December 2010
49 posts
feastingonroadkill:
Get your party started.
The...
“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and ‘drinkify’ snacks as...”
– PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
Something to think about with regards to this announcement: PepsiCo also owns the Frito-Lay stable of brands. How far off are we from Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew?
(via jonathan-deamer / tomewing)
CEO’s actually speak like this? Chief Executive Officers?!
(via...
“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)
“But for habitués of the internet,...
TOP 500 POEMS →
According to PoemHunter, anyway. When in your life are you going to see Spike Milligan and Maya Angelou on the same list?
Top 500 Poems
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Dreams by Langston Hughes
i carry your heart with me by ee cummings
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by...
Sonic booms 'make crocodiles crave sex' →
mabelmoments:
Just so you know not to mix your crocs and warplanes. You’re welcome.
Ok, the crocs have their sonic booms, but what’s our excuse??
Hit by a Truck and Given Up for Dead, a Woman... →
No, it’s not the usual roll your eyes story about a medical miracle. This will make you sit down and breathe deep for a few minutes. And think about all you’ve got and lost and haven’t lost. Love to you, Emilie.
Spiersblr: Christmas in Alabama: The annual... →
spiers:
It’s that time of year again. Herewith, my annual reiteration of what people south of the Mason Dixon do for the holidays:
Sometime after Thanksgiving but before December 25, the date to which we shall refer as “Christmas”, a piece of tall coniferous vegetation is selected, brutally murdered and…
Well, Ms. Spiers, as a late-middle aged person with barely any family left alive and...
feastingonroadkill:
A potted history of hip...
Ooops. Spanish ministry of culture nailed by... →
Ñuckñuck, Angelita. By the way, you’re a sucky screenwriter too.
¡aha! bofetada a la ley Sindé...or, Spanish... →
…y…me flipe que todavía no he visto ningún reportaje sobre sus vínculos (o, mejor dicho, de su familia) a la industria cinematográfica….I wonder why we’ve never seen a full in-depth news story about her, her family’s connections to the media world….and how fucking unqualified she is to be a minister of ¿culture?
Watch this space. Let’s see if I’m...
I'M IN LOVE. WITH ALL OF THEM. SO SUE ME. →
vruz:
Stevie Ray Vaughan “Voodoo Chile (Slight...
I will gladly take apologies from all of the...
vruz:
feminism is not mutually exclusive with progressivism.
feminism is a subset of progressivism.
I’m talking actual feminism, not sarah palin-like vindication.
you are getting it wrong in your bipolar demi-christian mindset.
Berf. Vruz. Most of the women I know love and respect would call feminism progresivism. God knows there is a subset that is at best, reactionary (see the Hillary...
“**trigger warning**
…remember that in the Assange case it is the State rather...”
– Naomi Wolf
vruz: who is smart enough to navigate complexity without acting like a knee-jerk pseudo-feminist.
(via azspot)
v-ruz (and ryking): who are apparently not smart enough to question the factual accuracy of this piece because it corroborates their vision of reality…and Assange.
(via...
Best article yet on the Gawker/Gnosis hack →
I’ve just gotten a notice from Linkedin to change my password and a warning to up date from my anti-virus. Could this be connected? (SarahHeartburn).
Gawker post-breach, or my shrink?
misterhippity:
sheilamcclear:
“You may be angry and upset about what has happened. You have a right to be.”
“It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.”
It is my fault for still hanging around Gawker. But I just…I can stop any time I want. But I don’t want to.
Facts:
inothernews:
Wikileaked.
Nothing changed.
Everyone sighed
or watched video of the Prince Charles’s car being set upon with a guy droning “off with their heads. off with their heads. off with their heads” over and over and over and over again.
“NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL”?…oh honey. You just wait. Maybe the pols/pundits in the states are nervously adjusting their ties, and acting...
vruz:
the world is changing.
the world is changing faster and getting faster all the time.
you’re being left behind.
the world doesn’t care
you want to believe things will stay the same despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.
if we’re talking about facts, facts are not subject to your subjectivity.
if there’s something to learn from history, is that some game changing events...
The Guardian (U.K.) has a comprehensive overview... →
Brutal police officers are opportunistic neo-nazis.
My blog is a potpourri of politics, pop culture,...
So what is it? A solid air freshener?
Betting Parlors Close Their Doors in New York →
And the relentless march of the latte zombies claims another victim. And NYC loses a little more of what makes it so special, its sleaze….
You stay classy, America: wine vending machines →
Yeah, but they come with a breathalyzer…so I presume you can’t be tanked already when you buy. And buying more Vitamin W when already tanked is part of the fun!
I thought back to when I was a 17-year-old student... →
Ray Davies on John Lennon.
We remember what we remember of Lennon, and of... →
CNN reporting that Elizabeth Edwards has died. ...
Confirmed by MSNBC and The New York Times.
Really, as if having lost a child and been married to John Edwards - and cheated on with a loony dipshit - wasn’t enough? She dies at 61 and leaves two kids 10 and 12 years old (plus the adult daughter, who, it is rumored, might get custody of the little ones.)
Note to self - if partner cheats and I get terminally ill - make sure to dispatch...
Spiersblr: Launch School 2011 Details →
spiers:
spiers:
FOR APPLICANTS AND PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HELPING OR PARTICIPATING:
As many of you know, I ran a free launch clinic for first-time entrepreneurs over the summer and it went really well. So I’m doing another launch clinic in the Spring and am accepting applicants on a rolling basis through …
I think Tumblr went down about five seconds after I posted this, so I’m reblogging....
feastingonroadkill:
When there’s snow, you need...