January 2009
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“Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?”
– Faye Dunaway, upon learning that Hilary Duff has been cast to play Bonnie Parker in an upcoming Bonnie & Clyde movie [Sun-Times via Vulture]
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Not Undead Yet
dearoldlove:
You’re still the only one I want in my zombie shelter.
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“Practice Makes Perfect” - Wire
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What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism [Villiage Voice]
New Global Warming Report Says We’re Way More Screwed Than Previously Thought [Good]
Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story [io9]
Van ends up balanced on cliff edge in scene resembling The Italian Job [Telegraph]
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Two more facts
I believe that “microwave-safe plastic” is an oxymoron. It has to be poisoning you. It just does.
I think about the song “Let’s Hear it for the Boy” at least once a day, but I have never seen Footloose.
Young Deer Hit by Google Maps van. Caught on... →
At first you’re like, “maybe it’s fine, maybe it leapt away to safety.” Then you use the rotate function to look behind you.
iammattjordan : michaelmcgee : livejamie
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Facts
Lists like this one have been going around tumblr and Facebook. Here are some things about me:
I am obsessed with checking my credit score. Five or six times a week, minimum.
My favorite authors are Margaret Atwood and Phillip Roth.
I don’t like talking on the telephone.
I love diagnosing my minor maladies using the Internet. I become convinced that I have gout at least once a year.
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Napping: the expert's guide →
I love napping. Love it. If I weren’t afraid of making weird sounds in my sleep and bugs crawling into my ears I would be napping under my desk right this minute. I’ve caught a lot of crap for it over the years: “Janna, every time I call you you’re sleeping.” “Janna, we have things to do, you can’t take a nap now.” Etc. This article makes an...
Automatically Save Your Work on Your Mac On Any... →
“EverSave… is a free application for the Mac which saves your documents on regular intervals based on your preferences.” [Swiss Miss]
1.27.09
What was with you and the names “Kitty” and “Buff,” anyway?
Mine is Sheba Hazel.
deliberatepace:
Well, given that I had two pets and moved every two and a half years, I have a lot of potentials. Here are the best ones: Buff Oakhaven, Kitty Boomerang, Kitty Coronation, and Buff Pinewood. There would be more but I can’t remember the names of the streets in Thailand and...
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What does it mean when a photographer has a number of dreams about traveling to someplace really beautiful but having forgotten to bring a camera? Is it like having a dream about not being able to get it up? Is my subconscious trying to tell me that I’m artistically impotent? That sounds about right.
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“No act is so private it does not seek applause.”
– John Updike (via nevver)
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Author John Updike Dies at 76 →
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what is this world coming to?
American woman gives birth to eight children in southern California “The hospital had scheduled a caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were surprised by the eighth.” [Guardian]
Google plans to make PCs history “Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection…The Google Drive, or ‘GDrive’, could...
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“Bernadette” - The Four Tops
It had...
Who Killed Nancy? →
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Springsteen’s Hungry Heart →
How do you remain a rock god for more than 40 years?
A helpful PDF timeline. My favorite part is “1968: Drops out of Ocean County Community College after fellow students petition for his dismissal on grounds of ‘unacceptable weirdness.’”
Iceland’s Government Collapses →
If you haven’t yet heard, Iceland’s economy collapsed practically overnight. Now this? Jesus.
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Is Battlestar Galactica Relevant in the Obama Era? →
(Contains details from the most recent episodes.)
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“Well of Misery” [Live] - Nick Cave...
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Stop Teaching Handwriting
vs.
In Defense of Penmanship
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