January 2008
how 'lost' is like an abusive boyfriend →
also, it started out great and really sucks near the end.
1-31-07 -- never forget. →
Watchi think this might be old — i found it while going through the backlogs of my huffington post feed — but drunk history courtesy of ucb (starring michael cera as alexander hamilton, no less!) may inspire me this weekend to pontificate about watergate. after i’ve had a few beers, of course.
someone has probably already made this joke
but doesn’t “mitt romney” sound like a town in middle earth?
what's the future of chain-owned alt weeklies? →
hopefully incredibly bright until i finally marry up.
the thing hates emo →
cable & tweed, an awesome blog that covers music and comics, found a panel from an 1975 fantastic four comic that brings both those world together. enjoy.
i am not making this up
i’m not supposed to be sitting at home right now. i am supposed to be meeting my friend marisa at a coffee shop. i came home to grab my computer, and as i walked to my front door, i heard rustling in the bushes. i thought it was a cat — i saw a tabby running through the yard yesterday — and i opened my cell phone so i could shine a light on the source of the noise. it was...
mash-up of 'super friends' and 'friends' →
i love that robin is rachel.
i must attend this festival. →
once a year, the fair citizens of orange county moon the amtrack train.
The super-rich are just as ignorant and easily...
“Perot was pleasantly surprised when I told him that Obama was a Christian, not a Muslim, and relieved when I informed him that the e-mail Perot (and untold others) received about Obama not respecting the Pledge of Allegiance was a fraud.” But does he know what happens if you google “miserable failure”? — alexbalk this means that my father and ross perot are on the same...
southern racists refer to blacks as 'canadians' →
in order to “say socially inappropriate things without tipping listeners off about the cancer in their souls.” i worked at a big chain mexican restaurant for five glorious months after i graduated college, and i definitely remember other servers pawning off tables because of the customers’ ethnicity. i’m not sure if these servers were smart enough to try and hide their...
the fading import of sign language? →
i have a cousin who’s deaf, and while i never learned sign language (i only saw her once a year, she can read lips and, oh yeah, i’m way lazy), i was always fascinated by the sign exchanges she has with her children. it’s this beautiful, communicative dance. this ny mag article touches on the different strain of communication that sign language creates: ”The emphasis in...
and this one is rather clever too.
this might be my favorite entry in the new yorker’s eustace tilley redesign competition.
how being a total nerd got me out of a traffic...
a friend and i were disoriented in downtown atlanta this afternoon and mistakenly turned onto a street that didn’t allow turns. the officer asked me for my license and registration, and was being a total hard-ass cop type, and then he saw a badge for dragon con, a sci-fi convention i attended earlier this year. ”because i like dragon con, i’ll just give you a warning.” i...
So, I'm not going to bring the work blog into my...
Because I damn blog all day, dammit. Poppa’s leaving his toolbelt at the office! And judging that the only person in the world who’s going to read this is Brooke Hatfield, I will go ahead and say, “Brooke, I’m gay.” Now I gotta go to a bar to look for another Lust Monkey. — thomaswheatley you heard it here first — thomas wheatley is a gay.
this is most of the things my friends complain... →
last year, my kickball team was called “the fighting scooter libbys.” this year, in light of the presidential election, i am thinking of going with “the praying mike huckabees.”
Mack: have you heard the new Soulja Boy song?
it's amazing
i am convinced that Soulja Boy is the Marcel Duchamp of hip hop
me: does this new song coin any new comic-related terms for jizzing on a lady?
it is now possible to green lantern a gal?
Mack: no, but it does have the words "doo doo head dummy"
Yet somehow Lieutenant Flaccid Penis Dangling In...
Gen. Butt Naked Confesses to Killing 20,000 — alexbalk
new mantra
i’m not single, i just haven’t sold out to love yet.
“Fell sleep on bus on way to event. Woke up find Robert Novak next to bus. Never...”
– Ana Marie Cox
convo with mack, re: his band
me: well im legitimately proud of you guys, because yall are getting some legitimately good press
if only the marietta daily journal would print that rave otis brumby wrote ...
"if it weren't for that asian, attractive eighties women would be the perfect band"
Mack: "these guys rock harder than one of my official Brumby brand Rocking chairs! and that's a whole mess o' rockin!
a chat with helen, re: a job interview
Helen: interview - i thought went okay and i would love to work there. but i haven't heard from them, and am not setting expectations very high (you know, like the chinese)
me: HAHAHAHAHAHA
what does that even mean?
Paint it black.
A Greeley businessman apologized Wednesday after a joke about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fell flat during the National Western Stock Show’s annual Citizen of the West banquet. William R. Farr was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year’s award recipient, University of Colorado President Hank Brown, when he pulled out a piece of paper and said, “I have a telegram...
http://www.lasagnacat.com/FinalFantasy.mov →
this site, lasagnacat.com, hosts life-action recreations of old ‘garfield’ strips. but then they had to bring in final fantasy 6.
this just in: journalists burn out! →
and copy editors are the unhappiest. probably because they work at night and don’t ever get to see their friends!
they found previously undiscovered photos of... →
fascinating, hilarious, NSFW →
i’ve really enjoyed tracie “slut machine” egan’s posts on jezebel re: the adult entertainment expo in vegas
GAH IT'S SNOWING
it might even stick! photos to come?
“What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s...”
– Mike Huckabee, via dalas. I wonder what the new laws would be. Which inalienable rights of the individual would be alienated, exactly? Is he ‘merely’ referring to abortion?
meat week is upon us →
and now it has an official web site! meat week is exactly what it sounds like — an 8-day bender full of barbecue and sides. it’s an atlanta thing, obvs, but there are chapters in NYC, LA, Tallahassee and Baltimore (i think). and it’s going to be awesome.
too bad i'm still paying for my three-year-old... →
the macbook air looks AMAZING. there’s no cd-rom drive, but most people use ipods and flash drives any way. my friend katie did bring up the fact that you couldn’t rip a cd into your itunes, but it’s so preettttttttyy.