January 2009
37 posts
Well, that takes care of that, then.
Derrinyet: don't worry. I'll help you plan this.
+J: YOU HATE WEDDINGS.
Derrinyet. this one is going to be different.
the wedding to end all weddings.
+J: [Mr. K] wants me to remind you that "bombs don't come cheap these days."
Derrinyet: is that even true?
in that case we'll DIY
destination wedding--dick cheney's bunker.
“Oh, I don’t know whether to give this movie two stars or three. I’ll give it...”
– Anthony, on Breathless (via leilacohan)
This is often a problem for me! I won’t like an important movie so all of the sudden Netflix is like “okay dumbshit, we won’t suggest any more smartpeople movies. here: take a copy of The Cable Guy” and then i’m sad because i...
I'm beginning to remember why I stopped looking at...
It is deeply weird to me that I was once pretty good friends with a girl who not only lists The Notebook as one of her favorite movies, but feels the need to add the following commentary, sincerely and unironically:
“this movie actually changed my perspective on love”
“This is not authorized by us. ‘The Simpsons’ does not, and never has, endorsed...”
– Simpsons executive producer Al Jean on Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, recording robocalls using the voice of Bart on behalf of the Church of Scientology.
(Click here to hear the robocall)
(via davidcho)
:(
“I’d much rather be broke and have an awesome wardrobe than be broke and...”
– woman at Pret, reassuring her soon-to-be-unemployed financial friend that buying that uber-expensive coat was indeed the right decision.
You know, shockingly enough, I, too, would prefer to have one good thing and one bad thing over two bad things!
lolz so random!!!
not to get into things i don’t like getting into but are alpacas on the same plane as bacon and zombies in the hipster universe? if so, the reasons would be all the opposites of the reasons for bacon iconography, right?
“Thus! Bill Kristol has been wrong about everything, ever, but he was...”
– Oh, Sara K…marry me?
“I don’t like Hemingway’s subject matter. I just don’t. I...”
– More overheard wisdom from C. S.
“Have you seen Revolutionary Road? No? Good. You’re too young. You need to...”
– C. Scribner…not to me, but good advice, nonetheless.
Sundays are the best
fiatluxemburg:
keyholez:
elsam:
keyholez:
I could not possibly disagree with this sentiment more. I actually howled out loud when I read it.
UNFOLLOW. World views so different have no business intersecting.
WHATEVER I HOPE YOU ENJOY CHURCH I’LL JUST BE HERE WEEPING AND RENDING MY CLOTHES
Now, now everyone. I think we all know that all days of the week are equaly bad, each in their...
Sundays are the best
elsam:
keyholez:
I could not possibly disagree with this sentiment more. I actually howled out loud when I read it.
UNFOLLOW. World views so different have no business intersecting.
oh…oh dear.
Hey man, whatever. It's the '90s.
I have to use White-Out for the thing I’m doing right now (and paper and glue! It’s Arts & Crafts Friday over here at Scribner!), and on the bottle, the first thing it says, even before “shake well” or anything you’d expect to see on such a bottle, it says, (highlighted in yellow, no less!) “Does Not Deplete the Ozone Layer.”
Which, I mean, is that...
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(I’ve actually mailed out countless copies of this book, never really bothering to flip through it at all. Who knew what it contained!)
(also, apparently this was written when he was 19, lest anyone be made uncomfortable by the angsty-ness of it all.)
KIT! Have a gr8 4 (8! lol!) yrs!
So…don’t take this the wrong way, friends, but!
Obama’s mini-speeches at the balls are sort of like his presidental version of yearbook signings…like, each one is more or less individulized (yay, troops! protect us! yay, youths! volunteer for us! yay, “home state” people, uh…be friends with us!, etc), but they basically follow the same formula…he...
Priorities! →
Tumblr trends will solve all of my fights
elsam:
There’s a cat sleeping over at my house these days. I agreed to this because of the mice, and also because I had forgotten just how deeply my dislike of cats runs, but unfortunately, I have remembered! As a friend put it, they are “simultaneously needy as hell and totally lacking in affection,” which is truly the worst of both worlds.
Anyway, what this means is that I spend a lot of time...
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Oh and speaking of the office, what a weird thing... →
Live every week like it's shark week
you guys, i have some bad news: 30 rock is on the decline. no, stop throwing your shoes at me and listen for one second please. it started with ‘the one from night court’, but i thought ‘hey, they probably had to rewrite this last minute because the first draft had too many angelina references’. and the ‘gavin voloure’ one was good and ‘reunion’...
"In general, 'that is a terrible idea' is always... →
hartman:
— Wikipedia, tellin’ it like it is.
From an interesting set of guidelines on “What Wikipedia is not”. The many things that it is not include a blog, a crystal ball, a democracy, a manual, a soapbox, an indiscrimate collection of information, and a social networking site.
(Other, more specific guideline pages are amazing.)
What are they implying with the visual in this one?? I also...
Plane Crashes Into Hudson River →
elsam:
“The plane, according to the news report, may have hit a flock of birds.”
This is an update from “the plane, according to the news report, may have hit a bird or birds.”
Good point just made by S+N (and now posted by +J, of course): i was just thinking, the bird taking down the plane has the same kind of sweet bitterness of a bee stinging a human: it’s like yeah you hurt me,...
seedz:
There appears to be a theme emerging in Undeclared. That theme is female insanity. Or maybe Undeclared is like a Rorschach test. In fairness, the brunette girl’s boyfriend (who played Nick Andopoulos in Freaks and Geeks) is crazy.
so i have mixed feelings for undeclared: genuine hatred mixed with tepid love. the tepid love is obligation or devotion to the Judd Apatow who contributed to...
So THAT's what Kenneth was talking about... →
I guess most people have already seen this? Anyway, I imagine the whole movie must be equally spectacular…
(via Brother Ben)
Unfriend 10 People on Facebook, Get a Free Whopper →
elsam:
It is exactly what it sounds like. But there’s a catch!
If you think you can quietly snip away at your friend’s list without anyone noticing, Burger King is one step ahead of you. Platforms Optional points out that Burger King’s application will send notifications to the people being unfriended, unlike Facebook’s normal unfriending process. Have fun eating your free Whopper of Facebook...
Read The Finder NOW
doree:
I command you.
It’s amazing. It’s sort of a thriller by Colin Harrison, set in New York, about immigrants and the economy and rich people and crooked businessmen and ex-cops on their deathbed and septic tank business owners … and no one is a hero, even the former firefighter (though he’s as close to one as you’ll get in this book). And it’s set everywhere from a Central Park West...
I wish he were my congressman...
hartman:
Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, “When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.” From the audience, [Barney] Frank called out, “Sometimes it is!” [-]
“In a 2006 poll of Capitol Hill staffers by Washingtonian…Frank was voted the...