January 2012
4 posts
If by "exotic" you mean "racist"
From the New York Time’s 1961 review of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
Mickey Rooney’s bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic.
Faux Foxes! →
crumbler:
So some anonymous bros are recording covers of pop songs in imitation of Fleet Foxes? Why? I have no idea, but I love it. Like, whoever had this idea and executed it would probably really fun to hang out with at a party, is what I’m saying. Three beers in and they’re like, “let’s get our falsettos on and sing Rihanna in the style of Robin Pecknold.” They even managed to fool Robyn with...
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
5 posts
John Waters on Christmas:
I give my all my opinions about proper gifts to give, and the one thing you should never do at Christmas is — the rudest thing you can do at Christmas is — ask a fat person to play Santa Claus at your office Christmas party. And I go into further things. About proper presents, about, is Santa Claus erotic to people? Is Christmas sexual?
Did everyone else already...
Priorities!
As a current participant in the [company’s] Transit or Parking Flexible Spending Account, your monthly election amount will roll over into 2012. Please be aware the monthly maximums have changed for 2012. The Transit monthly maximum is decreasing to $125.00. If you currently have a monthly election over $125, you will automatically be reduced to $125 on January 1. The Parking monthly...
WatchDo you think they carefully arrange those books (and Emmy) to project the most NPR-y musical atmosphere as possible. I have that Indie Rock Coloring book, so I am not casting stones.
nprmusic:
If you’re suffering from a broken heart, Jens Lekman is here to remind you that there are more important things to worry about. Like, say, the end of the world.
September 2011
2 posts
On Eating Good Foods Cheaply
I keep seeing reblogs of this graphic showing how it’s cheaper to cook for a family of four than to buy fast food for a family of four and how it’s super-cheap if you’re cooking vegetarian. (I looked for it, but Tumblr search sucks, and you get the idea.)
Isn’t it nice to feel superior that you cook and save all this money, and why can’t poor people do it?...
Watchsazerac:
Swell no-mic ending to tonight’s National show, otherwise known as the bythepeople/cakeordeath/about-today/anybodyelse? meetup.
So jealous (of the meetup, I mean). But also, I heard a National song in a Chili’s in a suburb of Akron, Ohio, last week.
July 2011
2 posts
Huffington Post writes Hellogiggles an Open... →
The writer says she went to Paris solely for the macaroons. Perhaps she should have tried a kosher bakery and tried a macaron in Paris.
June 2011
2 posts
“If every person who claims to have seen Velvet Underground perform live actually...”
– Jessa Crispin in the Smart Set
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
“I will marry her and she can tour and I can manage and then she can tell me the...”
– Tug, in a discussion about Jenn from Wye Oak working at Golden West (via cakeordeath)
It’s my favorite Baltimore restaurant, and I did not know she worked there. Now it’s my double favorite. Yes, I do have a crush. On those brussels sprouts.
(via about-today)
I just had to stare at her picture...
“Whether the world demands kite-flyers or not, they will always be there to...”
– Luke Johnson on being a poet
I would have gone with: "Katie Couric is the... →
Oh, hey this article also lumps Tom Brokaw in with some dead former anchors.
March 2011
2 posts
ohkrysten:
One day, I’ll stop eating cookies for dinner. One day.
Cookies are a breakfast food.
January 2011
3 posts
A call for instant watch recommendations
sazerac:
Just back from the clinic, and it looks like Netflix, strep throat and I are going to be hunkering down for a bit. What should we watch?
Have you seen “A Piece of Work,” the Joan Rivers documentary?
“Shoppers said some markets were jammed. “People were buying as if this storm is...”
– New York City Declares Weather Emergency
We live in New York City. Does anyone really worry that we are not going to be able to get sustenance? (via doree)
So this just turned every store into the Park Slope Coop?
December 2010
5 posts
Conversations With Ex-boyfriends
bythepeople:
Me: What I really want is a boyfriend who’s there when I want him to be — to go to parties and movies with, to sleep with, to have dinner with — but who doesn’t bother me when I don’t want him around.
Joel (bf ‘08-09): That’s not how boyfriends work.
You had a boyfriend ‘08-‘09?
He’s right, and I’m not proud of how long it took me to figure out that...
“Thanks in part to that workbench, Ben Schneider developed an early passion for...”
– The New York Times Real Estate section. Hey now.
By the people: Faith in humanity: destroyed →
A few years ago, I was walking on St. Paul Street in Mount Vernon after getting off the bus and a woman asked me if I would give her money to get home on the bus because she had just gotten out of Central Booking. It’s a typical Baltimore ask-for-money story. I said I didn’t have money for her but I did have a day pass for the bus that she could have.
Once I assured her that it would...
November 2010
1 post
“At first I thought, ‘Oh, great, here’s an exciting new phase of alcoholism,...”
– Alex Balk (but of course)
I missed this because I was at work at some absurd time that is probably not even really part of our dimension.
October 2010
2 posts
“It’s like if every single network had to film the Kardashians at every...”
– On the White House press corps
September 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
People and Places
bythepeople:
The New York Times today spends 36 hours in East Hampton. Can you tell whether the following adjectives, used in the story, are describing people or places?
well-manicured
sleek
gleaming
tanned
clean
lithe
pretty
well-heeled
idyllic
lively, attractive
11. white
January 2010
1 post
Congestion
karmcity:
Computer screens and highways are fraternal twins.
Highways During rush hour, typical inefficiencies that arise can often be solved by adding additional lanes. Over time, however, the practice of adding real estate loses its effect, resulting in cluttered roads. Somehow, as more lanes are added, more cars miraculously manage to fill in the extra space.
Computer Screens On small...
December 2009
4 posts
Goodbye, Old Friend
I finished “The Power Broker,” Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, this morning after reading it on and off since I moved to New York in January. I’m just glad I didn’t carry it into to 2010 with me.
[S]o many of the dominant features of the landscape are [Moses’]—and those features are likely to endure indefinitely. Some of his highways will...
WatchJon Stewart interviews Miss Piggy in 1999.
When Bros Sign off their Emails with "Cheers"
tylercoates:
natashavc:
This is something men in their twenties do and it reminds of the cuntish 5th grader who would say ‘present’ instead ‘here’ during roll call. Like, knock it the fuck off and say ‘best’, ‘thanks’ or ‘<3’ like an adult.
Uniquely,
Natasha
I once worked at a paper where it was customary to sign your e-mails to foreign correspondents with “cheers.” I...
Waiting unpatiently
cakeordeath:
I am sitting at home, waiting for my new MacBook to arrive, and it feels like Christmas morning. I run to the window every time I hear an engine; every vehicle that comes by could be my MacBook sleigh! A large, brown UPS sleigh, pulled by 200 horses, driven by Santa, who has trimmed his beard and goes by “Tony” and wears shorts year round.
Maybe Tony’ll be wearing a Santa hat...
November 2009
1 post
September 2009
4 posts
Fluffy toilet paper is bad for the environment →
People seem to be of two minds about toilet paper:
“I’m using it on my butt, so I don’t care if it’s soft and expensive.”
Or
“I’m using it on my butt, so it better be soft and expensive.”
“I always took great pride doing deliveries to House and Senate buildings dressed...”
– Matthew Ayers, who worked as a messenger briefly after finishing law school at American University, in a Washington Post article about the dwindling need for bike messangers.
Bizarre Tongue Eating Parasite Discovered off... →
joecarryon:
Holy SHIT that’s creepy & disgusting. BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. Don’t worry, guidos…this is not the NEW Jersey shore, but rather a small coastal island near England. Your orange tans will glow another day.
How do you know my people so well???
August 2009
10 posts
Your Bat/Bar Mitzfah: Reviewed 12 Years Later
I went to a college where a only small percentage of people could relate to this. I think that’s why I opted for an early graduation.
I still can’t believe my friend Merav didn’t give me a candle to light, considering whom she did give a candle to.
natashavc:
J. Edwick
Sect: Reform
Location: Chatsworth Equestrian Center
Theme: Horseback riding
Lowlight: the entire 7th...
From today's "Vows" column
What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister. “Oh, he does not think of me as a potential dating person,” she recalled thinking.
Ew.