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Brooklyn Skillshare: We are pleased to announce the 2013 Brooklyn Skillshare!

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:00 -0500

Brooklyn Skillshare: We are pleased to announce the 2013 Brooklyn Skillshare!:

FREE TO THE PUBLIC (WITH SUGGESTED DONATION OF $10)

Confirmed classes (as of 2/18/13):
• Japanese Bookbinding
• Make Your Own Butter and Ricotta
• Indian cooking - Classic curries
• Knitting 101: fingerless gloves in the round
• Japanese Shibori dying techniques
• How to order wine in a…

Double Dutch! Think I remember anything from elementary school?

It feels like that Doritos taco shell has been around for at...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:14:00 -0500

It feels like that Doritos taco shell has been around for at least five years.

Still four minutes for a dollar.

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:43:56 -0500

Still four minutes for a dollar.

Get it?

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:38:18 -0500

Get it?

Delayed.

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:05:50 -0400

Delayed.

"I don’t think that the iPhone has invented an app yet that will ping you when you hit a crosswalk...."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:26:31 -0400

“I don’t think that the iPhone has invented an app yet that will ping you when you hit a crosswalk. … That breakup text can wait.”

- Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner, on distracted driving and walking in The New York Times.

baltimoresun: Toilet bowl races at HampdenFest 2012. (Steve...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:42:44 -0400

baltimoresun:

Toilet bowl races at HampdenFest 2012. (Steve Earley, The Baltimore Sun)

Reblogged because every time the Baltimore Sun Tumblr is updated, an angel gets its wings inside my heart.

Sofia, Joe has been single for an entire year (one year!). Call...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:52:01 -0400

Sofia, Joe has been single for an entire year (one year!). Call him. (There was at least one other sign where his number had not been crossed out.)

Coney Island, Sept. 2, 2012

I would appreciate it if yoga teachers would stop using the following words*

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:59:34 -0400

delicious
juicy
nipples**

*In a yoga context

**I’m looking at you, teacher at a South Brooklyn studio who seems to think telling us to put our hands next to our chest just isn’t provocative enough.

Social media blitz drives week of free giveaways

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:00:50 -0400

Social media blitz drives week of free giveaways :

Dippin’ Dots!

usatoday:

Free stuff this week from 7-Eleven, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A and Dippin’ Dots, all driven by social media.

All of a sudden, I feel so hungry. And thirsty.

Photo

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:23:21 -0400

Stop Picking on Baltimore

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:15:00 -0400

Stop Picking on Baltimore:

But there’s truth in the unflattering portraits of Baltimore (“The Wire”), as well as the campy ones (“Hairspray”). Parts of Baltimore really are a “hellhole,” as Joe Queenan says Hollywood unfairly depicts the city, and that affects the entire city. And you can hardly take a walk in Charles Village without someone offering you a bonkers story — about a garden or a dog or this one time in Pigtown — without seeming to realize it’s at all out of the ordinary. And then you’ll run into someone your friend once picked up hitchhiking or a guy who just hopped off a train and is looking for an art class that meets in a bar, and, yes, you do happen to know which bar*.

And this just doesn’t do the city justice:

“I love to visit Fort McHenry and the aquarium and the city’s great art museums and Fell’s Point and Camden Yards. I love Babe Ruth’s house and the zoo and the National Museum of Dentistry, where you can actually see George Washington’s dentures. I’ve been to great Baltimore Symphony concerts and had great meals in that city. Afghan vegetarian meals, even.”

*Been dining out on that one for years now.

"Eilis could see no difference between Brooklyn and Manhattan when she went there the following..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:08:00 -0400

“Eilis could see no difference between Brooklyn and Manhattan when she went there the following Thursday afternoon except that the cold as she walked from the subway seemed more severe and dry and the wind more fierce. She was not sure what exactly she expected, but glamour certainly, more glamorous shops and better-dressed people and a sense of things less broken-down and dismal than they seemed to her sometimes in Brooklyn.”

- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Things the New York Times Has Recently Described as an Advenure

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:23:46 -0400

Facebook wants to protect its users from employers demanding access to their accounts. The company is looking to draft new laws as well as take legal action against employers.

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:46:36 -0400

Facebook wants to protect its users from employers demanding access to their accounts. The company is looking to draft new laws as well as take legal action against employers.: They’re not companies, but libraries have done this kind of thing over and over again —- without Facebook’s shadiness in other areas.

karmcity:

This is why I have great faith in Facebook’s excellent company culture persisting over the years. What other organization would go to bat for their users like this? Certainly not Google.

Things People I Went to High School With Do a Lot of*

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:49:48 -0400

*If Facebook is to be believed

Go outlet shopping
Get married
Go to Applebees “with the husband”
Vote Democratic (This one is a for-real surprise.)
Drink frozen margaritas
Make disgusting-sounding dinners
Have a kid
Have another kid
Have bad days
Take photos of the kids
Have the most perfect day ever
Complain
Have the best husbands

"I’ve got to say I like Grand Forks, Shirley. Winter is fun watching sports, plays and hearing..."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:01:56 -0500

“I’ve got to say I like Grand Forks, Shirley. Winter is fun watching sports, plays and hearing concerts as well as playing bridge. And when spring comes to the Red River Valley you have a feeling that you are born again. You congratulate yourself on being tough and making it through yet another winter.”

- Until this past summer, my roommate was living in Grand Forks and working at The Herald, so I knew they were getting an Olive Garden and how big of a deal it is and also all about Marilyn Hagerty, so I’m just glad that they’re all getting the recognition they deserve.

MARILYN HAGERTY: News of day floats around swimming pools in Florida | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

You can mock her Olive Garden review all you want, but I am kind of obsessed with Marilyn Hagerty.

(via doree)

There’s a pepper in my pepper.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:51:49 -0500

There’s a pepper in my pepper.

If by "exotic" you mean "racist"

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:23:37 -0500

From the New York Time’s 1961 review of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Mickey Rooney’s bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic.

Faux Foxes!

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:11:35 -0500

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 what is actually a pretty great cover of “Dancing on My Own.”

Anyway, the future is weird and we live in it.

One of my few goals right now is to do a cover of the Wrens’ “Ex-Girl Collection*” in the style of Sleater-Kinney. I am serious about this, but I also have to develop some kind of musical ability first, so if someone wants to steal that idea and make it for me, by all means go ahead.

*My relationship with this song is the most complicated of all my relationships with songs.