October 2009
46 posts
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This is my "I am going away" post...
No, I’m not Trent Reznor’ing my Tumblr. Starting my vacation tomorrow, leaving criminally early. Be back on the 8th!
September 2009
54 posts
“Why talk about wine when you can talk about talking about wine? New media...”
– - Mark Zuckerburg (via youngmanhattanite)
God. Mark Zuckerburg is the MAN.
(via fek)
I feel like the angels are singing or something.
(via minou)
(via kelsium)
I know Zuck had an “I’m CEO…bitch” business card and so he is a little irreverent, yes, but I assumed...
“How did this happen? Well, I followed a pretty typical trajectory after college,...”
– Lynsey G., “THE CONFLICTED EXISTENCE OF A FEMALE PORN WRITER.”
a new column in (believe it!) McSweeney’s.
!!!
(via meaghano)
Hmm. So far we’re interested, if not yet sold…but we can’t wait for column no. 2.
(via newsweek)
I am 98% sure that I know this person. Always good to see a former...
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Kate Harding's trenchant analysis of the Roman... →
(Link via abbyjean)
“Is startup culture’s biggest output just chatter about output?”
– — andrearosen
Yes. Wake me when everyone is interested in actually doing work.
Gawker's Tucker Max hatred reminds me why I... →
Honestly? After writing this:
…[Tucker Max] had his ads thankfully removed by Chicago’s Transit Boards in a transit-based struggle that would make Rosa Parks want to rise from the dead to beat the piss out of Max for messing with her legacy of transit-based struggle.
Foster Kamer can hurl any pejorative he likes at me. This is true.
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“According to British tab-rag The Sun, Jackson once told a friend — a rabbi! —...”
– Michael Jackson Had Unrequited Love for Hitler’s Oral - Michael Jackson - Gawker
Your daily idiocy Belonsky. (via skybarn)
I absolutely, literally directly navigated to skybarn’s blog just to see if he’d comment on this. I know it’s easy to pile on Belonsky, but “Michael...
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I don't really like Community but I've determined...
as any good future baby-mama should.
I am no longer engaging.
haguenite:
iseeellis:
haguenite:
So now you’re stuck with my righteous-rage-without-outlet.
I feel like Name/Chris/Douchebag McAssFace is doing this to make some sort of “point” about how “liberals are so crazy and hysterical” and “refuse to reason with anyone.” And then he’ll post a link to his Tumblr and talk about how righteous he is.
To borrow SpLove’s phrase, it hurts my heart. It...
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Can we scrape together some cash...
to buy Chynna Phillips a dictionary, so she can better understand “rape”?
But Michelle Phillips’ daughter, Chynna Phillips, who is Mackenzie’s half sister, says: “After long nights of heroin use, (Mackenzie is) claiming that she once woke up and that my father was on top of her having sex with her. Was he actually raping her? I don’t know. Do I believe that...
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“Right! and the constant awareness of what people might think of you if they are...”
– Sady Doyle, Tiger Beatdown: Sexist Beatdown: Douche Chills Edition
“Say you were standing on a hilltop with someone who had no Noise. Would it be...”
– — The Knife of Never Letting Go, this month’s Tumblr book club selection, which I am clearly way behind on (only about 100 pages in).
This line makes me think of Prufrock, among other things. (But I will spare you the dissertation on consciousness as a hermetic chamber.)
I confess, I once broke up with a therapist for...
minou:
And I told her so.
But we all knew I was an asshole already. And? AND, We disagreed about consciousness. It’s a big deal to disagree with your therapist about consciousness.
Hegel continues to ruin lives! This is why we must only interact with him via secondary sources (or whilst heavily intoxicated. Never mind Insanity Wolf).
“OK so I don’t mind it if you are a Hegelian or whatever but who says “I’m such a...”
– — Chuffed Little Muffin
As a Husserlian, this offends me. I joke. How does anyone actually say those words? Did someone dare her?
Shield law: Defining "journalist" (Nieman Lab) →
A journalist is someone who “obtains the information sought while working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for an entity…” according to Chuck Schumer’s amendment to New York’s shield law. Zachary Seward, writing for Nieman Lab, points out that the phrasing in the amendment excludes student journalists and bloggers with day jobs, but I do think...
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Usually only when we go to press...
Managing Editor: Oh, you've been out for coffee with [editor-in-chief], so now you're going to be insufferable for the next few days.
Me: Are you saying you sometimes find me sufferable??
Managing Editor: Some days!
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Just read the words "a theological gavotte." What?
Oh, checked the byline, its by “an apostolic Carly Simon.” Sense, it makes.
http://hotchickswithdogswithboners.com →
(via sarahspy)
They just signed their five-book deal contract with Harper Studio this morning; I expect galleys this afternoon and finished copies by Friday.
Michiko Kakutani's review of Audrey Niffenegger's... →
The novel’s got a haunted house (well, a haunted apartment), a creepy cemetery, a family with a bizarre secret in its past and two naïve young women at the mercy of unearthly forces.
SOLD. Sorry, I didn’t hear anything else you said, Michiko.
This MeaghanO lady...
is kind of awesome? (I know it’s lamesauce to praise someone who works for Tumblr, but a) brilliant defense of Tumblr, b) reads Marilynne Robinson and c) has a sense of humor about herself.)
Guest of a Guest does a dishonest hatchet job on... →
Okay. I’m not a habitual reader of GofG, not out of any pointed disapproval, but because its tone somehow reminds me of a stereotypical high school yearbook staff: Allow us to show you the (relatively) cool kids in our little world. It doesn’t bother me, but it doesn’t particularly interest me, either. No big deal.
I do read RBNS and have read it since its inception in January...
Return!
Self-imposed Tumblr exile is over for now! Mission Prepare-for-Vacation is nearly complete.
Self-imposed Tumblr exile!
Just for the next couple of days. Tom and I are leaving for Belize on October 1st, and the magazine’s Fall Books issue needs a lot of work in the interim. It’s one of those taking-off-for-a-week-requires-doing-three-weeks-of-work-in-advance kind of things. Hopefully I’ll be able to wrap up enough of the important stuff by the end of the week. Tumbl on, Tumblrers.
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, GENDER POLICE?
abbyjean:
“South African runner Caster Semenya, who is at the center of a gender row, has been placed on suicide watch amid fears for her mental stability. The Daily Star quoted officials as saying that psychologists are caring the 18-year-old round-the- clock after it was claimed tests had proved she was a hermaphrodite intersex.” (cite)
fixed the terminology for them. but who is surprised by...
“What a disaster! One tiny element of chaos and MTV fell apart—and so did...”
– Choire Sicha, Leave Kanye Alone (via bryanmckay)
I briefly considered not reblogging this but: I disagree with a lot of what Choire is saying. While I’d agree that there’s something unsettling about the image that people are choosing to circulate around the Internet (of Kanye taking the...
“I’m going to sleep on figuring out just what about this whole thing was “real,”...”
– Maura Johnston, Kanye West: Back to Reality (Idolator)
While I think Kanye’s outburst was real (and: really, this was not about Beyonce or Taylor Swift or music videos but, as always, about Kanye needing to assert his presence. Excuse me: ASSERT HIS PRESENCE), Maura raises an excellent point....
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Remembering
I never know what to do or how to feel on September 11th. Eight years ago I was a freshman in college, living and going to school in the financial district. It was the second week of my first semester and I was adjusting to living on my own, to unfamiliar surroundings, to city life, to germs. For three or four days prior I subsisted on a diet of orange juice and liquid Tylenol to combat the...
"Dems heckled Bush, but Wilson was different"...
So why the outcry over Wilson? I think it’s because Congressional Republicans have used the health care debate to vent a deeper, uglier contempt for Obama that verges on the personal. They’ve done little to discourage the party’s fringes from questioning Obama’s legitimacy to serve through the birther movement, fitness to govern through the death panel canard — and...
Did President Obama Call The Media Liars Last... →
I understand Glynnis MacNicol’s point but casting Obama’s criticism as a complaint about “the media” is problematic. The media is not a monolith. President Obama was taking aim at specific claims made by specific members of the media who are (perhaps intentionally) misinforming the public. What I find most striking is that President Obama knows how to express disagreement...
Neil Gaiman Facts
fyneilgaiman:
casinosyfurcias:
Neil Gaiman once wrote a Nebula-winning story using only the middle row of his keyboard.
Harper Collins has taken out a 2.5 million dollar insurance policy on Neil Gaiman’s accent.
If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
Neil Gaiman does not use Microsoft’s grammar-check. Microsoft uses a Gaiman-check.
...
“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the...”
– - Joe Wilson (R-SC)
YOU LIE! - skybarn
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Lea Goldman doesn't want to see your "doughy" body... →
Oh my god, overweight women disrobing in a ladies’ locker room? WILL THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY NEVER END?
Seriously, this entire article made me laugh. I don’t know if it’s age or maturity or just mental fatigue but it’s so difficult to work up any kind of outrage over people who are this ridiculous. I can’t wait for her next article about her discomfort with...
On the blog-to-book-deal phenomenon
I think it’s important to specify that the blogs themselves, whether it’s LATF or TIWYF or the “Shit My Dad Says” Twitter, (or the people behind them) aren’t stoking my ire. It’s just frustrating to watch publishers grasping desperately at something — anything — that can be cheaply produced with a low level of creative output to boost flagging book...
"Shit My Dad Says" Twitter lands book deal. →
soupsoup:
Having to move back home at the age of 28 almost universally signals defeat. Images of an unemployed, not-so-well-adjusted George Costanza character from “Seinfeld” might spring to mind.
In Justin Halpern’s case, moving from Los Angeles to his parents’ house in San Diego planted the seeds for a Twitter page that’s quickly growing into an Internet phenomenon, attracting offers from...
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The Godfather, pts. I and II
My blog post on The Godfather for Filmosophy:
filmosophy:
COME ON NOW, KILL ME. BE A MURDERER LIKE YOUR FATHER. COME ON, ALL YOU CORLEONES ARE MURDERERS ANYWAY.
by Regina Nigro
So, as I recently mentioned, I watched The Godfather (part I and II) for the very first time this weekend. I did so under duress. Well, not entirely. Tom, my boyfriend, is a filmmaker and has been since embryonic...
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NYC hipsters! Get your picture taken for the LATFH... →
soupsoup:
(via lookatthisfuckinghipster)
The easy part is getting the book deal.
The hard part is getting people to actually agree to represent the content that the deal was based on when you realize the pictures you swiped off the internet are not public domain and unusable in the actual book.
Well, according to the PW notice (which I somehow missed), the book will “both mock and...
Look At This Fucking Idiot Who Couldn't Figure Out... →
maura:
“NYC-area hipsters interested in being in the upcoming Look at This Fucking Hipster book, this Friday (9/4) is your chance!”
lololololol
If their commitment to irony is real, they’ll do this. But I was curious about how they were going to manage getting permission for their photos, so at least we put that mystery to bed.
