April 2010
46 posts
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“But we made him a poster.”
– Me, over and over, because I guess deep down I really thought it would help.
March 2010
94 posts
The John Blog: Diesel Powered Epiphanies. →
Let me give you a little more detail on this. Yesterday, due to some lovely car trouble, I borrowed my friend and co-worker’s truck to run an errand at lunch. This is a pic of the aforementioned truck: It’s a monstrosity. After several parkour style leaps and bruised shins and many…
I thought that said Diesel Powered Elephants, and I was like whoa.
My political ideologies class is doing fascism...
Mein Kampf, Gobineau, Turner Diaries. Really joyful and uplifting stuff. Perfect for Passover.
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Oh, good. They were "finished anyway" and I...
I apologized, saying I didn’t want to be that guy, and the one who looked freakishly like a young(er) Lucky Shirt said it was okay, and I wasn’t a guy.
Is there a way to ask them to be quiet or to go to...
Screw not seeming like a jerk, is there a way to do it effectively?
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I have a test at 2:30 (little over two hours) for which I am slightly underprepared. Slightly. I am willing to offer something super nice for whoever impersonates me and takes it instead. There are only like 12 kids in the class, I’m sure he won’t recognize me.
Crap.
“What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party? I’ll tell...”
– Congressman Matthew Santos, The West Wing 7.07
truffle-shuffle / twothirty / spinlighted
(via fujiidom)
(via notnadia) (via rozf)
(via bliccy)
ARB for West Wing and also this is one of my favorite quotes ever. I want it on a t-shirt. Or a business card.
I have a big long post about this in me
But it’s late and I have parliaments to write about and Foucault to read, so I’ll leave it at this:
Acne hurts.
I was going to make a snide comment about how...
But then I remembered the show is set in Berkeley.
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Directed by Thomas Schlamme?!
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Whoa
Parenthood, the new, vaguely terrible, NBC sitcom starring Lorelai Gilmore also stars Mae Whitman, Egg Ann from Arrested Development, and my if she hasn’t grown up nicely.
Also, Erika “looks like, but is not, Julia Stiles” Christensen and Monica “looks like, but is not, Julia Roberts” Potter. The “looks like, but are not” Julias, they will be called...
Just downloading the San Diego Zoo Elephant...
Change.
thedayhascome:
I look forward to change. I look forward to Universal health care.
I am proud to say that the health care bill is one of the greater things I have been witness to in my lifetime. An important aspect of this change to my family is that health care companies will no longer be able to place a lifetime or annual cap on how much it will cover. For many Americans diagnosed with...
Grumble suck
girlmonkey:
I was in a fair mood. A balanced mood. Call it: Content.
And then I followed a link to the FOX news site.
My mood evaporated.
All that hate, so much vitriol, and scads of people flocking there, so willing to jump in and be mired by it.
I read a nice note to Ann Coulter warning her not to be her typical asshat self— but it was the comments to the letter that made me sick.
There...
Dear Democrats:
essdogg:
Congratulations, you got your shit together. The bill isn’t ideal and as usual the true U.S. middle class will probably see the least impact, either positive or negative, in the immediate future, but you made some major changes for the better and you’ve done something that will positively impact millions of Americans. You’re going to get a a ton of shit — that’s no big revelation. But...
Abortion
stacey727:
Fuck you you bastard fucks, for imposing your mythical beliefs on women and forcing them to bear a child because they’re poor and can’t afford to pay for an abortion on their own…and then tell them you’re cutting their benefits because they SHOULD have a job by now, but they can’t find fucking day care that they can afford with the crappy job offers they’re getting. You come and take...
It's one of those days
Remind me again what’s so great about the U.S.?
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If I ever stab Avery, it will be because of how...
I am not kidding.
Queer the Census →
This is a thing where you request a sticker, with which you seal your census envelope, and check the appropriate box (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, A Straight Ally).
I’m not sure how I feel about it. It would be great to know how many LGBT people there are in America, but I don’t believe that having it as a census question would give us that information; far too many people...
At dinner, with iPods out, Tumblr open
Avery: God, we're so antisocial.
Me: We're BEING social! We're catching up with our friends!
In the toy aisle
Me: OMG look at that little stuffed monkey. Can we have a pet monkey? Ross had a pet monkey.
Avery: What??
Me: Ross had a pet monkey.
Avery: How do you know...what?
Me: Ross. Geller. From Friends. Had. A pet. Monkey.
Avery: ...oh. I thought you meant Ross @indefensible.
Me: No, you idiot, but I am going to tell the internet that you thought of him first.
Can a goat get a vote?
smartgoat:
I’m a finalist in the contest I mentioned a while back. If you have a minute, could you go here and vote for one or more of my (or @craftygoat’s) entries? I will be forever in your debt. Which I guess means I’ll never repay you, so take that into consideration.
Thanks!
This guy sent me a Christmas card. Vote for him.
Leah is my fucking hero.
A first-timer's brief take on SXSWi...
Awesome. I heard there had been better swag in years past, but, recession and all. Other than that, awesome. I met cool people—who I won’t name, because I *will* forget someone, and also I don’t want to take the time to link to their names—went to interesting panels, discovered that it is possible to turn a Thin Mint into alcohol, and found myself in an atmosphere where it...
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The college I attended did not have any sports...
yowhatsthehaps:
It was nerd heaven.
Ditto my high school. We liked to say all our sports teams were undefeated. It impressed people for a few seconds. Then they beat us up and put our heads down toilets.
She threatens to do it to me in my sleep.
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Avery has created something she calls "penching"
Because I told her pinching isn’t allowed.
It involves “gently stroking a person’s face while aggressively blowing into their ear” and it is horrific.
Please help.
And the "C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I! Cincinnati!" song...
(via aimee-b-loved)
I sometimes conflate that with Cinderella, leading to “Cincinnati, Cincinnati, night and day it’s Cincinnati, make the fire, fix the breakfast, wash the dishes, do the mopping…”
Yeah.
Also, that was clearly the best Babes in Toyland.
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Today in Stories We're Obsessed With
newsweek:
From today’s Hartford Courant:
Sometime in the early morning Sunday, thieves scaled the walls of the Eli Lilly warehouse on Freshwater Boulevard. As a light rain fell, they cut a hole in the roof of the 70,000-square-foot building and slid down ropes to get inside. They disabled the building’s alarm system, and police believe they loaded several dozen pallets of prescription drugs...
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Dear fellow guests at the Downtown Austin Hilton...
We cannot all use the wifi at the same time. It was not designed for that. SO GET THE FUCK OFF.
Words with imaginary Internet people, I has it. Play now.
NEVER MIND OPENING LATER.
Also, apparently brother views his iPod as “normal” whereas getting a touch means I’m joining the cult of Mac. Dude, I’m just doing it for Words With Friends.
OPENING THE 'POD, AM I SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING? A...
Brother (who HAS AN IPOD) suggested an initiation ritual into the cult of Mac.
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Am now Facebook friends with my brother because it’s the only way to get in touch with him. Apparently email is like totally passé. Fortunately, posting private info on Facebook is, too.
An independent film just beat the biggest movie...
msnovember:
notemily:
rosasparks: cijimcb: uprightcitizens:agentscully / geekilicious / caseydonahue
That is just the best.
This just about reaffirms my faith in humanity.
And a woman won. And not for a “women’s movie”. I am so effing proud of K.B.
And she looked fantastic.
OMG Big Love finale.
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Group projects: worst ever, or worst ever?
*The school kind, not the online kind.
My 20-month-old computer's power cord is...
Hey Sony!
I hate the things you do!
Hey Sony!
If I could I would kill you!
You’re the one and only site
With the one and only hate
You know how to take shopping and make it
Suuuuuuuuck!
Sooooooony Styyyle—
You’re more than bad—
You’re evil!
(Thanks to Tony, of course.)