February 2009
76 posts
'Don't Want to Sleep but Should' Playlist
One cycle, and one cycle only.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Gold Lion.”
Mountain Goats. “Going to Georgia.”
No links; go find em your own self. Then hit ctrl+T, find a college ex’s old blog and read that until you need a cigarette. You’ll thank me in the morning.
Chart your progress. Place it on the refrigerator where you can see it often. Put a picture of your favorite “in-shape star” next to the chart to remind you where you’re headed!
“Steps to Success.” Iron Gym: The Ultimate Upper Body Workout & Nutrition Guide. Fairfield, NJ: ProFit, 2008.
I have a picture of myself when I was 16 on my fridge. Leon is on there...
Dinosaurs Fucking Robots →
"Facebook Backs Into a 'Bill of Rights.'"... →
I won’t apologize. I fuckin hate the FB.
No More
I’m no longer trying to understand the cupcake windmill thing, let alone broker a peace deal. I didn’t know what I was getting into. All I know is I am getting out.
Another Front in the Cupcake - Windmill War
Callmeicebox spun me in circles with a blindfold on and then pushed me over here.
Cupcakes are for bathers. Windmills for shower-ers.
"You're just a bunch of drug addicts / screwing up...
Without having gone to the bar (I will go later today), I have some thoughts.
leoncrawl:
Specifically, the part where they say that the food they’ll be serving will be, “Comfort food; no pretense, just good home style cooking.” Also: “Straightforward appetizers.” In this I hear a very grating note of superiority, since the idea is basically: “straightforward and comfortable things are good and...
katiebakes:
Anyway this was like the only version I could find on the web that hadn’t been taken down by NBC (shaking fist) so as a result I think some YouTube creeper has inserted himself into the video. But you get the point. Also my sound isn’t working so hopefully the song is actually in there and everything because, you know, that was the point of this post and Fek isn’t...
“On Election Day, the staff of Politico gathered in the newsroom for cupcakes to...”
– “The Scoop Factory.” Once you start seeing it, it’s everywhere.
"The Scoop Factory." The New Republic. →
I'm Sick of This Brave New World
Today is my first day of unemployment. I will take a jog and clean the apartment. I will also buy an As-Seen-on-TV “Iron Gym” pull-up bar, because my NYSC membership expired the day I left my former employer and I Love Pull-Ups So Much.
At work, one puts in place a series of mental structures designed to help deal with the various personalities and contingencies that arise. These...
See also. →
Loose Change
The developers have completed the bulk of the work on the aluminum facade to the building next to my apartment, so now the scaffolding that had extended about ten feet onto the sidewalk is no longer there. This is mostly good, because the scaffolding was a little bit uglier than the facade, and now pedestrians have much freer reign over the sidewalk. However, there are unintended consequences.
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@seedz →
(via derrinyet)
“Somebody just bought us some cupcakes. Four high-class cupcakes the other day....”
– John Vincent Santore.
Me And Bukowski: The Finish Line By Pamela... →
Maybe this has something to do with it? A Modest Mouse tie-in would clear things up a little, maybe.
In the Bukowski biopic Born Into This, there’s a scene where Charles has started dating Pam but she has left for a while. He’s talking with the documentarians and he hears a sound at the front door. He looks out the windows and I think even stands on a chair, all the while saying...
Another Clue →
Like cupcakes? Then think twice before you...
I’m confused about the status of cupcakes on the Internet. How prevalent is this?
Honestly is this some kind of official thing. What am I missing here.
katiebakes:
Corporate dollars have spectacular reach in this town—few visitors to the twee-hip Sugar Sweet Sunshine bakery on the Lower East Side, for example, would guess that 70 percent of its business comes from accounts like Goldman...
“Other attack methods include using cuteness, such as animated images of laughing cats to get people to click on a trojan software download, and tricking users of Yahoo!’s GeoCities service to download software that was claimed to be needed to use GeoCities itself.”
“Storm botnet.” Wikipedia.
Standing in the middle of the street Oh, please don’t run over me
Heartless Bastards. “All This Time.” Happy Friday the 13th!
Time to eat a Hostess Muffin Loaf — Banana Walnut Artificially Flavored.
allie: i went for brews with my friend last night
me: wheee
allie: after work. 2 blue moons really shot me into outerspace!!
Last Tango in Paris
It’s a good movie, so far.
First part: Whoa, cute lady I guess, Brando’s crazy, uh oh trenchcoat sex. Consensual I think, but will they fall out the window? That was quick. Whoops a naked lady part, Brando’s not stoked, and, Halls cough drop commercial.
Second part: We learn more about cute lady. The soundtrack is a great humorous counterpoint to the scary imagery. Brando looks...
Today Involved My Pants
For months now, I’ve been wearing the same pair of pants for five work days in a row, because they don’t seem to get smelly and I like to think no one notices. If that’s already breaking some kind of rule, don’t worry, there’s more.
The week beginning on Feb. 9 was “ripped khakis” week, which is to say the week I wear my khakis that have a just-noticeable...
Behind the Curve
I still love getting rickrolled.
“This site is coming soon.”
– FinancialStability.gov
“I mean, I suppose what I could have done is started off with no tax cuts,...”
– Barack Obama, with a plausible assessment of why he’s having stimulus problems.
Using the Crisis to Remake the Market: Roberto...
keyholez:
I stumbled across this today. It is only eight pages long; read it all. Pieces:
In all major economies in the world, the production system is largely self-financing. Many empirical studies have shown that in these economies over 80% of the funding of production by established firms is internally generated. It relies on the retained earnings of these firms.
This seems innocuous...
(Edited) We Have All Done This
John: here is the first story i sent to mcsweeney's:
me: great!
John: Likely Scenarios in the Lives of Popular Super Heroes were they to have Discovered their Calling in Small Towns as Supposed to Large, Densely-Populated Urban Areas
me: let's look
John: that's the title
me: As Opposed
not As Supposed
John: oh fuck
me: Also no hyphen in Densely Populated
John: son of a b
you know what
suck my balls
me: son of an S
John: GOD DAMN IT
oh well
me: it's okay they can fix it
they're editors!
John: maybe they'll take it as an aesthetic choice
fuck me
what a clown
well, c'est la vie
