February 2012
20 posts
“Watching a liturgy from such a gloomy and merciless author getting repurposed to...”
– Ned Beauman, on the use of Samuel Beckett’s “Fail better” as a business slogan. [via] (via thelistenerd)
Whoooa. Words.
(via kirklarsen)
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Roast Beef the Penguin! →
hamsnack:
I know Roast Beef. I used to take him to elementary schools in the Boston area and teach kids how to save the penguin population. We traveled to said schools in a freezing cold van we affectionately called “Penguin Mobile” until I started referring to it as our “Cool Ride.”
Me and Roasty would get up in front of the assembly and I would talk about penguins and feed him while he was...
Roast Beef the Penguin! →
I am currently dating the person who used to take Roast Beef to elementary schools. This is one of the many things I love about her. She also hates jazz music. She’s the best.
Slapped Actress
The Hold Steady
Watchourvaluedcustomers:
These fellers are HI-LARIOUS!
“I’m working on a cartoon series about a rat and a cat that fall in love and have...”
– - Gallagher, you done it again. (via chamberlain)
Oh my god. That last sentence. They should have sent a poet.
“Some 15,000 pails of eggs in brine, sold for institutional use, are being...”
– Pails?
Brine?
Institutional use?
Maybe one problem could be that YOU ARE KEEPING YOUR EGGS IN PAILS. They probably still have sand in them from the last beach trip.
“This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction:...”
– NY Times correction page.
“But neither Leppink nor Rehberg seemed entirely sure where motorcycle...”
– Huffington Post story on the ongoing debate over new child labor regulations. Congress will either choose wisely or ruin Christmas forever.
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January 2012
28 posts
“There again, Gloder had met men more skilled in mathematics and the sciences...”
– Making History (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
I got you a present.
LEFT HANDED RADIO EPISODE 13
DROPPING POPPING AND...
Kelly is so great that it’s actually...
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Howler
Told You Once
from America Give Up
This...
“Yeah. But, again, everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. ”
-Steven Soderbergh in the AV Club.
Those buck toothed limey cave fish at BBC America are playing the non-Director’s cut of Dune. That kind of shit is how you lose an empire. My bayonet is hungry for red coat.
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Should The Times Be A Truth Vigilante? →
hallekiefer:
soupsoup:
I hope this is a joke. The New York Times Public Editor wonders aloud if their journalists should be reporting the truth.
Seriously?
“I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.”
Oh my god, this is embarrassing. This is like if your office was preparing the...
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WatchThe first TV show entirely composed of soon-to-be animated GIFS.
December 2011
26 posts
