June 2009
Vibe mag shuts down: http://bit.ly/BfINf
RT @Newsweek: Best #books solved! In which we use Science to determine the Best. Book. Ever.: http://newsweek.com/metabooks
This American Life: Prom →
molls:
omgsssoooooaweessommeee.
One of my favorites
Watchkatiebakes:
Let’s focus on what’s important: Shaq is still alive.
copycats:
Billie Jean - Chris Cornell originally...
Today in Headlines That Perhaps Miss the Point
“Sasha Pavlovic dealt from Cavaliers to Suns”
(from Rachelle Hruska) Dear Foster Kamer:
brianvan:
rachellehruska:
Last night, among several other friends, I bumped into Foster Kamer at M2 for the Nightlife Protection Committee launch party. We discussed his last post for Gawker titled “Slave Labor- the New-New Media.” Foster was extremely plesant and a good listener. Before bumping into Foster, I had worked on the piece below, which I still think deserves to be posted, as it...
“All right, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety...”
– —Tommy Lee Jones, playing Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard in the film adaptation of “The Fugitive.”
This was the first thing I thought of when I heard that South Carolina’s Republican governor Mark Sanford was AWOL.
(via ncroal)
Ha!
RT @simplylisa: GOOD’s infographic archive: http://tinyurl.com/lnv39l
Feel-good (or maybe just uncomfortable) site of... →
akuat:
For the record, even an intern can be in the top 8.33% of global earners, and a less-than-grateful kid in the suburbs can definitely be in the top 0.33%, and everyone can take that knowledge and use it to make a difference.
copycats:
Celebrated Summer by Mark Kozelek...
Dear Biggest Assholes In The World On The F Train...
brianvan:
lindsayrobertson:
You said this. SO LOUDLY in the middle as the rest of us stared. I memorized:
One Of You: “One guy got a hundred and twenty thousand just to NOT work for a year.” (Ed note: what?)
The Other Of You: “Shit, I’d do it for 80 thousand! 80 thousand dollars a year to NOT work? I could live off that! I could totally do that!”
One Of You: “It’s still HIGHER THAN THE...
copycats:
Baker Street by Foo Fighters originally...
Why do people usually quote Jay-Z as their first...
theihlest:
the-best-on-mars:
Fuck that, my first hip-hop album was Nas. Nas all day.
Jay-Z? First hip-hop album?!!?! Is that oldschool now?!
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don’t Hurt’em - 1990
Kriss Kross - Totally Krossed Out - 92
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle - 93
And then came 1994…. G Funk Era… Ready To Die… Illmatic……… the rest is history.
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
God, I...
“There’s no question if you are going to do this with Squires, you’ll...”
– Unnamed Time Inc exec, accidentally revealing why the company is in much deeper trouble than you might think, in today’s Keith Kelly column about how Ann Moore wants to keep the company in her clutches for three more years.
“I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if...”
– Ann Curry’s message to a new generation of citizen journalists at the 140 Characters Conference. (via gillianmae)
I’m sorry, can someone explain what the &#%* Ann Curry is saying here?
Social behavior, abstract thought, aggression and anxiety: Does this sound like the Newsweek folks? http://tweetpsych says yes
1 tag
David Foster Wallace, Visionary
It’s the mornings after the spider-and-heights dreams that are the most painful, that it takes sometimes three coffees and two showers and sometimes a run to loosen the grip on his soul’s throat; and these post-dream mornings are even worse if he wakes unalone, if the previous night’s Subject is still there, wanting to twitter
—Infinite Jest, 1996
Guess this puts DFW in the...
inothernews:
switchblades:
Morrissey -...
“The recession of the ’80s transformed the working class into the working poor,...”
– NYT
Also, Barbara Ehrenreich should have her own news magazine.
Yet Another Reason to Love Pico Iyer →
Trailer for Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" →
caro:
jstn:
I’ve been excited for any news of the movie, but this has me worried. My favorite aspect of the book was its oppressive sparsity; literally the only description of the apocalyptic disaster is “a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions.” The details of the event just aren’t important, all your attention is focused on the survival of the man and his son and their...
Oh, Starbucks on Hudson and Clarkson, It Is On
Really? You’re really going to be closed on Saturday, right when I need you before heading into the office? And yet friggin’ Dunkin’ is open right next door?
Dead. To. Me.
copycats:
Buckets of Rain - Neko Case originally...
inothernews:
tylercoates:
PJ Harvey - “You...
History repeats the old conceits The glib...
Vida Blue is one of the guys who brought coke to...
ryanbrown:
spiers:
youngmanhattanite:
Is Vida Blue that annoying sex blogger who Xeni hated/dated? THIS IS 99, BITCHES.
No. That’s Violet Blue.
I’m sorry that I know that.
Vide Blue is another baseball legend, BUT ALSO (BUT ALSO!) the name of a side project started by Page McConnell, the keyboardist from Phish, during their hiatus earlier this decade.
Full circle, you guys:
Vida Blue was...
“Dear Newsweek, I never thought this kind of thing would happen to me. I was at...”
– Stephen Colbert, Hanover, N.H. Sept. 18, 1984 (via newsweek)
This one is my favorite
“Ten cents an issue? Why, that’s robbery! You should be ashamed of yourself the...”
– Stephen Colbert, Heaven’s Waiting Room Feb. 16, 1933 (via newsweek)
From Colbert’s series of his unpublished letters to the editor of Newsweek
The Outing in Egypt
generationo:
Volunteers and staffers for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign were often asked by voters if he was a Muslim. As an Obama field organizer, I calmly reassured nervous Democrats that he was indeed a Christian. Volunteers who stopped by the office to make a few phone calls between jobs got the similar questions. They would similarly (sometimes less calmly) inform folks that Obama...
I Just Pray It's Better Than the First One
ncroal:
American Beauty Redux? http://is.gd/O85c
We’ve seen the future, and it’s NPR: http://mashable.com/2009/06/03/npr/
