November 2009
42 posts
House
Start it from the beginning and ignore his annoying underlings. House season 1 is amazing.
sexartandpolitics:
I used to find House being totally magic too annoying to watch. Now I’m considering starting the series from the beginning. He’s a drug addict atheist crankypants knowitall. I like that he’s all that and magic too.
pretty fly for a white guy
I’m at the age where the teenage girls think I’m cool because I’m a mysterious older age (if they knew my real age, they would think I was ancient) but I can still talk like them and I don’t have any kids (the true sign of adulthood).
They’re obsessed with two things: the thinness of celebrities and of course, boys. “How many boyfriends have you had?” one...
it'll be a weird holiday season
My uncle, who died earlier this year, was a man who loved holidays and eating. He was the glue that held this little scrappy team together and now he is gone. My mom is going away to Dominican Republic with my father, despite her previous protestations that she was too broke to go, but my mother always finds a way and makes it work. I also know she’s leaving because she doesn’t want to...
“Girls of gentleness and refinement do not care to be courted upon the open...”
– Hudson Street’s home for “working girls” « Ephemeral New York
the cure for overshare
is adding your family members on facebook, watching THEM overshare, and then watching other family members comment. NO THANKS.
a list of shows i've watched for work
It’s been a month since I’ve been at my job now. I think I’m the only person who started on the same night as me who hasn’t quit. Only the strong survive!
Wheel of Fortune Lie To Me Paula Deen Entertainment Tonight Dancing With The Stars Smallville (x2) Stargate: Universe Nascar Live Ghost Hunters Heroes CSI Miami 90210 One Tree Hill (x2) Extra (x2) Melrose Place...
very worth remembering
topherchris:
So, when I replaced my theme a few weeks ago, I decided to leave all of those tracking codes out. Not even my Google Analytics account received any data. It was a bit like quitting smoking or weening off of TV, but I don’t even think about it now. This change translates into gobs of free time I once wasted looking at relatively meaningless graphs.
Perhaps even more importantly, it...
i sometimes hate being a woman so much
My mom made a comment today about how she would have liked it if I’d had kids. You guys, I am 28. I am not 50. I am not even fucking 35. I haven’t had a serious relationship in a few years, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had any relationships at all. There’s been dudes. Anyway, it really fucking bothered me. Most of the time this whole societal pressure thing...
on public wedding proposals
A few years ago, I was at a San Francisco Giants game in really good seats at the last game of the season. There was a middle-aged good looking couple sitting a few rows down from us. All of a sudden, he stood up while the lady was intently watching the game, took the ring out of his pocket, showed it to all of us sitting behind them, and then proposed to her. It was exciting and fun to watch....
I think "for the love of Ray J"
let’s do it!
christinefriar:
should replace “for the love of God” in everyone’s vernacular.
Example: You spill your drink all over your new sweater.
“AH, FOR THE LOVE OF RAY J!”
Think it over.
tesslynch:
better than ezra — good
everything was blurry and my head kind of hurt
i bought contacts yesterday! i last wore them ELEVEN YEARS AGO (yes tumblr fetuses, i am one million years old). I completely remembered how to put them on. I am looking forward o a new world full of eye makeup and sunglasses that don’t cost 400 dollars! YESSSS.
Rock Music Goes The Way Of The Beard →
Click on the link and read the whole thing!
tylercoates:
Carrie Brownstein on the evolution of rock music in the past decade:
I remember going to Coachella and playing songs from our album The Woods. The tunes on that record were abrasive and scary, full of imbalance and uncertainty. But instead playing rock that day, I felt like we were throwing them. Rock music should be unapologetic, but...
Now that I’ve settled into it, I loooove working nights. It’s probably the most natural schedule I’ve ever had; there is no stress about getting to work late because I overslept, no period of waking myself up, I just kind of naturally ease myself into the day like our ancestors intended.
Yesterday, I woke up, posted the RHOC recap to BravoFan, and went into the city a bit...
“I use my own personal brand of santeria on planes departing Los Angeles. No...”
– Wipe Your Feet
I am happy I’m not the only person who does this! I used to watch Dr.G: Medical Examiner really frequently and on her show, people always die of a pulmonary embolism, which is when a blood clot gets stuck in your lungs. One way to get it is to have a blood clot develop in your...
Madonna, while now pretty much an eccentric rich person, used to be a major bad-ass. Respect, son.
topherchris:
So I’m sitting here thinking “Hey guys, Sean Penn is a really badass guy,” when it suddenly dawns on me that he used to be married to Madonna. What’s up with that? I rescind those complimentary thoughts. Rescind, I say!
this is a karaoke winner.
tesslynch:
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San Francisco, the downside
sexpigeon:
caro:
From an e-mail I sent earlier:
It’s an odd city: lovely and calm but sometimes just doesn’t feel like there’s a lot going on. Neighborhoods are much more segmented and people tend to stick to their own haunts rather than going out around the city. I like to tell people that what it’s missing is this band of energy that seems to always be floating over Manhattan like the...
notes from work this week
1. melrose place should be called at & t place. every dramatic scene is punctuated with a character getting a VERY IMPORTANT text or phone call with a big at & t logo on the phone. also, there was a scene yesterday in which a character who is a med student/working girl was reading a textbook by the pool and the book had no words in it, in this really obvious way.
2. america’s...
Oh, dang.
So The Awl linked to me today on a post I made in response to something Nick Douglas wrote about black people on Twitter (which apparently was just a joke?) and the last thing I have on here is a fan video from Smallville. How embarrassing!
“Oh, that’s right. You’re a woman and you need to refuse food the first time....”
– Dwight last night’s The Office. (via shirtdress)
And this is why I love Tumblr...
I spent many hours reading your old true crime blog as I’ve said before, but I also think you are hilarious on Twitter and on here, so you know, you contain multitudes! But some of us remember the old days.
dailyhuff:
There is no sarcasm or facetiousness intended - I post something about how I’m done with a big part of my writing identity up till now, and don’t get a single like or...
things i have learned this week from television...
1. when racing in NASCAR, it is advantageous to drive close to other cars.
2. ghost hunters is fake, fake, fake. its very hard to come up with several different ways of saying “heard a noise,” “magnetic field levels were very high,” saw shadows.” none of the girls on the show resemble their head shots on the syfy channel’s website, by the way. it was like they...
pseudo meaningful →
This is a fucking genius tumblr that calls out all the shitty quotes (and after reading a few pages of the tumblr, I realized most are shitty pop lyrics) written on photos of fields and birds that get reblogged over and over and then crankily dissects them. I love this dude for doing this.
“You feel like telling him you’re not single in the way that he thinks you’re...”
– Sloane Crosley (I Was Told There’d Be Cake) (via bunkercomplex)
“Really? This thing? All of Stillman’s films revolve around the “urban haute...”
– CRITERION’S LITTLE FUCK-UPS « Viceland Today
“No One” - Alicia Keys
FACT: On a...
i'm exhausted and cranky
here is a list of things that are currently annoying me:
1. why is there a whole reality show on TLC about a florist? how much could you possibly get out of it?
2. my work is a black hole. i don’t know why it takes me so long to write my surveys. no one has complained that i am taking too long, but i am paranoid. the one good thing is this job is like training for my writing brain,...
tumbledore:
Alice in Chains - “Heaven Beside...