December 2009
26 posts
‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Returns With Prequel, Reissued... →
leilacohan:
interweber:
Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a “cassette player” has become “headphones” and a “perm” has become “an expensive hairstyle.”
I’ll buy it. And I’ll certainly buy these books. ESPECIALLY, because Ann M. Martin is in. MISS YOU BSC!
BOOK CLUB.
auto BSC reblog.
also, their updates are...
Where can I find pepper jelly in Brooklyn...
Elizabeth Gumport at This Recording
leoncrawl:
Davidson’s photographs remind us that people’s personal lives are mostly tedious. Everybody has dirty plates and families. Privacy protects us. Behind closed doors we shine our shoes and our personalities; we rest and then resume playing the roles of interesting people. We hide our worst selves, and our dullest: we would rather have people see us as bad than boring.
“In Which We Do...
The bookstore-less streets of Laredo: Laredo,... →
darkwingdach:
(via adrianeq)
this wouldn’t bum me out so much if they had more than 3 branches of their public library. but they don’t so this is really bumming me out.
Mr +J: Why are you trying to make me love [a girl on TV]?
+J: I just want you to know what you like!
Mr +J: I think she's too much like something I hate
+J: ...me?
team to nation: i won't go down with this ship
The Eritreans were knocked out of the Cecafa competition for East and Central African nations last week.
But when the team plane landed back home, it was reportedly only carrying the coach and an official.
The government, which is frequently accused of repression, denies any players are missing.
But the country’s football federation confirmed to Cecafa head Nicholas Musonye that the...
if you're shopping at amazon.com, do it through... →
you’re going to spend money anyway! so if you’re shopping at amazon.com, then do it through this link so that 6% goes to Corporate Accountability International, a great organization that a good friend of mine works for. happy birth of santa and happy 5th night of present week!
On Terrorism (but what isn't?)
S+N: watch the office!
it's like last week never happened
ms. mandrake: weird, okay
that's like pretending that the worst terrorism didn't happen
but i'll try
S+N: always forget
Watchleilacohan:
“College Tour”, my sketch from High Treason’s August 24 show. Will Smith College turn your daughter into a lesbian?
Starring Kate McKinnon, Rob Webber, Veronica Osorio, and Sarah Claspell
Directed by Ryan Karels
Written by Leila Cohan
i read that as a kind of headline:
’Will Smith College turns your daughter into a LESBIAN.’ make a sketch about that plz! and a...
Watchokay so i guess andy samberg isn’t a complete waste of food/water/oxygen/tv time… also, rihanna’s outfit is one of the primary sources of hilarity in this vid.
joke of a non-joke :-(
it’s a problem that The Onion has real (CNN/WaPo) headlines along the side but basically right next to their headlines because i preemptively laugh at awful headlines like ‘2 people, dozens of horses die in fire’ until i suddenly remember that that probably actually happened.
life is so hard
msmandrake:
Even at our best, humans are not very good programmers; programming is not a task commonly encountered in the ancestral environment. A human programmer is metaphorically a blind painter - not just a blind painter, but a painter entirely lacking a visual cortex. We create our programs like an artist drawing one pixel at a time, and our programs are fragile as a consequence. If the...
between this article and that diaper murderer... →
Booo York State →
(via eatingpieelsewhere)
Adding insult to injury, it seems pretty clear that this article was written before the vote, with the assumption it would pass, and then just tweaked slightly…
Our New Project
+J: How can we get you to marry him?
S+N: yes! we need to brainstorm! more than we've ever brainstormed!
but how does a girl with no money or anything to offer lure a hilarious attractive comedian who already has a successful career on a good tv show?
we will take this on!
this is our generations rubik's cube!