April 2011
1 post
I wanna be an 8 cow woman!
Johnny Lingo “The 8 Cows Remix” (by Cinefamily)
March 2011
3 posts
What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the... →
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel →
“With great cultural works, we like to recall how they began, their first lines. Call me Ishmael (Melville). A screaming comes across the sky (Pynchon). He’s in love with rock’n’roll, whoa (The Clash). On September 27, @MayorEmanuel was born with the following Tweet: “fuck you right in your fucking face-hole.” The carnival had begun.”
January 2011
1 post
Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The... →
“The results show that practicing a set of words after the recall test does, in fact, reach back in time to facilitate the recall of those words.”
December 2010
2 posts
October 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
According to plastic surgeons, there’s been an increase in women wanting...
– DIMPLEPLASTY!
(via CocoPerez.com)
May 2010
4 posts
April 2010
5 posts
On the Supreme Court, not a lot of respect for... →
by James Doty
West Coast Coffee Roasters Are Lengthening Their... →
Yay Sight Glass!
March 2010
5 posts
“Meet Glenn. Like most men, he has no idea about the miracle of engineering tucked away in his pants…”
February 2010
2 posts
Just like Mombot used to make: Mechanized cooks... →
in Nagoya, Japan, the Famen restaurant opened, with two giant yellow robot arms preparing up to 800 bowls of ramen a day. When it’s slow, the robots act out a scripted comedy routine and spar with knives.
January 2010
12 posts
The Millions: Nobody Wants to Go Home: A Unified... →
Inconsistent Pleadings: ACLU v. Grayson County,... →
“my best friends are a tomato and Liza Minnelli.”
When Trying to Preserve the Planet Strains the... →
These people need to find some real problems. Have an affair or two. Please.
My top 10 TV shows of the last decade:
1. The Wire
2. The Sopranos
3. Mad Men
4. Battlestar Galactica
5. The Office
6. Arrested Development
7. Dexter
8. The Colbert Report
9. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
10. West Wing
December 2009
10 posts
No Reason for the Season. →
The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
Measured by the Nation Brands Index (NBI), Obama... →
“Country images are not like public opinion, which can fluctuate literally from day to day. People are reluctant to change their minds about other countries, partly because they don’t think about them very often or very deeply, and partly because countries’ images are deeply ingrained in the culture of the population that holds them. Chinese views of Japan, for example, are...
Mexico City legalizes same-sex marriage, adoptions... →
How is Mexico more progressive on civil rights than California and New York???
True story of matricide behind Werner Herzog's new... →
Interview with Werner Herzog →
what an amazing loon:
“J.W.: I’ve seen you quoted as saying that you’d rather die than see an analyst. Can you elaborate?
W.H.: I think it’s a mistake of the 20th century. You could not live in a house that was illuminated to every last single corner. And human beings become uninhabitable when they are scrutinized and illuminated into their last little dark abysses. Just...
Kitty Wigs!
November 2009
13 posts
Baltimore tells crisis pregnancy centers to say... →
Go Baltimore! Other cities should follow suit.
Time Out New York top 50 movies of the decade →
Here are the top 10:
1. Mulholland Drive
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The New World
5. In the Mood for Love
6. Yi Yi
7. Dogville
8. Zodiac
9. A Christmas Tale
10. Friday Night