONK
Mountain Dew Voltage both looks and tastes a LOT like Pepsi Blue. Please go to dewmocracy.com (I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST TYPED THAT) and vote to make it a permanent flavor.
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“If you said you loved ‘Wall-E’ 2 weeks ago, but are disposing of a...”
– Anil Dash (via caro) (via jdel)
This is an excellent point. For the record, my final statement on the iPhone 3G: I’d love to have one, for the GPS, the faster data speed, and 8GB more storage space, but I can’t justify the added monthly expense. Plus, you know, see above. Though I would...
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“The New Yorker: But, are you happy?
Onstad: No. That is not a thing I reserve...”
– The Cartoon Lounge: Online Only: The New Yorker
Chris Onstad for Poet Laureate. You heard it here first.
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A bit of shilling.
I finally just donated $50 to the Obama campaign. I’ll probably donate again as time rolls on. Just so you know, the campaign only raised $30 million in June (well, you know, “only”), which is significantly below expectations. Obviously expectations are sky-high, but the last thing this race needs is gigantic OBAMA UNDERPERFORMING headlines. Obviously I would’ve rather...
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Old New York →
erikonymous:
A staggeringly extensive collection of B&W photos of New York City between 1885 to 1971.
These are AMAZING. And potentially very valuable reference.
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A Hypothetical Question About Beverages
kfan:
Also assuming that my contined undying love for the memory of Pepsi Blue is in the main merely a result of the River Phoenix “Don’t Know What You Got” law.
GET OUT. You loved Pepsi Blue too? I was CRAZY for that stuff. I was convinced it was actually made as robot fuel before some scientist’s hapless six-year-old chugged some and pronounced it delicious. It officially ruined my day...
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“Be friendly and courteous and open to new experiences and you will probably see...”
– The Comics Reporter - Tom Spurgeon’s Guide to San Diego Comic-Con. Fantastic. I’m reviewing this now; I went last year and was kind of dazzled and shell-shocked, and am hoping to make a bit more of my trip this year. If you’ll be there let me know!
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A Hypothetical Question About Beverages
perpetua:
You get to have a fountain in your home that will dispense three beverages. You will have an unlimited supply of this beverage, and it will just magically appear there for you, you never have to deal with maintenance. The beverages will be of an ideal quality when they come out of the fountain, so if, for example, you pick a particular wine, it will not be damaged by the whole “coming...
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Public service announcement.
Reduced Fat Doritos are FUCKING FILTHY. Stay away.
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How Coldplay's green hopes died in the arid soil... →
My interest is piqued by the previous discussion of carbon-offsetting. I remember raising an eyebrow about this when I saw it in the liner notes of A RUSH OF BLOOD…; very interesting to see it followed up on.
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Straighten up and fly right.
I just paid $40 extra to sit in exit-row seats on two flights. I’m not sure if it sucks to be tall, or if it sucks to fly anywhere these days, but one of those things definitely sucks. And I probably know the answer.
Also: I investigated the little “offset your carbon footprint” affiliate link from the Jetblue site. Does it seriously require an investment of only $7.60 to negate...
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Undependent™ » The World’s First Album Cover -... →
Really just linking this so I have it to refer back to later. Also, I’m sure we’ll have bands doing knockoff covers of this within a year. It is a pretty hot design.
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Secret Acres: Not So Secret Any More - 6/30/2008... →
PW Comics Week profiles my friend Leon’s new comics company.
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A thing to do.
List your favorite record from every year you’ve been alive.
You can do it based purely on hindsight, or you can do it by listing the answer you would’ve given in that year (assuming you were aware of pop music at the time). My list below is based on hindsight, but would have some awesomely hilarious and embarassing choices if you’d asked me at the time. When I remember what...
