January 2009
December 2008
My life's work is complete.
All year long I’ve had to deal with the media (and, more annoyingly, my own friends) using the dreaded “Wall Street versus Main Street” construct. So I am thrilled that the powerful Lake Superior State University has added it to its 2009 List of Banished Words:
WALL STREET/MAIN STREET – “When this little dyad first came into use at the start of the financial crisis, I...
“I am ready to move on. When is Jenna Von Oy gonna murder Leo DiCappy?”
– Heath Ledger: the most bloggable death of 2k8.
zachlinder:
WFAN’s Craig Carton does great “Mad...
Wear a hat or grow an accent.
conorgriff:
I live in New York, I don’t have a job, and my personality is at least as vapid and abrasive as Spencer Pratt’s. How do I get cast on The City?
30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 →
Wowsers.
Cat's out of the bag.
Hey, another 2k8 accolade from a lady I luv! Runner up in the Shame-Cave Awards. <3 U Natasha XOXO
As far as I'm concerned it's like a "Like" but...
Aw, I recieved a “you” from tesslynch! I am legitimately thrilled. Back atcha!
“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or...”
– Burn, Caroline Kennedy. BOO-URN.
ADDED: OMG does this qualify as GIRL ON GIRL CRIME!?
WatchThis is a time lapse of the Wrigley Field crew building the outdoor ice rink for New Year’s Day’s NHL Winter Classic. (via)
“You know when you’re at a Blockbuster? And you have to comb through hundreds of...”
– The 7 Most Depressing Fates of TGIF Stars of Yesteryear, which features not one not two but THREE actors from Step By Step. (Can you guess which three without looking? One of them wrote an autobiography at 16!) (via Brandon)
The point, it has been missed.
We have ourselves a Greenwich apologist, folks.
Why the world hates us.
From a Colombian newspaper, a description of Greenwich:
In Connecticut they live in Greenwich, a town known as the “richest per capita town in the world,” according to a 1920 quote from Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, creator of a huge mattress factory that bears his name. Heirs of J.P. Morgan and John Rockefeller live there and property there costs between 15 and 30 million dollars. A good part of...
"A new height of wimpy." →
Christmas Eve dinner conversation.
Dad: So what do you think he got for the man who has everything? Guess.
Me: A breadmaker?
Brother: A hooker?
This is a real sentence.
“But in Jacobs’s case, it is also a testament to perseverance at a troubled time when he could have slipped through the cracks in his hometown, the way stalks of sugar cane slip from trucks and litter the shoulders of Highway 1 during the autumn harvest.”
Go … Big Blue?
