December 2009
34 posts
must-read awl piece by the guy from titus... →
youngmanhattanite:
Dismemberment Plan - “Ice of...
sorry to shift from normal tumblr tone to weird...
Full Bars
I just had the nicest conversation on the phone with the Time Warner customer service lady. My internet has been really shaky last couple of days— not bad enough to really stress out about but bad enough that I noticed. So far I’d let it slide, because every time I started to get actionably mad it came back on. But then last night the problem got worse, which is weird, because usually...
Is JSTOR HQ in my building? My computer's...
I wrote a thing for the Awl about spending the... →
Adriane Quinlan at The Awl
Of all the new buildings, it was the Bird’s Nest Stadium that most tempted one toward it. It was supposed to look like a nest, but instead it looked like a giant airy brain. The outer wall had been wrapped in a kind of twisted metal cage, which left huge gaps between the bars that one could easily walk through. Our friend A____, an architectural critic who was joining us for New...
Ed Norton tricked us all
brokedownpalace:
So what is that, one, maybe two out of 15 for the decade. Oof.
That’s a one hot movie every ten year average! Really sorry if this was the joke you were already making.
Elizabeth Gumport at This Recording
Davidson’s photographs remind us that people’s personal lives are mostly tedious. Everybody has dirty plates and families. Privacy protects us. Behind closed doors we shine our shoes and our personalities; we rest and then resume playing the roles of interesting people. We hide our worst selves, and our dullest: we would rather have people see us as bad than boring.
“In Which...
"7) do most people who work in offices use gchat...
katiebakes:
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.
On its face not...
Who wants to come with me to this Back to the... →
From Katie Kelly's The Wonderful World of Women's...
[We live in a] world of ever-increasing and ever-complicated influences. A topsy-turvy world ajumble with color TV, chattering computers, Pill-popping promiscuity, and a world that Grandma would not only fail to recognize but would probably drop dead in. Given all those high-octane influences competing for our attention, it is strange indeed to stumble upon a newspaper with a highly selective...
Larry Sanders Show, "The Flirt"
“Look, Artie, she’s doing the hand-on-hand— see, she put her hand on my hand. She knew that I was flirting and she jumped right in there.”
“Larry, I have seen the hand-on-hand done namy times i myself have done it with Gregory Peck. Trust me, I felt nothing.”
Did succeed at coming in with a clutch breakfast sandwich for a hungry friend about to leave on the Bolt Bus though. Was really feeling myself after this one
Was trying to buy flowers near the Port Authority the other day and literally could not find a single flower anywhere. Checked every deli within like a three block radius. Huge lost opportunity right there. Welcome to New York, you know? Yeesh. Ended up buying a pretzel
Sorry that last thing reminded me of a question that’s been on my mind: why are there so many Mollys on the internet?
This is unthinkably tacky but I can’t help it. In college the Dramadairy played “Molly’s Lips” in Canaday Basement aka the offices of the Independent…we did like a 10-minute version, like 13 repetitions of the chorus. This was before we had any of our own material. Sorry I’ll just be over here watching more videos like this
"cynical realism"
From Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon, the appendix:
As I write these words, in New York City in 1985, more and more people who grew up around me are making this decision; they are throwing away their moral chains and learning to enjoy their true situation: Yes, they are admitting loudly and bravely, we live in beautiful homes, we’re surrounded by beautiful gardens, our children...
i kind of hate to spoil it but here's the ending...
Liz: Women still see men as authority figures, even when they don’t want to. And also, I just think that they want to be pleasing.
Ron: Don’t you think this is also true of men— that they do all they do, build their buildings and whatever, to impress women?
Helen: I think men are totally enthralled by women, but in a different way. Women are totally—
Liz: I think men are...
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Ron: What was Liz like when she first came to work for you?
Helen: She was already there, so in a sense I was working for her. She had written these sensational articles about the Burtons and people that couldn’t be gotten to, like Mike Nichols and Julie Andrews, who were gigantic stars at the time, so when I came in she was the big hoo-ha already, and I don’t know—
Liz: Helen...
Helen Gurley Brown and Liz Smith, from "Grill...
Helen Gurley Brown: Vanity Fair spends money. I did something sort of rotten last week. I never make speeches, and I didn’t this time, but I went to a magazine convention, a publishers’ conference. I said I couldn’t make a speech, but I would answer questions. They were very snotty questions, like ‘At your age, how can you edit a magazine for such young women?’ and...
molls:
Umbrella - Rihanna
NO CLOUDS IN MY...
Dames on lists
seedz:
nplusonemag:
The result is that aesthetics—some shared conversation, with the potential for galvanizing disagreement, about the value of artworks—has become particularly toothless. Aesthetics can function only in the genre of gently self-implicating comedy. The recent pop-Bourdieu phenomenon of Stuff White People Like is instructive: assigning a taste (aesthetic or otherwise) as belonging...
Watchseedz:
Soundgarden might be the coolest band that it’s not cool to like. Maybe if their guitars were quieter and they spelled their name “Soundgarten,” people would’ve thought they were clever and cute.
I always thought the Black Hole Sun video was pretty clever and cute.
“This place is a prison
And these people aren’t your friends
Inhaling...”
– listening to postal service album b/c of exposure to awful “owl city” song. these guys were ahead of their time
we got it 4 cheap
seedz: god my mouse is so fucked up
seedz: it keeps selecting words
seedz: on its own
me: weirdly my first thought was
me: "you have a mouse!?"
seedz: oh the like track pad
me: no i was imagining a mouse mouse
seedz: yeah
me: no like a mouse mouse mouse
seedz: oh you mean a mouse mouse mouse mouse