December 2011
1 post
“The rotted out cherry on top of this grotesquely redundant sundae is an oh-god-why credit-based pricing structure that sounds as pointless as it is complicated.”
— Kyle Wagner
October 2011
1 post
This used to be my tumblr. I’m not sure what it is just now.
July 2011
3 posts
“This was back when they really knew how to do a desert space dance.”
– MarcocassLA
“If there were an award for Most Unconscionable Tax Loophole, this one would win...”
– Nicholas D. Kristoff
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
5 posts
WatchTed Leo, “I Guess I Planted”
(via)
“‘President Obama’s interview with ESPN on his NCAA basketball tournament picks is getting slammed from some Republicans. They say it’s bad form given the deadly disaster in Japan, worsening violence in Libya and stalemate over the U.S. budget at home.’
“Now watch this drive.”
— kafziel
“This is nuts.”
– Kevin Drum
January 2011
5 posts
“Also, it should be called ‘CG, I.’”
– David Friedman
“People apparently like niche experiences enough to pay for them. This is...”
– Paul Ford
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December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
8 posts
M83, “0078h” — from Dead Cities,...
“You have to read his lips,” Suggs said. “We were going over the Dow, the economy and politics. We really don’t talk football out there.”
Terrell Suggs and Tom Brady have a conversation
“Many viewers are split between 23.976 and 29.97 and I’m going to go on the record and say that this show is so much more cinematic. 29.97 just feels like a TV show; this Example Season is like a real movie.”
— MY 267886
The Thermals, “We Were Sick” —...
September 2010
7 posts
One last time: The thing about Pavement isn’t that they chose diffidence, or irony, or aloof distance (or whatever other residual Gen-X cliché you’re compelled to recycle) as an aesthetic posture. It’s that they seemed to find themselves, like lots of us, inherently diffident, and ironic, and aloof, and distant (and whatever) in their relations with others, and they created the sort of language...
“‘Intriguing!’ I thought. ‘Someone has created a...”
– Lore Sjöberg
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“But they still won’t know how to maintain drop frame video and sync sound...”
– filmacher
August 2010
19 posts
“The Shining rules, as does its trailer, but that article is a steaming pile of...”
– solipsophistocracy
“I Googled her and found out she’s really into steampunk.”
– MuadDib
Cowboy Junkies, “‘Cause Cheap Is How I...
The Rave-Ups, “You Ain’t Goin’...
My “overbred” creatures are a series of animals that bear the imagined results of domestication pushed to absurdity. The attributes that make them appealing, useful, marketable, and handy for human use are short-sighted and human-centric. They are both strange and familiar, and arouse amusement, sympathy and disgust. It is not impossible to imagine that they may soon come to be,...
“can’t you guys just believe in something?”
– lovesleefiora
“Here’s what I’m saying: I’m a woman, I’m in my late thirties, I can’t handle first-person shooters, I’m afraid of Comic-Con, and I really, really liked Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I hope I’m not, you know, blowing your mind.”
— Linda Holmes
“So this is the part where the Shadow Internet really takes off, right? I want to...”
– 2bucksplus
“There are still articles appearing about me taking over from Steve Carell on the American version of The Office. Maybe I haven’t made it clear enough. … I’m not taking over from Steve Carell and will just continue to make millions for doing fuck all because I created the show and all the characters, and own the format and it’s being syndicated now and I get paid...
