December 2007
read between the lines
the final season of “the wire” starts in a week, and i cannot wait. i’m thinking about jumping the tv critic at work and stealing his preview dvd. to tout the new episodes, hbo has aired a couple of cool documentaries about the show and its focus (the drug war in baltimore, but it also expounds on the larger scope of social ills in the modern urban city). the final season will...
strike beards →
new york times slideshow of bhutto assassination →
aside from the horrific nature of the subject matter, this is an excellent example of a photojournalism. this guy’s assignment changed in an instant.
it's a slow news day
so my colleagues at creative loafing have fallen back on a blogger’s greatest tool — the humorous list. it seems like the people i work with have some destructive pets.
wonkette's take on the bhutto assassination →
i think i agree with every word.
this is terrifying →
photoshop contest wherein famous peoples’ mouths are photoshopped where their eyes should be.
takeaway shows →
my friend marisa found this — apparently, these amazing musicians like st vincent and the shins and jens lekman (and much much more) perform random intimate concerts, and the folks from this web site film them.
lest we forget AP style over the holidays →
this is more or less accurate →
another thing that makes me horrible
i get really annoyed when i’m obviously reading a book or typing a story and someone, usually a family member, interrupts and asks “what are you doing?” i am reading a book. or working. and if i were a better person, it might not annoy me as much.
this just in
aunt katherine just threw up. she is the second person staying at my grandparents’ house to do so in the last 24 hours.
my grandmother, yelling up the stairs at my...
"you got diarrhea? you want a peppermint stick?"
i always forget that i’m the only democrat in my family.
“sister: can we get diet dr pepper?
mom: no, your uncle will get it.
sister:...”
– apparently, in my mom’s crazy world, it’s either chicken or diet dr pepper.
“me: i think i love barack obama.
my 9-year-old cousin: i don’t.
me: why...”
– she’s a little prescient, that one, even if she says she’s a republican.
1 tag
this song might be my favorite ‘07...
definition
scantless: delicious beyond compare. coined by my mother forever ago.
academia just got interesting
my friend sam attends harvard, and one of his professors has a piece in The Believer. here’s a little nugget about said professor, from sam: He’s now working on a cultural history of the blowjob (he argues the 60s changed how Americans conceived of oral sex) (this is why he isn’t tenured).
best spam subject i've seen in a while
FW: Grow an anaconda out of your trouser snake!(from marisa w.)
armani has a cell phone? →
i guess so; they have a spokesmodel for it.
gchat with sam
me: i just started a tumblr blog
it needs a name
maybe then i won't neglect it
isnt that the rationale for naming children?
