January 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
Bastion, on the Chrome Web Store →
Not only was this an amazing game when it came out for Xbox 360/PC, but it’s completely off the goddamn chain that you can now run it in entirely in a web browser. A WEB BROWSER.
November 2011
1 post
Frank Miller has got himself some opinions re.:... →
Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.
And this enemy of mine — not of yours, apparently - must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh - out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.
I am reminded of...
October 2011
2 posts
“Look at me! With my white wine and scarf! No one should be as rich and...”
– Insufferable.
September 2011
2 posts
Here’s a funny, nerdy thing from long ago. Two guys tear to shreds a vilely racist, sexist homebrew tabletop RPG:
Sartin: I’ll cut in here to say that while being a brain-dead rapist is an important part of the FATAL experience, there are two further aspects that make it the visible-from-space pile of festering associty that it is.
1) Juvenile ideas that even the SenZar guys...
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
7 posts
The secret world of child brides →
I pulled the scarf off my hair, something I’d seen my interpreter do when men were gone and the intimate talk of women was under way. Speaking quickly, we asked, How are you all prepared for your wedding night? Are you taught what to expect?
The women glanced toward the doorway, where the sheikh was absorbed in his phone call. They leaned forward. “The girls do not know,” one said. “The...
Avi Buffalo - Remember Last Time
Vodka is Stupid →
Jen Agg:
The problem with vodka is that it’s dumb.
QED. A good case against the most boring spirit imaginable.
April 2011
6 posts
Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help... →
Maria Bustillos:
David Wallace was a person who dwelt in darkness either by nature or compulsion, or maybe even by mere habit, or maybe just because he’d been given the wrong medication. Depression is a very inward-turned and self-loathing thing; he trapped himself in this sort of interior abattoir. But like all depressed persons, Wallace loathed himself in error.
March 2011
4 posts
Brisbane woman raped in the UAE, jailed for... →
In June 2008 Ms Gali had her drink spiked and was raped by up to four co-workers while working as a beauty salon manager at the international resort.
When she reported the assault to authorities she was jailed on an adultery charge and spent eight months in prison because it is illegal in the UAE to have sex outside marriage.
How to Be Twee →
7. Make vague physical advances toward your love interest.
Sex and twee don’t correlate very well. That’s why people who are twee don’t have sex. They ‘make love.’ And if that’s a little too 1975 for your liking, you can use other adorable little euphemisms like “touching bodies until [name of love interest] makes a noise”.
My school is kind of a never ending stream of this.
The Awl: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text →
I promised myself that I’d not mention this particular fad. But:
“Look and listen deeply,” she challenges. An onanistic recursion, at once Siren and Cassandra, she heralds a new chapter in the Homeric tradition. With a slight grin, she calls out to us: “I sing of the death of the individual, the dire plight of free will and the awful barricades daily built inside the minds of all who...
The Rumpus: The Careless Language of Sexual... →
I’d quote the salient bit, but it’d end up as wholesale cut-and-paste.
December 2010
2 posts
The perfect martini? With vodka? →
That’ll be the day.
(via df.)
The Hairpin: Letters to the Editors of Women's... →
Grounds for Chilling
Nothing else is as relaxing as sitting on my couch with a cup of coffee and reading your 600-page September issue.
Anastasia D., via instyle.com (InStyle, December 2010)
Sometimes when I feel sad I press my fingers into my throat until I fall asleep. I think of it as like a real-life fast-forward button, lol.
Kelsey P., Ontario
There was shit here....
November 2010
4 posts
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Gareth Campesinos! Reviews:... →
I received my first personal copy of Football Manager (or, Championship Manager as it was known then) for my twelfth birthday (I was also gifted a copy of The Beautiful South’s ‘Blue Is The Colour’ by my parents on this anniversary. With hindsight, this was probably the most important day of my life). The date coincided with a Christmas Disco at my school. The first party of note of my senior...
NYT: Early Lessons in Tolerance Prompt Fights Over... →
Last summer, school officials here in Montana’s capital unveiled new guidelines for teaching about sexuality and tolerance. They proposed teaching first graders that “human beings can love people of the same gender,” and fifth graders that sexual intercourse can involve “vaginal, oral or anal penetration.” […]
In tense community hearings, some parents made familiar arguments that...
October 2010
2 posts
Some guy wants you to care about DOTA2 →
And he’s making you care about this video game by using incredibly pained analogies!
We found out that not only did he lie about DOTA, but he lied about his involvement with both Riot Games and S2 Games. As I said at the start of this blog, you can go to www.dota-allstars.com to brush up on that history. This is the equivalent of the CEO of McDonald’s (DOTA) looking for a job at...
September 2010
6 posts
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield... →
“I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war.”
You keep picking at that scab, Newt.
Maybe it's because I'm really tired, but I find...
人流 (rén liú):
a stream of people; a moving crowd.
an abortion.
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
3 posts
I don’t think anyone’s going to laugh...
June 2010
5 posts
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill