March 2010
20 posts
February 2010
31 posts
Andrew Koenig
I know Andrew Koenig’s death has probably already come to everyone’s attention, but I wanted to say that this is fucking terrible. The few weeks I worked with him, I found him to be an incredibly nice and sincere person who wanted to be good at what he was doing. It is a terrible tragedy that sometimes that isn’t enough to sustain a person. I spent about 10 years of my life in a very deep...
Ian McShane to play Blackbeard in next 'Pirates'... →
Well, the prospect of a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie just got less revolting.
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Mom and I just had an impromptu dance party to Journey. It consisted of Mom, in the kitchen, making me a chicken sandwich while sashaying back and forth - and of me, at my computer, punching the air. Both of us silent, neither of us commenting on it afterward.
If I can convey one overarching theme to my posts on Tumblr and Twitter about my mother, it is that I kind of wish she were my age so that...
Hi.: Compiled List of the World's Most Unfuckable... →
Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor, OED
Edmund was Co-Editor with John Simpson of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and is now Deputy Chief Editor. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He has a particular responsibility for the linguistic aspects of the dictionary text, as well as for words borrowed from unfamiliar...
Dru Hill, "Love M.D." (And The Mastery Of R&B... →
interweber:
Um, was JUST talking about Dru Hill.
(This is great, but in no way is R&B ridiculous.)
If you are a person who would enjoy this article (e.g. anyone), then you might also enjoy my friend Matt’s blog: Crab Meats.
“It’s not just about that, not just about the ways women devalue their own work,...”
– The Tiger Beatdown Pledge Drive is officially open. Even if you, like me, are so broke that you cannot afford to pay anyone for anything right now, I said a lot of stuff that was really important to me in this piece, and I would like you to read it. (via sadydoyle) (via bmichael)
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Explaining 'Deep Space Nine' to Mom
Me: So Starfleet sends Sisko to the space station because they want Bajor to join the United Federation of Planets. The Cardassians--
Mom: Oh, I know them. They have a reality show, don't they?
Me: Yes. Kim Cardassian and her large butt have exhausted Bajor's natural resources, so she and her awful family leave to have their own reality show and torture Earth. Also, there's a wormhole.
Jim Henson
beardrevue:
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Inspiration for a muppet. Need I say more? Light-hearted, easy-going, family-friendly fun. This beard is the Steve Martin comedy of facial hair. Henson was able to propel odd multicolored puppets to the height of prime time television and to become the most beloved supplementary educational program for our children. Without him, Star Wars would look more like a Sci-Fi...
I had a total Princess and the Pea moment today at work. Except that instead of it being a pea underneath 20 mattresses, it was uncredited music from the Star Trek episode “Amok Time” played over footage of an octopus attacking a boat.
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Quesadillas
Mom: Want a quesadilla?
Me: Sure!
Mom: Heyyyyyy.
Me: Oh, yeah. We're out of cheese.
Mom: Then why did you put the bag back?
Me: Because I left enough for one more.
Mom: No, you didn't.
Me: Oh. I was drunk.
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Whip It! (with spoilers)
Me: How'd you like Whip It?
Mom: Eh. It was silly. It was just--
Me: Incredibly predictable?
Mom: Yes. Exactly. It was just predictable and boring. They didn't win in the end though.
Me: Well, that's something.
Mom: Yeah. But even that was predictable. It was just, you know, her mom came around and blah blah blah. They all came to support her. Boring.
Me: Yeah.
Mom: And Drew Barrymore was a clown.
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“Not like I’m waiting to do laundry or anything, I’m just waiting to...”
– Mom, employing subtlety in order to get me to take my clothes out of the dryer
“MAAAAAAANHAAAAAAAATTAN MANHATTAN!”
– Mom likes to act out the location chyrons on Fringe.
