January 2010
34 posts
“moderation kills the spirit”
– taking one of my favorite truisms by jenny holzer’s to heart tonight. 2009, you are finally out of my hair.
December 2009
58 posts
HNY
me: see you in the new year (har, har)
my editor: you too! HNY
me: omg laziest abbreviation ever!
my editor: i think that’s ‘omg’
me: shit.
“Once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating...”
– TRUTH.
“I never grew tired of crossing a bridge at night in the back of a cab, watching...”
– The End of the 00s: Made in New York, by Joel Johnson
“I am looking for a quality daycare provider who can watch my adorable twins...”
– This kind of random e-mail spam completely baffles me. Who is sending it? What is the point?
WatchLast ZOMG moment of 09?
Teen Witch was one of my favorite movies growing up so this tribute featuring Maeby from Arrested Development MAKES MY YEAR.
Also, I think its very telling that I’m more ashamed of the fact that I’ve forgotten all the lyrics to the girlverse than the fact that I actually spent a day rewinding a VHS tape to learn them.
via Buzzfeed
“We continue to teach our kids French but we don’t teach them Ruby On...”
– via avc.
“These are the papers that defy boundaries, the internet, and, oft times, common...”
– From ‘The Fabulous Papers’ by Leah Finnegan.
Self-like, at least.
thedeadline:
RT @jenniferbrook: Facebook lets me “like” my own status. Is this a digital expression of self-love?
“Women need to develop their own muscles. I’m not talking about those buff babes...”
– Manhola Dargis for the NYT.
“Gaga has done something more specific: She’s tapped into one of the...”
– Ann Powers for the LA Times.
“How is it possible that there’s no reciprocal formula for a sex scandal...”
– I’m not satisfied with any of these theories but haven’t formulated any of my own yet. More on this later.
“when i say SF, what do you think of? i think of brisk, sea breezes, charming...”
– rolling seas of grassy parks, pale sunbathers in brightly colored short shorts, lazy afternoons unfurling into cool evenings that last until daybreak, sun warming my back while fingering the grooves of chewed scrabble tiles, pulling slivers of cured meats from waxy paper, scratchy records on a rainy...
Watch“They expected a bunch of housewives discussing the merits of different kinds of pantyhose. Well, they did get a passionate community, just not the one they were expecting. It was the cross-dressing and fetish community that latched onto L’eggs.”
— Great interview with Caterina Fake on the nature of community but all I couldn’t get past this quote. I kept thinking about...
“Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill....”
– Laura Holson for the NYT.
“This is the one! Just because I like the way it looks. It looks like a Camaro,...”
– Amanda Blank goes shopping at Good Vibrations.
“I am wearing an all black outfit consisting of a HELMUT LANG tank top from the...”
– The Considered Ensemble, a fashion blog with no photographs. Genius squared.
via things magazine
“Will this type of tourism be akin to visiting places like Tombstone, Arizona,...”
– On plans to start hustling tourists through some of the more dangerous, crime-riddled parts of Los Angeles.
“AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which...”
– Surviving the twenty-first century is probably the toughest challenge that the human race has ever faced.
