April 2011
117 posts
“Talking about Couric’s departure with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Tuesday...”
– Palin Reacts to Couric Departure - By Katrina Trinko - The Corner - National Review Online
“Oh yeah? Well the JERK STORE CALLED and they’re running out of YOU.”
Josh: Where are you finding these? Is it just random, or is there a tumblr or something?
Leah: There’s a tumblr (there’s always a tumblr).
“Here’s an example of the kinds of “questions” Bolling now has....”
– Eric Bolling And The Case Of The Time Traveling Doctor | Media Matters for America
You know, even the person who actually gave birth to (as opposed to delivering) him never knew he became president because she’s conveniently dead.
Word choice matters!
“Seth Rogen may be known for starring in some raunchy comedies, but there’s...”
– Seth Rogen: Alzheimer’s is ‘brutal’ - CNN.com
…
“The unfettered free market has spoken: Ayn Rand is less important and...”
– Atlas sucks: Failing film producer vows to give up - War Room - Salon.com
Ick
“A genre designation created as satire by the ne plus ultra of ironic blogs,...”
– Explaining chillwave to my dad.
“Instead, Obama’s weapon of choice is the drone missile attack which, while clean...”
– Dead Terrorists Answer No Questions - By John Yoo - The Corner - National Review Online
This might be one of the most evil things ever written in the English language.
“There are people out there from The New Yorker magazine!”
– At least twice a week someone in my family will use this quotation.
Beastie Boys Guilt
skybarn:
So, it’s dogged me my whole life. I wasn’t supposed to like them because they were rap, and I was not rap. Then, I wasn’t supposed to like them because they were white and not authentic. After that, they weren’t rap enough. Then, they weren’t grunge enough. Then, for a brief period, they weren’t from Detroit enough. Then, they were too To the 5 Boroughs. Now, I’m too old and so are...
“Perhaps the bigger issue at hand, though, is the severity of the backlash to...”
– The Millions : What We Call What Women Write
Oh, for god’s sake. Let’s get this out of the way first: it’s not somehow uglier for a woman to insult another woman than it is for a man to insult a woman or for a man to insult a man. Blah. “Girl-on-girl crime” is a...
Where The Wild Things Are
poemsvsvolcano:
[A self-indulgent note for those interested: I wrote this poem about eighteen months ago, as a letter to myself, in the future, on my 26th birthday. As a sort of present for making it through the first 25. Anyway: that’s today! So I’m posting it here. Indulgence over. Thanks for reading! S] • Where The Wild Things Are Saturday sounds for the Situational Sweethearts, Sunday...
However, The Antlers' "Burst Apart"
is wonderful.
I hate to sound like that person
But I was listening to the new Fleet Foxes album on NPR, and after what seemed like a thousand years, I looked at the timer and thought, It’s only been 15 minutes? I can’t take any more of this.
Maybe I’m missing something… yikes.
“Next year sees London play host to the Olympic Games, and as is now traditional,...”
– Rolling Sex Beatles For The Olympics? | BBCAmerica - Anglophenia blog
HahahahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Legitimate questions regarding alumnae of my...
“And was she also really into weaving? Did she buy a loom or something?”
“This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and...”
– Discoveries - latimes.com
For those of you who don’t speak French, there’s a new translation of Illuminations out — with John Fucking Ashbery doing the translating. Add to your reading list, PLZ.
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Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme...
Some days I wake up and just say, “I am feeling very Olympic today.”
Brimful of Asha on the FORTY-FIVE
It’s still there.
Flipper was his homeboy.
shitmystudentswrite:
Steinbeck always wrote with a porpoise.
Look, we’ve all fucked up not-on-porpoise at some point…
Belle and Sebastian — My Wandering Days Are...
“It will do you good to pursue your dreams! Spanish guitar lessons! I believe in...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I Am Seeking to Destroy My Deep-Seated Cynicism and Ironic Detachment Via a Strict Regimen of Self-Inflicted Enthusiasm!
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, BEAU GOLWITZER.
FORTY-FIVE
Please, PLEASE someone explain to me why I woke up this morning with “Brimful of Asha” buzzing in my head? It hasn’t been relevant in nearly 15 years and now it won’t leave. I’ve been up for two hours and through my shower and the walk to 30th Street Station and getting coffee and being on the train and walking up to the office it’s been:
BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON...
Jokes at arthouse theaters are depressing
Woman: Here we are. "In a Better World."
Man: We'd better be. [Chuckles to himself at his own wit.]
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That's just the way the world of cinema works
When seeing a Swedish film designed to give you some motherfucking PERSPECTIVE, the best snack to purchase is a box of Sno•Caps.
Update: It turned out to be neither Swedish nor Norwegian, but Danish (but with co-producers in Sweden).
This Is Happening! →
poemsvsvolcano:
“Penn alumni authors Jennifer Egan and Sam Donsky, who win Pultizers and watch a lot of movies, reading May 14.”
If only this weren’t for alums, I’d be there in a second.
“He looks dumbfounded when he’s asked if anyone he introduces to the drug...”
– Heroin.com: Selling Junk Online - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
There you have it.
When it comes to ramen, what's the difference...
Help.
Jeff: what are you up to?
Leah: i'm watching frasier on the hallmark channel
Leah: they censor it
Leah: it's hilarious
Leah: but did you mean what am i up to right now or in a more general sense?
Jeff: i meant in a more general sense
Leah: oh, i think watching censored frasier on hallmark might be the highlight of my life at the moment
Hummm
I’m one of the fork-and-spoon operators from Sector 7G.
“It reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide....”
– The Sorrows of Young Werther - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
THE ANCESTOR OF BIEBER FEVER!
The part I didn't include
Also, every time I see blocks of German text, I hallucinate that someone in the background is screaming “JUDE!”
Things I've written in a professional capacity...
I need some help with this German website because I’ve gotten as far as I can on my own (my exposure to German coming, as it does, from watching lots of WWII documentaries with my dad over the years and one horrible slog through The Sorrows of Young Werther in a course in college).
In fact, I'm still not being rhetorical
Chris: maybe a visit to the school psychologist while you're at it
Leah: "what's wrong with my brain?"
Chris: I hope you've never asked anyone that question in earnest
Leah: i ask people all the time in earnest, they just never realize i'm not being rhetorical
Thing I actually said last night while walking...
I just think an IM is so much more invasive than an e-mail. It was so unnecessary.
Anonymous asked: So, how many C-Strings did you end up buying? One for each day of the week?
No one wanted to talk to me today, apparently.... →
