March 2012
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Oh, make no mistake, everyone. I loved Mr. Eko and was as bitter and devastated about his end as Rick Santorum will be.
I hope Rick Santorum starts to watch Lost on DVD, gets to the second season and really invests in Mr. Eko’s character arc.
I hope Rick Santorum finds an awesome working time machine but has no idea how to use it so he can only cry helplessly as he imagines all the amazing adventures he will never have.
I hope Rick Santorum wakes up with both of his arms asleep and he has to shake them around wildly to restore feeling and one of his own flailing hands smacks him in the face.
February 2012
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Me: I can’t believe Nancy saw David Duchovny coming out of Big Nick’s! WHAT IF WE SEE HIM AROUND? I think I would relinquish all of my cool detached New Yorker cred to say hello to him.
Tom: Are you kidding? You can’t meet him. I forbid it. You’re a superfan and he’s a sex addict. It can’t happen.
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So as a relatively newly unemployed person, I’m seeing certain daytime talk shows I’ve never watched before like this Dr. Oz person? Who my mom loves? And who is now recommending…supplements and appetite suppressants for weight loss? Um. Um. What kind of actual medical doctor recommends appetite suppressants?
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Welp, I lasted about three minutes before I had to turn off the pre-Oscars red carpet coverage. These people…they just don’t speak a word of sense to me — the viewer — or to anyone they interview. Hearing two of these ladies who are stationed away from the red carpet (we need people “reporting” from the red carpet/talking to celebrities about nothing, and also...
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Breaking: It’s 2012 and I just turned on the radio for the first time in years and two stations are playing different Goo Goo Dolls songs from the 90s.
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“And this idea seems more important and interesting to me than the construction...”
– The Aporeticus: Ways Not to Write
Mills is the most wonderful.
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Jesus, that whole Rihanna-Chris Brown thing is a mess, isn’t it? My immediate reaction is that in the world of the private, Rihanna can reconcile with Chris Brown, forgive him, move on, it’s her life, whatever whatever, but bringing that private reconciliation into the public sphere, to make money off what was unarguably a terrible incident, is about more than simply failing to be a...
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So Dave Bry wrote this excellent piece on The Awl
That you should definitely read because:
But I’ve been thinking about a lot since, because of the way the experience (which, haha, that’s a big word for it, isn’t it?) epitomizes what I see as the dominant characteristic of the human condition—the extent to which we’re all cut off from each other all the time, walled off by the fact that we can never fully understand other people and ...
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Oh boy, this is a whispery post but a friend just linked me to a very public FB status update of Ms. Marie C. (not setting off any google alerts) wherein she states that she’d like to have a lot of sex on her next trip to NYC, which isn’t a problem, except that she requires her partners to be “25+ and intelligent.” The disheartening thing here is that those conditions still...
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Pretty sure I need to do a web series that is just my reaction(s) to pictures of Alexander Skarsgard.
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So Valentine’s Day is a tough day for my mom, for obvious spouse-of-40-years-being-incarcerated reasons. She and I don’t always get along; she is overly intrusive, a worrier, sometimes suffocating and a chronic complainer (about everything, kind of?). But she called me earlier this afternoon to thank me for the hot-pink roses I sent her and she actually said the words “I am so...
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lakebandit:
nerdshares replied to your post: Roommate’s not-her-boyfriend is making her a fancy…
Let your date be a GIS’ed wall of Alexander Skarsgard pics. Just my humble advice. #cureseverything #bestvalentine
I agree.
To be fair, this is my advice to everyone, for every problem.
Locking myself out of the apartment was definitely at the top of my list of things to do today.
Anonymous asked: WHAT ABOUT SIXTY MILLION AND MORE
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“The drama queens are a little more dangerous, because sooner or later you’ll...”
– Choire! (via aatombomb)
This is the hardest lesson, ever.
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Ah, guys, my guest-star week at The Awl has flown... →
…but it was pretty awesome. I got to throw shade at Rick Santorum, Ridley Scott AND George Lucas, write a little more in-depth about book criticism/solipsism (don’t click close tab), celebrate the birthdays of John Williams and Roberta Flack and other things. GOOD WEEK.
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Scary Things I Wrote Today: Who Will Protect... →
Static from all sides with this thing, PROBABLY. But I get to lightly touch on the Catholic church’s ongoing PR problem (which is largely of their own making, let’s be real) at the end, so that’s something.
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That's me...over there... →
Hey, guys, one of the benefits of funemployment is that you get to do cool things like guest-post at The Awl for a week, which is what I’m doing right now. I’ll be writing some shorter (and maybe some longer) bits for them throughout the week. Stay tuned, etc.
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I appreciate the work of “When is White History Month?” (screenshots of racist tweets asking that question) but it was so depressing and it’s only February 1st, so I had to unfollow within a few hours.
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“On Apple probably being a lesbian (Alternate Heading: Suck it, January Jones):
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– -Gwyneth Paltrow, Harper’s Bazaar
(via nyclust)
Gwynnie continues to win the worst person ever award.
(via jennyjennybobenny)
Yup.