March 2009
23 posts
Petula Clark - “Kiss Me Goodbye”
Cat Stevens - “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing...
Julianne Moore as Hillary Clinton in Special...
YAY! (???)
Tanya Donelly - “Pretty Deep” from...
Daniel Johnston - “I’d Like to Say...
“Lamenting his melon allergy and fear of heights, he exclaimed, ‘I’m...”
– me, pretending to be a writer for Pushing Daisies (Does the fact that I’m only interested in writing for canceled television shows mean that I don’t have “what it takes” to succeed in show business?)
Can I Get a Hallelujah
cosmopsis:
I’m home from work and it’s still light out.
I know! I celebrated by drawing all the blinds, putting on pajamas, drinking an Orangina and watching Alf.
“For an American ex-user, though, Friendster is the lonesome place. I like to...”
– David Roth for Slate, Ye Olde Social Network: Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet.
Ellen Greene & Kristin Chenoweth -...
February 2009
32 posts
bds: did you ever study french? I know you took spanish... oh, hey, sidebar: I'm going to stop posting to my tumblr on March 28, because I started the stupid thing on march 29 last year. then I will evaluate it, make minor edits, and write an essay about the experience and leave it there as another dumb digital time capsule.
amg: sadly I never studied french except randomly in my spare time...but never in school. I think that's a good way to let it go.
Orenda Fink - “Bloodline” from...
“9:16 PM — Uh oh, Obama and Pelosi spoke over each other for 0.2 seconds. Get...”
– Ken Layne for Wonkette, Liveblogging the Speech of Obama’s Life (This Week)
“People are afraid to speak honestly about race because they fear it will get...”
– John L. Jackson, Jr.
Hesta Prynn - “Seven Sisters” from...
WatchLady Host: Well, now take a look at this. A bath mat is 387 calories, 420 calories for a baseball, and yet a tennis ball is only 126!
Guest Author: That’s because it’s filled with air. It’s all about those smart choices. Why eat a washcloth when a whole box of Kleenexes is going to kill those hunger pangs just as well, and it’s only half the calories.
ABC - “The Look of Love, Pt. 1” from...
“If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the...”
– Dana Stevens, “Confessions of a Shopaholic: A comedy that recalls the happy time when America wasn’t a financial ruin”
bds: oh, about self-esteem. I think I have a better idea than everyone trying to feel better about themselves. really confident people should work on feeling worse about themselves. I'd rather live in a world where those people are built down, rather than a world where I'm built up. and I don't mean “hating yourself.”
amg: right.
bds: I mean, just a good long look in the mirror. a long, deep look.
amg: right--exactly. I think a lot of people need to take a long, deep look in the mirror. and to have someone next to them look in the mirror with them and say, “who do you think you are?” over and over and over and over again.
bds: I'm laughing.
“We honestly had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff. We are deeply ashamed...”
– Cultural Affairs Minister Kazuhiro Nakai, expressing regret for thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, and the kind of a porn in which a nubile youth is kidnapped, stripped, tied...
“you probably know about this already since you’re omniscient…. if...”
– ajm (and sadly, no, rupaul’s drag race is not yet available on dvd.)
WatchThe natural progression of thought when confronted with something like “Late for School” is:
1. “What the hell is this?”
2. “Is this a joke?”
3. “This is not a joke. Maybe Steve Martin wrote a kids album of banjo songs?”
4. “But why didn’t he say it was a kids album?”
- Amelie Gillette/The Hater
Watch“Right now Iceland gets all of its revenue from three sources: fishing, dragons, and screaming.”
