January 2009
45 posts
WatchThis video is long, and also like, 10 days old, but I love this “behind the scenes” John Legend video of the inauguration so much! (Sorry if this has actually gone around a lot and I’m just oblivious to the world.)
2:30 - all the celebrities on stage start getting totally starstruck about getting to shake Obama’s hand.
2:45 - Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah can be heard...
WHOA. →
How come no one told me that Blossom came out on DVD yesterday!? (Watching party, yeah?)
Also, did people know that Blossom — sorry, Mayim Bialik — has a Ph.D in neuroscience?
Sundays are the best
keyholez:
I could not possibly disagree with this sentiment more. I actually howled out loud when I read it.
UNFOLLOW. World views so different have no business intersecting.
Sundays are the best
Low-obligation, high-potential. Inbuilt indolence (thank you, deeply culturally ingrained Lord’s Day!) so on top of Sundays being unfettered and shapeless, you can end up feeling pride for doing anything at all.
I made lasagna and cleaned my room. I feel like I’ve mastered life.
Watch“Fast As You Can” - Fiona Apple
This matches itself every which way: video goes with lyrics, lyrics go with drumming, drumming goes with video, etc. It’s a shame that Fiona Apple gets lumped in with the whole category of mid-to-late-90s chanteuses, because it makes her embarrassing to like when, really, she is so good.
A happy bonus is having a small, but potent, memory...
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O, Fridays! So much to love/so much to loathe.
On the one hand, brink of the weekend! On the other, brink of the weekend, which means the day seems to decelerate with each passing minute. Then, specific to my life is the fact that Fridays are my day to go through the reviews at work. Here are today’s winners:
Delicious sandwiches! While $10 can be expensive for a sandwich, it’s worth...
email no. 5/6 from uncle
Ok, up since 630 AM, and funneled through multiple lines, security barriers, police screening points, lines that dead end, along with thousands and thousands of others, all with supposed tickets to the same place. You have a better view of the event wherever you may be right now. I look forward to seeing the replay later. However, despite the unpleasant waiting, the cold, the squeezed space, we...
Hello, one year!
On January 19th, 2008, I started keeping this tumblr! My very, very first post was a snippet from “Snow” by Louis MacNeice that is supremely appropriate for this weekend:
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we...
Text of a jealousy-inducing email from my uncle
Inaugural Ball, Obamas show up later tonight! Rahm Emanuel shook my hand! Jessica Alba sitting next to me. Been to done that: Amtrak train jam packed Mall full of people yesterday for free concert with: Bruce Springstein, Beyonce, Bono, Pete Seeger… Tour of Smithsonian collection of Abraham Lincoln stuff including masks taken two days before assasination Spirit of St Lewis and Wright...
“Bigger Than The World” - Justin...
Tumblr trends will solve all of my fights
There’s a cat sleeping over at my house these days. I agreed to this because of the mice, and also because I had forgotten just how deeply my dislike of cats runs, but unfortunately, I have remembered! As a friend put it, they are “simultaneously needy as hell and totally lacking in affection,” which is truly the worst of both worlds.
Anyway, what this means is that I spend a...
“Never Had Nobody Like You” - M. Ward...
Plane Crashes Into Hudson River →
“The plane, according to the news report, may have hit a flock of birds.”
This is an update from “the plane, according to the news report, may have hit a bird or birds.”
Yeah so that new Pepsi logo? Pretty deliberate. →
fiatluxemburg:
“People don’t like Pepsi, but they do like Obama…”
It’s unclear how they make decisions over there.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know if they put their money where their mouth is, so to speak? I guess the DNC was at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Also, it would appear that “Dr Pepper is a Republican soda. Pepsi-Cola and Sprite are Democratic.” But why?
Hack your brain: How to hallucinate with ping-pong... →
This totally reminds me of a Klutz Press book. As I write this, it’s dawning on me that I talk about Klutz Press a lot — probably more than is suitable for someone teetering at the brink* of the quarter-century mark. Whatever! It’s only because these kinds of experiments are the neatest.
*This is no lie: when I think of turning 25 in March, I often picture a bird’s eye view of...
“Close My Eyes” - Arthur Russell
In...
“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” - Wham!
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Unfriend 10 People on Facebook, Get a Free Whopper →
It is exactly what it sounds like. But there’s a catch!
If you think you can quietly snip away at your friend’s list without anyone noticing, Burger King is one step ahead of you. Platforms Optional points out that Burger King’s application will send notifications to the people being unfriended, unlike Facebook’s normal unfriending process. Have fun eating your free...
“Bluish” - Animal Collective
Like...
I'm good at jokes
Elsa: knock knock
Leila: who's there?
Elsa: orange
Leila: orange who?
Elsa: orange you glad you're not going here next week!
www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/scenes_from_the_gaza_strip.html
copycats:
“My Boyfriend’s Back” by The...
Lessons in shirking research
seedz:
2. Ibid., Mike Jones, Joe Budden, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Obie Trice III (!), Shaquille O’Neal, Tupac Shakur and, if you want to go there, MC Paul Barman.
Schooled! But I’m not accepting Shaquille O’Neal or MC Paul Barman, on the grounds of they are not real.
15 Days of Christmas
I need to get the last of it out of my system:
-I saw clouds that looked like a ceiling of hot pink lava.
-We went kayaking in a bioluminescent lagoon. To get into the lagoon required paddling from the sea down a channel through mangroves. The mangrove formed a canopy overhead, and it was so dark in there that even the immobile mangrove roots lining the canal were resplendently phosphorescent....
“(listen) I’m a shark / y’all just koi fish / (what else?) octopus /...”
– Juelz Santana. I like to hear this as “coy fish”.
Fast-tracking it
Sure-fire way to feel transported into an episode of a cheesy, beach/crime-based TV show: riding a jet ski.
We went to one of the hotel beaches — yep, the very kind of beach that I’ve expressed contempt for — and rented three for half an hour. My sister and I went out together and, with arms clasped tight around waists, darted atop the water from one end of the beach to the other. (When I...