February 2010
29 posts
BLARBHGHFK!
NOT ONLY DOES CBS HATE GAYS AND WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX, THEY ALSO HATE PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAPPEN TO OWN THREE-D GLASSES.
Are they aware how possessive movie theaters are of those things at the end of Avatar??? WHERE ELSE DO YOU GET THEM?? CORALINE??
January 2010
56 posts
HOLD THE FUCK UP
After the night I had last night, well, let’s just say I’m FEISTY:
And this is what I have to say:
You mean to tell me that we are not allowed to advertise young women or gay men wanting to have sex, we are ENCOURAGING dirty old men to have sex, and we are now letting Tim Tebow tell superbowl watchers NOT to get abortions??
Wouldn’t the easier solution be just to air the gay...
ONE MORE REAL AVATAR QUESTION
If the avatars were non-functional every time their human was doing something human, wasn’t that like, a lot? What was Zoe Saldana-Navi thinking was happening to Jake-Avatar everytime Jake-Human like, went to the bathroom? Did he always have to wait until she was asleep? Isn’t this a huge plot hole??
I think I had a dream that the person I'm not...
Further, my thoughts on Avatar:
1. That was a stupid movie. There was no plot.
2. There may have been a plot but I fell asleep during the second half hour of the movie, for about 30-40 minutes, which is usually the point in big expansive movies where a lot of expository talk goes on. I don’t understand why they had to tear down all the trees to get to the unobtanium. I really wanted to...
“Snacks are always something I have in the store. I try to stay on the healthy...”
– Jacque Torres is one adorable Frenchman with an adorably french view of health foods (to which, btw, I subscribe). Read the whole NY Diet here.
Related to my earlier rant regarding the wacky...
As everyone all knows already I’m sure, CBS decided not to sell Superbowl commercial airtime to a dating site that caters to gay men.
Listen, CBS, I about 23459478327594 times VASTLY prefer the mental image of two hot dudes going at it after they have a well dressed date over cappuccinos than the mental image of an old dude pumped up on Viagra going at it with his middle aged wife after...
The best part of this is that most of the people... →
Also, I know everyone and their mother already linked to it but I was taking care of children all morning and read it on my phone and discovered it myself so didn’t want to reblog the other bajillion times it was posted. Because I’m selfish like that, but at least authentically so.
I was just composing a mental list of things I...
1. President Obama and any help he can give us struggling grad students, especially those who will be using our skills for the public good!
2. Sailboat, who said, “Ice cream scoopers do it best” last night while scooping ice cream with a sister who is clearly inferior to an actual ice cream scooper.
3. My brother, who was once an ice cream scooper himself (pre-sailboat days, alas.)...
The most excited my subconscious has ever been
Last night I dreamed I won Miss America via telegram. I was so awesome I didn’t even need to participate in the pageant itself.
In which I aggregate my live tweets of SLAT's*...
every week, i think SLAT has reached the pinnacle of ridiculousness, and then I watch the next ep and it SOMEHOW tops itself.
Just say me. If I don’t get a new boyfriend soon, well, SLAT-ers, you know what i mean.
Stop saying masturbation all the time! THERE ARE SO MANY HIPPER ALTERNATIVES! I think Janet Reno had a hand in this (that’s what she said)
Oh, my god, I just can’t...
Rainy sunday mornings
As I think I’ve mentioned on here before, my younger brother moved to Israel at the start of January. The couple of days before he left were much, much harder than I expected. He and I haven’t lived in the same place in forever, but the distance was multiplied by time, and I sort of freaked out by knowing that not only would he be 2500 miles away, but he’d be that far away for...
“Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates...”
– From the publication information page of When You Reach Me.
The rights of the reader
1. The right not to read
2. The right to skip
3. The right not to finish a book
4. The right to read it again
5. The right to read anything
6. the right to mistake a book for real life
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to dip in
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to be quiet.
— Daniel Pennac
First of all, let me just say this really bothers... →
And after reading it, this is the conversation ricky and I had:
R: I’m actually all for that
Me: oh, you would be.
R: I really am. I’ll vote for the coca-cola president.
Oh, Jeeze Louise.
I know, I can just tell, y’all have missed my trivia updates, so I’ll just throw this out there for anyone who cares for tales of me and my nerdy friends drinking too much beer.
As you may have heard, we are very good at trivia. We win pretty much every week. That’s nice, because if you win you get $35 toward your next tab, and since we like to have beer with our nerdiness,...
Sometimes it takes me 3 days to get to the Sunday... →
Since I gave y’all a link to the original story, I couldn’t NOT link to the commentary. Just as interesting.
“Joe Willard had written to her. He wanted to correspond. And what wonderful news...”
– Betsy and Joe
The death of the slush pile →
When I was 19, I spent possibly the happiest summer of my life living in New York, working at Farrar Straus and Giroux, leading a team of interns in going through the slush pile.
I lucked into the job of the “lead” intern; it was an informal position, but my supervisor was the editorial assistant to the editor in chief of the house, so his slush pile was the biggest and most...
Click the normal sized picture for a giant sized...
(it was just too giant for me to reblog straight up.)
(sorry.)
MOST BRILLIANT PLAN EVER
When Conan goes of the air (sniffle, sniffle, he’s been my late night tv appointment as long as I can remember,) every loyal viewer and fan should switch to one of the MYRIAD episodes of Golden Girls airing at the same time!
Team Conan!
Team Rose Nyland!
THEY BOTH HAVE HAIR THAT WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS FOREVER!
“Just because she’s likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn’t mean...”
– (500) Days of Summer
When I once told my stepmom about how a boy and I had so many weird things in common that it MUST mean we were destined for each other, she said, “no, I think that must mean he’s gay.”
jury’s still out on that.
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The...”
“Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two...”
– I can’t believe I’m such a square that I would deign to use e-mail. And I can only handle 6 tasks at one time! (right now: blogging, reading nyt, watching umm I can’t remember what I’m watching, thinking about how I have to pee, wondering if I’ll ever get a boyfriend,...
Bobby Flay just won two throwdowns in a row.
It’s just this kind of night:
Tomorrow’s my last official day of vacation
My best friend misses me and I miss her
Some guy and some girl who I don’t know bought a very fancy house, and they’re not engaged or anything, and it’s pretty upsetting. Trust me on that one.
I had my first first date of the year. He was twitchy and his job is killing lab animals and...
This will clearly be kicking the sartorialist,... →
Inadvisable Activity #451:
sadydoyle:
Re-reading letters sent to you by old friends, sent after you stopped being friends, which explain their understanding of why you aren’t friends any more.
YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUCH.
Just a little news about where this blog is going
Over the fall, I sorta had a blog identity crisis. I talked a LOT about my feelings, in particular how they were affected by other people and other people’s actions, which I sometimes detailed pretty explicitly. Then I freaked out about that (with clearly good reason, in hindsight,) and did a 180 and pretty much only blogged about books.
The thing is, I miss talking about my feelings. So...
“Man, I was thinking about unrequited love. I figure it’s best to just walk that...”
– ~ Joey Comeau (via ventisette) (via iamblessed) (via gatekeeper)
I know no one cares about other people's dreams,...
Last night, or really this morning, I had a dream prominently featuring not just Ina Garten but her (probably gay) husband Jeffrey!
It was easter and they had a giant hill for rolling eggs that frankly I could hardly climb up. Also, they were in Manhattan, but in this version of Manhattan there were full farms right there in the middle of midtown. Otherwise the dream was boring, but I had awesome...
And now we do a 180 in our topic of conversation
Back to librarian nerdiness! you’re either thrilled or dismayed (it’s hard to tell. i have more followers now that I mostly talk about books and reading, but I had WAY HIGHER tumblarity back when I talked about all that stuff and all those people I probably shouldn’t be talking about anymore. anyway.)
I’m doing a project for my dad about motorcycle tire failure, and I was...
word of the day?
Ok, I just looked up fornicate, and it turns out it means to have sex with someone you are NOT married to. Which sorta changes the way I always thought about it. It’s not adultery, but it’s not just sex either.
Interesting, right? Am I the only one who didn’t know this?
Y'all, What is up with Birth Control ads?
I just watched a commercial for Yaz, and while it’s supposed to make you less crazy during your period, what I really think happens is it makes you go ABSOLUTELY CRAZY all the time. These women are doing CRAZY THINGS.
Cutting GIANT CHUNKS out of their hair!
Bathing while wearing jeans!
Changing clothes in the car in front of anyone who takes a look!
Not to mention the terrible make up...
Write one leaf about a favorite poem.
A few weeks ago, someone I promised never to blog about again told me he thought I wasn’t the type to like poetry. Of course, this was after inspecting his book case and announcing I hadn’t read anything from the top shelf, which is apparently where he keeps poetry (sorry if you’re reading this. This is so hardly obliquely about you.) (on my top shelf I keep signed books and...
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