February 2011
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Identity crisis
(requesting help composing some business correspondence)
me: well here's what I've got so far: [snip]
Caroline: that sounds very professional
me: ...really?
me: What the fuck HAPPENED to me?!?
me: Am I a cylon?
Caroline: do you hear strange music...INSIDE TEH SHIP???
January 2011
48 posts
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Ask a Lady #2
deepomega: Dr. D, is that first one you? (Sorry, I forgot, no FURSHAMING)
cherrispryte: Better question, is the last one fucking your mother?
saythatscool: Hahahhahhahhahahhahahahhaha, Cherri wins the internet!
deepomega: I am clicking and unclicking the thumb over and over again to register my delight.
me: You guys are the best imaginary internet friends EVER.
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Intellect & Romance over Brute Force & Cynicism:... →
cherrispryteaintsobrite:
I used my laptop pretty much extensively to take notes during grad school. But I was, okay, 85% of the time, actually taking notes. And yes, sometimes I’d tumblr something or check my email, but you know what? Most of the time, I was getting out my frustration with the idiocy my professors were…
I also took notes on my laptop in college. One class ended up being...
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“Perhaps I just have a high threshold for chaos, but this does not seem like...”
– Christianne Amanpour, reporting from Egypt
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Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent... →
barthel:
A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funeral service at the time.
The apparent anti-Islam terror plot comes after a year of...
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Adventures in freelance web design
me: I am starting to see why you didn't describe this job before I opened the mockups.
me: sadly, no webcam, so reaction shots will not be forthcoming
Robert: hah
me: his abs: I'm jealous
me: his nipple piercings: less so
...
me: okay by far the best is the "musician" page.
me: "You can tell I am a musician by this picture of me with my shirt off biting a guitar!"
Much Less Much More: looting →
deepomega:
muchlessmuchmore:
I’m hoping my pals doctordisaster and deepomega can educate me here, because they’ve clearly gotten deeper into the…
My problems with it (and I won’t pretend to speak for DD) are twofold. One is that claims of “widespread looting” during a national emergency tend to be trumped up by journalists’ discomfort with the chaos being observed, by the way it is in the...
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looting
deepomega:
Can we just remove the word looting from the language of journalists?
Coverage of brown people and forners instantly decreases by 60 percent.
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Rearranging deck chairs
In reading reports from Egypt, I keep pausing over passages that describe Mubarak shuffling bureaucrats around in his administration. Invariably, the reports characterize this as a feeble attempt to mollify the protesters.
Does this smack of “My Pet Goat” to anyone else? How can this guy possibly think that mulling over cabinet picks is the best use of his time right now? He’s...
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“A pleasant surprise has been sliding down my throat.”
– People, for the love of god, think about these words before you tweet them.
mikehudack: If the Egyptians end up with a new... →
deepomega:
aatombomb:
I have questions about this!
What if it’s an Islamist government? Was that part of the neo-con vision?
What if it’s less friendly to the US? Mubarak is one of our most reliable Arab allies.
How likely is it that a completely stable, new government will take shape out of this? I would…
Yeah. Um. Has anyone seen any evidence whatsoever that there is pro-US sentiment...
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“The Catalyst: Tunisia a country in Northern Africa was ruled by a repressive and...”
– someone over at reddit makes it easy for you. (via dialecstatic)
Good stuff. And just as a reminder, if the Muslim Brotherhood ends up in charge, they’ve got as one of their founding goals setting up a theocracy? So excitement about revolution in Egypt should be tempered by the understanding that...
Facebook Event: Straight Pride Day →
microaggressions:
“This is not an anti-gay movement of any kind. I would just like some equality.”
The comments, at least, are pretty funny.
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“Was it a dress made out of kites?!”
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too sweet to die: On Shawna Forde and why you have... →
derasso:
I’m really surprised* that so few people are familiar with Shawna Forde, the leader of Arizona’s Minutemen American Defense vigilante group who murdered Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in their house.
So here is some long-winded, rambling background on Shawna Forde,…
Welcome to post-racial America.
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WatchAt the intersection of funny, depressing, and “what, me, racist?”
I would rather face a Balrog
me: How is it that I have no problem buying tampons, but asking the little old lady at the grocery store for the key to the closet-o-condoms made me turn the color of a stop sign?
Sarah: because they lock it up
make it feel more illicit than it really is
me: I guess
Sarah: and there is a fucking old lady guardian
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
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When do I disclose my MEDICAL NEED FOR WANG? →
“Arrrgh! Now I am second-guessing my outfit.
Is this what it’s like for...”
– to sjski earlier
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What's in YOUR wallet?
The Hairpin editors’ purse-emptying piece got me wondering: exactly how much of the shit in my wallet is totally useless? Let’s find out.
Bar ID. This gets pride of place in the window slot despite Georgia licenses being the ugliest shit on the planet because DID I MENTION BARS?
Student ID. Yes, I graduated a few years ago but this is still handy for movies and buses.
Debit card.
...
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Selling out
If this quote is accepted, I’m gonna swallow my pride and contribute to the glassy, glossy, gradient-ridden reflectionfest that Apple has gray-gooed the internet into — but goddamnit I will be WELL PAID.
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Much Less Much More: Notes on a night gone... →
muchlessmuchmore:
Really, there’s only two notes here, because even if I wound up pissing away a ton of money on cabs and covers to bars I didn’t want to go to, I try not to complain too much about nights where I get a sufficient buzz on. However, comma,
1) Pro tip: If you’re at a party, and people are dancing, I…
Related: “Oh hey, party host, you have guitars! I play guitar!...
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So tonight
So tonight I ran into this dude who followed me earlier today on tumblr. We hadn’t seen each other for a while, so the conversation was mostly “hey what have you been up to since I saw you last?” and BOTH OF US were man enough to pretend we didn’t know anything about each other’s tumblrs. So basically Ashicus? You are the man and thank you for not embarrassing me by...
Thank god for my cat
Thank god for my cat, who is sensible enough to nag me mercilessly until I make sure that her food is not that stale shit I put down yesterday. My cat is all, “bitch, you may be tripping over your own feet, but god damn if you aren’t going to serve me the freshest kibble available in this shitty apartment. You might think it’s OK to listen to some loud local bands and go to bed...
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Tonight’s Dead Confederate show will be all...
“I imagine being married to Chris Martin is like sticking a ballpoint pen in your...”
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Also, am I alone here in thinking that Edith is the one answering all these questions. Someone please prove me wrong that there is a dark handsome hilarious experienced big wang dude with all the answers!
Ahem.
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DeMint boycotts CPAC over GOProud →
This illustrates something I have always found strange. Someone being gay and conservative makes perfect sense to me: there’s no reason you can’t want low taxes, weak economic regulation, us-first foreign policy, and also the cock. (Do I even need to mention a strong military?)
But HOW THE HELL can you be gay and a Republican? News flash: these guys hate you.
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Newbie gripe
Why did they pick such a shitty photo for the Tumblr “customize” mockup? I go there thinking I’m going to tweak the radius of my box corners and instead I end up shouting at my screen, “IF I WANTED A BLURRY PICTURE OF LIGHTS I WOULD THROW MY CAMERA AT A CHRISTMAS TREE! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU MAREEN?” Then my cat puts her paw on my knee and gives me a knowing look and I...
My blogs seem so smart but I'm scared about my...
The Awl and the Hairpin are really on it today. A little TOO on it. Between gorilla bling and Anne Hathaway licking herself, how am I supposed to build up enough content to start linking people to this thing?
Oh wait, this is tumblr, isn’t it? HAHA “CONTENT” YEAH RIGHT HAVE SOME LINKS
Too lazy
Too lazy to design anything, so I just fiddled with colors. I’m sure no one will notice. Hope you like PURPLE AND BLUE.