January 2012
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I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
Where was this 7 days ago when we needed it!
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST...
The Tweets Must Flow →
I don’t know how I feel about the idea of Twitter as Spacing Guild.
No, I do. It’s creepy.
That's the same reason Gus Van Sant remade Psycho
So no one else would
tmills:
This is an exercise I use whenever I want to start complaining about something arbitrary: I imagine a world in which there is a feature length movie version of Salinger’s Franny and Zooey starring, well, take your pick of actresses typically cast as the manic pixie dream girl, and actors typically cast as broody smokey jaded dude. When I stop imagining such a world,...
Some Recent Developments
poemsbycsward:
Leveler [This one especially!]
PortlandReview
Elimae
Water Dragon
viatheatlantic: Chinese Lunar New Year 2012
“There will be pregnancies: wanted, unwanted, partly wanted, partly unwanted.
...”
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
viamotherjones
“The only filmmaker who’s entire work lies between two children and two...”
– Chris Marker on Andrei Tarkovsky
WatchThis is a reenactment.
Words with Friends wouldn't permit the word JEW →
Turns out Hasbro removed the word (along with other offense words like FARTED, FATSO, and BOOBIE!) from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary under political pressure from the National Council of Jewish Women and Anti-Defamation League.
Is a fresh grilled cheese better than one that was...
I mean morally better.
“‘Let’s—tear—it—to—pieces!’ And this meant that the groups, the...”
– Binkie Maynard, Martha Quest, Doris Lessing
Oh snap! Bungee jumper plunges into Zambezi River... →
I’m posting this headline instead of the video (which you should click through and watch!) because what a fine headline, Christian Science Monitor, they may be out-of-print but they’re not out-of-puns!
"Off the record," I was told, "Trader Joe's will... →
Just the tip of the iceberg.
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“Don’t go mistaking paradise for that Home across the road”
– The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest makes NO SENSE!
December 2011
49 posts
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Piever Down - Day 8 - THE FINAL CHAPTER
The epic conclusion!
viaerikpkraft:
I slept until 8:30 today, which I don’t think I’ve done since my son was born. A Christmas miracle! Anyway, that seemed like reason enough to have another pie breakfast, but this time with some “Non-Dairy Whipped Topping” that my mom brought yesterday. I don’t think it contains one natural ingredient, but it also seems to have very few calories, probably...
The Internet
All jazz sounds, exactly the same, and everything.
vialemoniceforever: Where you’ll come up with an idea to play Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew on top of one another, calling it Kind of Brew, and it’ll have already been done. I had come up with a hilarious half-joke about how all jazz sounds exactly the same and everything.
fool-prone
It’s that-advertising-is-working advertising.
viakeyholez:
How is Kay Jewelers allowed to have a commercial touting its “Leo” diamond (I hate that I even know the name) as “the first diamond ever certified to be visibly brighter,” full stop? “The first diamond ever certified to be visibly brighter.” End of sentence. Brighter than what?! The words are meaningless!
That’s not even false...
Kimjongilia →
georgeolkenolia
Speaking of which: "25 people who thought Lil Kim... →
Internet makes such important political discourse possible.
viamotherjones:
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I'm a sucker for Woody Allen
L: So what do you want for dinner tonight? What should I buy?
N: Spaghetti.
L: You know I was going to ask you to marry me.
N: No, penne, with marinara.
Chuck Jones' rules for Road Runner gags
Rules to live by.
viaerikpkraft:
1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “Beep-Beep.”
2. No outside force can harm the Coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the ACME products.
3. The Coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim” - George Santayana.)
4. No dialogue ever,...
VES →
Visual Culture (Redirected from Visual Studies) as an academic subject is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images.
Environmental studies is the interdisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with...
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“He had the bottom of the ninth inning to win it, and he may not have hit a home...”
– Talking about football
NYT
“Gay people in the pre-war years [pre-WWI]… did not speak of coming out of...”
– Like a debutante’s coming-out party. I like that.
From the “sociolinguistic origin” of “coming out” (wikipedia)