December 2010
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“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most...”
– “Tennis Player Michael Joyce’s Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness”
This is a top-five passage from David Foster Wallace. In college I used prefatory quotes to my papers, and this was a...
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“In an ideal world, self-esteem bubbles up from a perpetually self-renewing...”
– I wrote a dispatch from Tumblr for n+1’s Year in Review, which also includes dispatches from places like Spain, Russia, Brighton Beach, bedbuggy Baltimore/the Internet, and Twitter. You can feel free to like it or not, no pressure (via thingsiatethatilove)
I have happened to have noticed this...
Amy Andronicus: "In honor of all those women out... →
The number two reason why The Monitor is a top-four album for me this year is Amy Andronicus’s Tumblr.
The Walking Dead
(I don’t read comic books. For maybe a subconscious reason I read some comic books.)
Because I was sick, because of Demonoid and the iPad, because — who knows! — I read all the Walking Dead: issues one through seventy-nine yesterday, fitfully, from three am to six am, and then from about nine am to eleven am. It was a binge that, added up looks like a good chunk of time, but in passing...
you guys
Homeless people take SO LONG to use the Starbucks restroom. WTF Gosh!
I’m typing this on an iPad. On my paid week off. Wearing a nice scarf(ves) my loving girlfriend got me.
I’m going to hell.
Radiohead “Follow Me Around”...
I just cooked a dinner that Gucci Mane would love: Scallops with a BURRRRRRRblanc sauce.
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"Eating Harvard" A feature film treatment by b...
CAST
Donald Glover as the kid who eats Harvard
Jessie Eisenberg as the scholarship prep kid and son of evil restauranteur
Bill Murray as the bitter former competitive eater qua mentor
Robert Downey, Jr. As the evil restauranteur
Amy Poehler as the mom
Maebe from Arrested Development as the love interest
Dollhouse Guy [Specifically Enver Gkoajc the very versatile Victor] as Harvard t-shirt...
This is my person web log or blog.
You guys, I’m making very basic choco chip cookies in the kitchen. But I have Sleigh Bells playing on a stereo I set up in there, and it’s loud as a jet engine. The neighbors downstairs are home! I feel like I’m prefiguring or inhabiting (very different things, I know) a Choose Your Own Adventure YA novel. Hope I don’t end up in a pit/flip back to page 1 to start over.
I wish I could unfollow the Radar. Fuck I need to...
I’m busy. Putting the cold-temperature un-salted butter on the radiator. Don’t do that! Classic me. Now I have melted butter on the radio ater. I’m so fucking derelious. I noticed lots of people wearing thin suspenders at Blue and Gold last night. I was out with my boss. He’s in his thirties. The fucking annoying bartender who spent more time talking to some corner bar...
“Fire departments are questioning the need for a fire pole and going with regular...”
– Ken Willette, a retired fire chief in Massachusetts
This statement hell of cracks me up for some reason. Like, fire fighters have been dangerously/ignorantly using a fire pole for decades, and then one day, like, fucking Larry is like, “Uh… Yo guys. I’m just gonna take the stairs...
choire said: Yeah. It’s literally not... →
I figure Summer of Megadeth is a viral ad campaign waged by Apple to get everyone to buy their MacBooks/trackpads.
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I wrote this year-end thing that was mostly about Kanye West. And I keep seeing this things and hearing from people that the Dirty Diddy Money album is so good and so on. I listened to it (on headphones!) and I think it’s not very good. I probably sound like the people who don’t think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is very good. I realize that.
The Kanye album. The whole Kanye...
“Um. Dude? There are TWO “n”s in “annus.”
– Sady Doyle
And that’s why I’m always Googling it.
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“An unintended offshoot of this approach—trying to see the year through the Kanye...”
– Year-end piece b-side. You can see why this got cut?
“you have to cover it in a pretty thick sticky amount of irony cum cinnamon bun...”
– Me, Franzenly writing about Franzen
Things I regularly Google
rhyming dictionary
anus mirabilis
latin phrases
avante garde
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy wiki
taylor swift album sales
is it poisonous for my dog to eat ________
weezer album sales
my dog ate __________
chicken wings astoria
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Thank you for this. I have never discussed my... →
If you know me, this is a pretty meta sort of reblog. But you know, I read a lot of shit out there, even if I don’t always address it publicly. (Or “publicly,” as it were.)
A lot of times, I see people viscously attacking my girlfriend. I see both men and women calling her out, and also saying ostensibly bad things about her. They say she’s just seeking attention or...
“Joanna Newsom: “Have One on Me.” The first disc is great. I really enjoyed...”
– I don’t know who Jeremiah Tucker of the Joplin Globe is, but this is exactly the sort of music criticism you want to see. Granted, it’s under a “Stuff I missed” heading, but still. I’m sure you missed a bunch of stuff. By pointing out that… what? That the album is...
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
This was some of the best music writing of the year. All about Kanye.
“Dark Fantasy”/ “Gorgeous”/ “Power”/ “All Of The Lights”/ “Monster” and “So Appalled”/ “Devil In A New Dress”/ “Runaway”/ “Hell Of A Life”/“Blame Game”/ “Lost In The World” and “Who Will Survive In America” no-trivia
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I’ve been tired, I’ve been tired,...
The avant-garde need not be moral.
I have my own selfish ends. Unsurprisingly. Right? OK good full disclosure out of the way.
Now this Julian Assange and Michael Moore Sweden condom story is happening and it’s here and all that. I’m glad that there are a lot of people working on this. A lot of smart thoughtful great people.
On the Internet it seems like the some of the big dicks write about music and cultural Times...
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Drunken man jumps on shark's head, kills it →
Lorda mercy. May we all someday be as awesome as someone named fucking Dragon (sic) getting rip roaring drunk and killing a shark.
[Tanya77 reworded for clarity and emphasis added for fucking badassery]
Dragan Stevic of Serbia is a new Egyptian hero who accidentally killed a large shark that had previously terrorized numerous tourists (killing one and injuring four) at the Egyptian resort...
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Favorite Albums of 2010
For the first time in a long time (perhaps ever?), a majority of my favorite ten or so albums of the year are authored primarily or in part by women.
Treats
Have One On Me
Thank Me Later
Body Talk
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
King Night
Teenage Dream/Animal (they’re the same album, basically)
Sit Down, Man
The Monitor
Don’t Go To School1
Treats is my runaway favorite...
mcnallyjackson asked: Tell the story! Unless the story is mean. In which case don't tell it. Otherwise tell it.
mcnallyjackson asked: Tell the story! Unless the story is mean. In which case don't tell it. Otherwise tell it.
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MP3: Kanye West - "Christmas In Harlem"
Kanye West released a perfectly pleasant Christmas song today, which features CyHi Da Prynace and Teyana Taylor. Props to Pigeons And Planes on the find. And I totally photoshopped this picture like G6. (Ian Anderson) Via minneapolisfuckingrocks.
I shall let you complete that thought, Ye, but Drake had the best Christmas-related line of the year: I ain’t Santa. I got something for these...
