August 2011
How can you sell matte nail polish and not say aaaaanywhere on it that it’s matte?
Everyone at work keeps asking if I’m cold, and I say yes, but the truth is that a hood-up hoodie is the closest I can get right now to bed.
Last one, cause I'm leaving in a few minutes:
“We had the tickets already - but (didn’t like it) - to much homosex (in our face)”
I assume this came from another survey at The Wedding Singer?
Cause, I mean, maybe it’s Rent or whatever other musicals are full of homosex (in your face).
“Like scheduling a business lunch or following a date upstairs for coffee, book-clubbing is fraught with ulterior motives. For one thing, there is usually dessert.”
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Book clubs in America: Why do we love them so much? - By Nathan Heller - Slate Magazine
My book club is full of winos.
(via housingworksbookstore)
Mine devolved - or distilled? - into a Drinking Club.
Hold the phone! The receptionist has the hiccups!
And with that, the man who just called put me on hold.
First morning truly caffeineless (project Reset My Caffeine Tolerance carries on!) and I’m headed to the gym unable to raise my left arm above chest-height from a tetanus shot.
I think this will actually work out for the best.
July 2011
Longshot!: and the Issue Two theme is... →
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The moment has arrived. Here’s how this works: Starting right now, you have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We’ll take the next 24 to select, edit, design and lay everything out. The end result will be a beautiful glossy paper magazine. And a super sharp digital edition.
So excited for this!
A night I probably could have executed in a smarter order: Froot Loops, American Pickers, nail polish, 1.5 episodes of Doctor Who, write & submit an essay.
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Catherine screams the unspoken fears of modern men: That we are being made smaller. That from birth our mothers infantilize us, our girlfriends domesticate us and our lovers humiliate us with their newly wakened libidos. That we haven’t become man-children by choice, but by circumstance.
The climb toward adulthood can feel treacherous, as if made under the surveillance of a thousand loving but judgmental eyes belonging to those women who tell us how to act — or what not to play. Reasonable or not, being a man is terrifying.
And so Catherine isn’t just a puzzle game or erotic thriller. It’s therapy.
” —Chris Plante reviews Catherine, the new puzzle game dressed as an erotic thriller and designed exclusively for adults. (via thedailyfeed)
I am so, so sorry to any of my lovers if they felt humiliated by my libido. I shouldn’t have taught it all those “Yo Mama” jokes. :(
(via hallekiefer)
I watched Tanner play this game for a while last night. It is WEEEEEEIIIRD.
And not the best video game for watching. Bring back those Navy SEALs or whatever! Push that katamari around some more.
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Thile, Chris and Michael Daves
Chris Thile & Michael Daves - Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Sunday @ 3
That Chris Thile is one foxy mandolin player.
<3
Play
NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: Read Away Your Overdue Book Fines! →
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nypl:
So let’s face reality - everyone forgets to bring back Library books sometimes. And when they do, they rack up fines. Sure, the fines aren’t that steep, but over time, they can add up. Here at NYPL, if you rack up $15 or more in fines, your card gets blocked and you can’t check out books…
Pls institute for grownups, thnx.
The 13 Funniest Broadway Musicals Ever | EW.com →
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EW ranks what it believes are the funniest musicals of all time and their choice for number one may surprise you.
If it were up to me switch number 2 and number 1, throw in some Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson or Title of Show, and sub in The Full Monty for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
There is no way How to Succeed is funnier than Urinetown.
FEELINGS. Okay:
- Urinetown is WAY underrated here. Not as funny as Kiss Me Kate? I’m sorry, no. Nonononono. And I’ve gone through obsessive listening phases with both of those cast recordings. “He may have hair upon his chest, but sister so does Lassie” versus the crying-laughing of Tell Her I Love Her - fuck that noise.
- Hunter Foster is also, if not underrated, sorely underutilized by Broadway lo these last five years or so. (Ooh, he would be great in The Last Five Years.) He was fucking brilliant in Little Shop of Horrors and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
- Little Shop of Horrors is also funnier than Kiss Me Kate. At least the list got that right.
- Spamalot was only funny if you were saying the Monty Python jokes along with them.
- Will someone please revive Bat Boy and put it on Broadway so it can be like #1 on this list? Thank you.
(James replied, "join the unfindable few.")
- Jaime: i'm going to quit facebook. it just showed me a picture of [REDACTED] in, like, mid-thigh-length shorts.
- Jaime: WHERE IS ALEX BALK WHEN I NEED HIM?!
The Blasto Podcast: First Episode of The Blasto Podcast! →
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Episode One: Welcome to Booty Chatter
We made a podcast! And here is the first episode! How excited are you for this thing you didn’t know you wanted?
In this episode of The Blasto Podcast we immediately talk about our poops, our parents, Harry Potter, I laugh at David a lot, and we…
This is a new podcast I started with my brother! It’s me and my sibling best friend talking and laughing a lot, and some serious Neville Longbottom love.
The whole point of summer crock-potting is to not heat up your kitchen VS. Everything tastes better if it's browned first.
Ending my day with an 81-year-old naturopath telling me how colloidal silver is awesome and he takes it every day, and it's also great for malaria. Keep talking, sir.
Every so often I get to tell a soon-to-be-former donor that yes, we do perform abortions.
Today this woman was really really sad that she can’t keep donating because we provide emergency contraception.
“I understand,” she said, “that where you’re working there’s much more violence, that rape is very prevalent.”
She went on, “But you’re punishing the wrong person.”
…
“Okay, I’ll transfer you to someone who can take you off the mailing list.”
RESTRAINT.
Update on our response to the drought in the Horn of Africa
- In Dadaab, Kenya, we are currently treating 2,402 children in its ambulatory therapeutic feeding program and 130 children in its inpatient therapeutic feeding center. An additional 5,047 children with moderate acute malnutrition are enrolled in MSF’s supplementary feeding program.
- There are now around 10,000 people in MSF’s feeding program in the Dadaab camp.
- If people continue to arrive at the current pace, MSF estimates that the Dadaab camp’s population will total 500,000, rather than the previous estimate of 450,000, before the end of 2011. Living conditions are expected to deteriorate further.
- It now takes two months, rather than one month, for new arrivals to the Dadaab camp to register. This means increased delays in receiving food rations.
- MSF began working to treat malnourished children in Turkana district, Kenya, on July 18.
popquizkid replied to your photo: An emergency facebook unearthment GPOY, How Is…
That’s some LONG hair, woman!
It was down to my butt!
Then a few years later CHOP and I made some little kid with alopecia really, really happy.
Humblrbrag! The internet is bananas today!
Actors Who Have Appeared In Harry Potter And Doctor Who →
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Internet, did you even know that this was the thing you wanted most in the world?
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KW: When I got back, there were a billion emails waiting, each angrier than the last. People were fighting about whether the cost was too high or whether $40 was “not even much money,” and blah blah blah. So I sent another email, thinking, “This has just been a misunderstanding.” It read something like, “Hey guys, sorry for unsuspectingly causing a scene, I just wanted to know what the policy is. Can anyone tell me?”
SJC: But it wasn’t a misunderstanding.
KW: It was not. The two emails I remember most vividly are: 1) the girl who informed me that a Subway had just opened in Central Square, and if I didn’t have $40 maybe I should get a job; and 2) the guy who said he’d “pay me $40 to stop bitching.”
” —What’s Invisible at Harvard (The Awl)
Today in Things I Read And Loved And Thing You Should Read, Too, Because It’s Great Reading And Also Really Interesting And Insightful Whether You See Your Story In It Or You Don’t.
Yesterday applying for massive grad school loans, today appealing a health insurance claim denial.
Link to the spoilery picture in The Sun →
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Look if you want to.
/slinks off to corner to cry.
Jaime: tumblr has a link to some dr who spoiler that everyone is super sad about.
Tanner: it’s not dr. who
Jaime: it’s not?
Tanner: it’s sherlock
Jaime: ohhhhh. the dr who gif threw me.
Jaime: phew.
Jaime: i was worried rory died again
Day 2 of my pre-grad-school caffeine intolerance project. Cutting back and cutting back.
Not so that I will live coffeeless in grad school, of course.
But so that when I do drink coffee, when I need it, it will work like it did before I got so acclimated.
Namely, to get me suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper high. And also very productive.
But seriously. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper high.
