May 2008
15 posts
When I talked to my mother earlier today, she informed me that my sister’s boyfriend would be working for/with my father this week. This is simultaneously delightfully quaint in a sort of 50’s Americana type of way and deeply, deeply disturbing. They will be bonding over manual labor and floor installation, perhaps sharing a Bud Light after work before he takes my place at the...
all the sad young gossip girls →
This is the absolute most amazing thing I’ve found recently. If I weren’t so lazy, I would probably find myself doing such things.
Hillary Clinton, Hero.
alexbalk: It’s time for everyone to shut the fuck up about Hillary Clinton and start giving her the appreciation she deserves. She’s making the ultimate sacrifice for the party. She knew. Of course she knew. She knew that a race pitting the potential first black president against the potential first woman president would leave one of the two vital Democratic constituencies feeling hard done...
“Georgina sold her horse for cocaine? What? Where do you even go to make that...”
– ‘Gossip Girl’ Ditches Us the Morning After [DailyIntel, NYMag.com]
WatchBecause I am sometimes nothing more than a silly little girl with a subscription to Vogue and a fondness for Brit-pop, I am totally in love with this.
Because otherwise it devolves into an obnoxious...
Despite all of its flaws, I like Oh No They Didn’t. It does that wonderful democratic, grass-roots news aggregation thing in a way that hasn’t been duplicated nearly as successfully (Digg aside, which really is not quite the same). It tends to be a bit juvenile and sensationalist (and also hideous and awful and oh my god do they really need the sparkles and the marquees?), but...
The Continued Insanity of Mark Zuckerberg
Gawker’s spent most of the day covering a mysterious new feature of Facebook that doesn’t explicitly state how it’s populated but seems to facilitate stalking. Yay! So, basically typing a period (or apparently any other non-numeric or alphabetic character in the search box results in a list of five mystery people. Which may be the five people that view your profile most! Or...
The only sour cherry on the fruit stand? ...
I love Gossip Girl! I’m beginning to love The Kills! HOWEVER. That does not mean I’m enjoying the show’s blatant over-use of songs from “Midnight Boom”. One is good! One in an advert and one in the series is good. Two dispersed throughout the season is acceptable. But this constant barrage is making me question the producer responsible for selecting music (just...
GE has apparently developed a time machine, for...
“Executives at NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric, upped the ante last month with plans for a 65-week season for NBC, which would run from May 2008 through August 2009.” [New York Times] Okay, yes, networks are shifting to a 52-week season. Which is exciting! And necessary! But can NBC really claim a 65-week season during their Upfronts? The networks are recovering, dealing...
“Pope Benedict XVI’s interests include classical music and cats. He owns a...”
– Wikipedia - Pope Benedict XVI
Brave choice, celery, but fair play to you, not a... →
Personally, I think the Tenth Doctor would look rather dashing if he accessorized with a rutabaga, perhaps as a watch fob. It might be a bit cumbersome for the lapel.
"I could not locate gloves, but after cutting my...
I think my mind had entertained this notion, though somehow I expected that gravity, intent as it was on imposing its will on the rest of me, would have expelled the thing by now. But no, on further reflection, it made sense. I didn’t work on the rest of me like I performed Kegels. There wasn’t a whole lot else I could do, sitting on the couch all day. I pondered buying lube and rubber...
“Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust,...”
– Germaine Greer