February 2010
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January 2010
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“We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting...”
– President Obama | TPMDC
I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television. And I keep coming to the same conclusion. They’ve started to believe their own bullshit. These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to...
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Oh, thats who everyone always talks about.
GC: Well, if it tickles your fancy, Christopher Plummer plays Leo Tolstoy.
GC: He wrote War and Peace.
Lia: I know who Tolstoy is.
GC: War and Peace.
GC: Is a book.
GC: Which is printed on pages and bound with glue.
Lia: (stares)
Tumblr Reads
Finally! A meet-up I actually want to go to!
‘Join the Tumblr community for an open bar reception and live performance to celebrate writing, reading, and the art of the second draft. Writers from the popular blogging platform will share their work, make you laugh, and save the Internet from their waning attention spans. Featuring Julie Klausner, Choire Sicha, Meaghan O’Connell, Will Leitch,...
When a House is Not a Home
If this whole terrible situation with my landlords has taught me/reminded me of one thing, is that there is a huge difference between a house and a home. (If this whole situation has taught me two things, it’s that New York City housing is a fucked - and I mean FUCKED - up.)
Since moving in, I knew that our landlords believed our arrangement was very simple - they provide us a roof over...
The iPad
Thank you! Even though I don’t understand a lot of the technical stuff, this at least sheds some light on what I’m missing. My lifestyle/job does not require the level of sophistication that yours does, which is perhaps where things were getting lost in translation. I look forward to creepily staring at strangers using this in public places in an effort to further research.
spytap:
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The iPad
So earlier today I signed on Tumblr to do something fresh like like post a picture of a maxi pad and be like, “yo I already got my iPad, son!” until I realized that of course, the entire Internet had already beat me to it.
In any case, GC brought a tablet PC home not that long ago and I’ve been playing around on it ever since. From what I can tell, this computer does everything...
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GC Strikes Again.
The conversation below is in response to this link - Erin and I are now the DIY experts for the online magazine, University Chic. I was showing him the link announcing our ne partnership:
GC: Oh, great picture!
Me: Thanks! Yeah I think it came out pretty good.
GC: You both look so homely!
Me: Homely?!
GC: Yeah! Cute and homely.
Me: GC, homely means ugly.
GC: It does? Well shit, I’ve...
Jay Leno Headlining at the Borgata →
Anyone want to bet:
1.) How many people in the audience show up wearing red wigs?
2.) Pay good money just to heckle him about Conan?
3.) If anyone goes at all?
I dream of violence.
My roommate and I finally went down today to give our landlords our thirty days notice. (GC was not allowed because he is prone to violent outbursts when angry that would land us all in jail.)
This should be a happy day. No more being told not to throw my hair down the sink. No more being told - as I was yesterday for the upteenth time - to not put toilet paper down the toilet (Maybe I’ll...
I've been staring at this for the past 10 minutes.
alexblagg:
“I have notice their a lot single lady but few good choices out there. I maybe...”
– A Facebook friend. All of this kid’s status updates are like this. I die a little each time I read one.
“To all the people watching, I can never ever thank you enough for your kindness...”
– Conan O’Brien. I’m so glad he mentioned kindness. At work and in life. It is absolutely THE most important act we can choose to commit every day.
(via scout)
Well played, Madonna
“Just Like a Prayer” on the Haiti Telethon = Plus Five
Not being able to move your face and kind of scaring me while singing it? = Minus Three
Result = Plus Two. Well played!
For everyone in Astoria freaked out about the MTA...
Just another reason to love Astoria. O’Leary, you are handy, sir!
ohhleary:
As part of the changes, the N is going Local in Manhattan and the Q is going to run to Astoria. So, during most hours, Astoria, your service will actually run more often - one of the strange paradoxes of MTA service cuts.
My dad loves text messaging. And pop music.
Dad (via text): How do you wake up lady gaga?
Dad (via text): You poker face.
Lia (via text and impressed): Hahahahahhahaha
“They are a perfect couple when neither of them is drinking.”
– Aren’t these the BEST types of relationships? Where you can only be sober together or OOPS! Knife against your throat!
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Kanye Not Allowed to Help Haiti →
“Kanye has to make everything about himself. He will do anything to steal the spotlight and, well, this night it’s just not about him.”
Truer, sweeter, words never spoken.
Sometimes it's hard not to be strident. →
Oh this is good.
(via alexbalk)
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2010 Book List
I wanted to keep a running tally of the books I read in 2010, because it was fun to document last year and pushes me to keep reading. One of these years, I will reach my goal of 52 books in a year - one for every week, which has been an elusive resolution since I first thought of it three years ago. (Just like all my resolutions! Which I always fail at!)
To help, though, I recently joined the...
Yesssssss.
That is the sound I made upon finding Vinny and Pauly D on my Twitter just now. @MTVDJPaulyD and @vinnygmtv.
I’m just 11 short months away from 30 you guys! I’m really so glad about the things in my life that give me joy!
My final Coco Proclamation... I promise. Maybe.
Jessica Stickles nails it:
appleshoot:
I feel a little embarassed that I can’t stop talking about this Conan/Leno business, but this thing has hit me in a way I wasn’t expectng. Maybe it’s hit some of my friends in the same way. Here’s my final peace… I think.
I grew up watching David Letterman. A 12-year-old girl, who loved watching television sets get thrown off buildings, hams being tossed...
Food for Thought
There are approximately 3.5 million homeless United States Citizens.
A few days ago President Obama pledged 100 million dollars to help Haiti.
I have a hard time coming up with an explanation for this kind of foreign aid. While no one would argue that the citizens of Haiti need the world’s help, I think that the government of the United States must, necessarily, tend to its own citizens...
Anxious.
I went off my Lexapro more than two years ago, and I owe those little pills a debt of gratitude for learning how not to freak out when the universe seems to be getting the leg up on you.
With that said, I sure do wish I had one now. For some reason, the fact that I had no work today (which is great on one hand but only piles up what has to be done the rest of the week on the other) is combining...
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan
(via ladimcbeth)
CBS Footage of Earthquake →
I think what scares me the most about this is just how long the earth shakes for. I can’t imagine feeling the earth sway under my feet for so long a period. Everything about this story disturbs my soul. All I keep thinking is I’m texting money from my ivory tower.
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“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want...”
– Conan O’Brien | The Tonight Show.
I actually took it upon myself to watch Jay interview Heidi Klum last night. He seemed glum. And the interview was terribly, terribly awkward. What a $hit$how.
(via jeremysgriffin)
Pat Robertson links Haiti disaster to "pact with...
I’m not linking to the story because more eyeballs only serves to justify that giving precious ink and column space to the ravings of a lunatic is a good idea.
I don’t know what infuriates me more - the fact that he said it or that a “NEWS” organization has chosen this to be the storyline to which the American public should be paying attention.
Get your fucking act...
Hi everyone
In my prayers…
shiningstar:
gomomogo:
I’ve been in Haiti for exactly two weeks. I have LOTS to write, so many observations, so much analysis and emotions (both negative and positive). I’ll be back during the week to write a thought-out entry on the reality I’ve experienced so far.
Hi everyone, my friend Maureen (who many of you may know as ThirdWorldGirl) moved to Haiti a few weeks...
But of course Franklin means Snooki is peculiar... →
A highly enjoyable phrase in a highly enjoyable piece!
Haiti...
My friend Rudy and his girlfriend Patricia have most of their family still in Haiti. Their families are okay but everything in their houses is damaged. Since the power went out they are still waiting to hear the extent of the damage today. Here’s hoping and praying that this goes for most of the nation - how much can one group of people take? It’s truly heartbreaking.