February 2012
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Ethics training again!
doctordisaster:
Same videos as last year. Same quizzes as last year. Can’t wait for the hilarious sexual harassment module.
“I choose Business Ethics.”
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cherrispryteaintsobrite:
“It does help, to be a writer, to have the sort of crazed ego that doesn’t allow for failure. The best reaction to a rejection slip is a sort of wild-eyed madness, an evil grin, and sitting yourself in front of the keyboard muttering “Okay, you bastards. Try rejecting this!” and then writing something so unbelievably brilliant that all other writers will disembowel...
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lastbutnotleast:
“But can we please admit that many four year colleges do in fact attempt to indoctrinate students? And that a lot of Americans, including President Obama, regard that as a good thing? … It is nevertheless true that institutions of higher education generally value reason more than faith; they value intellectual achievement more than moral achievement; they’re implicated in...
Sometimes, Artax makes it out of the swamp →
I make a fucking excellent chili.
cherrispryteaintsobrite:
iz simmering now.
It better have beans in it!
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If I have any regrets about my "writing career"
It’s that when I was a little younger, I refrained from writing and pitching ideas, because I had this enduring fear that I didn’t have a blessed clue what I was talking about, and who cares what a 23-year-old has to say about anything?
Nowadays, I realize not that I actually did have a clue about anything, but rather there’s always a platform for a fresh-out-of-college kid to...
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What color is Blanka?
I UNDERSTAND that Blanka is green in all of the cover and promotional art for Street Fighter. But in the actual game, he was yellow! Tell me he wasn’t yellow!
maura:
“According to the report for 2011, produced by the World Newsmedia Network in the US and the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, more than 50 per cent of respondents (56.6 per cent) placed social media top of the list for where their companies will be investing over the next five years.”
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Because why spend money on reporting and content creation when you can just set that same...
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lifeaquatic:
…water, fire, fur trade, maritime, river travel, gates, textiles, rodeo, livestock, death, outdoors, indian wars.
accordions
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“1995: The co-op blocks any items that originate in Colorado. Recalls one member,...”
– A Complete History of the Park Slope Food Coop’s Boycotts
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"These days, one can hardly watch three... →
maura:
In honor of tomorrow night’s Pete & Pete retrospective shows at Bowery (tickets still available, I just checked!), indiepop guru Mike Appelstein counted down six of the show’s best musical moments. Michael Stipe, Luscious Jackson, and Fat Tulips ahoy!
“A Hard Day’s Pete” is the most poignant, meaningful, and true reflection on why we love music that’s ever...
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Offensive chants at Fighting Sioux hockey game... →
The racist mascot that just won’t die.
Am I gonna throw some sriracha on this potato? I’m not going to dignify that rhetorical question with a response.
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I wasn’t 100% sure what circumcision was when I first saw this movie, so the first scene with Rabbi Tuckman talking about what being a mohel entails. Now that I’m an adult, I have the critical faculties to see that it’s just a cheap dick joke.
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The good thing about getting home early after a disappointing trip to the endodontist is that I can start cooking a baked potato for dinner in time to eat it before bedtime.
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This rap at the beginning of Robin Hood: Men in Tights doesn’t really hold up.
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Don't worry
I still have to go back next week for the real root canal. But the good news is, I’ll be on antibiotics until then, so I don’t have to concern myself with drinking away my misery.
Well, tumblr, I'm off to get a root canal →
But I’m gonna do that thing that all the more popular people on this thing do, and ask you to ask me stuff! And then when I get back this afternoon, I can post all my grumpy, pissed-off, doped-up answers. It’ll be fun, I swear.
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Found out at the party I hosted saturday
deepomega:
that I’m known as the “short, funny guy” by some people I only see every now and then.
I got a physical a few years ago, and the nurse measured me. I looked at the form later, and she had written “five feet, eight and three-quarters inches.” She couldn’t give me a quarter inch!
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Fortune Favors The Bold: Ranty Rant About... →
bobbybigwheel:
There’s been a mini-outrage about a 101-year-old knish shop, Yonah Schimmel, potentially going out of business on the Lower East Side. However, people are ignoring exactly WHY this place is going out of business.
“The store, where the knish was possibly invented, is…
“But it’s a neighborhood, not a museum.”
“If a Muumuu House house style emerged, it was one that was very much in line...”
– Welp.
Taking a break from fielding questions to remind...
tylercoates:
In all, [Tao Lin] read around 30 tweets, and about half of them got laughter registering somewhere in the polite to genuine segment of the continuum. Maybe not genuine enough for Lin, who concluded his bit abruptly: “That’s all I’m going to read,” he said, and introduced the next reader, Marie Calloway.
Hey guys, I co-hosted a show on Sunday where eight bloggers told jokes on...
Some thoughts on this Pete and Pete article →
1) I only read Splitsider articles that are cross-posted on the Awl, so I probably don’t have a great basis for making judgments. (Although I assume stuff that’s cross-posted is deemed to be elite content, so maybe I have an excellent basis. Who knows.) Anyway, I’m always disappointed in how dry and bland these posts can be, and the Pete and Pete article is a textbook example....
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“To start with,” Krauss writes, “he made me... →
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fek:
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy gave readers the bloody scalps of Indian heads.
In his latest effort, Cormac McCarthy gives readers the bloody scalps of punctuation marks.
!!
Fuck Cormac McCarthy.
doctordisaster:
bthny:
isnteverything, kbpresently, thepurestform:
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.” — Barack Obama
SOURCE???
The “source” is obviously the text somebody put on a picture of Barack...
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How @APStylebook and @FakeAPStylebook spent their... →
doctordisaster:
wallofdis:
AKJLSFH;KJHDK;AH;KH;K;k!!!!!!!!111!!!!!1!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
It’s like a reality TV show starring different style guides, all competing to win your comma usage.
If anybody were interested in getting me to watch reality TV, THIS WOULD PRETTY MUCH BE THE TICKET
Chicago or get the fuck out.
brianvan:
Pittsburgh is about to find out the true meaning of “a pitcher to be named later”. Because when you sign A.J. Burnett, you don’t really know what you’re getting. On a game-by-game basis.
This is occasion for another parade in New York.
sorryyourheinous bait →
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“Defunding transit is how you smack down urbanites, environmentalists, and people...”
– These Tea Party guys. These are not my kinda guys.
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Man With Hockey Hair Makes Great Points →
clarencerosario:
Barry Melrose correctly makes the case that the Red Wings aren’t getting the props they deserve for breaking a 35-year-old home winning streak with 21 straight:
Today’s NHL doesn’t have any soft teams (Melrose cites the Caps from the 70s as an automatic win for the 20-game-streak Flyers)
Today’s NHL doesn’t have any soft goalies (Melrose points to the presence of more sub par...
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brianvan:
You know, it’s funny and fitting that, at the emergence of Eli Manning as a two-time Super Bowl MVP and champion after years of mockery, at the very moment he should be enjoying an extended, complimentary spotlight… all of New York suddenly turns around and goes, “OH, HEY, LOOK! AN UNDRAFTED POINT GUARD!”
You can’t spell “Jeremy Lin” without “Eli.”
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Developing a pitch to the Hairpin called "Hairpin... →
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sean-p3:
Scott Brown: insisting on birth control coverage for all women is “elitist”
I CANNOT WAIT to vote for Elizabeth Warren.
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lifeaquatic:
I got off the bus because the guy kept going on about Demi Moore and how he wants to convert all the crackheads to whippits “because it’s better and cheaper.” Then he OFFERED TO SHARE WITH THE ONE BLACK GUY ON THE BUS, saying “I know you want some.” I had to get off before I started fighting with him.
I’m just glad he wasn’t the driver.