Chad VanGaalen, TMNT Mask
The best thing about my walk to work in the rain.
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The Hold Steady - Citrus
Craig Finn is a lovely man.
Sunday night long weekend drunk feels like this.
The Hairpin - All Dudes Learned How to Dress and It Sucks →
Hi, y’all all look fantastic FUCK YOU.
Happy to be reminded of this classic today. <3
(via @EmilyGould)
BuzzFeed: Black Metrosexual Abe Lincoln Being Awesome
Smart!
From the New York Times:
A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
The group suggested hiring as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American” who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”
Well this song haunted me all day. I was not ready for feelings early this morning before coffee.
doug:
Jonathan Richman - “That Summer Feeling”
Before the beginning of this week I believe I’d (somehow) only heard one or two Jonathan Richman songs. Since the beginning of the week I’ve gotten every album I could find. I’m really enjoying these songs. They are raw, they are young, and they are hopeful.
Favorite songs (so far): “This Kind of Music,” “That Summer Feeling,” and “I Love Hot Nights,” though I’d adore just about any song that has the intro that “I Love Hot Nights” has. It’s just begging to be looped.
I’m a fan, personally, of art that sucks at marketing itself, that doesn’t have a cute backstory or a built-in “platform,” that is not cuddly or “adorkable” and doesn’t immediately lend itself to a hierarchy of “rewards” for “backers,” that is antisocial and prickly and deeply strange. So the trend towards crowdsourced funding for exactly the opposite kind of art leaves me cold. But if someone like Justin, whose blog posts defy description, wants to give people access to his work in exchange for money and he’s found a way to do so, then I’m sorry if $2 is too expensive for you but to me it seems like a really, really, really small price to pay for A GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING LITTLE SCRAP OF HOPE FOR WEIRD NEW WORK IN THIS SHITSHOW OF A MARKETPLACE.
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Things I Ate That I Love: Shitloads of Money
It’s really simple. I paid $2.22 and a Justin Wolfe thing showed up in my inbox this morning and made me happy. Buy it or don’t buy it, just don’t act like this is something you get to be mad about.
Rob Ford’s stupid and offensive radio show demeans us all
“I’m going to try to be as fair about this as possible,” declared Menzies, before proceeding to be incredibly unfair for the rest of his remaining airtime. He started with a prolonged ode to Ford’s commendable volunteer work – his football team – and then noted that the mayor has to be very careful to protect himself from stalkers, especially “in this day and age of post-John Lennon.”
I think hockey jerseys are the most beautiful and wonderful thing in all of sports. So colorful, and the logos are so unique. One of my favorite websites is nhluniforms.com. I just go there every single day. When I’m at the end of my Internet rounds I’m like, Oh, it’s time to go look at some jerseys to wind down.
