May 2009
38 posts
May 28th
But if you could get rid of all your movies and...
Yes, but books are different somehow. They've always been more tangible than movies or music. They've always been something you hold. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that words printed on a page have been around for thousands of years longer than film or music recordings. Maybe it's in my DNA to want that to remain. Also, having movies and music stored electronically doesn't alter how I take it in. Such is not the case with the written word. Movies remain on a screen and music remains audible. The page and the screen are two very different ways to absorb a book. Sure, the result is the same, but it's viscerally different.
May 27th
If you could get rid of all your books and replace...
No.
May 27th
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Uh-oh.  Morro Bay Singers snafu.
May 27th
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I now present: the Morro Bay Singers.
May 27th
George Takei & Rev. Lou Sheldon Square Off On Prop... →
At the very end, the Reverend’s mask of tolerance doesn’t just slip, it flies off his face in a shower of flame and soot.  It is both a beautiful and painful thing to watch because while it’s a satisfying moment of truth, it’s also deeply disheartening. Via Danforth
May 27th
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clapifyoulikeme: Should it worry me that I’m almost convinced I can hear “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” playing somewhere, even though there’s no way it is? Once, very late at night, I walked through my house for five minutes, trying to figure out where ‘Hungry Eyes’ from the ‘Dirty Dancing’ soundtrack was coming from.  It wasn’t coming from anywhere.
May 26th
May 23rd
In which a Major Larry Downs tries to get me to...
Received this e-mail this morning: Hello, I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you before. My name is Major Larry Downs, a member of the U.S. ARMY USARPAC Medical Team, which was deployed to Iraq in the beginning of the war in Iraq. I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my personal experience and role which I played in the...
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May 22nd
Timing
Two days ago, while burdened with the unseemly task of shopping for a bathing suit and hating my body, my little sister called to say she was being sent out on an audition to be an underwear model.  My little sister, who has not tried to get an agent.  My little sister, who was just approached by one.  My little sister, who has no debt and two other jobs and looks like someone turned Jessica...
May 22nd
May 21st
Doctor Uses Household Drill on Boy's Head →
As someone who’s had part of their skull sawed off in the proper manner, this may be the most frightening scenario I can imagine.
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May 18th
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Ballad of the Sad Young Men →
I’ve been obsessed with this song for weeks.  I tried to find a better way to share it than a stupid link to Rhapsody, but so it goes.
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sitko: Is it weird of me to be proud of Casey? We’re not super close, but still… I’m proud. Your various internets are probably clogged with re-postings of this video, but Casey is a really lovely person and deserves to be all over your internets.
May 13th
“In this movie one of the things that I had trouble with at the very beginning...”
– Joss Whedon, in the Serenity DVD commentary. Even though Serenity wasn’t a complete success and even though it wasn’t able to recapture the magic that Firefly had … I love Joss Whedon for putting this kind of thoughtful quality into every one of his projects.  That’s why,...
May 13th
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emilymayamills: OUR STRUGGLE on the front page of FunnyorDie today. Sweet! Our Struggle videos have been knocking ‘em out of the park for a couple months now.  Go, Emily, go!
May 13th
“So you have a couple drinks, fight about politics, and then you take it...”
– 30 Rock, S3, Ep. 21
May 8th
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Listensalu-tay-tions: Dear ridiculousness, I’ve...
May 8th
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May 6th
Elise Tan Roberts, 2, becomes youngest member of... →
This article worries me.  It worries me because I was reading and doing shit like that at two.  Now I might be kept up nights by the thought that when I was two years old, I was a genius … and now I am not. Then again, I didn’t know what a faucet was at age five. (via kulap)
May 5th
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I made this.
May 5th
An Observation
The more cynical and upset I get about adult life, the more I like Woody Allen movies. Well, I guess my snobbery/sophistication/pretension is complete.
May 3rd
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