December 2009
The Truth About The New Years Kiss
elizablr:
hershapeinthedoorway:truethings:
1. Don’t fuck this up. Seriously.
2. Make sure the person you’re kissing is memorable. This is the beginning of a new decade. We all know the world is going to end any second so kiss someone special.
3. OR go the complete opposite direction and kiss the least special, yet hottest person you can find. The ’10s are going to be sexy.
4. If your...
Paul Westerberg is 50 years old today.
jaimeleigh:
skybarn:
You now feel/are old.
What should you feel if you don’t know who he is?
Many a Dyslexic Heart is breaking at this news.
“The above description barely scratches the surface of Kaufman’s gonzo...”
– Directors of the Decade - Salon.com
“Scampering back to Washington — “hotfooted” or otherwise...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“And thus you get Lieberman as the sane alternative to the Republicans - and...”
– Daily Kos: Obama is better than the extreme-right
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This will be the fourth decade I've seen end...
The perks of being born at the end of a decade I guess.
Although, what with being born in ‘79 and all, and maybe not walking yet, certainly still pissing my britches, I don’t really remember anything about the end of the 70s. Truth be told, I don’t really remember much about the end of the 80s either—but I vaguely recall mostly just playing video games at that age.
The...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via vinh) (via kaytee)
Nexus One - News →
I’ve found my new phone….
“In a statement to Politico, Cheney seemed to be trying to provide talking points...”
– Eugene Robinson - Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama - washingtonpost.com
Of course the unnerving thing here, that Robinson doesn’t get into, is that in Cheney’s recent experience, repeating a lie over and over again, and loudly, has worked for him.
Stiglitz: 6 Harsh lessons We Failed to Learn →
azspot:
1. Markets are not self-correcting, and without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.
2. There are many reasons for market failures. Too-big-to-fail financial institutions had perverse incentives: Privatized gains, socialized losses. .
3. When information is imperfect, markets often do not work well – and information imperfections are central in finance.
4. Keynesian...
“The mind is a concern in all his screenplays, but in “Synecdoche”...”
– The best films of the decade - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“The Meyers’ 15-year-old daughter, GIGI, bursts into the kitchen from the...”
– Hey Jenny Slater.: A fittingly stupid end to a stupid year: That’s So Urban!
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My "Best/Had the Biggest Impact On Me Albums of...
In alphabetical order:
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dredg - El Cielo
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
ISIS - Oceanic
Marillion - Marbles
Mastadon - Leviathan
MuteMath - MuteMath
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part 1
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Receiving...
“Hands down, end of discussion, no contest, the single shittiest phrase of the...”
– Michaelangelo Matos, A Regrettable Decade in Music
One thousand times yes.
(via maura)
“You know what when we get on an airplane, we give up all kinds of checks we...”
– Chris Mathews clearly loves him some demagoguery.
I also find it a bit odd that so many of the same conservatives that accuse any Democrat of being part of/an advocate for “the nanny state,” are so quick pine for a President that is basically a symbolic Daddy figure, protecting them...
I Hate
fallndreams:
When the antibiotic you take makes you feel WORSE than what is being treated. I’ve had my share of sinus infections…believe me. But I don’t need what feels like the stomach flu added to it, thanks.
Is it Augmentin by any chance?
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“Because the odds of you finding your “soul-mate” in your hometown in a world of...”
– Christopher Gutierrez (via simplymeee) (via fuckyeahheychris) (via jamielynnlife)
Key Red Sox dates during the season
winstonwolfe:
April 4 — MLB Opening Night: Red Sox vs. Yankees at Fenway Park. Let it all begin anew.
April 12 — Target Field opening: Twins vs. Red Sox. Sox get first look at the new stadium and their 2011 catcher Joe Mauer.
June 18-20 — Dodgers vs Red Sox at Fenway. ¿Dónde has estado Manny Ramirez?
Oct. 1-3 Last series of season. Yankees vs Sox at Fenway. Loser goes home?
“Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by...”
– Jonathan Raban’s review of Going Rogue in the new issue of the New York Review of Books is nothing short of devastating. (via cajunboy)
See also:
“Commonsense Conservatism hinges on the not-so-tacit assumption that the average, hardworking churchgoer, like the ladies at the booth, equipped...
"This isn't what I signed up [for]. Where are the...
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:
They never promised you a rose garden, Tom Athan, AIG Financial Products executive.
The Washington Post has published select emails sent between AIG executives during the summer and fall of 2007, showing internal anxiety and skepticism over the viability of AIG’s Financial Products unit. Of course, in the face of a federal inquiry and suit filed by shareholders,...
My post-Holiday gift to you
xoxosweetheart:
wooliebear:
winstonwolfe:
Seeing that this week is popular for vaca. and/or doing minimal amount of work for your current employer, I bestow upon any bored souls reading this a gift. A gift of entertainment in the form of a promo code for Amazon Video on Demand. That code is: AVODGIFT
If you have an Amazon account all you do is log on, go to the Video on Demand section, and...
“It may well be an old standard, but “Happy Birthday To You” is not...”
– Happy Birthday To You - Television Tropes & Idioms
I did not know this, but it makes a lot of sense (as far as shows not singing it.)
“We are not Starbuck’s, that are in every corner. If you want to see us, it is...”
– Extensive Mike Patton interview « FAITH NO MORE 2.0
What the fuck US Club Promoters/booking agents?
'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
counterforce:
wolfandfox:
Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible?
from here.
“If you can’t take out the gimmick and still have a story, then you don’t have...”
– ROBERTO ORCI, co-writer of 2009’s Star Trek, on the essential element of any great movie.
A lot of folks in Hollywood still don’t understand this.
(via the New York Times)
(via inothernews)
He co-wrote the Transformers sequel, so it would appear he has trouble remembering it too.
“Eric Nies of the New York cast went on to become a successful model, actor, and...”
– The “Cast Member Successes” section of the Wikipedia entry for The Real World: Probably as good a way to track what “fame” has turned into over the past 18 years as anything else. (via maura)
Today's question for NYC tumblrs (and those who've...
Do you have horrid, no-buying-beer-on-Sundays Blue Laws?
I want to do a four-day weekend thing, and if I take Friday and Monday off that gets me two shorter weeks. I view that as better than taking a Thursday/Friday combo off (I hate Monday mornings).
But is there really anything to do on a Sunday night (that would be as fun as whatever shenanigans goes down on a Thursday)?
“I think there will always be a gulf between the haves and have-nots, so far as...”
– Neil Postman (via azspot)
IDIOTAROD 2010. 1/30/10. GET EXCITED. →
baxterp2:
drunkbrunch:
(via caro)
Friends, let me know if you form a team! I’d love to take pictures again this year.
Okay, I think I may have to do this this year.
This was the weekend I was thinking of going to NYC. I may be booking a flight very soon now.
Health Reform Subsidy Calculator -- Premium... →
Fun with calculators. Just remember to enter your age in 2013 for the House proposal and 2014 for the Senate.
If the calculator is accurate all (a big “if” given that it’s estimating costs in 2013-2014 using 2009 premiums) people making in the upper 20s may want a paycut, as it can be the difference between both lower premiums and $1,600 in subsides vs $150 in subsides.