December 2009
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Today is one of those days wherein I like “The Four Horsemen” better than “The Mechanix.”
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The decade in talking about American politics
barthel:
There were no innocents in this. As someone who was in New York on 9/11, it pissed me off that people in Wisconsin took it personally and were really affected by it, but the thing is, they really were really affected by it. Which is crazy! As is my resentment of it!
Read it all, folks!
The early-afternoon sun, low in the late-autumn sky, reflected off the water and infused the landscape with an oversaturated, celestial light, which—because we were alone—added to the quiet, surreal quality of the scene. We decided to head north, safely upwind from the sewage treatment plant in Harlem, and as we turned away from the hazy outline of the buildings downtown, it felt as if we were the...
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tomewing:
“Sometimes I see how the brave new...
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Who are these people that slowly roll out their fucking wedding photos over the course of months on end all over my news feed? I feel like an episode of The Prisoner.
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fuckyeahladygaga:
Two shows, about 13 outfits, 15,000 little monsters, and sticky champagne, and I don’t care if its miami I’m still wearing leather
and i swear that i don't have a gun
executiveproducerdickwolf:
no i don’t have a gun
no i don’t have a gun
kurt cobain you are a fuckin liar
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"That's the price of honesty."
It was kind of a pain in the ass to get to Cave-In-Rock. We had to fly in to Indianapolis, and then drive five hours out to the location of the festival. We knew to expect some craziness, but I don’t think we were actually ready for the vibe of this place. It suddenly made sense why these guys were all about the cheap soda–it was like walking around in some kind of Mountain Dew commercial...
youngmanhattanite:
Dismemberment Plan - “Ice of...
kellydeal/scottmcdowell:
Belle & Sebastian...
Ahh, this is the Gawker I know and love. →
Maureen Dowd does not care about how Barack Obama does not care about Kanye West.
(via katiebakes)
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matt, I like Frank Sinatra!!!!!!! Know I now why!!!!! Happy New Year!!!! Love, Mom :(.
In response to this, of course.
bulicks:
H.A.T.E.U. (So So Def remix), Mariah...
(WITH "MY HOMIES")
“ROLLING”
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justsayjolie:
Your Daily 90s: Edwyn Collins, “A...
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youngmanhattanite:
The Evens - “All These...
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Orly, esq., is mad that Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano (who was probably born in Mexico) told us we are “safe”—but how can we be safe when the President is not even American?
It’s “funny” because it’s how this “scholarship” actually “reads.”
(via maura)
“You make good money with shawarma?”
As it cooks, the outside of the meat blackens. That is when one of the cutters, like Mr. Fattah, gets to work, drawing a long sharp blade down the outside of the log, taking off just the cooked part, then letting it sit beneath the log of simmering fat and meat, cooking in the heat, collecting drips from above.
When the pile is large enough, Mr. Fattah plants his feet farther apart and begins...
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'"Fated" is a word that Florida Keys palm readers...
Growing up listening to my dad’s Miles Davis and Led Zeppelin records, I developed countless dreams of smoking grass with cats in Harlem and expanding my consciousness with the mud minions at Woodstock. That he had the opportunity to do all that and didn’t was a constant source of frustration and confusion for me, as if there was some river between us composed of bongos and bongs and...
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More on this Monk piece in The Nation, at which I am ever so slowly picking, Yaffe is right to put Hajdu’s Lush Life up as one of the few exemplary biographies; but he neglects some. Szwed’s Space is the Place is better than his So What, Ashley Kahn’s A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue should both be on here, despite only taking a certain portion of the artists’ lives. Many...
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You had me at goodbye
“Somehow, Ken Layne owns Wonkette.”
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If your woman steps out with another man (That’s the breaks that’s the breaks) And she runs off with him to Japan And the IRS says they want to chat And you can’t explain why you claimed your cat And Ma Bell sends you a whopping bill With eighteen phone calls to Brazil And you borrowed money from the mob And yesterday you lost your job Well, these are the breaks Break it up,...
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When I went to Ireland in September, I was staying around the corner from an outpost of the store’s still-existent Irish arm. The last day of my trip, I finally got there when it was open—and upon walking inside and taking my first breath, I was greeted with the uniquely Tower smell of molding plastic and record-collector folly. It almost made me burst into tears.
I’m pretty certain...
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hman:
I’m eating at a P.F. Chang’s for the first time tonight and for fun, I thought I’d see what the good people over at chowhound would have to say about it.
Damn, I thought I was a dumb snob/asshole. If anything, I want to try it even more now.
‘“Chinese” food for the comatose?’ would be an awesome name for a Queens of the Stone Age cover band.
No other writer of the 20th century had Arthur Koestler’s knack for doing odd things, crossing paths with important people and being present when disaster struck. As a 27-year-old Communist he spent the famine winter of 1932-33 in Kharkov, amid millions of starving Ukrainians. Rushing southward through France ahead of the invading Nazi armies in 1940, he ran into the philosopher Walter Benjamin,...
Subaru driving, co-op shopping Mom & Dad aren’t as quite as free thinking as these kids had been raised to believe.
Blanca eventually became a leader in her department. She signed up her co-workers on a petition to organize, proudly wore her “union: yes” button, and put her face on a flyer with a pro-union quote. The risk of going public in support of a union in a hospital of 700 hundred employees when you’re an immigrant whose job it is to wipe asses from 7pm to 7am should be self-evident.
The...
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PITTSBURGH STEELERS 2009 PLAYOFF SCENARIOS
(provided by the NFL)
The Pittsburgh Steelers clinch a playoff spot:
1) PIT win + HOU loss or tie + NYJ loss or tie
2) PIT win + HOU loss or tie + BAL loss or tie
3) PIT win + NYJ loss or tie + BAL loss or tie + DEN loss or tie
Obama would win my approval if he’d death panel Charlie Sheen.