July 2010
3 posts
I don’t think anyone’s going to laugh...
June 2010
5 posts
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
While I am still thinking about crime thriller...
new Tana French novel out next month oh man
also you cannot crack a bank account password in five minutes without prior knowledge
i am half asleep and even i know this is not how it works
“Only true artists like us who’d suffered throughout our apprenticeships...”
– Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
John Hodgman and I have the same birthday,...
I am savoring this moment because it is about as close to celebrity as I’ll ever get! Exclamation mark!
A person I actually know found me on Twitter and...
What do I do? This is some existential shit right here.
May 2010
8 posts
Boring book organization post
Coupla weeks ago I was shopping on Amazon and trying to remember if I owned Night Watch, and it turns out there are tools for this, and one is called LibraryThing, which makes you feel kind of like you’re running a library, which is great if you’re into that sort of thing (I’m not, I think); and another called Goodreads, which is great if you have bad taste (I pretend like I...
Dear people, please stop being flaky on your...
Holy shit. I hate people. So much. Right now.
edit: Oh, holy shit. It is six hours later and I still hate people.
What the fuck, people? Look, this isn’t difficult; you tell somebody that you’re going to do something, and then you do it. This isn’t, like, the fucking California bar exam or launching a NASA rocket to the fucking moon, this is agreeing to move some fucking...
MY WEBSITE IS DOWN FUCK
So I get like a year of uptime when the only thing on it is some dumb picture of a dude with a thumb and globe going all “MEOWVELOUS,” but then I get some content on there and the thing shuts down after one day? NICE.
edit: it’s not down, j/k
LC! SHOW! SEATTLE! TONIGHT!
Guess who will be sitting in his bed and weeping gently into his computer science homework!
The Long Blondes - Round the Hairpin. I...
April 2010
17 posts
This is the form my self-loathing has taken.
I want to eat a whole thing of candy beans.
Futile Facebook plea
Listen, girl. I know it’s sometimes hard to smile, and I know it’s sometimes embarassing getting your picture taken. But do you really have to make that smoochy face in every photo? Could you, like, practice smiling in front of a mirror for a few minutes each day so that you never have to make that smoochy face ever again? Because your smoochy face does not say, as you might think, “I am...
Actually, Kate Jackson, your tactile faculties are...
Music/grammatical (non-)error joke.
Edit: I think I’ve made this joke before.
Treme is great.
In fact: super great.
Conceptually terrible earrings which I have seen...
1.) Left ear: secured padlock. Right ear: key to secured padlock.
HEY, HERE'S A PRO-TIP
If you want to make somebody chill out about some impending doom, you probably shouldn’t constantly remind them about it. HINT HINT, MOM.
Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
(the tumblr app ate this...
additionally, i can't believe shitgaze is actually...
additionally, m. ward needs to shave.
To (opaquely) elaborate:
Okay. But so then. Nothing is so intellectually visceral as failing a test. This visceral is not the satisfying kind of visceral, mind, e.g. tearing apart a mango with your bare hands. I use the word because I think it invokes that fight-or-flight lizard brain which I have been grappling with lately, and the reason that sitting in a dead silent room, scanning seven pages, and realizing that I do...
Holy failing tests, Batman.
:(
Salon on: WikiLeaks video →
Salon has some nice bulletpoints on Wikileaks’ video release from a couple days ago, which you probably already know and care deeply about. A particularly salient bit:
It’s hard to express the blinding jingoistic delusion necessary to insist — in the face of this mountain of evidence and dead civilians left in the wake of our wars — that the Apache attack is some sort of...
I could.
The Pipettes - I Love You
Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
March 2010
17 posts
Boring dream post:
Last night I had a dream where I met Joey Comeau in a bookstore. I saw one of his books on a shelve and said to my friend, “Hey, that’s written by the A Softer World guy,” and then Joey Comeau jumped out from somewhere and was all, “Yeah, that was totally me.” And then I woke up and wondered about a lot of things, so yeah, anyway, good story.
Paris 26 Gigapixels →
I’m way late to post this, but literally the best part of this twenty-six gigapixel panorama is being able to point to some area and be like “Enhahnce,” and it totally works.
Lucid TV →
hospitul comix
