February 2012
IF YOU LIVE IN CHICAGO DO THIS →
Friend Alia is getting together with all kinds of cool Chicago food people for upcoming dinners: beer people! tea people! you!
Rebounding
So most of those excerpts were from the Fox pilot “Rebounding.” I poke some fun at it, but overall I have to say, it’s a pretty perfect network pilot. Doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything, but it’s short, to the point, funny, full of fun characters, and, most impressively for a network show, is actually about something.
The main character’s girlfriend has...
“Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us...”
– —Bill Clinton, 1992 (via laphamsquarterly)
Mitt Romney didn't like my Pinterest page. →
spiegelman:
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“If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal...”
– Rick Santorum, YESTERDAY LOL (via slutsinthecity)
DEAR RICK, let me introduce you to Cryptopsy and Dying Fetus
(via gadgetry)
oh.
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(via nikiya)
mister anal discharge this one’s for you
(via persisting)
“In the US, abortion is framed as a deeply moral and highly emotional issue. In...”
– via Feministing, “A new script for talking about abortion”
(thanks to keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus for sending this to me!)
I AM A MAN SO I DRINK COCKTAILS WITH CITRUS...
I’ve been in a cocktail mood of late. The other night at the Hungry Cat I may have had my favorite of all time: bourbon, blood orange juice, honey simple syrup, and sweet vermouth. Good lord. I want only that from now on.
And don’t get me started on the Roger Room. If those drinks weren’t $15 a pop, I’d have a never ending supply of drinks made of rum, vanilla, ginger...
WatchI wish this were darker, like she’s just flat out dying of cancer, but still, I like.
CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIEND →
WE ARE TAKING STEPS TO CREATE INITIATIVES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE AND AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS RELATED TO HOW WE RELATE ON A PERSONAL AND GLOBAL LEVEL USING SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS.
HEY, BRAH
Just because you’re a contractor working on a building on my block doesn’t mean people want to hear you shouting to your workers about whichever barmaid you were attempting to date rape the other night. Some of us work from home and require silence and enjoy the sound of the breeze through our windows. Also, when you’re leaving the work site, don’t shout to your underpaid...
“She was a teacher who would escort little girls into Berndt’s classroom when he...”
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Lawyer Bryan Claypool • Speaking on the rash of horrific charges to emerge from the pedophilia case at Miramonte Elementary, in the Los Angeles County School District. Claypool says he notified the Sheriff’s department after becoming aware of a female teacher, who he believes “patently aided and...
From the dreamlog
Dreamt last night that I saw a man jogging up a hill, accompanied by a llama on a leash.
MORE LIKE HOLLYWEIRD AMIRIGHT?
I came across this post regarding my agency on my school’s alumni message board and thought I’d repost here since there’s a chance that of all six of you readers, two of you are looking for a job, and between the two of you, one of you is looking for a job within the realm of REAL LIFE AGENTS. It’s definitely a small office, and I’m sure you will be overworked, but my...
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested... →
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in...
California: you just stop it. →
Little Steven in the AV Club →
Gilt Taste's sale on vintage kitchen stuff →
Yes. All of it.
live for glitter.: The problem with using the... →
wundygore:
is that it implies that people in poor countries (which you are tacitly calling ”third world” which is kind of problematic by itself) don’t ever have love problems, technology problems, etc, little problems that may not be a big deal, but still hurt.
And they do have those…
NYT: Crown Restaurant Review aka We Eat the 99... →
This is a really fun and odd departure from their usual restaurant writing:
Mr. DeLucie, the chef and proprietor, has cheerfully called his cooking here “comfort food for millionaires.” (And for their pets; the kitchen once prepared a côte de boeuf for a regular’s dog.) For that job, few are more qualified than Mr. DeLucie, whose contributions to gastronomy include a $55 truffled macaroni and...
You are a tiny stroke victim
Small Human Neighbor,
To begin, your speech capabilities leave much to be desired. Frankly, you trample on our shared language like some shrieking savage. In fact, from a neurological viewpoint, you are nothing more than a tiny stroke victim. Further, while your parents may find it cute that you are singing “Jingle Bells” at the top of your lungs in February, I assure you, most others...