December 2010
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I was reading a heated Twitter exchange between some guy who wrote a book once and some blogger who has recently taken umbrage with something some documentary maker said on some ex-sports reporter’s show and between all the @s and #s and hyperbole and taking-things-out-of-context and accusations of not using using reason by way of stating the Latin phrase for it and Dworkin quotes, a couple...
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Reading Pitchfork’s top 50 albums of 2010 was exactly like what watching another Wes Anderson movie will probably feel like whenever he makes another one. Boring. Pandering. Self-affirming. It’s not that music criticism is inherently evil, no, it’s that lists based on arbitrary opinions and then published to such a wide scale with so much commentary are inherently exhausting....
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If it’s Thursday night, I’m Furminating the cat.
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Swans - “You Fucking People Make Me...
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All male a cappella groups that cover U2 and Pink Floyd are the Dementors of stage performers.
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“This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave...”
– Ernest Hemingway, on the mystique if the frozen daiquiri, from Islands in the Stream. (via The Atlantic)
- Fun fact about Ernest Hemingway: the gun he used to shoot himself was purchased at an Abercrombie & Fitch!
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So there I was just totally wasted at the company Christmas party and I didn’t even make an ass of myself.
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Thanks for all the "ohh they're so outdoorsy"... →
Dear everyone with amazing opinions about music, please stop holding music hostage with your opinion. You don’t actually have a gun. It’s just a candy bar, like that scene in “The Chase” starring Charlie Sheen.
The zombie apocalypse is here! I can hear them fumbling around outside my window right now! Where are my 5 gallon Deep Rock water jugs?! Where is my baseball bat!? I need two-by-fours to barricade my doors! Oh god. Where are my loved ones? How do I get to them! I only have four cigarettes left! Is it unethical for me to scavenge as many cartons of cigarettes I can fit in my back pack before...
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My student loan payment deferment finally expired. Now, I know a lot of 20-somethings who would say something like “time to switch to cheap beer” or whatever but that’s basically been my byline since forever because who cares? (sometimes I like a nice stout or something from Belgium but that is so beside the point) The worst part is that I’m still paying these people and I...
