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Some random pictures of my room, just because I cleaned it up...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:00 -0500

Some random pictures of my room, just because I cleaned it up today and it looks so very handsome and winter-ready. Also, yes, I am listening to sad vampire music. That Bon Iver & St. Vincent song is pretty. Whatevs, it is the weekend of sad vampires so I am just surfing the trend, as I am sure the kids would say.

Note that there is no picture of the corner where I’ve heaped all the laundry that needs to get dry-cleaned, because that corner is always kind of eh. Has a nice PJ Harvey poster hanging above it though.

RuPaul's Drag Race 2 | Video Clips, Watch Full Episodes Online | Logo Online

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:45 -0500

RuPaul's Drag Race 2 | Video Clips, Watch Full Episodes Online | Logo Online:

thatsimportant:

Important Casting Announcement

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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. February, get here nowwwww.

fallingandlaughing: So it’s the proverbial gorilla in the room....

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:00 -0500

fallingandlaughing:

So it’s the proverbial gorilla in the room. The 800lb elephant, if you will. I’ve been away for a while, and I know everyone is wondering…

HOW IS GEMMA? WHEN WILL WE SEE MORE PICTURES OF HER? HAS SHE GOTTEN EVEN MORE CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS?

See for yourself, tumblr pals. (YES)

P.S. I normally don’t condone the dressing-up of dogs but I think you’ll agree she looks quite fetching in her jaunty scarf, and plus which dogs like having warm necks too.

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Mr. Fallingandlaughing sir, I don’t know you, and I admit this is bold, but if you were gay (and I lived in Chicago), I would date you purely just to hang out with your dog. I’m sure you’d grow on me eventually too.

(Welcome back though)

Out in the Sort

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:10:43 -0500

Out in the Sort:

pterodactyls:

by John McPhee

Should anyone be interested in live lobsters, UPS logistics, or what essay I consider to be my favorite, you’re in luck this covers all three.

(via)

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Sometimes the world is just so bizarrely complex I don’t even know how to feel about it.

I wonder how many people will think that something is "off" when all these new albums show up on store shelves next Monday, instead of next Tuesday.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:26:57 -0500

maura:

I wonder how many people will even think anything is different at all?

Or even notice in the first place?

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The thing I find baffling about this: Why are the labels willing to throw these massive albums onto the Billboard chart with only one day of sales data in the week? Or am I wrong about how the chart weeks run?

But, um, yes, nobody in the wider world will notice or care, guaranteed.

"Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have given every one of..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:36 -0500

“Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have given every one of the unemployed people $60,000/year jobs - half of the group blowing up balloons, and the other half popping them. That would have gotten us out of a recession faster.”

- My Econ professor, re: the stimulus package (via onemoretimewithfeeling)

-if only. and i just dumped my entire portfolio into broom-making, pin-smithing, and latex-casting industries.

(via superdoofus-stratodrive)

This reminds me of why I had to stay drunk for almost an entire year in order to feel like Obama actually represented a fundamental change.

(via raptoravatar)

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This is only true if you think of a recovery from recession purely in terms of consumer spending, which our economy has become addicted to in a crack-like way. I’d rather have a recovery that increases workforce skills through retraining, and builds out new productive capacity for the future, which was the sort of thing a good stimulus package should do. Was this a good stimulus package? Arguable. But your econ professor is being snide and unhelpful.

Alicia Keys - “Try Sleeping With A Broken...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:56 -0500

Alicia Keys - “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”

Best Alicia Keys single in years. Don’t really mean to damn it with faint praise — it’s kind of a stunner.

Nick Tosches on Opium Dens | vanityfair.com

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:17:16 -0500

Nick Tosches on Opium Dens | vanityfair.com:

Enjoyed this quite a bit, even though Tosches overwrites pretty badly in a few spots. But go fig.

"We’re curious whether you know that we made cover offers for you before American Idol was even..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:58:46 -0500

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We’re curious whether you know that we made cover offers for you before American Idol was even halfway through its run. Apparently, Out was too gay, even for you. There was the issue of what it would do to your record sales, we were told. Imagine! A gay musician on the cover of a gay magazine. What might the parents think! It’s only because this cover is a group shot that includes a straight woman that your team would allow you to be photographed at all — albeit with the caveat that we must avoid making you look “too gay.” (Is that a medical term? Just curious). Luckily, you seemed unaware that a similar caution was issued to our interviewer.

Perhaps we should have had you and Cyndi [Lauper] in a tongue lock. That would be radical. It’s odd, because this magazine has done covers with Pete Wentz and Lady Gaga — getting straight men and women to do Out is easy these days. It gives them cred. Getting gay stars like yourself is another matter. Much easier to stick you in Details, where your homosexuality can be neutralized by having you awkwardly grabbing a woman’s breast and saying, “Women are pretty.” So are kittens, Adam, but it doesn’t mean you have to make out with them.

”

- Out.com Features | Dear Adam

The editor-in-chief of Out magazine puts Adam Lambert on blast for the strictures his “people” set on his appearance on the latest cover.

"Oh. My. God. You. Guyz. Last night was the Twilight: New Moon premiere in Hollywood, California. Is..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:11 -0500

“Oh. My. God. You. Guyz. Last night was the Twilight: New Moon premiere in Hollywood, California. Is anyone else’s head falling off, or is it just me over here? HELP! MY HEAD! The only thing that I would like almost as much but not as much as going to prom with a mythological vampire who is in a surf battle with the magical werewolves over the entrance to my human vagina would be to stand for hours in a mass of strangers screaming in my ears and holding up homemade signs that read like cries for help. Just kidding! That sounds like a nightmare! I will stick with just dreaming about make-believe swamp thing prom, or whatever. But here are some of the people who don’t think that is a nightmare, and who in fact think it is very fun and something that is worth doing even if you are an adult. We should all be so lucky as to find something in this world that makes us happy, even if it happens to be this thing!”

- The Twilight: New Moon Premiere: Fun Signs, Guys! - Photo - Videogum

I am so glad I read Videogum now.

The Songs Of Lady Gaga's THE FAME MONSTER In Order Of Awesomeness, From Least Awesome To Most Awesome

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:50:00 -0500

“Speechless” — Overproduced, oversung. Axe the axe, please. Still a good chorus.

“So Happy I Could Die” — Bridge-and-tunnel techno existentialism. I like how Lon Guyland her voice gets on the title line.

“Telephone” — Beyonce sounds appropriately sashafierce, but doesn’t really get a chance to show off. There are hooks, but none of them go too deep. Nothing to be embarassed about. Would’ve sounded great on BLACKOUT or CIRCUS from a production standpoint, yes, but Britney would’ve criminally undersung it.

“Teeth” — Enjoyably stompy, secretly a Christina Aguilera song if Christina had actually committed to the Gaga crazy instead of her own slightly wishy-washier brand of crazy.

“Monster” — Every gay boy in the world will soon be quoting this on his Manhunt profile.

“Dance In The Dark” — The chorus gets slightly more awesome every time I hear it, and that big synth riff reminds me of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove” which is always welcome.

“Bad Romance” — The best kind of bonkers. RA RA indeed. I think we can all agree that nobody’s written a more LOLy pop verse than “I want your Psycho, your Vertigo stick / Want you in my Rear Window baby you’re sick” this year.

“Alejandro” — She kind of ruined the mix for the album version (the buzzy, less stereotypically RedOne mix that was circulating before the full album leaked is far tighter and more adventurous, in my opinion), but this song is still one of the best she’s ever written. I want her to wear the giant neon sombrero that hangs outside Gonzales Y Gonzales for the video.

Note that you reach surpassing-almost-all-other-modern-popstars levels of awesome right between “Teeth” and “Monster.”

Here’s a picture of a delicious Middle Eastern burrito,...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:57:27 -0500

Here’s a picture of a delicious Middle Eastern burrito, because everybody missed it last week, but I am covering my face, because it is a Tuesday, and you do not post pictures of yourself on Tumblr on Tuesday. At least I think those are the rules.

bordy: How has nobody made a “hungry hungry hippo” joke...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:11:00 -0500

bordy:

How has nobody made a “hungry hungry hippo” joke yet?

More pictures at dailymail.co.uk

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Hippos are spectacular.

fightwithknives: Dolly Parton - “The Bargain Store” Sometimes...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:59:07 -0500

fightwithknives:

Dolly Parton - “The Bargain Store”

Sometimes people who “like music” scoff when you talk about how awesome Dolly Parton is. “Isn’t she trashy?” they say because she sings country music (sometimes about God) and has breast implants and owns her fame and femininity. And then you remind them that she wrote some of the best songs of the past 40 years and they still don’t believe you. Hear this, haters: you’ve gotta love Dolly Parton. You’ve just gotta. Or else you might be a jerk.

This song— especially when followed by “Touch Your Woman”— makes me wish that a Dolly Parton-Leonard Cohen duets album had happened. There’s still time, right?

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FAVORITE DOLLY PARTON SONG RE-BLOG. I’ve always wished Morrissey would cover this.

Here's THE GAME: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Reblog these instructions & post that sentence • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:33:00 -0500

tomewing:

That’s what he had done with Alger Hiss.

I like to beat the rush for lines and do not prefer being late, but Gimlet fellated me instantly the instant she and Big and Mr. Wonderful picked me up in their used milk truck at my new home in Altadena, and I had an orgasm on Highway 210, and it felt very good, so Gimlet made me not mind being late in arriving or paying for the tickets, which were very expensive, even to see a Negro.

(Ooh, that’s a saucy one. But of literary value, for reals.)

"Did you know that if you call New York City’s 311 line because your pet is dead, they will..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:32:18 -0500

“Did you know that if you call New York City’s 311 line because your pet is dead, they will tell you that you can “place the animal in a trash bag clearly marked ‘dead dog’ or ‘dead cat’ out with your garbage on your normal trash pickup day”? Good to know!”

- How To Dispose of Dead Pets in New York City | The Awl

WOW

Via my friend Chris Beckett who created a Tumblr but then keeps...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:16:38 -0500

Via my friend Chris Beckett who created a Tumblr but then keeps IMing me these awesome things instead of just posting them there.

perpetua: Solange“Would’ve Been The One” This is here as a...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:43:53 -0500

perpetua:

Solange
“Would’ve Been The One”

This is here as a reminder that Solange does not need David Longstreth, Grizzly Bear, Kevin Barnes, or her profoundly talented and extraordinarily famous sister to be thoroughly wonderful. I’m all for this woman going wild, diving into the possibilities of music rather than trying to fit into the narrow definitions of what a modern R&B singer ought to be. So much potential, but she’s already put out some brilliant material.

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Co-signed. The first six tracks of SOL-ANGEL & THE HADLEY STREET DREAMS are absolutely some of my favorite R&B of the last few years. (Though I do prefer the big hands in the air gay remix of “I Decided” by the Freemasons.)

"Obviously, we’ve lived through difficult eras in the past and survived. Although, I’m not sure I..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:38 -0500

“Obviously, we’ve lived through difficult eras in the past and survived. Although, I’m not sure I want to be the one to explain to my grandkids as we sit on the hoverporch, looking out over the glinting, glittery expanse of water that covers the Earth, why people used to think it was OK to watch date rapists fight about pizza, or whatever.”

- Gabe Delahaye (via goldenfiddle) (via bg5000)

Yes this is pretty much everything I feel about the modern era in one place. Of course it does kind of assume that at some point human nature corrects itself and my grandkids are not in fact date-raping me for pizza themselves at age six.

If you like-a the comic books, you should go buy this today....

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:22:50 -0500

If you like-a the comic books, you should go buy this today. Everybody worked their asses off on it, and it’s damn fine stuff.