December 2008
43 posts
Flannel Hawaiian Shirts
You can keep that idea.
Pretzel-shaped silver lining
Ketzel Levine is a NPR senior correspondent who came up with the idea of doing a series about how Americans are handling the economic downturn…and then got laid off by NPR in the middle of her reporting. Here’s the series, American Moxie, How We Get By.
Fortunately — ever so fortunately — Ketzel is the only other person on the planet besides Wetzel with potential to...
Possible Expansions to the Shazam iPhone...
The Shazam application for the iPhone has rescued us from the unbearable experience of hearing a song and not knowing its artist and title. That’s wonderful, but there are so many other circumstances a Shazam-type application could aid in the crippling uncertainty of our everyday surroundings:
Plant Shazam (Pla-zam? Whatever, fuck puns): Would recognize and identify different types of...
a word on Benjamin Button -- because i guess i...
After kinda diarrhea-ing with excitement about the Benjamin Button trailer a while ago, I feel some doglike obligation to comment now that I’ve seen it. The verdict is that it doesn’t fit neatly into “good” or “bad” — I’d sooner equate it to receiving a long, gentle handjob while in talk therapy. It’s a suitable holiday family movie because...
The Big Three Black Leaders Who Need To Go →
Black leaders who need to stay: Will.I.Am
Joke! Is this thing on?
TV Show Mash-ups
Tonight I was flipping through the channels, finding that no single program was amply sating my entertainment appetite. Maybe the Internet has spoiled it, maybe television has reached a burning point in grievous, shitty hellfire, maybe both. These days it feels like most television comes in a “Two Shows for the Substance of One” package, yet the TV show mash-up is still unconquered...
I'll be extra blogging through the hollerdays at...
so that seatbelt you have on your desk chair, you should fasten it securely.
BestWeekEver.tv
Pitchfork ranked Santogold #22 on their list of...
One of New York's humble strengths:
That on a blizzardy day, for $3.10, you can have a quart of won ton soup delivered to you. A quart. Presumably for $6.20 you could take the Gallon Challenge!
EDIT: Measurements are hard. The Gallon Challenge will actually set you back $12.40, a gallon being four quarts. Henceforth I shall stick to qualitative descriptions (“a huge big thing full!”) and leave these newfangled quart...
Rob Huebel shares:
A recent text with Rob Riggle
Me: Dude congrats on your last week on The Daily Show! Loved your last piece. Psyched for your westward expansion. Hubes. Riggle: Thanks Brosama! I’ll be coming out to LA to stay with you for a long time. Really looking forward to sharing my life with you forever. Can I borrow some money? (I don’t reply for two days) Riggle: I...
It appears you've beaten us to the pun, Boston...
“State Police in Maine scrambling to solve the case of the missing eggs”
TURNER, Maine - Maine State Police asked authorities throughout New England to be on the lookout for an unmarked truck hauling eggs without the proper paperwork as they investigate the theft of nearly 260,000 eggs from a Maine egg farm.
An estimated 259,200 eggs, stacked on 24 pallets and worth about $25,000,...
“Last night I downloaded a zip file that purported itself to be the new Animal...”
– Awesomely Rick-rolled Friend
BATTLE OF THE BLANKETS with sleeves
Christmas time is fast approaching and the pressure is on to find the perfect gift. Well, not quite, because everyone knows the plush blanket with sleeves IS the perfect gift; it’s just a matter of choosing the right one between the Slanket, the Snuggie, and the Nuddle. All three will make your gift-receiver look like a big homeless baby, but which does the job best?
THE SLANKET
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(link) The Best Viral Videos Of 2008: A... →
(via alexbalk)
I feel like I’m graduating from high school again and this is the slideshow. My roommate and I just watched the whole thing and nudged one another like “aww, I remember that. We were so young. I love you, man.”
It’s final exams time in collegeland, which means stuffing ten weeks of Political Science reading down my throat in a few hours and trying to cough it back up neatly at 9 AM the next day. It took me until my third year of school to face a Political Science class because I’d been oddly and inexplicably intimidated by the whole department, but now that I’m nearly through...
From Esquire’s The Future of Food Science:
Currently the evaporator holds a flask filled with vodka that’s blended with enough habanero pepper to kill a man. When the machine is turned on, the alcohol gradually evaporates and collects in another container, taking the habanero flavor with it but leaving the color and severe heat behind. The result is crystal-clear booze that tastes...
this is what it sounds like when thugs cry
Oh shit, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony recorded a song called “When Thugs Cry”. I don’t even want to watch the video because it can’t possibly live up to my expectations of Bizzy Bone in briefs and a fedora slinking through a cloud of weed smoke. If you do you can have at it, but let me dream.
Harper's Serves Wuss Juice, Asks "ya get it?!"
Serving a fruit juice spritzer at the party and calling it The Unpaid Intern? Harper’s, you missed the exit for tongue-in-cheek fifteen miles ago! Don’t you know that real unpaid interns prefer chocolate milk/roofies/what you’re having? (via)
“It took Axl Rose 14 years to complete the latest Guns N’ Roses album. But it...”
– Life imitates the Onion. I’m too thirsty to know what I’m reading anymore. (New York Times)