February 2011
82 posts
HOLY SHIT
deepomega:
THE AWESOME PERSIAN GROCERY STORE NEAR MY APARTMENT IS ACTUALLY OPEN AFTER I GET OFF WORK
ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT IT CLOSED AT 6
GONNA GO GET INTO FIGHTS OVER PRODUCE WITH OLD PERSIAN LADIES
I hope this is as much like Aladdin as I think it is.
January 2011
44 posts
“CBS is one of four networks that pay the NFL $4 billion a year to televise the...”
– AdAge: “NFL Players: CBS Rejected ‘Let Us Play’ Ad” [via]
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Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent... →
doctordisaster:
barthel:
A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funeral service at the time.
The apparent anti-Islam terror plot comes...
For everyone who shares my phone anxieties
cherrispryteaintsobrite:
OMFG I HAVE TO CALL A GRANTEE IN ALGERIA AND I REALLY DON’T WANT TO AND MY FRENCH IS ABYSMAL AND MY ARABIC IS NON-EXISTENT AND CALLING INTERNATIONALLY IS ALWAYS A SHIT SHOW AND I DON’T HAVE MY INTERNATIONAL PHONE CODE AND THIS ISN’T EVEN MY REGION. AND IF I COULD JUST EMAIL HIM THIS WOULD BE SO MUCH FUCKING EASIER BUT NO I HAVE TO CALL AND UGH UGH UGH.
I don’t...
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doctordisaster:
Much Less Much More: looting
deepomega:
muchlessmuchmore:
I’m hoping my pals doctordisaster and deepomega can educate me here, because they’ve clearly gotten deeper into the…
My problems with it (and I won’t pretend to speak for DD) are twofold. One is that claims of “widespread looting” during a national emergency tend to be trumped up by journalists’ discomfort with the...
deepomega:
Much Less Much More: looting
muchlessmuchmore:
doctordisaster:
deepomega:
Can we just remove the word looting from the language of journalists?
Coverage of brown people and forners instantly decreases by 60 percent.
I’m hoping my pals doctordisaster and deepomega can educate me here, because they’ve clearly gotten deeper into the…
My problems with it (and I...
looting
doctordisaster:
deepomega:
Can we just remove the word looting from the language of journalists?
Coverage of brown people and forners instantly decreases by 60 percent.
I’m hoping my pals doctordisaster and deepomega can educate me here, because they’ve clearly gotten deeper into the weeds w/r/t Egypt than I have. I’m with you guys in principle in your criticism of...
doctordisaster:
Facebook Event: Straight Pride Day
microaggressions:
“This is not an anti-gay movement of any kind. I would just like some equality.”
The comments, at least, are pretty funny.
Here’s my favorite one: “I’m not going to bother reading all of the comments. I’m sure that most of them say the same thing I’ [sic] going to say. This...
I would rather face a Balrog
doctordisaster:
me: How is it that I have no problem buying tampons, but asking the little old lady at the grocery store for the key to the closet-o-condoms made me turn the color of a stop sign? Sarah: because they lock it up make it feel more illicit than it really is me: I guess Sarah: and there is a fucking old lady guardian YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Being raised more in the Street Fighter II...
“Among the ‘threatening’ citizens actually tracked by [the Pentagon’s...”
– Guernica: How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Obama makes no reference to BP oil disaster in... →
cherrispryteaintsobrite:
cajunboy:
(GRINDS TEETH. CLENCHES FIST)
This is a very good point also.
What oil what?
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Love it when my blog gets spam comments
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Do not let me get used to this
Wash dry and fold service around the corner from me. And they put my shirts on hangers so I don’t have to iron them. And it’s only a dollar a pound! I feel like I should be picking up an ivory backscratcher or something.
Intellect & Romance over Brute Force & Cynicism:... →
saythatscool:
cherrispryteaintsobrite:
HOLY BALLS.
I had to leave work. My head. It’s killin me. (Plz say in Rose Tyler voice, if possible.) I can’t focus on anything. I feel like I’m wasted, except not nauseous, and in the cab ride home, I COULDN’T FIGURE OUT WHERE I WAS AND WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF K STREET.
All this because of…
Why would somebody “like” your headache?
I had this same...
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I am having an excellent hair day
That is all.
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Notes on an afternoon gone slightly wrong
I don’t care how fancy of a bowling alley/billiards hall you are. If you are a bowling alley/billiards hall that happens to be competing with a giant sports bar down the street for Sunday NFL watchers, you can’t striclty enforce your Friday night dress code.
I’m sitting there, watching the Jets play the Steelers, after watching the entire Packers-Bears game wearing my Sunday...
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Notes on a night gone slightly wrong
Really, there’s only two notes here, because even if I wound up pissing away a ton of money on cabs and covers to bars I didn’t want to go to, I try not to complain too much about nights where I get a sufficient buzz on. However, comma,
1) Pro tip: If you’re at a party, and people are dancing, I don’t really care who you are, or how well you think you know the host,...
“The N.F.L. is correct that concussions are an issue in other sports. According...”
– NYTimes: Toyota Edits TV Commercial at the NFL’s Insistence
“We watched a few minutes of this amateurish video on Tuesday, we think, and...”
– “WaPo Newsroom Upset Because Black Lady with Boobs Hosts WaPo Webcast”
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Ah-ha!
See? It was all a scam! Kind of.
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Witness
I am the only person in America that didn’t buy a $20 Amazon gift card from Living Social today.
Hmm...
I can’t decide if this is everything I ever wanted, or the worst idea since Greedo shooting first.
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Crss
The “I” key on my keyboard has some hard-to-get-to crumb or something under it, which is making it very difficult to press. This is a first person blog! I use the “I” key all the time!
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Snow
When I was a kid, I used to play SimEarth. There was this one scenario, called Daisyworld, where the entire planet was populated by different colored daisies, and the aldebo of those flowers was your primary concern in the game.
I think of that whenever I squint outside the morning after a snowstorm. And then I further wonder if we’ll ever reach the point where we’re able to mount...
I'm history's greatest monster
Yeah, I derived a not insignificant amount of delight watching people wait for the clearly not-working rear door of my T car to open this morning. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?
Don't kid yourself
Of course I’m seeing this new Minka Kelly/Leighton Meester thriller.
"Once Upon a Time in Mexico" is on
They’ve got Norman Osborne playing a Mexican drug cartel leader. Did they run out of Hispanic actors?
That bit of casting takes me perilously close to being taken out of the narrative, every single time!
001101100011011 I AM SELF AWARE.
Hello, world.