January 2012
Sasha Frere-Jones defends Lana Del Taco! Someone should have told me, I would have restocked the bomb shelter yesterday
Think Small
natashavc:
The most difficult thing, the most deafening thing, in conversations with strangers is what they don’t say. Especially attractive strangers. But the mood I often take on is chartiable, there are morsels to savor if you ask the right questions (right?).
We had spotted him in the first row and decided he was just too attractive and put together to be anything but gay or stupid. I...
It is funny to see when someone has clearly lost all of their Missing-E features recently, and that coincidentally this happened at about the same time they were hired by Tumblr.
Or maybe they never had Missing-E in the first place (as if anyone at Tumblr would be allowed to admit having used it), but now they will never be touched by the lips of God.
I guess we want to rail on the NYPD all day when someone’s accused of pepper spraying a white girl in her 20s, but there’s not much talk in public when the police commissioner’s son is accused of raping an unidentified woman. (Maybe we’re not sure if we care until she shows her face! Do we approve or not? 2/10? Or maybe it’s just too much of a buzzkill to be talking...
BTW, Tumblrs run by fourteen-year-olds can get WAAAYYYYY out of hand. I take a glance at the content of one of them and it’s all gore and porn and stark fashion shoots and I’m like, “Yeeeesh, future serial killer. Noted!” Now definitely afraid to have kids, because with my luck I’d end up with not one but two Lisbeth Salanders running around, making me sleep with one...
From The Inbox
“captaiincunt started following you”
::SALUTE::
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Holiday Cocktail Lounge closing Saturday
WORST.
PRO TIP: Never follow anyone on Twitter who has the word “social” in their handle/username. It means that
They think they are an “expert”
They are absolutely NOT an expert. Because no one is, really.
NYC Summer of Bikes: Registration Lottery for the... →
nycsummerofbikes:
I’m going to upgrade my prior sentiments on the 5BBT from “scornful” to “dubious” because in 2012, there have been significant changes to the course and the organization of the ride.
“Dubious” because I have three better options for you. Click through to see.
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stryker replied to your post: Free Idea For The Motivated
jakefogelnest.com/post/…
Only 6 days behind! This means I need more time offline
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Free Idea For The Motivated
“Shit that Shit Says”
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The NYPL now has a bad-GIF-making program, eh?
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!
In a national survey conducted by The New York Times in November, 56 percent of respondents said they couldn’t think of anything negative about Apple.
COME TO THE BLARNEY COVE ON SATURDAY AND WE’LL FIX YA
richardrushfield:
James Gandolfini: What the fuck is that?
Me: It’s a video camera. James Gandolfini: That fucking thing is a video camera? Me: It is…they didn’t tell you this was going to be a video interview? James Gandolfini:Noooo. They didn’t tell us. Me: Oh, well that’s what we’re doing. Is that alright? James Gandolfini: Wait, I thought this was for the LA Times? Me: It is. James...
Grynbaum time again, but not a transportation article. (Want to see good transportation reporting? Streetsblog released a multi-part series today talking about how Governor Cuomo is mismanaging the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project.)
This article can be summarized as, “Mayor reads book”. It reads like an Onion piece. You start to wonder, after a couple of paragraphs, if the...
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I WAS GOING TO PLAY LAYER TENNIS BUT I SMASHED ALL MY RACQUETS IN ANGER
nedhepburn:
What, do you think you’re too good for Chipotle? It’s a thing. You put it in your mouth and eat it, goddamit.
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TODAY IN WHITE PEOPLE PROBLEMS →
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Ann Mara broke her shoulder in a fall at church Monday morning, just hours after she became an Internet sensation for confronting Terry Bradshaw following the Giants’ NFC Championship victory…
John Mara joked that his mother is “probable” for the Super Bowl in an e-mail to ESPNNewYork.com.
I don’t even know where to begin with this.
Just had to contemplate for a second whether or not I should create a GMail label for “Crazy Hipster Projects”. I have enough mail on this topic to qualify.
NSFS
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
hman:
I know about NSFW, and then it it took me a sec, but now I know that NSFS means “NOT SAFE FOR SCHOOL” and then I realized I’m on tumblr.
You totally made me spit up on my bib.
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artyucko:
btw BV did you know that Trader Joe’s sells prefab chopped mirepoix in little tubs. you know, for busy urban types on the go. New York’s heard of TJ’s, right?
Well, yes, but it’s not readily available on a weeknight because of the demand/lines at TJ’s. They are often cleaned out of basic popular items at 6pm.
The other thing is that it doesn’t solve the problem...
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artyucko replied to your post: THING THE INTERNET NEEDS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY
dude. who cares. it will still taste good, and not like celery.
IT’S A LOT OF WORK.
Remember, in NYC we don’t have countertops, we have to chop vegetables on the computer desk chairs.
THING THE INTERNET NEEDS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY
There is not a single recipe for chicken broth that does not contain a requirement for mirepoix. The problem is, so many of the recipes that include chicken stock as an ingredient also require mirepoix. So, that means you are double-seasoning everything. All of these recipes act like you must have mirepoix at that stage of cooking even if you include it in a past or future stage of cooking too.
...
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Note that I went somewhere else to discuss that thing, and not here.
Apologies to everyone who gave me a business card from 2004-2009… I just threw it out. Lotta good ones in there… basically, if I knew you 3-4 jobs ago, I just erased some more evidence of it.
You know how many of you had a business card with your name and a Blogspot URL on a 1-800-POSTCARDS template back in 2006? Oh the shame.
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I guess Gawker is turning around that "TOO BUTCH"... →
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theblueprint replied to your post: Dammit, I should have left a snide comment about…
seeing as twitter was shitting the bed around that time too, i’m wondering if “anonymous” tried attacking both? tumblr, it’s de riguer, but twitter’s been mad stable the past fifteen months.
Everyone keeps telling me that Tumblr is just going through the same phases that Twitter has gone through, and that...
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Police have now revealed the [decapitation] victim’s identity; might their questioning of area resident Brad Pitt led them to this major break in the case? Probably not, but it’s fun to imagine it did.
We’re talking about a murder, right? POP CULTURE REFERENCE, OH YEAH! HI FIVE!
Dammit, I should have left a snide comment about the half-hour of downtime last night (immediately as the late game ended) somewhere in the tags of that last post. Alas.
Business Insider: Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month, Thumbing Nose At Old Media Thinking As It Goes
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It’s admirable (in the Special Olympics sense of the word) of the Times to attempt to convince all of us with a 7-page article that the solution to employment issues in the US is corporate dormitories, low wages, and 12-hour shifts. Yes, if we act like China, we can compete directly with China. This would not make us less horrified at Chinese labor practices, it would just resolve the...
Some days, when I’m thinking, “Everything sucks and the world is hopeless”, I worry about my negativity. I worry that my perception of the world is skewed and dysfunctional, that I should not find so many things irritating (even if they are agreed widely to be subpar in their context) and I have an inability to focus on the things that would inspire me to be charitable and...
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Apparently Grynbaum was given the opportunity to... →
(I hate the Times)
“Even before my wife was pregnant, I never let a job prevent me from having a...”
– Marco Arment, talking like a real 1%’er. The same guy who called Kindles “disposable” and thinks paying authors is a “feature”. I guess inventing Tumblr and Instapaper gives you a pretty big bankroll, though. (via bmichael)