January 2010
December 2009
Mind boggler.
Wait, that “Tonight’s Gonna be a Good Night” song is by THE BLACK EYED PEAS!?!?!??!?!?! I just baseline assumed it was Cobra Starship! WHAT IS GOING ON. This is somehow related to when I found out that the Liz Phair character that you all prattle on about was responsible for this.
The truth just SOUNDS different.
Why have I seen multiple posts on my feed today demanding that people say it “twenty ten” instead of “two thousand ten”?
I couldn’t disagree more. “Two thousand ten” sounds SO much better. It’s drawling and iambic! “Twenty ten” is angry and staccato. Chillax, my loves! That’s iambic too.
The End of the 00s: The Ballad of That Guy From... →
perpetua:
My contribution to the Awl’s excellent The End of the 00s series is up today, and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s one of my favorite things that I’ve written recently, and a bit different from what I normally do, at least in that it’s a work of fiction. I hope that you like it. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but you’re in for some serious carnage at the end.
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justsayjolie:
Your Daily 90s: Celine Dion, “A...
“'You’re too busy thinking about your stupid... →
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Ahh, this is the Gawker I know and love. →
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michaelorell:
RB: Find _____ a girl on nye
RB: who’s not 11, or mildly retarded
ME: shithead didn’t confirm he was attending
RB: PROLLY SOME SUPER HUGE MEDIA THING OR WHATEVAH
ME: I’ll send an email assuring him that people at the party have heard of ________.com and ________.com and ________.com and he’ll come
ME: THEN IM POSTING THIS TO TUMBLR AND THEN I’M GOING TO E-YELL AT MY GF ABOUT...
“I do know that our waitress, who both Katie and I separately almost posted...”
– This is true, and it does nothing to dispel my friend Seth’s accusation that I am secretly a lesbian, except that when it comes to this waitress there is nothing secret about my lust and/or love.
Alexander Basek's Drinks of the 00s [Listed...
alexanderbasek:
White Russian: I didn’t really know what to order at bars with my freshly minted Maryland fake ID in hand. NYU Students are thrust into a weird situation where they must fake being adults to get booze instead of drinking at house parties where the choices tend to be made for them. So, I chose this, from The Big Lebowski, which was an edgy thing to do at the time, I swear. Now, I...
"On day two when I got reprimanded for saying... →
If Leon were in a band he'd be the guitarist with...
leoncrawl:
I wrote a thing for the Awl about spending the 00’s wishing I was in a band
HFM on year-end closing
nplusonemag:
n+1: So you spent the last part of the year closing down the books—is that what it’s called?
HFM: Closing the books for the year, which really mainly relates to getting prices for all of the securities, instruments, derivatives in our book so that our year-end financials are totally accurate. It’s actually the worst: a lot of banks don’t close their books for the year on the...
"If you are in Brooklyn, you must say the phrase... →
"I have generated the first principal component...
This is a wonky and really interesting (and surprisingly SFW) technical analysis of how Victoria’s Secret alters/photoshops its images. I know you’re thinking “well, duh” but it’s worth the read!
After the post was written, Victoria’s Secret fixed a lot of the FAILs that the writer pointed out. Here is his follow-up post.
"Look at how devastating Mommy's youth was!"
So is someone going to turn all these End of the 00’s on The Awl into a book or what? Maybe someone with a Kickstarter account? Because if not, I am just going to print them all out and use the office binding machine to create my own Treasured Keepsake. This will be better than those copies of Fortune from the 1930s that brought us so much joy.
I know this is the reason, and it only irritates...
peterfeld:
I have been doing it this way all along and I like it! Here is the rationale: “Web” is short for World Wide Web, which is capitalized as a proper noun. A Web site is a site on the World Wide Web.
"Then, when evidence to the contrary became...
When I was very young, I did not realize people considered my neighborhood unsafe; once I did, I thought they must be mistaken. It was not until after the building next door to mine burned down that I learned it had been a crackhouse. Nobody ever told me anything. If someone was admitted to the hospital, I was informed days or years after they were released.
-Elizabeth Gumport: In Which We Do...
Don't procrastinate pleasure! →
“Once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process if you fixate on some imagined nirvana. The longer you wait to open that prize bottle of wine, the more special the occasion has to be.”
(via lifeoflc)
“If you’re going to call yourself a news network, then cover the news.”
– Rachel Sklar, MSNBC criticized for response to terrorism story (via soupsoup / winstonwolfe)
Why is the WaPo preferred style “Web site” instead of website? I find this highly irritating. I just checked and the New York Times does it too so I’m sure everyone else must but can we...
"7) do most people who work in offices use gchat...
choire:
Leon’s 21 questions are killing me. (“1) is there something i could do that’s like legos but isn’t legos? something that doesn’t have as much stigma attached to it?”)
Reblogged because LEON and also we don’t have g[mail/chat/docs/hope] here at work and I know you are like Oh Katie, that is probably a good thing but no, I disagree. It is not a good thing.
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Move along, nothing to see here.
Please forgive and ignore this indulgent post, but I just need to round up in one place all the things I wrote for Deadspin on Saturday, mostly for the sake of my parents (I mean, this is what we’re dealing with) and my friends, the majority of whom are not aware of the existence of the Internet.
All I Want for Christmas is to Never Hear That Song Again
Snapped Femur? I Barely Even Know Her!
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"(author, 'The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Documentary... →
“It might be word play in this particular case but the “normal” usage...”
– Hahahahahah this WordReference Forum thread is beyond.
"Players frequently walk around with... →
I wrote about lax bros and exotic dancers. Don’t you want to click?
The skank shift.
I’m helping out on Deadspin today. So far, so terrifying. Please help me help AJ help me help you: send along any tips whatsoever! No story too small, no image file too big. Thank you kindly in advance.
“Jackson’s other well-known trademarks are: “Momma, there goes that...”
– Excellence in broadcast journalism!