January 2010
29 posts
But seriously, re - the iPad: it's like when people were expecting to upgrade from a two-door Corolla to a flying DeLorean and instead upgraded from a two-door Corolla to a four-door Corolla.
caro (via inothernews)
It's not that I hate the moon. (Well, unless the moon is the movie Love Actually or the CNBC talking head Julie Roginsky.) What I hate is that I can't even see the damn thing on account of all the fat fingers in my face telling me where to look, or why to stop looking, or when to buy a set of lunar map placemats from the checkout line of Urban Outfitters. →
theawl.com
Yeah, fuck Love Actually.
Via katiebakes, this is just a superb piece of work.
Also? Party Rats! IDEAL FOR NIGHT BLOGGING!
RIP, Air America
Okay, so I didn’t really listen to you. But I don’t really listen to talk radio, or radio at all. I only caught a couple shows that interested me on podcast when it was convenient, like when I was doing yardwork. (The Inside Story with Ana Marie Cox being a lawn-mowing favorite.) Of course, those podcasts were without commercials. Maybe that was part of the problem, I don’t know.
But I liked the IDEA of you. And the fact that I knew there was some alternative to right-wing radio out there, in case somewhere an impressionable youth who hadn’t yet developed an established worldview was searching for something to listen to. So yeah, this sucks.
To all who depended on Air America for their livelihood, I wish you the best of luck.
Sometimes it's hard not to be strident. →
theawl.com
(via alexbalk)
This is simply tremendous. Read it.
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I think I've enjoyed reading the comment thread under this post more than just about any other comment thread ever. →
theawl.com
One of my favorite moments: ”I didn’t walk out of Indecent Proposal, but it was so bad that I broke up with my boyfriend immediately afterward, just to hurt something.”
Seriously, there is some “blog comments to book deal” craziness up in that craziness.
Added my comment to what has become a rather long — but interesting — thread at this point. Sharing is fun!
“When I took this show over, boy, there was a lot of animosity, between me and Dave and who’s gonna get it — and quite frankly, a lot of — well, good friendships were permanently damaged. And I don’t want to see anybody ever have to go through that again. ‘Cause this — you know, this show is like a dynasty. You hold it, and then you hand it off to the next person. And I don’t want to see all the fighting, and all and “who’s better?” and nasty things back and forth in the press. So, right now, here it is: Conan — it’s yours. See you in five years, buddy. Clear enough? Enough said? All right.”
—Jay Leno in 2004 (via soupsoup)
When Your Friends Have Children That Touch Computers
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Love this. At least once a day, I get a “h3#adj$” email from my 2 year old playing w/my wife’s blackberry.
“Remember when that Canadian radio program got kind of famous for just calling a payphone in some hot news spot because they had no budget or bureaus? Now that’s the fucking New York Times, and the payphone is fucking Twitter.”
—Ken Layne. (via katiebakes)
