October 2009
36 posts
The best-worst thing about facebook
On the phone with Gar.
Julia: Gar, what do you think about [insert name of ex girlfriend] dating [insert name of new boy]?
Gar: Julia, do you know how many times I've been asked about that this week? I really don't want to talk about it.
Julia: [Changing the subject]
Gar: But, actually...guess how I found out about that?
Julia: How?
Gar: Mom told me at the dinner table. She saw it on Facebook.
Way to go, leggy!
The “You can be good without God” ad campaign, which the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign fought to put on Bloomington Transit busses, sparked a heated debate. This debate started conversation in the community and a discussion that took place Tuesday night at Collins Living-Learning Center. “We are not trying to change anyone’s opinion. We just want everyone’s opinion to be heard,”...
Tumbling in the DC metro! AT&T finally got their act together!
T-minus 2 months until Christmas!
Download Stephen Wrabel’s, “Silent Night” on iTunes, stat and get in the Christmas mood.
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Washington’s hip-hop community couldn’t have given itself a more Freudian nickname. “The DMV” stands for the District, Maryland and Virginia, but it feels like a big fat metaphor for a city that’s been waiting … waiting … waiting … for a national rap star to emerge. (WaPo)
Wale’s album drops November 10th. DC hip hop’s...
Two tokens of inspiration from my mom’s blog:
Anthopper
We all know the story of the ant and the grasshopper. Of course, the ant is the hero in this story. The ant worked diligently and prepared for the coming winter, while the grasshopper frolicked and played. Many of us tend to be too much like the ant, scurrying, working and planning non-stop. We postpone fun for later. Perhaps we...
Happy Sweetest Day!
I didn’t know about this day until today when I answered the door to sign for a dozen roses and balloon my roommate’s boyfriend had sent. Apparently it’s a big deal in the Midwest.
Sweetest Day is an observance celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes region and parts of the Northeast United States on the third Saturday in October[1]. Once known as a day to spread love and cheer...
In fifth grade I had a notecard taped above my Compaq desktop with all of my e-mail addresses. Mind you, I was eleven and not getting an e-mail, let alone many e-mails to necessitate multiple e-mail accounts, but that didn’t dissuade me from the almost instant gratification of new e-mail accounts: yahoo, hotmail, fastmail, etc. I needed the notecard to keep all my login/passwords...
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PBR and the economic influence of hipsters
Sales of PBR are up an astounding 25% this year, according to Information Resources Inc. And while cheaper beers — a group within which PBR has long been something of a mascot — are outperforming their more expensive peers as consumers look for low-cost options these days, there’s clearly more than pricing at work here. […] The answer, wholesalers and beer-marketing experts...
Out of oatmeal, I had a weird impulse at 6:40 am this morning to make breakfast quinoa. Even with apples, bananas, raisins, cinnamon, and honey it’s not quite breakfast food.
Deceptive solutions.
My rear bike brakes are less than functional. I’ve meantvto get a tune up for over a year, but I never have the opportunity to sacrifice my bike to the shop for a few days.
Today, my rear brakes worked like a charm. It was as though a bike repairman fixed them for me while it was parked.
When I arrived at my destination, I realized the scarf tied to my backpack had just been stuck in my...
i don't know where to file this in my memory, so...
leggy:
Just signed off of ichat with the fam. its emma’s birthday, so naturally i was watching her open prezents. the two most memorable:
#1 a brand in the shape of an “E” for emma. like she would ever want that.
#2 a hamster that emma has been asking for since she was ten. the hamster was dead. my mom had wrapped it in its box, it died, then emma opened it with the camera pointing to...
Nothing Says "School Spirit" Like Performing... →
shameless plug for my boy!
people. my first cut is out NOWWWWW. iTunes it. go to walmart. go to target. clear the shelves. Blake Lewis album. HEARTBREAK ON VINYL. track 8. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. buy itttt. help me pay my rent yall! wrabel. www.wrabelmusic.com also check out new jams on the site. “alone” is new. and some other new jams. do ittt. thankyouthankyouthankyou.
Finally
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Narrator: Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything … and just may get some of it back. “Arrested Development” creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series. Even as they prep a new Fox comedy series with...
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UDL resolution #1:
health care is a privilege, not a right.
funny foreign titles of American films
gloriaj:
sometimesagreatnotion:
A few of my favorites:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind = “If You Leave Me, I Delete You” (Italy)
Boogie Nights = “His Great Device Makes Him Famous” (China)
Annie Hall = “Urban Neurotic” (Peru) (Chad’s Note: this title would actually work for 3/4ths of Woody’s films)
Grease = “Vaseline” (Argentina)
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Alton Brown speaks on Sandra Lee's flavor of...
In a recent interview with an Atlanta radio station, he talked a little smack about some of his Food Network co-stars. He playfully ribbed Giada’s weight and Ina’s relationship with her husband, but his story about Sandra Lee was the funniest. He said Sandra was “semi-sane… semi-out of her mind. I had one conversation with her … and she wanted to show me the place where she had gotten this bad...
