February 2009
74 posts
Flight of the Conchords - Sugar Lumps
I see...
January 2009
61 posts
Wire - Dot Dash
Post Punk’s Wire post from the...
“It’s like Shakespeare, only funny.”
– Overheard completely without context last night.
Devo - Girl U Want
she sings from somewhere...
Nadal v Verdasco
Now that is an epic win.
(Even if I was cheering for Verdasco.)
Didn’t want to jinx anything. →
That is a lame reason for me not to post much up here, but it is essentially true. The past few months have seen me trying to establish a future for myself, which is basically applying to grad…
“Коза закричала нечеловеческим голосом”
– A funny sentence in Russian, which means ‘The goat cried out in an inhuman voice.’
“Just hugs until I get more confident!”
– Bret of Flight of the Conchords on going all the way as a male prostitute.
Pupil - Disconnection Notice
This is what I’m...
postpunk:
The Beat - Save It For Later
(via...
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“I want Fabio to be on EVERY show. Every single one! Fabio as the interventionist...”
– A commenter on Gawker’s Top Chef live blog
I would pay cash money to have Fabio say something like ‘He ees a liar. I justa don’ta know what da lie ees yet’, then take off his sunglasses, Horatio-style, as the opening of Won’t Get Fooled Again swells on cue.
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
If I stop I could...
The Beat - I Confess
Just out of spite,
I...
Jenna: Tracy, I've got it!
Tracy: Give it to me! It's mine!
“We can never hope to get the whole fling of a sentence in Greek as we do in...”
– Virginia Woolf, On Not Knowing Greek, from The Common Reader (via Laudator Temporis Acti).
I often feel this way when reading Greek. I will never come close to getting the nuances of the language, but I am still incredibly fascinated by it. Enough to really want to do it for six more years in...
xenodochial
wordjournal:
adjective • (archaic) friendly to strangers
Funny; in modern Greek, _xenodocheio_ means hotel. And I swear that is the last time I will mention Greece today.
Lupe Fiasco - Hello/Goodbye
As gas fills the...
afterwards my sister immediately insisted that she...
mom: We haven't gone to church in three weeks!
me: I'm sure your benevolent god will understand that you had to take somebody to the airport this Sunday.
sister: Don't call my god benevolent!
“A cold front has triggered cold weather across the country since early this...”
– Cold weather hasn’t affected crops. And Baguio is way the hell up in the mountains; the rest of the Philippines, it goes below 20 degrees Celsius, people panic.
I do not want to go back to Ohio in two weeks.
Went diving for the first time since May...
Not too deep—just 20 or so feet, but there were so many different types of fish fish it wasn’t even funny. A family of clown fish and a big-ass puffer fish were my favorites.
Very much like this one, but more stripy and less spotty.
picture from the wikipedia page on puffer fish
ManyBooks →
unalone:
Beautiful archive of public-domain books (unlike Project Gutenberg, which looks like week-old eggnog smells), you can download them in almost any format, and they’ve got P. G. Wodehouse, who’s got the beauty of Vladimir Nabakov mixed with the snark of Douglas Adams.
Wodehouse? I’m there.
Polaris - Hey Sandy
I love this show so much.
...
“It’s not so much that the superficial rules for writing promulgated Orwell and...”
– Geoffrey K Pullum, on Language Log.
I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer...
Stay thirsty, my friends.
“We had a break to write songs, and they were all love songs. So we wrote a lot...”
– Jemaine Clement, in an interview with The A.V. Club*. I cannot wait for the new season to start, and watching the premiere while it was up on Funny or Die only made me more eager for it.
*I had put The Onion before. My bad.
I'm watching "No Reservations"
tristanjay7:
marykgo:
thebusstop:
And I want to BE Anthony Bourdain.
I’m addicted to this show too. I was surprised by how much of a travel show it is (as opposed to a “food show”).
I love the episode where he went to Texas, and complained about how he was doing all these things that would make his liberal friends back in New York cry, or something.
And I want to be him too.
Cut Off Your Hands - Shark Attack (Split Enz...
“Again, I am not concerned with the fact that Orwell wrote in the passive or used...”
– Joseph Williams, The Phenomenology of Error, via Language Log, concerning Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, which sparked an interesting Language Log discussion recently.
vintage 30 Rock, in honor of this week's awesome...
Tracy Jordan: Hey, did you hear the good news, J.D.? I'm Irish Catholic now, like you, Regis, and the Pope.
Jack Donaghy: Oh, ho ho, no you're not. The church already has enough lawsuits.
Tracy Jordan: See, I can screw up now, and then just go to confession. No longer do I have to throw my parties in international waters.
Jack Donaghy: That's not how it works, Tracy. Even though there is the whole confession thing, that's no free pass, because there is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply…eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt.
Tracy Jordan: I don't think I want that. I'm out.
EndeverafteR - I Wanna Be Your Man (aka the song...
