January 2008
“Australia univ. research shows junk food may lower stress levels.”
– yesssss.
War Will Tear Us Apart: My Secret Love for John... →
um, no it's not. the themes couldn't be more...
Guy No. 1: What did you think of Juno being nominated for Best Picture?
Guy No. 2: Don't know. Haven't seen it.
Guy No. 1: It's a lot like the movie with the yellow bus in it.
--overheard at a Q&A with the Coen brothers. and these people were guild members!!
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THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME! Taco Bell announced today it is offering its support to Hollywood’s out of work striking writers by offering them a chance to win free Taco Bell food by injecting fun and fresh bits of wisdom into the restaurant chain’s iconic Border Sauce packets. Members of the Writers Guild of America can win a year’s supply of Taco Bell, valued at $260.
the human calendar®...this is SO WAY. follow... →
“I remind my readers both friendly and hostile of the funniest, and truest, thing...”
– Guardian columnist Michael Tomasky. Giuliani is probably endorsing McCain and word is he could be hoping for a VP position or a supreme court seat if McCain gets the nomination. …Please God no.
mr. brown, you are physically incapable of...
I just spent half an hour watching a live tv broadcast of parliament, in which Gordon Brown and whoever the Conservative party speaker is debate on their respective podiums about some traffic ticket thing the conservatives want to abolish because it takes seven minutes to fill out, and they just go back and forth kinda screaming at each other, with Gordon Brown saying the same stock answer about...
Trendsquatting: Science Proves You Just Like Music... →
they're making a movie out of imperial life in the... →
i am going to bed but i need answers
Oh so right now, as I was busy thinking about Upper West Side Soweto, Hillary won the Florida primary. I love how I’m supposed to follow every race and I wasn’t even sure the fl. primaries were tonight. Time difference!! Anyway, so the word on the street is, Hillary Rodham Clinton has won in a race in which no delegates were awarded—but she’s trying to convince someone?...
the kids don't stand a chance
I guess it’s already considered uncool to like Vampire Weekend, even though their actual album came out…today. And for some reason I care about things like that. Or, I usually do—I’m like reverse rebellious when it comes to buzzed about bands. Like, I can’t listen to Cat Power, because I didn’t know her before she became a geniusmusesmokeyvoiced fav, and so to...
you're so nice and you're so smart you're such a...
jennifer lopez apparently wants to name her twins EMME and MAX. way to rep the latino blood, jenny. at least salma hayek tried. despite the fact that I know this, I have been very busy (?). at least relatively—i leave my room now! to do real things! like work out. and watch british daytime tv on the treadmill. and spend time reminiscing about reading esquire profiles of john mccain when I...
hey, dorks who are into LOTR and also awesome... →
What to Expect From the Upcoming Vampire Weekend... →
“Monday night’s address made us think what a different speech it might have been...”
– ah yes, WHAT IF. - Editorial Board: The State of the Union - New York Times
peteley
How can such a cute couple be made up of such despicable people?
someone wants to kill orhan pamuk →
Watchhillary clinton as tracy flick (reese witherspoon) from election. so so good.
NOW, never.
“WOMEN HAVE JUST EXPERIENCED THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL.” And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton… This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights,...
i read the spectator now that i'm away and no...
New York may be coming down with its own version of “Ostalgie”—the term used in Germany for the nostalgia East Germans feel for the old Communist state. Many former “Ossis”—Ost means East in German—regret the economic and social assimilation with the West that has gripped East Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and note that the less dynamic environment of the old state had its...
Here’s the punchline: McCain’s resurgent campaign... →
“I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never...”
– John McCain, yesterday. um, AWESOME. can’t wait.
don't you love it when things actually matter?
Time’s Mark Halperin offers some compelling reasons why this endorsement, unlike most, actually matters. (Kennedy commands respect among demographics Obama doesn’t—namely Hispanics, working-class Dems, and union households.) I’ll add one more: This is a risk for Kennedy. As an all-round eminence gris with a gift for negotiating compromises, he would play a pivotal role in the relationship...
“On the red carpet before the show, actors tried to strike the right...”
– awww, actors acting! because the mood really sucks in hollywood right now! interesante. from washington post coverage of the screen actors guild awards. (The Writers Guild issued a waiver for the SAG ceremony, because of the actors union’s support for the strike.)
i can't wait for the twins
um, HI. perfect much? this one’s even worse. -brangelina at the SAG awards last night.
elisa from project runway will have her own show... →
I SO WANT ONE. ... →
"I listened, glancing up now and then toward the...
i just got about seven new books from amazon, one of which is Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72. i don’t think I’ve ever actually read any Hunter S. Thompson, even though I’ve read a lot about him, what with my “new journalism” obsession and all. i’m about six pages in and it’s already amazing. both HST and joan didion, new journalism...
"Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that...
A President Like My Father - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kenned… We need a change in the leadership of this country just as we did in 1960. We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Barack Obama. NYT op-ed from JFK’s daughter comparing Barack Obama to her father. The big guns are coming out in support of Obama, it seems. I’m excited to see...
las mulatas
these girls were some of the more conservatively dressed girls i saw in havana, which is ironic because right after i took this, they were harrassed by a gross older man. my brother, whose camera is so much better than mine, stayed behind and got the whole exchange in a series of photos. the line between teenage girls and hookers in the city is really thin, both in style and substance, because...
“So he has cut back on expenses and started eating at two Los Angeles-area...”
– from a great story in tomorrow’s(?) times about what writers have been doing with their lives during the strike, “for strikers, the agony of free time.” i find it really cool that some anonymous celeb is paying for meals for the writers—most of whom are not making any money...
when i am lonely i watch old how i met your mother...
lily: aww, we're wearing the same shirt!
lily: oh wait, no. that's just my shirt reflected on yours
barney: one of the 24 similarities between girls and fish is that they're both attracted to shiny objects
pause
barney: you really never read my blog, do you?
HAVANA
I finally finished uploading my Cuba photos, so I’ll be posting some at random times when I have a lot to do except I won’t be doing it. Havana is such a difficult place to understand, and yet once you see the streets and talk to the people, everything you see makes sense. All people have is each other. Making out in hordes, in nothing to wear but their tight ass pants and hoochie...
“He was the most likable of the young things in the ‘Taming of the...”
– perfect description of heath in a movie i’ve seen 5949320432 times, from the nytimes. every time i think about him i just feel overwhelmed with sadness and have to stop reading whatever article i’m reading on the autopsy, or mary kate, or whatever. i can’t explain...
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“when we’re successful 10 years from now let’s start a magazine...”
– tom
“you know who likes long distance? girls. all talking and no sex. kill me now.”
– marshall, how i met your mother
“‘long distance’ is a lie teenagers tell each other to get laid the...”
– ted, how i met your mother
did i mention i’m only taking two classes? yeah, that’s how we roll here in the united kingdom.
you're a stone fox
so the staple girly drink here is peach schnappes, but no one has seen the virgin suicides. i die a little inside every time i make a trip fontaine reference (yes, i have tried several times) and no one gets it. the babes love it.
so here we are
I went to the grown-up version of a middle school dance last night. It had all the requisites—the cafeteria-turned-dance-floor, the missy elliot hits, the strange boys who try to grind with you without you noticing. And esp. the awkwardness. But this time we were all actually in college. And there was a bar. With drink specials. Oh, and I actually had fun, instead of leaving at 9pm, waiting...
“Women like her are so short-sighted. As long as they’ve got theirs, the...”
– a ridiculous commenter on feministing, on my remark that i’m not a very good feminist. a rant on this will come later.