January 2010
80 posts
Someone at Max's asked me if I was androgynous. I... →
From Just Kids, Patti Smith’s new memoir. Today’s Guardian has an excerpt.
Click to watch Tony Blair live at the Iraq war... →
thought: I may be a progressive conservative. I...
vruz:
jhnbrssndn sez:
Things have never been simpler.
vruz: mmmmmmm I guess it all depends on the zoom lens we use. Yes, I agree that people and mainstream culture are simpler than I ever knew. But that’s precisely why there’s daunting complexity in finding ways to make sense of it all.
It’s the fight against entropy. Things are becoming more complex all the time, but people pretend they...
Guardian editor hits back at paywalls →
jhnbrssndn:
The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch’s campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a “sleepwalk into oblivion”.
Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would...
It May Or May Not Be Ironic
choire:
A young New York Times freelancer, Natasha Lennard, served as a decoy—one of 200 or so—in last night’s annual New York City government-sponsored, volunteer-run homeless survey. This survey, you can imagine, is to judge the number of homeless people who are living outside of shelter in the winter. And these decoys, quite obviously, are used as a measure of coverage and penetration of the...
A long line of research has already shown that... →
So you get more discerning and focused and prone to cut through the bullshit as you get older? More able to tune out useless information?
Don’t tell the kids.
Pop Culture: Bubble wrap turns 50 years old today. →
(via inothernews)
How sweet! And I’m sure that 99% of all the bubble wrap manufactured over those years still lives on somewhere, being ingested by a pelican or gently wafting in the upper branches of a redwood tree.
“We’re all alone. Everyone is crazy and you have no choice but to be alone or to...”
– (Wise playwright Christopher Durang).
Wakefield Airedale Byelection Result
feastingonroadkill:
Labour - 1330 - 49.8% Lib Dem - 603 - 22.6% BNP - 353 - 13.3% Con - 275 - 10.3 % Ind - 102
BNP vote falls by over 1/3rd.
Even as a (by law) politically neutral person - oh, how happy Mr Feastingonroadkill is.
Yeah, team!!!
No offense, Yanks
inothernews:
caro:
but after spending the better part of a week in a rural region of a Latin American country, watching Spanish-language news reports about a massive humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean, all this Twitter banter about the upset of a senatorial supermajority might as well be hand-wringing over the finale of American Idol.
There, I said it.
That you ever have to type “Twitter...
"A full obituary will appear later."
Well, you know, it usually does.
“Going for that arts medal again, Mr. Roadkill documents a performance piece...”
– sez Ms Heartburn. We don’t have anywhere called ‘Damply-on-Toast’ round these grim, postindustrial, Yorkshire parts. Now ‘Grotthorpe’, or ‘Slagthwaite’ - then you’re talking… (via feastingonroadkill)
Amateurs. Here in Spain we have Despeñaperros (Literally, throw the dogs off the cliff*) and my...
Seriously, porno dubbed with Chris Matthews sound...
inothernews:
(via notthatkindagay)
Um… clips or it didn’t happen?
PLEASE!!! NOOO! NO CLIPS!! Good fucking Jesus, do you want to kill every libido on the planet? Some things are just tooooooo far….
Am I the only one getting a little tired of all...
misterhippity:
I mean, I like Conan just fine, but enough already.
According to the latest reports I read, the guy will probably walk away from NBC with around 50 million dollars. I repeat: 50 million dollars. Also, I’m sure he’ll have his own show on Fox next fall to go with all that money.
Given that, I find it impossible to see how anyone can work up too much sympathy or righteous...
So, I'm poor, right?
thedabara:
Right.
So, I haven’t been able to eat at (or food from) a restaurant in, like, a week and a half. I go to the farmer’s market and whatnot to get my veggies and just ate food I brought to the office and blah blah blah.
I’ve lost 5 pounds. Didn’t even think about it, I just lost it from not eating at restaurants.
Today, I had to go see the vampires (read: get blood drawn) and I ate...
feastingonroadkill:
And while we’re in...
Rush Limbaugh predictably says that the White...
inothernews:
because Rush Limbaugh is an asshole.
Kill, flay, marinate and feed that fat fuck to the masses. As if even the most desperate would eat him.
Requests for Ukulele Covers
feastingonroadkill:
bossa:
I am now accepting requests for songs for me to sing & play on the ukulele. I will record & post them up on Tumblr for your listening pleasure. I might even do a vid or two. Send me your requests!
Mr Feastingonroadkill would like some early Human League please…
The Complete Works of Sonic Youth. Especially washing machine.
Nothin can remind you how old u are Better than...
jhnbrssndn:
(via biteofpythias)
Especially at 05.47, when my so-called dog has woken me up with her barking.
Hmmm…..dunno here mr. B. I seem to be enjoying morning more as I get older. Is it just the relief that I didn’t die in my sleep?
The Bar
matthewjoseph:
sincerelyandy:
My favorite part of the night isn’t figuring out how I’m going to get home, it’s what I’m going to eat along the way there.
If the procurement of food drives your social outings you are automatically one of my favorite people.
We are soul mates, MJ. Also, don’t forget that staying home is a good excuse to eat well, as well.
“Fellow workers! The Industrial Workers of the World is going to organize the...”
– “Yours for the O.B.U.”, Utah Phillips, X342908; The industrial Workers of the World: Its First 100 Years, pg vi. [via] (via anthropophagous) (via jhnbrssndn)
Mr. Roadkill and I were commenting on this very use of “working class” for white collar workers like teachers, office staff, etc....
“Feminism is a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to...”
– Pat Robertson(via homosaywhat, olympicnoodle, rosasparks, katoleary, gauntlet)
I WISH I knew some witchcraft. That would be so amazing. -M
(via mandalay)
Pat says “leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians” like it’s a bad thing.
(via...
I love it when people criticize the post office...
(via inothernews)
Not to necessarily defend the US Pustule service but damn, just try to get your mail in some major European countries.
(Emily Dickinson on having a hangover.)
mabelmoments:
groats:
bingoparaphernalia:
Every Emily Dickinson poem I’ve seen circulate on Tumblr has been punctuated in the edited way - with the dashes changed to commas and full stops. As far as I know, she disliked such changes, and when we studied her in school we used her dash-heavy versions, which to my mind are far more effective. So why is the Tumblr preference for the becomma’d...
“I am by no means alone within the family or the... →
When the Murdoch family calls someone a sleazebag…..
