August 2009
17 posts
“Unpredictability is just the lack of a precise model.”
Shoe Money Tonight
To preface this, I have to say: no, there’s no preface. But that it’s hard to type when you’re looking at Peter Krause spouting witty banter.
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To actually type this, I have to say: Sports Night. Best show. Ever. In the history of the world, possibly. Better than pretty much anything else you could watch. Later I’ll edit this and type something of substance. I...
“Why is it that every time I hang out with you, I drink and drive?”
– AshleyBeatrice, Part 2
“I don’t want a tattoo on my boobs. Am I allowed to make a “no tat...”
– AshleyBeatrice, part 1
An ode to Julie
Dear Julie,
I was thinking of you last night, and lo! and behold! (I’m not sure how that punctuation works, but I think it’s Shakespeare’s fault) today your status mentioned Hall & Oates. It was a sign from God and the Weird Waking Dreams Right Before You Sleep fairy. Or I think it was. The point is, I’m just checking on you, here, on the Internet, even though we...
David Cross’ New Book Jacket Should Sweep The Book... →
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway
fussballmeister:
State lawmakers didn’t sit still after a neo-Nazi group adopted a stretch of highway in Springfield, Missouri to clean up periodically. The lawmakers added an amendment to a bill, renaming that portion of the road after a prominent leader, who fled the Nazis’ advance in Europe and became a prominent theologian and civil rights advocate in the United States before his death in...
I don't, really, when you get right down to it.
(Let me preface this by saying that my opinions on this are of a preventative nature, obviously, as I can’t fathom this as a reality.)
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There are a lot of things about which I can be deemed high maintenance (no need to reblog that line with commentary, Everybody I Know), but here is the one thing that you have likely heard me say again and again, this time spurred by one too many...
The importance of being earnest
Someone (either a misguided soul or a sarcastic future-non-friend) suggested I watch Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Sure, I love music, but one of the only things that annoys me more than Michael Cera’s inability to play more than one character is hipsters. You can imagine my joy when I discovered it was a movie in which Michael Cera plays an overly earnest young hipster who...
Progress for progress' sake
Seriously, Google Labs, if I sign in every time I use a Google service, couldn’t you eventually begin guessing which ones I’ll want to open? Here’s a hint: I use GMail and Reader and Talk and Maps. Nothing else. I don’t use Google News, I really don’t frequent iGoogle, or Photo, Sites, Video, Shopping, and the list proceeds ad nauseum. (If you had a Google Chuck...
Shock and awe
I secretly hate shopping, especially at the mall, which explains why I was crabby and sour when Kayla, Dana and I walked into Macy’s (a store I hate) on a marathon shopping excursion yesterday.
My mood was no match, however, for the hullabaloo we found at the base of the escalators. Once we made it through the circle of people clutching camera phones, we found two statuesque (in the...