January 2009
33 posts
tesslynch:
ohspit:
aja: Elliott Smith - Miss...
“The great thing about the dead, they make space.”
– John Updike, gonzo at 76
I just can't get this off my mind
I keep seeing all these stupid advertisements over the internet for USA’s new television show BURN NOTICE. I had to Wikipedia “burn notice” to look up what the phrase even meant. Just so you know:
A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons or...
A recap of the week in review, going backwards:
Sunday, January 25: Snowboarding @ Jay Peak, drove home afterwards. Watched hilarious 21st century version of Reefer Madness on CNBC.
Saturday, January 24: Snowboarding @ Jay, frigid temperatures. Partied with the Hobart & William Smith sailing team. All thirty of them. Much beer was consumed.
Friday, January 23: Arrived at Grandpa Grunts...
twitter is great...
…for learning what other twenty-somethings want to do with their upcoming lives:
……I think the demographic I follow on Twitter is becoming rapidly apparent….
Children of the Left, Unite! →
magicmolly:
“Marxist principles have been dripping steadily into the minds of American youth for more than a century. This isn’t altogether surprising. After all, most parents want their children to be far left in their early years — to share toys, to eschew the torture of siblings, to leave a clean environment behind them, to refrain from causing the extinction of the dog, to rise above coveting...
I have a habit of wrongly estimating myself, my self-worth, my self-esteem, and my self-efficacy. This knowledge becomes apparent as one takes a glance around my small bedroom (not on Butthole Road).
Two ten pound freeweights sit untouched by the corner of my bed. I am no Joe Sixpack, king of the benchpress. My scrawny arm muscles, for better or worse, have been with me since the Clinton...
the neuroscience behind dubya →
Down with Malcolm Gladwell. Three cheers for the next great pop-sci writer, Jonah Lehrer!
in deezee
I can’t imagine what will ever happen to all the OBAMA merchandise being peddled on street corners in downtown Washington, D.C. Everywhere I turn, I see a man with a scarf painted with silver OBAMA OBAMA or a woman with thirteen pieces of OBAMA flair peppering her jacket. Even the children are wearing OBAMA t-shirts, OBAMA jackets, and OBAMA hats.
But everyone is incredibly content. In...
welcome to the monkeyhouse
Google Books has a secret collection of books, magazines, and short stories that you needn’t have to buy on Amazon! I spent my morning on the couch, the first morning of the year spent in Matunuck, looking for a fun story to read and happened upon Kurt Vonnegut’s “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse”. Highly recommended that you either read this story here or peruse Google Books...
if you were curious as to what i want (applied) to... →
This is Your Life (and How You Tell it) →
Article from last year that I found on an old diigo account that fundamentally explains how people live with themselves.
Conclusion: the guide to the “best life” may be in becoming an English major concentrated on spinning the COOLEST reinterpretation of your life!
Example:
“Yes I may be stuck in suburbia with no money and no (immediate) women but at least I saved the world...
you know it's good reading...
this is the internet when you’re not on drugs. and when you are as well.
..when you can focus on the article and nothing else for a brief moment in time.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (via georgiahardstark)
Gawker had an amusing post the other day diagnosing autism as the disease of the internet age. It makes for interesting reading partly because we have very little...
the green revolution is in trouble! →
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an...”
– Sam Harris in Letter to a Christian Nation (via pauliophonic) (via atheistramblings) (via louobedlam)
The bartender had a white beard and a shirt that advertised the destruction of one’s liver. Every so often, he arched his neck up at the flat screen hanging above him to glance at Sportscenter. The guys at the bar drank Coors Light. When Dad couldn’t get a “nice, blue collar beer” like Rolling Rock, he turned to these guys for sympathy. They responded accordingly by...
you just don't get it
“No, but see, she changed her profile picture and relationship status,” I tried explaining.
“Okay, well, the relationship status, that holds obvious weight, but the profile picture? I think you’re overreacting. What did she change her status to?” Andrew was being supportive but it wasn’t helping. I was distraught, again. What if this girl gets scooped up in...
she was the leaf that did not fall last autumn
Excerpts from my history report on the Netherlands, circa 4th grade with Mr. Mack:
“Many people think Holland is another name for the Netherlands, but in fact, Holland is really a state of the Netherlands. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is its full name. It is a low land country, north of Belgium, and northwest of Germany. Most of its land has been drained by windmills. Land that has been...
History
magicmolly:
One morning D woke up in a poor mood and I did the only thing I knew how: brought him breakfast in bed, with a surprise. That day’s surprise was a shot glass full of Cheerios. Dash of milk. Right alongside the fried eggs. “Take it,” I said. He picked it up. “Take it like a shot,” I instructed. Down the hatch. He picked up the toast next, with its egg on top, and took a large bite. The...
reality tv gone too far
I wish my room looked this upscale and swanky
[Main character, twenty two years old, is lying down on his unmade bed. There are clothes strewn all around, an empty Miller Lite on the bedside, and posters and pictures hang from the walls from when he was still in high school. Two goldfish swim aimlessly in the tank to his right.
He’s watching Entourage and it’s 1:00pm. The sun is...
death in the family
Dad’s at the dinner table with George, drinking scotch, talking. Mom sits down and the conversation goes quiet. She’s waiting for the roast beef to cook. It’s almost dinner time.
“So I had a death in the family,” I hear my dad start.
“Oh?” George’s bushy eyebrows rise.
“The spider in the bathroom. It was two, it died just before the New...
ginsberg madlib
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by __________, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the _______ at dawn looking for an angry ______, ___________ hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly __________ to the starry dynamo in the _________ of night..... ..... Carl _________! I'm with you in Rockland ...
similarities
Is this:
just a petty knockoff of this:
intentional grounding - thanatos of football?
Watching the Colts-Chargers playoff game in Warren, VT with the Duncan brothers. I’m being actively neutral in this experience by reading some article on the harmonic precision of Stradivarius violins and their connection to the Little Ice Age. I have no idea what I’m doing.
In any case, I glanced up very quickly and saw a desperate Philip Rivers charging out of the pocket before...