January 2009
28 posts
“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of...”
– John Updike on J.D. Salinger
““Well there’s these cats,” I began, “and people post pictures of them, you know,...”
– O Rly?: When Your Boyfriend Isn’t Fluent In LOLSpeak (via toldorknown)
Gossip Girl’s World Is the Only World That Matters... →
I <3 of Daily Intel’s Gossip Girl recap/tally thing. It deals with the important issues of our time.
“…when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their...”
– YouTube Blog. 43folders: It’s stunning to me how much opportunity there is in giving shit away. But, it’s approximately twice as stunning how few people really understand how powerful (and indisputable) that simple fact of modern life is. Evolution is going to become unimaginably painful for any...
alexbalk:
This whole thing is kind of like … The Matrix! Hahaha, kidding. But it is like one of those dispatches from the survivors of some horrible, civilization-destroying catastrophes you see in sci-fi movies, except the civilization was a PLANET OF RETARDS.
Edit: Part 2 is up here.
Remember Friedman’s take on Bush’s Iraq policy?
“It’s OK to throw out your steering wheel,” he wrote, “as long as you remember you’re driving without one.”
Picture that for a minute. Or how about Friedman’s analysis of America’s foreign policy outlook last May:
“The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging. When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.”
First of all,...
HIPSTER RUNOFF PODCAST →
perpetua:
Just when you think Hipster Runoff has hit a peak, or that the premise of the site has fulfilled its potential, Carles takes it to the next level. This is brilliant.
He completely pulls it off.
When they say "but Bush kept us safe" it's like...
peterfeld:
Say you took a cab ride, and the driver drove like a maniac, so much so that you worried he might be drunk. In fact, he got pulled over, but the cops let him go on his way. And he got obviously lost, several times, but fiercely denied there was any problem. He kept up an incessant patter of retarded drivel throughout. The meter kept running. In the end, you didn’t so much get to your...
HRO is blowing my mind so completely on this one. I am in awe.
alexblagg:
HRO is always entertaining, but this shit is must-read. Carles is burning the Internet down from INSIDE THE INTERNET.
towerofsleep:
I feel like we’re only a few more blogs away from some kind of critical mass where we become so self-conscious about the politics of taste that culture implodes entirely. How many levels of...
“Previously, Kay had not fully understood what Sutherland was doing inside his...”
– John Markoff in “What the Dormouse Said” Longtime readers may recall that I once proposed that the wide-ranging interests of early personal computer pioneers were what made them such profound technologists, so of course I was excited to run across this actual confirmation of the role Alan Kay’s...
hunsonisgroovy:
Wolf Parade - The Grey Estates
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Plants & Animals Are Coming Back →
Yay, lisaahh. Yay, awesome Edmonton people on Tumblr. Yay, concert alerts I care about.
the best story I've heard so far in 2009
spiegelman:
“The first time I saw my dad drunk was at a house party, where he did a naked cannonball into the swimming pool, climbed out and threw up all over the lawn. Over the next few months a tomato plant grew in the spot where he threw up. And the tomatoes that came from this plant, they were huge, plump, county fair winning tomatoes. The people whose house it was said they never planted...
The Mountain Goats - This Year
