January 2009
194 posts
Deer Tick - Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin)
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The right buttons to push
How to make me think you’re charming, even if you are 6 inches shorter than me, twice my age, and wearing some awful black graphic hoodie:
Tell me that I am attractive because I am:
-tall
-smart
-funny
tesslynch:bebelestrange:trixietreats:
Handsome...
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You know, George, I was kind of starting to feel... →
In its final days, the Bush administration imposed a 300 percent duty on Roquefort, in effect closing off the U.S. market. Americans, it declared, will no longer get to taste the creamy concoction that, in its authentic, most glorious form, comes with an odor of wet sheep and veins of blue mold that go perfectly with rye bread and coarse red wine.
The measure, announced Jan. 13 by U.S. Trade...
Obama's White House →
It’s just like, could I like this guy any more? The other shoe has to drop sometime, right? And then he says something like “I’m just not a plates kind of guy,” and all his aides talk about how excited he is to get to live “over the store” so he can see his family all the time. Him, I could get a beer with.
yumwatch:kayfabe:fishy:alcaniglia:
Great article...
#1 thing I find to be dissatisfactory about my...
Wall-to-wall carpeting. Never again.
“Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?”
– Faye Dunaway on the casting of Hilary Duff as Bonnie Parker in a remake of Bonnie & Clyde (via shiningstar) (via frangry)
Big news in the blog-iverse.
My friend Pia (see here) has just started writing a food blog with the rather objectionable title Julia Child is Ugly. If the first two entries are any indicator, good things will come of this. And lots of pictures of her exceptionally handsome cat, Little Pajamas. Pia writes of him: “if anyone is a foodie, it’s this total chunkerjamas because i ain’t never known a hungrier bear.”
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School can expel lesbian students, court rules -... →
This is so, so crazy and awful. (via yumwatch)
The best of Updike, the worst of Updike (Slate) →
It also must be said that, on the subject of sex, Updike could be the worst writer Knopf has ever known. David Foster Wallace, in a review of Toward the End of Time that sized up Updike as a “phallocrat,” counted 10 and half pages devoted to the protagonist’s thoughts about his penis, and that cannot be a record. Anyone with the stamina to get through Brazil, a beachy retelling...
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Roger Miller -...
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tygertherapy:
Michael Hurley, “The Time is...
Emitt Rhodes - Somebody Made For Me
Is this the...
Realized on my walk home.
I’ve been having some good “me time” while walking to and from the bus. And on the bus, I suppose. Recently:
-I have only ever lived on corners, with the exception of the time I spent in Paris. Even my freshman year dorm room was on a corner of sorts, of a major path (the kind college security could drive on in their little red Rav-4s) and one of the on-campus roads. The...
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New Yorker - "Remembering Updike" →
New York Times Updike obituary →
“He is a prose writer of great beauty,” Mr. Wood wrote, “but that prose confronts one with the question of whether beauty is enough, and whether beauty always conveys all that a novelist must convey.”
Comments like these did not deter Mr. Updike from plowing ahead with his work, turning up three pages a day of fiction, essays, criticism or verse, and proving the maxim that several pages a day was...
It's Restaurant week in Philly!
thewordunheard:
sneakyjane:
yoquieropancakes:
We’re making reservations at El Vez for Friday, I think. I’ve never been there but I mean you really can’t go wrong with Mexican food and margaritas. I can’t find the restaurant week menu anywhere though, which is a bummer.
Ok I had to step in here as a knower of all good mexican good in philly - DON’T go to El Vez! Its over-priced for the quality...
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The Personal Ads in the London Review of Books are...
thewordunheard:adamfrucci:
I celebrated my fortieth birthday last week by cataloguing my collection of bird feeders. Next year I’m hoping for sexual intercourse. And a cake. Join my invite mailing list at box no. 6831.
OMG! This magazine is the shizz. Seriously, dudes. Awesome! LOL! Classics lecturer (M, 48). Possibly out of his depth with today’s youth. KTHX! Box no. 2680.
God appeared to me...
Serge Gainsbourg - Intoxicated Man
This song is...
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Stoppin' global warming and bein' all handsome
“Mr. Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the Bush administration’s past rejection of the California application [of stricter auto emissions standards]. While he stopped short of flatly ordering the reversal of the Bush decision, the agency’s regulators are now widely expected to do so after completing a formal review process.
The president also directed the...
