November 2010
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“These wack-jobs who spend 20 hours a week stacking coupons? That stuff drives us...”
– (nodding gravely)
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White whine with ice.
Sorry, sorry, but cue the world’s smallest violins: the Prospect Park ice rink is closed for the season AND they couldn’t find anyone to run the rink in Battery Park City? This season it’s gonna be more like ice-schlepping, amirite?
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“Yeah, it’s a fucked up question, but I bet Doris Kearns Goodwin would...”
– You guys suck, bring back Doris Kearns Goodwin!
"I only know that these people are blonde." →
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They're on a first name basis.
I’m learning all kinds of things tonight. I implore you to read these posts by keyholez about the North Korean media. Without giving too much away, let’s just say that
“limn” : Michiko Kakutani :: “brigandish” : KCNA.
(Also: “flaying,” “sophism,” and an idiom involving hypocritical thieves.)
More importantly, keyholez...
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Is the Fern Bar Poised For a Comeback? →
justsayjolie:
Oh my God, can you imagine what would happen if I ever stumbled across this Cate character in a bar?
Wait, oh my god. Is this real?
“The exact date [of the fern bar’s inception] is the opening of Henry Africa’s in San Francisco in 1970,” he told me. “Norman Hobday, the guy who opened Henry Africa’s, said, ‘I want to open a saloon, but...
The truth just SOUNDS different.
Eric Freeman and Bethlehem Shoals discuss some numerology:
EF: What about 1? I feel like if you wear it as a big man, you’re saying that you wish you were a guard, like with Amar’e. Also, I think Griffin will eventually change his jersey number because of this. Basically i think he should just mimic Amar’e’s accessory decisions. BS: You mean the glasses? EF: And becoming...
Ultra important questions that will now plague me...
billbradley:
“What’s the etiquette if a coworker ‘finger shoots’ you when passing in the hall? Do you politely laugh? Shoot back? Half-assedly clutch your side? Dramatically fall on the ground, gasp for air, and feign death?”
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"The Al Dente Continuum" needs to be the name of... →
(via yourrailroadgate)
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“Comments have poured forth on the Web — 1,450 of them as of Thursday night —...”
– Also:
The Spanish academy needed 800 pages to explain the new simplified rules. Among other changes: letters with different names in different countries get just one name (which is rather like telling Americans that the last letter of the alphabet should be called “zed”). Iraq becomes Irak and...
(and reads my Tumblr; hi) →
Your parenthetical aside of the day.
wait...
endasher:
seedz:
endasher:
When they say ‘cables,’ do they literally mean cables? As in telegrams, in morse code? Actually, It’s funny they didn’t call them ‘text messages’ back then.
They mean emails!
Also, the Times and MSNBC both have stories misleading headlined “King: Wikileaks is a terrorist organization.” Which would be a pretty amazing thing for Abdullah to say. But it turns out...
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Somewhere out there this song is playing in a...
“I still live in fear that I’ll sell a pair of... →
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Retroactive parenthetical aside of the month of...
I was just reading something on Slate and this showed up as a related post and I clicked on it and turns out it’s from June 14th but STILL!!!!!!!!!!
(Disclosure: Many years and many jobs ago, Sam Sifton burned me on a sourcing question, told his editor he would call me back to discuss it, and chickened out. Ever since, whenever I’ve had to face somebody who was upset about something...
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Heading far out of sight / second star to the...
Just booked two flights to Salt Lake, one to San Francisco, and one to Pittsburgh. Would have booked my flight to Bozeman too but Bing advised me, with 80% certainty, to wait. I can advise you with 100% certainty that I totally fucked at least one of those transactions up.
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spiegelman:
1997.
Is Ma$e the male Ashanti?...
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“Shelham—the daughter of a small business owner and a retired nurse who paid for...”
– The Onion (via gm)
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“GROSS: And is that in spite of the opening part that says, if you’re...”
– I opened the Jay Z interview on NPR’s Fresh Air in a tab last week but never got around to clicking it. Ben Cohen just reminded me and … it’s everything I expected. I mean really, THE VERY FIRST LINE IS THIS:
This is FRESH AIR, I’m Terry Gross. My guest Jay-Z has been...
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I liveblogged Pats-Colts. →
I guess I should have told you before the game so you could, like, follow it in REAL TIME, but hey, feel free to roll your eyes at the Ashanti jokes in retrospect.
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“In an effort to determine what Brett Favre did or did not text Jenn Sterger, the...”
– Trace the electronic pathways is the new trip the light fantastic.
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