December 2008
One positive outcome of the recession!
Fewer debutantes.
Dice by Finley Quaye
The only new year’s...
see also: The risks of going to the gym in pairs.
Is there a worse place than the gym at which to...
Momentary loss of energy from an emotionally-charged dispute goes to absolute waste, and the one goal with which you went—to get a work-out—becomes basically impossible.
Honestly, Dave Holmes' Tumblr is the best.
daveholmes:
Just made a chilling realization: Hugh Jackman is absolutely going to do a Bollywood dance number at the Oscars.
wtf. →
I will unabashedly spend my life trying to emulate...
“Eugene Debs lived from 1855 to 1926, and led a nationwide strike against the railroads. He went to prision for a while because he opposed our entry into World War I.
And he ran for President several times, on the Socialist Party ticket, saying things like this: “While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in...
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend's blog in college →
“As some of you may know I have a new band with ROSTAM, CHRIS and CHRIS called VAMPIRE WEEKEND (yes it has the same name as the forthcoming film). We played our second ever show last Saturday at the Columbia RELAY 4 LIFE. It was a very positive experience.”
hahhaahah
via britticisms
Remember my gchat vacation?
That definitely did not happen. But now that everyone is home, and I don’t have finals or flirting or flavorwire (falliteration!) to do, I think I might try that again. It’s cheating, a little, but it might ease me into a more balanced virtual life in 2009. The New Yorker winter fiction issue awaits.
“The biggest mistake made was that I could have called more shots on this: the...”
– You know that part in Knocked Up where Jay goes, “I’m going to be there to rear your child” and Jason goes “You hear that, Ben? Don’t let him near the kid, he wants to rear your child!”
This Sarah Palin quote makes me want to say, “You hear that world?...
"Christmas With a Capital C"
Well I went to the coffee shop To get myself a mocha The lady at the counter said, Happy Holidays I said, “Thanks Lady. I am pretty happy.” “But there’s only one holiday which makes me feel this way”
best photoshoot ever?
How I Met Your Mother cast as the Jonas Brothers
as the Sex and the City movie wedding scene
More here: How I Met Your Mother Cast in the Best of 2008 // EW
“Modern American history sucks.”
– Josiah ‘Jed’ Bartlet, destroying this little girl’s heart with his disapproval.
acewepeel:
virginiaisforzombies:
Ben Folds &...
This week was finals week, which means no time to change in and out of my sleeping clothes, no time or energy to look in the mirror. This week is also at the end of the semester, which means no laundry left for Fern! So not only do I wear my sleeping clothes in and out of the suite, I wear my last resort t-shirts.
Of course there’s no way I’m going to get primp for finals, so I...
A Year of Magical Books About Drinking →
Flavorwire pays tribute to the year’s best books for scholars of the bar.
This is so something I would say if I interviewed...
/Film: I thought you were so great in What Women Want by the way.
Marisa Tomei: Thank you.
/Film: Really you were just like “Wow.”
Obama sets record for top Hispanics - Politico.com →
Clinton and Bush both were both praised for having Latino advisors and assitants, but…did they have as many as Obama? NOPE. Si se puede, you guys.
