December 2009
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OMG Andrew Sullivan if you continue to call Palin... →
November 2009
Gawker laments the creative decline of 'Desperate... →
ohrohin:
Really? Desperate Housewives? At Gawker? When did Gawker become Towleroad? This is just all sorts of heartbreaking. Question marks!
Fucking Moylan. Can we please talk about the equation for when to stop reading a gossip site?
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The Five Stages of Lady Gaga
saafz:
Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let Gaga Be Great
1. Denial- This isn’t happening. She’s not real. “Just Dance” has to be a forgery. She has to be sampling. Oh, I know, this is a cover. No? It’s all her? She writes her own songs? Plays the piano? Actually sings? I refuse to believe this. Believing this would mean believing some girl in her early twenties isn’t your run-of-the-mill...
“When you build the platform, put out the chairs, advertise the event, set up the...”
– Box Turtle Bulletin, on the case in Uganda
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“The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought...”
– Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain. [via Sullivan, the stubborn Catholic]
From an atheist’s perspective, this is a sublimely ironic statement.
“Until about the middle of the last century, most of the turkeys eaten on...”
– Julia Reed’s history of the Thanksgiving turkey is like a fine meal. (via newsweek)
Gobble Gobble!
You will be unable to use your device or make...
ohhleary:
Because of a firmware update, Blackberry? Seriously? This update damn well better be worth it.
I have no idea what firmware is (bad nerd!), but I couldn’t help but notice that our huge law firm has been very busy fighting malware recently, deploying new computers to desks with a speed and frequency that is unheard of usually. Are the computers finally making their move? Is this...
Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly... →
That’s what I said!
I don't want to be a donor when I die;
thepoliticalpartygirl:
nerdgasms:
spontaneouslove:
thoseareturkeys:
ninaninaninanina:
foreverunfulfilled:
hurstyyy:
littlejames:
the idea of my body getting cut up after I’m dead. I don’t like the idea. I just want to be buried under a nice grave.
i hate the idea of being cut open, but the thought of possibly saving someones life just seems better to me.
i just don’t want them...
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The hospital followed me to the local sushi joint...
An 88 year old man passed out tonight after my visit with Jeff during a family meal after getting some tests here at Sloan Kettering, and now this place is swarming with EMS and police. The amazing thing is that this doesn’t faze me at all. It feels normal. Eating raw fish and watching triage should not feel normal. I can’t wait until this doesn’t feel normal again.
ohrohin:
I like bloggers who write something knowing full well that they may be wrong, but the thrill is in that risk of being outlandish and later being proved wrong. I mean all writing regardless of genre should be steeped in some risk. It’s also why I want to like EW.com’s bloggers, but they’re just so sterile.
Blogging used to be dangerous. Gawker used to be dangerous. Hip Hop used to be...
Justine Bateman will save the Internet. →
Meet the new business model. Same as the old...
misterhippity:
You’ll have to forgive me for being somewhat skeptical when I hear about “old, pre-internet business models.” I lived through the dot-com bubble 10 years ago when people talked like that. Then we all found out that those “old business models” never really changed after all. The web was just a new medium for the old models. That’s how I view the current situation.”
I believe...
How to lose an argument online →
marseeah:
(via azspot)
I refuse to have arguments on the internet. Which is why the first point in this list made me laugh. How to lose an argument online: 1. Have an argument.
Heh. Truth.
Satan: Getting shit done. →
Poe's Law in full effect. →
Poe’s Law: ”Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.”
The Independant reviews The Fame Monster.
charitini:
missworld:
fuckyeahladygaga:
Lady Gaga is the out-of-the-blue planetary pop phenomenon of 2009. At the age of 23, Stefani Germanotta, the funny-looking girl from Yonkers, has established herself as a self-created autonomous star, an avatar of avant-garde freako fashion and the queen of state-of-the-art electronic dance-pop.
And, given that she writes or co-writes her material...
“In sum: Nietzsche sought to know, follow, pray to Dionysus, god of Life, through...”
– I don’t think I’ve ever rolled my eyes this hard. Because Nietzsche championed the Dionysian human impulse and the destructive and intentional overcoming of “all-too-human” Christian slave morality - he was pious? Only if you stretch the definition of piety to encompass...
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pleasedontsqueezetheshaman started following this tumblelog
I’m honored! Big fan of yours.
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Also: The Office seems to be on a tear against... →
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I love that Brian Van is such an unabashed fan of Gaga.
I'm going to meet Elvira this weekend.
sistermarymartha:
yosamanthrax:
I’m going to meet Elvira this weekend.
I’ve met her. I spent not last Halloween, but the Halloween before with her- hanging out, drinking entirely too much champagne. She’s teeny, very pretty, and very sweet.
So jealous.
Poe's Law. →
The Gay Animal Kingdom →
inothernews:
absurdlakefront:
jaimeleigh:adeandabet:givemesomethingtoread:
Giraffes have all-male orgies. So do bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, gray whales, and West Indian manatees. Japanese macaques, on the other hand, are ardent lesbians; the females enthusiastically mount each other. Bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, are similar, except that their lesbian sexual...
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Thanks, Tumblr, for reminding me that I can't get...
notthatkindagay:
Can’t y’all just keep your heterosexuality to yourself?
For real, straight people are so icky.
“It was recontextualized by Newsweek into the real world, a world in which a...”
– I love when John Cook gets all Pareene on everyone’s ass
2005 Texas Constitutional Amendment may ban all... →
c-newt:
Thanks to my friend Kass for pointing this out to me.
The amendment, approved by the Texas Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by Texas voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.” But the trouble-making phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B, which declares:
This state or a political subdivision of this state may...
