January 2012
9 posts
Portlandia: The White Subcultural Equivalent of a... →
Or “Stop Making Fun of Me!”
I am fucking tired of “offended” standing in place of “you hurt my feelings.” Save your offense for discrimination and active hate campaigns and other things that actually keep us from evolving as a species. Things like this article aren’t even reverse-offensive, they are just highlights of both sensitivity and insensitivity.
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"Keep giving them you, until you is what they... →
Lifehacker linked to this article on rejection from Psychology Today that I wish I had read sooner.
Rejection has always been quite a bugbear for me, which relatively recently learned to manage like a regular human. That is to say, I’ve started to accept failure as a learning experience and not as an indelible black mark on my living soul.
However, as Mr. Palumbo’s article points...
Play It Real? A Police State
improvnonsense:
Watching the Improv Jam two weeks ago, sitting with Neil Casey while a scene started where someone did a tag out that transported characters from a fast food restaurant to a police interrogation room. Neil leaned over and said this to me:
“I’ve noticed that for students under 25 a lot of them walk on or tag out as the police coming to shut things down for being out of line....
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: I’m... →
Font pretensions are the worst pretensions.
Watchhealywu:
streeter:
This Jest video is sooooo good. It’s like a scene from a really funny movie or something. I’ve watched it 3 times already and you should, too!
BOOOOZARTH! Also, like Christopher Meloni or WHATEVER.
This is fucking amazing.
This was a lot of fun to work on, especially all the times when Christopher Meloni was yelling at children.
December 2011
15 posts
2011: A Year in Review (with no research)
January A massive blizzard shut down most of the East Coast. New York City was in a total shutdown as sanitation workers were barely able to clear the roads for days. I think that was in January. Wait, that happened in December 2010. No, wait, there was another in January, right? I just remember walking to a party in Williamsburg and there were still huge dunes of snow.
February The Packers won...
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WatchPoor Summertime Hippo
WatchProbably could have done another take of the Santa hat throw.
WatchA Charlie Brown Christmas
Last night, Taylor mentioned this chart from the webcomic XKCD that illustrates how most of the Christmas music we listen to on the radio is from the Baby Boomer’s childhood. Similarly, A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 (when my parents were 10 and 6 years old) became the longest running special of all time.
Watching it now, you can hear the bad audio...
lefthandedradio:
Episode Twelve: Where Were...
November 2011
13 posts
Ricky Gervais on "Throwing Away 1 Billion" →
(via @videogum via @corypalmer)
SPOILER: He claims in 1999, he could have written Night at the Museum, which has grossed over $1 billion as a franchise. No mention that the book, The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc was written in 1993.
Videogum posted a link to this article, with the amendment “Ricky Gervais really needs to stop writing about himself. It is completely unbearable.”...
Deadline: FX Developing TV Version Of Web Series... →
chamberlain:
ABBI. ILANA. AMY.
That’s a bingo!
Hooray for successful friends!
Listen to This Drunk Idiot Call 911 About His... →
Teen Tragically Kills Herself After Tweeting 144... →
(via Gawker)
This article makes a sadder turn in the middle when the author starts to cite other cases of people announcing plans to end their lives on social networking sites that go completely unnoticed.
It’s incredibly sad when someone decides life is not worth living. But it’s even sadder when someone is obviously crying out for some kind of help, any kind of help, and it goes...
October 2011
17 posts
lefthandedradio:
Episode Ten: The House on...
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It Takes 2 Seconds To Sign This Petition to... →
benzado:
I usually ignore these things, as they are mostly ways for organizations to build up their mailing lists. But I want it in writing that I think the protest should be allowed to continue.
“Believe me, there will be more than 500 books published in the next year which...”
– Stephen Fry, in preamble to his iPhone 4S review
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Watchsiegel:
MUST WATCH - Alan Grayson schools an entire smart-ass panel on “Real Time with Bill Maher” about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The best part is how he keeps totally silent for the first half, and then just lays waste to all of them, Bill Maher included. If he runs for president in 2016, I want to find a way to work for this man. Also, can someone please put P.J. O’rourke out of his...