February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
30 posts
“Last night, I got the most chilling phone call I have ever received. It was Jake...”
– Ugh. Sorry to put this on your dashboard. Don’t click that link unless you want to see what you think you’re going to see. Perhaps the Internet will somehow make things right. (via newsweek)
Newsweek: On Charlize, Viola, and the Plight of... →
newsweek:
Yesterday we posted two frames from our Oscar Roundtable in which Viola Davis, alluding to the fact black women who are not exactly Halle Berry have it hard in Hollywood, was silenced by Charlize Theron’s well-intentioned, “Stop saying that…you’re hot as shit.” It kinda blew up. So we asked…
I hate that I like this
kellyoxford:
Sorry this is basically a sony ad, but the results ACTUALLY freaked me out. I’m sure there are a ton of these around, but this was the first I’ve seen. Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds. Look at the ceiling and blink really quickly. WHAT THE FUCK BRAIN!?!?!?! WHAT THE FUCK….
Left of Sound: Rep. Barney Frank is a total BAMF →
andrewfutral:
cognitivedissonance:
His latest interview with The New York Times is fantastic. An excerpt:
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a…
“I’ve been off [Facebook] for 6 months. It’s a piece of piss. No...”
– Facebook gave me writers’ block | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
this quote actually from the comments section. i love angry Brits! they’re so much saucier and frippery-ish in their anger!
Whoa, guys, they just shut down Megaupload and... →
newsweek:
shortformblog:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed to crack down on the online sharing of pirated copies of music, movies and other material, people familiar with the matter...
Watchkimberwolf:
Treat your ears right. Listen to this track.
My hometown darlings are still makin the best dance floor tunes.
as soon as i get my personal statement for grad school done, i am making a dance party mix, putting this on it, and driving to an empty parking lot at night to blast my music from my car and dance (in the style of Robyn) until i am profusely sweaty and deliriously happy.
“Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the...”
– Alexis Ohanian, Founder of Reddit (via leftofsound)
because our government is fucked! that’s why!!
Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover) by Fleet Foxes
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EVERYBODY NEEDS TO READ/LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW →
what does it mean for something, everything to be “made in china?”
fascinating/horrifying revelations of the factories and working conditions in china that make all the shit you take for granted.
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via bringtheruckuss)
“It is sad to see when a Christian band sells their souls to the devil to become...”
– Satan Enters Kings of Leon At Live Performance | ChristWire
i have to cry to stop myself from laughing. you can’t make this stuff up, guys.
also from this website: Coachella is a Festival of Disease and Sin. Your Children Most Likely Will Die.
December 2011
23 posts
1 day ago: “I’m going to Taiwan this summer with the person I love!”
5 minutes ago: “I’m going to Taiwan this summer with EVERYONE I love!!”
5 seconds ago: “No one I love gets along with each other, I’m not going to Taiwan, and I don’t know what I’m doing this summer.”
“I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there’s a cookie. I don’t...”
– life advice from Newt Gingrich. I tell ya, if we all lived life like Newt, nothing would get done, ever.
Read more at The New Yorker.
Urban Outfitters
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their...