December 2009
43 posts
WatchShame is coming back to the redneck people.
Bernie Madoff "not assaulted" in prison →
One of the things I love/find really disturbing about our justice system is that when the courts fail to issue a satisfying sense of justice, we can count on “prison rules” to take up the slack.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/bernie-madoff-not-assaulted-in-prison/story-e6frf7k6-1225813587314
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Indie Bands
gonnaruinyrshoes:
jesuswaswrong:
The XX Blog enthusiasts who thought wearing a keffiyeha was awesome.
Passion Pit Bros vaguely interested in listening to music and very interested in having sex with their girlfriend.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Girls who bought checkered sneakers in the 8th grade.
Fleet Foxes Hopelessly patchy beard growers.
TV On The Radio Politically-correct hipsters.
Grizzly...
WatchBeck / Record Club
Have yourself a slightly wilco christmas.
Revisiting the Replacements' Let It Be on the... →
Slate hops on the “Replacements are the greatest band of all time” wagon, which is weird, because they run it next to an article jumping on the ”Joe Liebermann is the worst human being of all time” wagon.
http://www.slate.com/id/2238832/
http://www.slate.com/id/2238832/
Heartbreaker
theessentialman:
capucha:
S. is the 5 years old son of friends of ours. Even though they don’t see each other very often, S. has always had a crush on Capucine. He calls her his “amoureuse”. Recently, his parents asked him if he didn’t have any “amoureuse” at school. S. answered that girls at school were “only friends”, because the only “amoureuse” he has is Capucine.
Here’s a conversation...
Joe Lieberman Wants You Dead →
“Joe Lieberman teases special needs kids.”
http://joeliebermanwantsyoudead.com/
Make Your Own Academic Sentence →
idastewie:
“The illusion of history as such gestures toward the historicization of linguistic transparency.” Word.
“The emergence of post-capitalist hegemony functions as the conceptual frame for the fantasy of agency.”
The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings : NPR →
You know you’re getting old when you:
1) start eschewing pitchfork’s taste in music for NPR’s
and
2) realize you own most of the albums on an NPR list and can’t even name most the artists on a pitchfork list.
Danny DeVito on Booze, Nude Scenes, and S&M Sex at... →
It’s like what Edgar Allan Poe once wrote: “Tick tock, tick tock, one step closer to the grave, motherfucker.”
Selections from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Best Music...
Just some of my faves and the ones I can agree on. From what I can gather, blue building is not the name of a place, it is an actual building which is blue. (via artforum):
2 Kanye West on the radio, “Love Lockdown” I don’t know my Kanye, beyond having to hear a particular song about fifty times over the course of two days when I was on a farm in North Carolina once. But I know my radio. I love...
long lost sister to why won't my parakeet eat my...
cestlahaley:
tcock:
what are these strawberries doing on my nipples i need them for the fruit salad
and the very racist cousin to that:
why is there a pakistani on my couch?
dino-related sub-statement:
“i really hope you get sexually violated by a pterodactyl tonight”
Paste reduces a cultural phenomenon to some pretty... →
I would pick on this, but Blair and I spent ten minutes analyzing where on the timeline we keep falling, and I’m working on my 2010 resolution to quit needlessly self-deprecating.
http://offermanwoodshop.com/ →
Ok, so aside from playing Ron Swanson, Nic Offerman makes high quality wooden furniture and “structures.” Step aside Alec Baldwin this man might become America’s new Thursday night role model.
You really should be watching NBC's Parks and... →
The phrase “better the 30 Rock and the Office” was recently used to describe P and R. I’d tell more people to watch it, but everyone I know already does.
http://www.slate.com/id/2237077/
