October 2008
2050ad:
Want to REALLY scare yourself this Halloween?
Watch “Heat,” a PBS Frontline documentary that delves deep into climate change. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen on the subject and the whole program is online.
Now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ll be watching the other “Heat”.
Michael Duff of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is doing a bit of lionizing today. He laments the fall of Radar Online and the inconveniencing/disenfranchising of its talented writers. But more than anything else, he looks like a creepy guy who spends too much time on computers. Just like me.
All of this talk about good bloggers alternately as “rock stars” and “ahead of...
marklisanti:alexbalk:
“In a just world, bloggers like Balk and Sicha would be rock stars, but the powers that be don’t respect their medium yet.”
“Option 5 - Balk is a jerk”
That’s really unfair. Not true at all. Right, Alex?
**crickets**
whatcriscilikes:
Summer? That is not a hot weather babe enjoying the season - that is a prostitute who just finished a job. That picture was probably taken yesterday.
Actually, it’s Debbie Harry in 1978. But close enough! Back then, she wasn’t selling, but everyone was buying.
dear person dressed up as the joker,
beff:
nudawn:
no not you, no. the other one. that one. yea you.
1. you fucking creep me out. you went with the joker as a costume. seriously? and it was like a half assed costume. you had on regular clothes and some face paint on.
2. you seriously fucking creep me out. you didnt stop staring. i’d look back cause i didnt know if maybe i knew you under all that makeup? i kept waiting...
Jackson 5 To Reunite, Says Jermaine Jackson →
katiebakes:
(via ed209)
I would just like to take this opportunity to point out that Jermaine Jackson’s son is named … Jermajesty.
So Tracy Morgan’s wish will come true after all??
Today in Sur La Table: SHINY POTS
Also: it is really hard to take pictures like this and not see the camera/photographer reflection in the image. Look at the lid of the red pot.
Answers to Katiebakes
4. I left my phone on the roof of our rental car in Mississippi and then drove away. The phone was later found run over in the dirt. I contend that a lady on an ATV ran it over, while Krucoff thinks it was me. At any rate, it now only works in certain locations, none of which are located in my neighborhood. So, I think I need a new phone. Is there anyone who would advise me to definitely NOT get...
On a lighter note
Tracy Morgan, at the Apollo, November 8th (tickets)
Still tix available. Really want to go.
Who am I imitating?
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My ironic nostalgia is more overreaching than your...
andrearosen:
Who remembers Coach?!
Yay! That show was hysterical. Luther and Dauber FTW. Two bumbling idiots for the price of one! (It could have been called “Three Stooges and a Lady”)
Zing!
marco:
“Tumblr’s lead developer Marco Arment is also something of an entrepreneur on the side. His most useful creation is Instapaper, a simple bookmarking service hooked to an iPhone App which comes in free and pro versions.”
— Silicon Alley Insider. Thanks! I guess you didn’t like Tumblr, then?
Enough about the stupid Phillies, let's get back...
katiebakes:
This is a great interview with Ralph Vacchiano, the writer of Eli Manning: The Making of a Quarterback. (The first chapter of which is also available on the Fifth Down blog.)
I really liked his answer to a question about whether coverage of Eli has always been fair. I think he does a great job of summing up the insanity of New York:
Now, if he played in San Diego and his struggles...
Welcome to The Bean Coffee & Tea →
Why, I have breakfast there weekly. Wafels & Dinges FTW. Also, there’s Ninth Street Espresso, Porto Rico, and a bunch of other passable places. The only Starbucks I ever have is fresh-ground home-brewed.
skeetonmischa:
Has anybody been to the Bean Coffe & Tea in New York City before? This may be my temporary Bean home while on vacation in two weeks. In addition, are there any...
Nerve and Hendrick's Gin Present You With Highly...
…so says the title of an email I received today from Nerve.com, which links to image galleries for two parties (one in SF, one in NY). I was invited to neither!
I have no expectation of receiving special consideration from Nerve for their party lists, as I have no relation with them. Never worked there, never freelanced, only a few friends who are writers, etc. But, since when is it polite...
Myspace.com community is in shock as Nudawn was...
antikris:
Myspace.com officials and Federal agents were in shock this morning when Nudawn was arrested at 2:30 am this morning for cyberstalking. Nudawn was arrested for using site to post sexual content to lure unsuspecting men in.
Hey, tell Claw I said, “Whut up?”
I bet David accidentally kicked out the power cord to the server while getting up from that photo session. Ha!
Slow Your Roll
Today is officially “Not So Fast Day”. It seems two of my important tasks today were addressed in a timely and efficient manner by myself, only to be dispatched at turtle speed by their respective agents:
Today was the first possible day in which my $100 from my wallet, confiscated at the time of my arrest, was available from the police and that I was available to make an...
Balk, I’m going to send $33 over immediately. I want to make this the new model of blogging - earning a New York salary and/or professional expense reimbursements for being a witty unemployed person. I want to lionize witty unemployed hat-passing. It’s the new New Media.
alexbalk:
Man, it is ugly out there. It occurs to me that it might take longer to find a new job than previously...
Important information you need to know: MTV...
Many surprises here! Apparently Planet Earth has good taste after all. Is ANYTHING from the Aughts in here? I just processed the list, didn’t look past the first 20 entries.
Never Gonna Give You Up
By: Rick Astley
Views: 12793 Rating: 96
Once in a Lifetime
By: Talking Heads
Views: 10467 Rating: 96
Money For...
rach:
“I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s something for research.”
— Oxford professor Richard Dawkins, who is stepping down for a while to write a children’s book about whether or not believing in...
seagull:
Hay guyz, here’s a helpful tip: If you are not willing to load up an empty dishwasher with the dirty dishes that belong to you, at least be kind enough to rinse the dishes before putting them in the sink in the first place. This is so when they are cleaned by your roommate a week later, she won’t have to deal with the disgusting old food that is now growing new colonies of fun and then...
Nickelback "Something In Your Mouth" →
goldenfiddle:perpetua:
As in, “You’d look so much cuter with something in your mouth.” This new Nickelback song is totally horrible, yet better than anything they’ve ever done before, and kinda fascinating in the way that it’s basically like an Electric Six song parodying stupid macho sexuality played totally straight and irony-free. (Via Maura)
1. Someone put Tracy Morgan on a rural network...
tylercoates:
I am starting a long-term temp job tomorrow, thank God. But: the Internet is blocked. No blogging!
I am a Millennial, and I am sad about this. I’m going to go take an angry-nap.
Most people I talk to seem to be indifferent about such denied conveniences. For a lot of older or disconnected people, Internet access isn’t a priority in any setting. And we’re whiny...
“Was America ready for a black baseball player in the 40s? No, but Jackie...”
– Chris Rock speaking on the reluctance of some whites to vote for Obama. (via cajunboy)
CLAWS (Classy Ladies Arm Wrestling Society) -...
Don’t ask me how I get involved in these things, but I seem to naturally gravitate to them… a co-worker of mine is helping produce this, until recently oblivious to me and vice versa, and now after catching up with her on this, I’ll be taking pictures. You freaky Tumblr girls should be all over this - it’s strictly amateur level, so even spaghetti-armed chicks actually have...
How much could you stand to see the polls turn at this point toward McCain for president? Yeah, I thought so too. It makes me want to vomit on a stolen dick. But something I’d also not like to see next week: a coronation.
Please, folks, try to remember: Obama is not God. Sometimes he actually has some shitty ideas, or a complete lack of them. His message is about inspiring the rest of us...
The anonymous drooling retards from AMI still haven’t taken Balk off the masthead. That means it sort of looks like he’s still Executive Editor through today. A fate worse than death.
Just for pointing this out, I’m probably starting a blood grudge. It’ll take a sincere handwritten letter and a bottle of well-aged bourbon to smooth this one over.
Put aside the overwhelming pathos for a second...
Lives - Facebook in a Crowd - NYTimes.com
I would learn, when I asked some people who didn’t show up the next day, that “definitely attending” on Facebook means “maybe” and “maybe attending” means “likely not.” So I probably shouldn’t have taken it personally. But the combination of alcohol and solitude turned my thoughts to self-pity. Was I really that big of a loser? Or was it that no one...
“He scares me,” Mrs. Permon said. “The coloreds are excited, but my friends and I...”
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In Pennsylvania’s Steel Country, Race Nags at Some Democrats - NYTimes.com
Sorry, I just had to check my calendar and make sure we were in 2008. (via doree)
I will never excuse any sort of bigoted thinking, but we as the youth of America (I mean, do remember that many more people are older than...
“I often divulged early on with women that my grandfather had left me a large...”
– An NYT Modern Love essay about a small heirloom diamond and a big heirloom diamond. The author, a legal analyst at Bloomberg L.P., sounds like he deserves the woman he got. She threatened to end the relationship if he didn’t propose by Labor Day and when she was offered the more modest diamond,...
Did you know...
You can write DMX’s entire rap sheet on Elisabeth Moss’ forehead. You don’t even have to write tiny.
The thing about those annoying paginated photo...
…is not that it’s a problem to view only one image+caption at a time, or even that we have to see a new ad for every slide. The problem is that, for every site, you have AT LEAST 50k-100k of page weight wrapping around this information, serving as site navigation, banners, Javascript and CSS includes, etc. The end user isn’t concerned with “page weight” but they sure...
“Were going lower east soimewhwhere can we get crif dogsd?”
– My beloved former housemate Wong, who is in town tonight, in a text message. (via caro)
“Wonger want hot dog! No yanky my wanky!” 