April 2008
16 posts
blatant contempt
Whether or not one falls victim to Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field, the data-hungry iPhone’s debut should be good for consumers, considering Canada’s preposterous data plans. The addition of the iPhone to the Rogers network not only forces Rogers to upgrade their system to accommodate the iPhone’s non-linear Visual Voicemail feature, but to offer a substantially...
“Doesn’t elite mean good? If you don’t think you’re better than...”
– Jon Stewart, on Monday’s Daily Show.
“Gore Vidal once said that you should never pass up an opportunity to have sex or...”
– Troy Patterson over at Slate. (via payj2000, alexbalk)
Feist/Constantines: "Islands in the Stream" →
(via alexbalk)
Delillio
underworld is boring as hell and as far as i can tell it is not even about anything but fuck it is so pretty. if anybody brings it up later i will probably lie and pretend i was kidding when i told you this, but i cry like every four pages just because it is so goddamn pretty. and i’m in public. crying in my book. and i don’t even know what i’m crying about because i don’t...
“She wants to know if I love her. That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via jennabrom) I have read a couple of JSF’s books but I had to look up this quote to figure out where it is from. Turns out it is in “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. Nice find because I definitely don’t remember reading this part the first time around.
3 for 1
yourmonkeycalled: If you listened to the show, first: I’m sorry. I’m pretty sure it will get better. Like John from Cincinnati didn’t. But if you liked it at all, I’d like to recommend these audio shows. Instead of ours. Over the past year or so I’ve fallen in love with their casual brilliance: Jordan, Jesse Go! Never Not Funny Maniacal Rage So you’ve got that going for you.Those are some great...
“I’d be more confident of satire’s power to hurt (as opposed to embarrass) if I...”
– Matthew Parris (via alexbalk) Jon Stewart often makes a similar point.
WatchJake and Amir: April Fools I
WatchJake and Amir: April Fools II
