December 2010
83 posts
Ouroboros
I feel bad when I unfollow a blog (FINE. A TUMBLR.) because I’m always initially very excited to click the follow button. Truly. I like reading what you have to say!
I don’t like reading what everyone else has to say about what you have to say. I honestly don’t care about your interaction with your readers. 97% of the time that is the reason I unfollow.
The other 3% is overt...
“I have a very beautiful older female beagle that is free to a good home. She is...”
– Free Beautiful Beagle
No comment except, “This makes me sad.”
“(Mr. Adasek also credited Ms. Phillips for improvements to the library men’s...”
– Deaccession Can Be Big Issue Even in Small Towns - NYTimes.com
She protested the selling of historic artifacts AND THEN SHE REALLY SAVED THE DAY.
“The compromise was worse than what we had before,” Tatum said,...”
– Fort Worth transit agency bans faith-based ads – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
“Why I’m quitting faith-based bus advertising” — Donald F. Draper, Creative Director, Sterling Cooper Draper Price
“Barbour’s personal values or intentions with his comments aside, I’m...”
– Haley Barbour, Take Two - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
So this fucking thing got said on the internet.
Failure (part 2)
Emo-style emoting?
Failure!
Which is to say...
The below comment was more a mental note than full-on, emo-style EMOTING.
Failure
Failure failure failure failure failure failure
New ad campaign?
I don’t care that I’m probably eating fiberglass and asbestos, Stove Top Stuffing is the best!
Hey
Remember 12 million years ago when everyone was so mad about their iPhone 4 reception?
I hate you and your ASS FACE
OH FUCK, I GIVE UP. YOU HAVE BEATEN ME, TULSA. I AM BEATEN. I AM A BEATEN PERSON. GO EAT YOUR BBQ AND SHOOT YOUR GUNS AND DO WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO THERE AND JUST LEAVE ME ALONE.
I want to move here
I suddenly really get Northern Liberties.*
*She says while wearing a cardigan and a headband from etsy.
“Anyway, Flynn’s fratty son (Garrett Hedlund, who you don’t remember...”
– Tron: Legacy: Jeff Bridges as Starman vs. Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake
This, however, was my favorite sentence written in 2010.
Top Ones of 2010
Song: Tanlines — Real Life
Movie: The Social Network
Book: Maile Meloy — “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories”
Television Show: Mad Men
Website: Videogum
Ice Cream 4 Chooch →
Here Yankee fans, have an ice cream.
“But out of left field Monday night, the City of Brotherly Love broke up the...”
– Cliff Lee’s decision to sign with the Phillies hurts more than LeBron James - ESPN New York
Is there other news in America today?
“Fast cars, faster women and sexual experimentation: the parties got wilder. Drug...”
– Sex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited - Times Online
My Uncle Mac said he had a suitcase that was...
A couple of unconnected thoughts:
1. Once I managed to fall asleep last night (truthfully, anxiety about work is starting to approach the levels I once associated with going back to school after breaks), I had a dream that the Gawker and Videogum commenters went to war. And Videogum won (WHICH IS HOW IT SHOULD BE, PROBABLY).
2. I judge Sarah Palin’s Alaska without having seen even clips of...
We Were Promised Hoverboards: Two Identities, One...
anfscu:
The Myth: If you have an alter-ego for whatever insane reason, and it involves dressing in full-body drag, and you happen to double-book yourself for some event(s), and furthermore you then try to attend the event(s) simultaneously as both personalities, you will be successful for a period of at least one hour wherein nobody finds it suspicious that you keep contriving excuses for...
“Entertainment Weekly reports that “Hey Soul Sister” was the most...”
– ‘Hey Soul Sister’ iTunes best-selling single of 2010 – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Yeah, definitely still have faith in humanity.
Conversation with my doctor today while I was on...
Leah: You're much gentler about this than my last one.
Doctor: Would he just jab it in there?
Leah: Oh, I don't know...
Doctor: You're being so good about this.
“In 1988, she appeared in the NBC television film Goddess of Love, in which she...”
– Vanna White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It would not surprise me if my dad was the one at TV Guide that wrote this. This is exactly the sort of thing he’d write.
Things to look forward to tonight
Best friend
Community
30 Rock
Fringe
It’s Always Sunny
Oh shit. Today is secretly awesome.
“LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening: Putting This Is Happening on your list gives...”
– What Your Favorite Albums Say About You | Features | Music | Philadelphia Weekly
This is the musical manifestation of my holiday card.
This was actually my pick for album of the year,...
Titus Andronicus, The Monitor That dude who keeps arguing even after you’re like, “Hey! Fine! You win, okay? I give up!”
(via)
poploser:
Stereotyping people based on their favorite album of 2010. Some samples:
M.I.A., Maya People who won’t stop telling you shit you already know about WikiLeaks.
Drake, Thank Me Later Macho guys who refer to their clothing as “attire.”
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy People who, when you ask them whether they liked a movie or not, say, “Well, um, what did you think of...
Typical Friedman-family conversation
Mom: Do you want hot chocolate?
Leah: I don't know. Maybe.
Mom: I'll have some if you have some.
Leah: So what I'm getting is that you want ME to make hot chocolate.
Mom: Yes.
Leah: Subtle.
No one told me there were KandyKakes at work
I feel about 6 times better than I did half an hour ago.
