June 2012
3 posts
“I ragequit this article like, 10 times, and couldn’t get past that awful...”
– NYT-“MEN invented the internet” - Boing Boing
Fucking Jardin is the fucking funniest tech type writer I know of.
“Afterparty at the Brother Jimmy’s BBQ by Penn Station”
– 8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 10 | GalleristNY
The Whitney’s Art Party afterparty will be held here, in the event that you were wondering if they knew their audience.
May 2012
28 posts
On Manhattanhenge
Today was the famed Manhattanhenge, where you could walk to any block and see the sun perfectly aligned through Manhattan from East to West. the optimal time was 8:17.
I set up shop on 14th Street all the way at the east end, the ideal place to be. And as I was standing there watching it, I just had this thought, “OK, OK, hold off being wowed until something really amazing happens. Just...
“For one of the paintings, Mr. Prince threw a few paint splatters on one of the...”
– Court Jester: Is Richard Prince Using the Legal System as a Medium? | GalleristNY
Greatest title for a painting I’ve ever heard of.
The Neuroscience of Choking - Ideas Market - WSJ →
This article is so much less sexy than the headline would suggest.
“During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he’d done with...”
– Miles Davis: his wardrobe, his wit, his way with a basketball … | Music | guardian.co.uk
Miles Davis: an interviewer’s dream
“Hostile letters and e-mails poured into the company from customers canceling...”
– Replacements Limited’s Stand for Gay Marriage Has a Cost - NYTimes.com
I like that this guys is basically saying, “the only thing that stops me, as an adult, from just cold popping dicks into my mouth is the fact that it’s socially unacceptable”. Maybe it is, who knows? It’s...
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“Maybe she’s born with it. Or maybe she killed her sister for it. Either way,...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Increasingly Threatening Taglines for Beauty Products.
“Drawing on data from the period 1988 to 2003, including a sample of 24,000...”
– Casinos and American-Indian Health - Ideas Market - WSJ
but also a marked rise in communism and godlessness.
“I hesitated before picking on Bristol because she’s an easy target. It’s like...”
– The Right’s Righteous Frauds - NYTimes.com
Why would you hesitate? Not because “fuck that noise.” but because, “I’m scared of getting called out by the republican noise machine”. Do it. Get called it. do it again. You’re not being vituperative. You’re at...
An email from my Mom. I think it's a forward, but...
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math...
“A series of studies spearheaded by our co-author Paul Eastwick has shown that...”
– The Scientific Flaws of Online Dating Sites: Scientific American
I’ve been on a few online dates in my life. They always feel like one step removed from people examining my teeth and history of family disease. I would prefer to die alone. Of course, I value that above nearly everything…
With monster-truck force
thesnug:
(as a toddler races past on a tricycle) Berkowitz: I mean what is this, the Indianapolis 400?
In all fairness, it’s probably way more exciting.
Do you think more or less people watch pornography on mother’s day?
“Yo mama is so Internet-savvy she should start her own social-networking site...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Respectful Yo Mama Jokes.
“Ganging up on someone reflects a certain cowardice, physical if not moral....”
– More on the Haircut, in Context - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
I think if he’d said, “Fuck. did I do that? I was an asshole and I apologize profusely” he could’ve moved past this. and he probably still can because america and the media are horrible.
But i think...
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“Carve another fellow’s initials into the rear-end of a sculptured animal in the...”
– (via drollpranks)
“Children raised by same-sex couples are not statistically more likely to let the...”
– Full List of Corrections from the “Fox & Friends” Sketch from Last Week’s ‘SNL’ | Splitsider
This scene from SNL was pretty good and blissfully short on performances.
“What episodes last season brought us! What riches! Certainly, many peripheral...”
– A Most Prestigious 32nd Affaire! (& Biggie’s 40th Birthday)
I was literally laughing out loud at this.
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April 2012
35 posts
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s148/sh/769c38f6-6ca... →
I am trying to link from my evernote account to an obituary. None of those words sell me very well.
“But perhaps the most influential person on the list is here, Sara Blakely. The...”
– The Page by Mark Halperin | Clinton and Colbert at the TIME 100
“Now, TIME 100 honoree, his eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan disagrees —...”
– The Page by Mark Halperin | Clinton and Colbert at the TIME 100
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?? THIS IS STEPHEN COLBERT. LIVE.ACTUALLY SAYING THIS IN FRONT OF FUCKING TIMOTHY FUCKING DOLAN.
“It’s a funny dichotomy when you’re at a Catholic wedding, because...”
– Career Confidential: A Wedding Photographer Who Wonders If Some Couples Even Like Each Other
“For Israeli kids in the ’50s and ’60s—a rather puritanical era, devoted to the...”
– The Holocaust Pulp Fiction Written By a Survivor Called Ka-Tzetnik 135633 – Tablet Magazine
sounds about right
thwarted
tweets I just can’t bring myself to write because I’m not in comedy so there’s no logical reason to write them except it really amuses me:
Sample: Always afraid of being accused of masturbating on subway when really I’m just trying to achieve a full erection :(
Pornography
So, this has been passed around: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/romance-novels-2012-4/index1.html
It basically breaks down the market (in anecdotal terms anyways) for written erotica. It got me thinking, hey, Adam, you are literate and overthink everything. Could you write erotica?YES
But, instead of writing erotica, I shall be translating online reviews of pornographic videos and films...
Sources -- Larry Brown agrees to become next coach... →
I feel like there’s something incongruent about Larry Brown deciding to coach at Southern Methodist University but I can’t quite figure out what it is….
“Illinois, like many states, usually finds it easiest to cut public mental health...”
– Chicago Closing Half Its Mental Health Clinics | World of Psychology
Prettttty sure that the free market was Freud’s recommendation for schizophrenia kthxbye.
“MO’NIQUE: You ever been fucked so hard it bring your period on when you...”
– The Queens of Comedy on the Commandments of Sex
oh.my.god….
I.don’t.really.blush.but.i.think.i.just.did.
NO WAIT I THINK IT’S MALARIA.
“James Word As Laertes
Lay her in the earth and from her fair and unpolluted...”
– Transcript | This American Life
I’ve decided this is my favorite episode (today.)
WatchUnder My Skin (by Tovah Silbermann)
Or, every jew is elderly no matter the age.