February 2010
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January 2010
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So, I got pretty loaded last night (there was a pub crawl, followed by a wake — these things happen), but even I didn’t manage to get arrested for breaking into a bank with a loaded revolver.
Rip Torn is better than me at everything.
annicka:
i just wrote:
the company has focused on the consumer health & wellness trend in late 2009, enhancing its gun offering in the UK.
i meant gum.
I do this shit All.The.Time. The old joke about how you shouldn’t close e-mails with “Regards” since the G and the T keys are awfully close together IS REAL, PEOPLE.
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Geto Boys — G Code
It’s cold outside....
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In which I get unduly worked up over a restaurant...
File under: Actually trying the food sounds like work.
We stopped in at Chaise Lounge (now The Southern) a week or so ago, spurred by its mention on Serious Eats as having a serious burger. We were hungry and ordered a number of things off the menu, including the things mentioned in this sort of pre-review in Dish:
Cary Taylor, the chef for both places, walked us through a sample meal with the...
Essays in Workplace Productivity
In what will surely be the first in a series:
Just spent the last 15 minutes debating whether the appropriate abbreviation for multiple handjobs is “handys” or “handies.”
Sadly, it’s been the most interesting part of my day. Probably ought to go ahead and wrap things up …
(oh, and it’s “handies,” obviously)
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“For real, dawg. 2009 was the implosion of some systemic shit.”
– Choire is livetumbling the SotU, which is nearly as good as when he contributes a recipe/how-to about basically anything.
Re: In Defense of Paul Shirley
brianvan:
I don’t think the people of Haiti have the option of moving. But I do think that our assistance should be restricted, like it should be in cases of starvation. It simply does not work to give, unconditionally. What might work is to teach. In the case of famine-stricken segments of Africa, teaching meant making people understand that a population of people needs a certain amount of...
Privilege is a powerful thing
There’s just so much to parse in this Paul Shirley piece on Haiti, and the rest of the Internet is hard at work doing just that. Let’s put aside the issue of whether you can concede the entirety of his argument and still come down on the side that near-term humanitarian aid is, well, the humane response to the tragedy (you can).
Let’s just move past whether statements like...
Ask away.
This is almost certainly an exercise in vanity, since, I think, six people are aware that this thing exists (and only two actually use Tumblr, and I don’t even know them outside the ether), but I like answering questions. So, do you see the beast? Have you got it in your sights?
Clear enough, Miss Moneypenney.
Well, yes. I can see how that'd be true.
This Gawker post contained this line:
The truth is that one in five Americans couldn’t afford to buy food some time in the past year. And that figure skyrockets if you redefine Americans as Haitians.
“Gold Rush,” “King’s Quest,” “Leisure Suit...”
– Via The Awl.
This, as they say on the Internet, is relevant to my interests.
Yeasayer — Ambling Alp
Yes, please.
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annicka:
Keedz - Stand On The Word
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Wait, I've got to get in the map ... →
I was in London over the holiday, hanging out with a friend and his fiancee who are living there through May. The fiancee — who I love dearly — had a terrible time with maps the whole time I was there (London, admittedly, being much more difficult to manage than Chicago), despite having lived in the city for two years while she attended the LSE.
“Wait! I’ve got to get in...
Let's just adopt stoppage time and be done with it
We were talking last night about whether the Vikings’ failure to touch the ball in the extra frame would generate another round of tooth-gnashing and wailing about the NFL’s overtime rule.
While I’m not sure denying Mr. Favre the opportunity to redeem his season-killing, last-second interception ought provide the catalyst for revisiting the rule, the NFL OT policy is manifestly...
Oh, Brett ...
Something about leopards, spots and crippling, game-changing interceptions.
Geaux Saints.
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katiebakes:
peterfeld:
Bob Dylan,...
“Mr. Segal,” says Simon, having confused the bull with his cape and now...”
– I have no idea what this whole thing is about (and even less so why it’s on Deadspin), but it is awesome.
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Well, let’s see how this goes …