December 2010
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I'd love to listen to Jarvis Cocker read Peter and... →
Like those that have gone before him, the Pulp singer is the owner of a voice you’d recognise underwater, a deep and warm tenor with vowels as flat as his native Sheffield is hilly.
“Hello everyone. I’m Jarvis,” he said with a salute, as he strode on to the stage at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The introduction was not superfluous. While Cocker will be...
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seventeen76:
“The resumption of your essential projects continues intensely, for you, this year. You enter in 2011 pennies of the planetary impulses very instigating to the social plan, relational. And paradoxically, you will test a need for withdrawal, of retreat, even insulation towards the change appropriateness which will still not miss arising.”
ITS TELLING ME I’M GOING GET APHASIA IN 2011...
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Bangable Dudes in History →
greengrey:
rodmanstreet:
Where has this site been all my life?
HISTORIC BONER.
The best part is the pie charts. The stats back up the hotness.
ETA: the first one was Alexander Hamilton! Yeah! (“Why A-ham was Hot-t”)
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We Are Not Martha: Make Your Own Glitter Flats →
These are amazing. I want glitter shoes!!!!
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Republicans to Read Constitution Aloud →
seventeen76:
c-newt:
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When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-Year History:
They will read the Constitution aloud.
Immediately following the reading, the GOP will lead a rousing rendition of “Trust & Obey” followed by a waterboarding demonstration, warrant-less wiretaps, and...
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Does anyone know if the ashes are over yet? I thought liking cricket was like the summer version of liking curling.
(brought to mind by seeing the video of Hugh Jackman taking a cricket ball to the nuts. Doesn’t it seem like the ashes have been going on forever?)
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In which Ewan McGregor laughs about an accidental...
ivoryandwire:
alexkapranos:
Interviewer: I think of you as being a shy person. I know you’ve been nude in several films.
Ewan: Yeah. Yeah.
Interviewer: Was that ever hard?
Ewan: … Sorry?
Ewan: Well, actually, darling, um…
Ewan: That was interesting.
This is why I overuse the word “difficult” all the time. :D:
eta BECAUSE OF DICK JOKES, NOT BECAUSE I WAS NAKED IN...
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I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot more reading about readiness response this afternoon and evening. The response from emergency services over the day has been much worse than it appeared was happening this morning. I still think the wind made last night very dangerous for people to be out doing snow removal, but once the snow stopped was another matter.
It was nice this morning to see...
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meganwest asked: OK, so, every time someone in my family mentions not buying/doing/making something for this year's Christmas I've taken to replying 'Next year in Jerusalem!'
Inappropriate, funny, both? I figured you'd get a laugh out of it, at least.
Inappropriate, funny, both? I figured you'd get a laugh out of it, at least.
meganwest asked: OK, so, every time someone in my family mentions not buying/doing/making something for this year's Christmas I've taken to replying 'Next year in Jerusalem!'
Inappropriate, funny, both? I figured you'd get a laugh out of it, at least.
Inappropriate, funny, both? I figured you'd get a laugh out of it, at least.
greengrey: Rant in which humans can be awfully... →
14kgoldnyc:
turnabout:
14kgoldnyc:
Okay. So. It’s winter. On the East Coast of the U.S., by the time you reach the Mid-Atlantic region (VA-NY), this means some snow and rather chilly temperatures. Because, you know, we’re in between the Appalachians and the sea and thus somewhat sheltered, but nonetheless in…
Whatever. Having been in some serious snow before, this storm was quite bad....
greengrey: Rant in which humans can be awfully... →
14kgoldnyc:
Okay. So. It’s winter. On the East Coast of the U.S., by the time you reach the Mid-Atlantic region (VA-NY), this means some snow and rather chilly temperatures. Because, you know, we’re in between the Appalachians and the sea and thus somewhat sheltered, but nonetheless in…
Whatever. Having been in some serious snow before, this storm was quite bad. That said, I made it to...
my co-worker just looked at a two-page, color ad in the Sunday NYT Arts section for True Grit. And had a little fit and threw the paper.
She is appalled at the excess. Man the barricades, folks.
meganwest asked: Is this the most snow you've seen in NY? Is it more than that 2002 blizzard?
meganwest asked: Is this the most snow you've seen in NY? Is it more than that 2002 blizzard?
I'm at work dealing with patrons and you're not.... →
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Titan in Party Dresses →
greengrey:
psychedelicate:
Apparently this girl is the inspiration for Serena Van Der Woodsen, minus the drinking and the partying and the boobs and the drugs and the boys? (What is left to Serena? Blondeness? Wealth?) My friend sent me this article yesterday, saying, YOU WILL BARF. And barf I did, especially because of this line:
Indeed. Miss Nagel doesn’t go to frat parties....
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Darling Clementine
yayponies:
Invented today, Christmas Eve, 2010
Muddle 3 halved clementines in shaker
Add: ice, tablespoon of St. Germain, 1/2 teaspoon orange flower water, 1/2 Luxardo syrup
Lots of Maker’s Mark, however much you want to drink
Shake shake shake
Garnish ridiculously with clementine slice or wheel, and a Luxardo cherry (the wife likes two)
I think you should be required to sing while...
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I rang in Christmas at a bar with friends and lovely cocktails. The bartenders were carefully decorating a scrap of a “tree” with the detrius you find around a bar (coat check tickets, cranberries, limes, paper chains, etc.) It was lovely. The bartender reminded us he was working New Year’s Eve, too. But the dude next to me wondered why I had no plans to have Chinese food or a...
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WatchLast night’s Jimmy Fallon. Ethan Hawke was on pushing the play, and he thinks the snowball game was rigged. (So does the rest of the company. We are indignant on his behalf, Fallon!)
I like that he got Violent Femmes for his entrance music. (And Gillian Jacobs of Community is adorable and charming.)
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jasencomstock asked: what were last years resolutions and which of them did you fulfill?
jasencomstock asked: what were last years resolutions and which of them did you fulfill?
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MsAvignon's Holiday Gift Guide
msavignon:
For wine lovers, reds: Shafer Cabernet (high), A to Z Pinot Noir (mid), 337 Cabernet (low)
For wine lovers, white: ????
David Harvey’s The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
For the boozy Marxist in your life.*
*you
I want to read that!
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“I am just overwhelmed. This is a very good day.
No longer will our country be...”
– PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, in remarks delivered to U.S. servicemembers and others before he signed the repeal of Don’t Act, Don’t Tell into law. He warned that while the repeal will not go into effect immediately, he has directed military leadership to implement it as soon as possible, adding “We will...
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Gawker: The Spiderman Musical needs to call it... →
I’m inspired to write this because people keep getting hurt trying to make this thing work, and people keep buying tickets and then, when they are upset about the embarrassingly low quality of the show, they are being told in bitchy theater tones “It’s previews, give them time.” Well, I’m sorry, but they’ve had time. And they still can’t get their...
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From now on, everyone, feel free to stand down...
brdwaygirl10:
falseliesdeceit:
HAHAHHAHAHHA OMG.
OH THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
LOL. ROLF.
(no, I didn’t make spiderman jokes at work ALL DAY.)
((he’s not going to die or anything, that would be bad.)