July 2009
“There are a thousand, thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead.
I finished this book on the way into work today; the simultaneous austerity and pathos blew me away. Guess this makes me 0 for 2 for crying on the subway this week.
(via meaghano)
Oh, God. I can’t even begin to describe how much I love that book.
So they can claw cats, obvs RT @scootes: Dogs don’t have arms, or use remotes, or hold phone! Why do they need a Snuggie? http://tr.im/uOB9
Congrats! RT @BridgetMonroe: The @readersdigest video channel has relaunched! Check it out at www.rd.com/video.
Yes, this is 8th grade Bukowski. Although, so is...
inothernews:
elvira:sexmusic:
heart shaped box...
WatchToday in Fun
5 Best Written Films
skybarn:
gonzaloisgod:
skybarn:
Not a scientific list, and probably missing a bunch, but I have a hard to pin down idea in my mind. Not improv, director or specifically actor driven. Something about tone, structure, dialogue and characterization that just feels written. Also, I think movie adaptations of plays don’t count.
1. In Bruges 2. Kicking and Screaming 3. Chinatown 4. Breaking...
“Yo La Tengo makes The MC5 sound like Gershwin.”
– Mom (via sarahfrank)
Your mom is a very smart woman…
Skynet Watch, Cyberdyne Systems Edition →
For N’Gai
inothernews:
bingoparaphernalia:mills:
Paul...
Can I Get an Amen?
ncroal:
We Are All Witnesses, Finally: Footage of LeBron being LeDunked on finally hits the intertubes http://is.gd/1I1y0
WatchToday in things we L-U-V: A Frank&Soller joint: Meet the Facebookers
Today in Hedlines from 2,000 B.C.
Trees felled, stones hurled in W. Bank (Jerusalem Post)
youwillbeassimilated:
The Dead Weather, “I Cut...
Missouri Car Dealer Offering A Free AK-47 With the... →
imamess:
cajunboy:
God bless America!
Huh. Offering a voucher for a foreign-made gun doesn’t seem very American
Just Wondering
Has ‘Jumped the Shark’ jumped the shark?
I hope so.
Anthony Lane Gets It Right On Sacha Baron Cohen
youngmanhattanite:
“I realized, watching ‘Borat’ again, that what it exposed was not a vacuity in American manners but, more often than not, a tolerance unimaginable elsewhere. Borat’s Southern hostess didn’t shriek when he appeared with a bag of feces; she sympathized, and gently showed him what to do, and the same thing happens in ‘Brüno,’ when a martial-arts instructor, confronted by a...
You've Been Warned, People.
ncroal:
It Begins: Google Voice is sending out invitations.
negevrockcity:
Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt...
RT @kurtsoller: RT @dizzyblazeberg Sign before the catwalk for the models at Givenchy: you cannot go on the runway unless you have eaten.
Today In Days I Thought Would Never Come: Gmail... →
copycats:
King of the Road by Reid Jamieson...
“Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me—sports… basketball. I use it...”
– —Alaska governor and former high school basketball player Sarah Palin, explaining part of her reasoning for stepping down from office. (Via Talking Points Memo.)
There’s something Iversonian about this quote.
(via ncroal)
Except, of course, that in AI’s case, it’s not passing the ball...
Young Manhattanite, It's Getting Old
charitini:
youngmanhattanite:
The New and Improved Chartini:
charitini:
Canada. p.s. free publicity, panels. Yay new media!
To the point!
(a) So now mentioning that I’m from Canada is “new”?
(b) What part of “free” in relation to Tumblr is new?
(c) “Publicity?” Tumblr? Really?
(d) I have been on panels before, thanks.
(e) Sorry I’ve slacked on being charitable - I haven’t done ANYTHING...
I Think It's Because They Know We're Going to...
nicksummers:
Restaurant discovery of the week: At Frank (with Peter Goldman, my editor on the Newsweek election book), they offer something called “wine by consumption.” They open a bottle, you drink what you feel like, and they bill you for just that amount. Staggering. Why don’t more restaurants do this?
My favorite part of this is that to illustrate his... →
“I miss the snow. Yes, I know the United States gets snow, but to my Canadian...”
– Tim Long (via paultough)
Clearly this guy has been to Kansas