April 2009
113 posts
Am I the last person to find out that Starship Troopers had not one, but two straight to video sequels? Legendary.
In Which I Explain All That I Have Been Ignoring →
things about the program I’m going to study in the fall and why I’m so grumpy when things are going so well. plus a funny nyt coincidence.
Secret Codons: NYT Crossword Editor Hatches... →
More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops (NYT) →
Black Rain →
(via markschoneveld)
Dear Sinfest,
I am giving up. You refuse to be funny while I’m watching, but every time I stop checking your site someone posts a link to a particularly funny comic. If that’s the way it must be, for your own good I must stop reading you.
RT @warrenellis Swine flu reaches Australia: Australians unsure how to deal with something they can’t fuck, drink, deport or barbecue
Best Rejection to Date: I ranked very highly at Ole Miss, but they only had 3 slots available for fiction.
So you all know what that means: I’m moving to Brooklyn!
Mike Doughty - The Only Answer
But then I go to call one of my happy-go-lucky friends, and I realize I don’t have one. So it’s your fault I’m so damn morose.
I think I’d be more functional if I stopped living under the assumption that every one else is walking around in as much pain as I am.
Ben Folds Goes A Cappella, With Help : NPR Music →
Ahh, the secret existence of college a capella. not going to lie, it’s a dirty pleasure. Don’t miss at 4:18 where they go to a live ben fold audience participation exercise. very cool.
“It is beautiful. As if every photo should be captioned ‘by nightfall their...”
– neilhimself Re: Chestertown, MD
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
Handing me an iPhone is like handing over an Easy Bake Oven to someone with a tiny undercooked brownie addiction.
Saying Thanks To My Ghosts : NPR →
Last Edition of “This I Believe” on NPR.
Want something surreal? Check out @neilhimself posting from WAC last night.
I’m sorry, that wasn’t very nice of me. When I said the suburbs are ugly what I actually meant was that the suburbs are willfully stupid.
PickIng up Sunday dinner at the 5 guys. God, the suburbs are ugly.
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
-George Eliot (via godinmydress)
Don’t know why, but I love early Sunday morning. Just about to make coffee and that makes me even happier.
Oh Crap, That Was An Epiphany →
Narcissistic blog on the emotional truth of atheism that I discovered about 35 minutes ago. Your time might be better off spent outside.
unicornzzzzz:
They Might Be Giants-“Birdhouse in...
“If there’s no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do...”
– Angel
I meant to mention, it’s no big deal, but….errr.. I thought you guys might care: I’m getting the english dept. award at graduation.
Apparently you can pre-order Dan Brown’s next book: The Mystery of the One-Trick Pony.
Interviewer: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?
John Lennon: Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles.
“Maureen Dowd interviews the Inventor of the Telephone: http://bit.ly/bGMSH
...”
*Sale* For one day only, I will choke you or cut you *for free*. Act quickly, quantities limited. No restrictions apply.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper
*With My Answers*
86400:
Five Questions With Very Short Answers (Out Of Their Element Section):
Which Shakespearean character would you want to team up with in order to survive a zombie apocalypse?
Falstaff (because there would be much drinking and hiding)
What song from the 21st century would you take with you back into the 19th, just to piss them off?
It’s the End of the World...
Finally discovered great crime novelist only to discover his work is being published posthumously. Damn you Steig Larsson!
What’s that, little birdie? Tweet-tweet, kill me? Happy to oblige my feathered friend.
Because I Can't Keep My Mouth Shut →
Things I learned about Brooklyn last weekend, and an explanation of how I’m so retro I think I accidentally got into a flame war earlier tonight. How very 1998 of me.
Writing Emily Dickinson paper that basically amounts to: she’s fine I suppose but I’d rather be writing about Stephen Dunn right now.
thewhitelist:
survivingmyself:
sharpless:sade:
I’m blogging this because it seems relevant right now, but last month I was on the subway and I overheard a couple of 20-somethings saying they could never be friends with someone who opposed gay marriage. And alright, while I’m a full supporter of equality & the right to marry, I can’t get behind that statement at all. I know you think that...
sharpless:sade:
I’m blogging this because it seems relevant right now, but last month I was on the subway and I overheard a couple of 20-somethings saying they could never be friends with someone who opposed gay marriage. And alright, while I’m a full supporter of equality & the right to marry, I can’t get behind that statement at all. I know you think that makes you completely liberal, but...
