January 2009
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Watchcaroline:
Get On Your Boots, baby
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Hurm. First thought: Getty Images watermarks? Really? Second thought: I think they’re trying to conjure up the old Zoo TV magic, but they haven’t quite reckoned with the ways our culture visually represents information-overload nowadays. Ah well.
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There's a great big world out there.
me: I wonder if Amazon knows I'm homosexual
If they have a database calculating my likelihood of being gay based on my purchase history
Leon: are you kidding? like they don't sell facebook and manhunt data.
me: If only there was a Faceazonhunt
Where I could talk to my friends, buy things, and fuck people -- all on one site!
it could be called America.com
Actually I guess it would be called Ninthavenuebetween14thand23rd.com
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The Savage Critic(s): Why I loved Final Crisis →
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On Top Chef
howsyrface:
dyfl:
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brokedownpalace:
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I’m starting to feel kind of bad for Leah, even though I don’t like her very much, because Hosea seems like the type of smug dick who of COURSE would start a romance with an also-attached girl eight years younger only to back off when it was clear that she was interested in more than just pumping up his ego with eye-flutters and covert...
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On Top Chef
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brokedownpalace:
maura:
I’m starting to feel kind of bad for Leah, even though I don’t like her very much, because Hosea seems like the type of smug dick who of COURSE would start a romance with an also-attached girl eight years younger only to back off when it was clear that she was interested in more than just pumping up his ego with eye-flutters and covert flirtations.
This does not...
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Wonkette : Iceland, The Country, Basically Gives... →
The upside: Iceland’s going to have the world’s first openly gay prime minister! The downside: Their entire economy and government had to shit themselves and die to make this happen!
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An Incomplete List Of People Who Are Very Stupid...
Me.
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An Incomplete List Of Records I Strongly Associate...
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
The Cribs - Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
On a more sensationalistic blog, I’d post their pictures and have you all play a match-up game, but that would be wrong.
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tylercoates:
The Magnetic Fields - “All My...
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maura:
reblogging a ‘what the heck happened to...
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Semi Secret Software - Wurdle →
So I bought my first iPhone game and I am SO SERIOUSLY ADDICTED YOU GUYS. Ugh. Weak-willed. This game is rad though. And, uh, that’s all I got.
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Don't Worry About The Government's Taste In Music:... →
Mike Barthel on the White House’s seeeeecret record collection. Masterful category title for the post, as well.
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Two Proclamations
maura:
- The word “hipster,” when used by white information professionals, means nothing more than “other white information professionals whose cultural tastes kind of intimidate me for [insert psyche-plumbing reason here].”
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Today’s Award For Accuracy. And really I could have expanded the award to include her point about Billy Joel in the full...
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In another castle.
40 oz of Coca-Cola, a liberal application of pepperoni, and the vanquishing of Snowpeak Ruins later, Those Feelings have faded a little. But not enough.
Also I am up too late on a work night but what else is new.
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Idlewild - “American English” - The...
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Letters and sodas.
Ugh. I am having an acute attack of Iwantaboyfrienditis, a sexually-transmitted disease I picked up a long time ago. There’s no cure, but symptoms have been known to respond to ordering a large pizza and eating the whole thing in front of some video games. I guess I’d better start treatment immediately.
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Let it rock.
Cate: You were in my dream last night.
Chris: Oh? What'd I do?
Cate: I was trying to hook up with Lil Wayne, but we couldn't find an empty room. You were using the room for band practice.
Chris: hahahahahahaha! Amazing
Cate: You cock-blocked me
Chris: I would never do that to you
Cate: I was like "really chris? REALLLY?"
Chris: If you had a celebrity on the hook I would end band practice early for you
Cate: thank you
Chris: Though I would expect you to give Lil Wayne a copy of my demo in return
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The Daily Otter →
It’s a picture of an otter (sea or river, they go both ways) every morning. For some reason I can’t quite bring myself to follow this blog, but I sure am glad it exists.
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New coat of paint.
OK, I know it’s considered deeply uncool to read anybody’s Tumblr from anywhere other than the Dashboard, but I’ve put a new theme on mine that I’m pretty happy with, although I’m still tweaking a few things. The most important bit is that I have gone through my archives and tagged pretty much every post, because I’m crazy. You may enjoy perusing the Suggested...
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FIRST LOOK: 'The Spirit,' reincarnated | Hero... →
A page of jaw-dropping art from an upcoming SPIRIT issue. Go, look, pretty.
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Mick Harvey Leaves Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |... →
Oh man. The Seeds surprised me by surviving the departure of Blixa Bargeld — ABBATOIR BLUES / LYRE OF ORPHEUS was, in my opinion, the best album they ever did — but I don’t see any world in which they can keep up the quality without Mick Harvey. DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! was by far my least favorite Cave album of the last fifteen-odd years, mostly because it sounded like the sub-par...
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Thinking caps on.
A friend of a friend is writing an article about things you should not be able to do on the Internet but nevertheless can. Perfect example: Watching a webcast of a funeral.
Suggestions for other such activities and behaviors in the comments or reblogs, please.
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A HANDY CAST GUIDE TO SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD →
I don’t love all of these choices, but some of them are very inspired. Now it’s all just on Michael Cera to give a performance that is not identical to his last five performances, because Scott Pilgrim IS NOT THAT GUY. Sell it, Cera! Make it work!
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“The Bushes Depart | 12:56 p.m. The helicopter steps are folded up. The blade...”
– Live Blog: The Inauguration of Barack Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
HOLY CRAP DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN.
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No thank you.
Just tried to watch the inauguration on Hulu, but they expected me to sit through an ad for PAUL BLART, MALL COP. Uh, no thank you guys, I’m here to see the things about America that aren’t incredibly shitty.
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An Incomplete List Of Things I Love This Week
— Asiago peppercorn bread from Trader Joe’s
— Salty brownies
— Ne-Yo
— The new Morrissey record
— FINAL CRISIS
— Fornication
— TWILIGHT PRINCESS for the second time
— DEADWOOD
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Posting from Tumblrette.
I.e. The Tumblr iPhone app. Let’s see if I ever use it again!
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PJ Harvey and John Parish announce album... →
Yet another album coming out in the next couple months (March 30 in the UK) to get excited about. This is the best first-half-of-a-year for music in my memory. (Worthless stat, but y’know.)
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“Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong, every time, every where.”
– George W. Bush in his farewell address. (via squashed)
so at the very last moment he finally got something right… Of course, the twit probably doesn’t even realize what he’s actually saying and what it means in regard to his actions over the last 8 years.
(via hungryghoast)
I mean, seriously. We...
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“There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end...”
– Rev. Al Sharpton (via sexartandpolitics, asprettyasasong, sisterpearl) (via marco) (via adeandabet)
This is the kind of quote I’d build a monument for if I was in government.
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Internet Phenomenon I Can Has Cheezburger? Is... →
Cue the entire user base of Tumblr applying in five… four… three…
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“And apparently, my friend made the off-hand comment of “All your base are belong...”
– The greatest Obama rumor ever, via Kotaku. (via hungryghoast)
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Can I just say
…how glad I am that I occasionally write my “Last Night’s Dream” posts? I spent a minute reviewing them today and man oh man. My head-movies are weird. (Two appearances in a year by Robert Downey Jr. seems especially notable. I guess he did have a big year.)
I haven’t had any memorable dreams lately (at least none that I can share on a family Tumblr), but I’ll...
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You're wrong when it's right.
me: I need you to do me a favor
I need you to hop on the train and come over to my office
and shoot me in the brain until I die
Matthew: oh Chris.
what's going on
me: I have "Hot 'N' Cold" by Katy Perry in my head
But that's it
Isn't that enough?
I think my response is proportional
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Popjustice - The new Pet Shop Boys album: it's... →
Well, that’s that sorted then. Any time this album wants to leak would be perfectly fine by me.
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“Writer’s block” is just another word for video games.”
– Brian K. Vaughan (comic book author) (via nickdouglas) (via takethecityandrun)
As an editorial type, I pass this on without comment, which I admit is probably a comment in and of itself.