January 2009
42 posts
How to: a perfect Sunday
PREREQUISTE: have perfect Saturday night until 5 am Sunday morning
wake up at 11 with someone offering to make you breakfast
eat breakfast
shower while person runs out to buy cheese balls, Oreos, milk and Coke in glass bottles
while in shower, sing Mamas & the Papas and The Miracles
watch entire season of Summer Heights High via Surf the Channel
do not smoke pot even a little bit not at...
turtalia:
When real estate where you live gets you down do not start looking in other markets just to see what you could get.
MOVING TO PORTLAND WOULD BE A DEALBREAKER
Choices
Let’s all just say that’s an eyelash on the rim of our drinking glass so we can keep on keepin’ on, shall we?
Almost two months now, AHEM →
Not being racist
television
parasols:
sarahb:
parasols:
If you were to press your ear to my lower stomach during an episode of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, you would hear empty seashell sounds emanating from my uterus.
Why are they so cute? Why do they have to lisp and pronounce their Ls as Ys? Why are they so lively and squirmy and wriggly? Why does Aaden have to wear glasses? Why is Alexis so damn adorable with her...
television
parasols:
If you were to press your ear to my lower stomach during an episode of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, you would hear empty seashell sounds emanating from my uterus.
Why are they so cute? Why do they have to lisp and pronounce their Ls as Ys? Why are they so lively and squirmy and wriggly? Why does Aaden have to wear glasses? Why is Alexis so damn adorable with her bizarre love for reptiles?...
why I should not watch Planet Earth, Pt. 1
Me: you know what, I am really mad at God
Me: why does EVERYTHING in the ocean have to be so fucking scary
Jory: HAHA, cause the waters are cursed Chels, that's straight up Revelations
Me: manta rays coming out of the dark like Marley without chains
Me: WOOOOOOO
Me: and shit in the Marianas Trench that looks like nothing more than something foetal RIPPED FROM THE UTERUS OF TIME AND SPACE
Jory: Um, i have a really funny story about that, but I'll have to tell you in person
Me: okay
Me: I am sure this will come up a-- SEA SPIDER
Me: WHAT
Me: WHY
Jory: Squid with Elbows.
Me: I'm going to eat your children.
The stories people told about the crossing were as varied and elaborate as their...
– Short story from 2003, subsequently novelized: The Brief History of the Dead: The New Yorker (via shmobal)
I really liked this book. Not as much as I liked his collection of short stories, but still, a lot. I read it two years ago and still think about the premise pretty frequently.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Only Friends Are Mirrors →
lowindustrial:
I have this incredible, blessed, sometimes difficult, very lucky, very unique life, and I’ve gotten to travel all over the place and to work and live in different cities. … I go on tour with my husband and go to cities I would never necessarily go to. So I started accruing all of this information. I am the person my friends call when they want to know: “I am redoing this bathroom,...
Dinner with my cousin, mother of a 20 month old
My cousin: How old is he?
Me: He's 32.
My cousin: Sorry, he's how many?
Me: [holds up right hand with three fingers, left hand with two fingers] Uh, this many.
bullshit:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
I would mostly like to point out that this features TODD LEVIN as “Brian Gilman”!
If you're bored
Try searching photos tagged “oh my god” on Flickr. But be careful.
Alien v. Predator Poetry →
From The New Yorker
You could say that absinthe is a kindred spirit of so many falsely subversive...
– Eric Konigsberg, in his NYT piece Care for an Absinthe, You Fucking Loser? (via fimoculous) (via goldenfiddle)
bartlebysunite:
This is a few years ago. My boss was notoriously difficult, always unhappy with everything, finding points of criticism without fail. Unrelated to work, I had made a mix CD for everyone in the office, for a special occasion. I thought, “Should I give one to him?” and then, “Oh why not.” So I made him one, too, and put it in his mailbox. Perhaps being included would make him happy....