December 2009
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Obadiah Parker- Hey Ya
My favorite example of...
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If you don't smile, you might be dead.
So, a very good friend of mine, known to many of you, is a science teacher at a progressive private school. Among other classes, he teaches sixth-grade science, which is a freeform class wherein he gets to design his own curriculum. Since he has an interest in astronomy, he teaches the kids about the Solar system for the first part of the year, and then moves on to deeper space. The kids have...
What do I do about my freezing New York apartment?
nickdouglas:
My apt has been unreasonably cold all weekend (very chilly in the morning, too cold to comfortably type in the afternoon and evening). I called the manager’s office Friday afternoon at 3. I left a message asking them to send someone.
I left more of these messages, all with human operators, at least twice a day throughout the weekend. I told them that it was unreasonably cold and I...
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Queen- “Jesus”
A pretty serviceable...
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WatchThis was one of those editions of “The Word” that was a little too spot-on to be properly funny. However, I was in the studio audience, so I was obliged to laugh.
That one chick who laughs way too long and then kinda snorts after the Google Street View joke? That’s me. FAMOUS!
(Edit: GAH! Comedy Central’s embed codes have all this weird extra shit that makes them unviewable on Tumblr. ...
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shoesonwrong:
I finally watched last week’s episode of 30 Rock.
And I can’t believe no one here has brought up the faux-holiday, MerlinPeen.
Seriously, Tumblr?
Sorry, Annie. Verdukians don’t recognize fake holidays. At least, we orthodox ones don’t.
Lighten up, M. Verdukianism can appeal to so many more people these days, and traditionalists like...
merlin:
shoesonwrong:
I finally watched last week’s episode of 30 Rock.
And I can’t believe no one here has brought up the faux-holiday, MerlinPeen.
Seriously, Tumblr?
Sorry, Annie. Verdukians don’t recognize fake holidays. At least, we orthodox ones don’t.
Lighten up, M. Verdukianism can appeal to so many more people these days, and traditionalists like you ruin it. Good MerlinPeen to...
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“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our...”
– George Bernard Shaw, Everybody’s Political What’s What, 1944 (via art-or-porn) (via quickienewyork)
This is my 800th Tumblr “Like.” Seems noteworthy. Really life-changing advice, too.
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being broke is no joke.
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beccaomgz:
i hate actually writing this out. until march of this year i had a pretty decent job, made enough money to keep my finances in order. i was laid off, receiving a severance package of eight paid weeks. i wasn’t complaining, as a lot of people i knew that were in the same situation at other companies only got a couple of weeks’ pay. my severance ended in...
WICKED BUTTHURT
THAT @THEOLDFAVRD IS NOT FOLLOWING MEE!!1 I WANTED TO BE ELITE WITH U GUYS
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I'm not having fun anymore.
Here is a gratuitous paragraph about myself.
I realize with a quiet horror that I am pretty sad today. I swirl it around like the last bit of cocoa in a mug, hoping that the separated constituents will come back together to become something I like. I remember all the times it’s been enough to say, “you know what? Fuck this. I am going to put on my favorite dress and be happy...
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Queen. Great band or greatest band? Expound.
(from my Formspring)
Ah, you’ve read my pamphlets. Queen is probably my favorite band. I make no secret of this. They are a Great band. Capital-G Great, even. But no band that put out Innuendo could ever be The Greatest band. Don’t listen to it. Just trust me. It’s their last album, so I know Freddie was dying and they basically just let him write an adult contemporary song...
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why are the "cool kids" always denouncing things?
(from my Formspring)
There are three reasons why The Cool Kids denounce seemingly harmless and/or beloved things, in decreasing order of likelihood: 1. They are unhappy and insecure, and lack healthy ways to express displeasure at things that simply annoy them but aren’t otherwise harming them. 2. They are more seriously bothered by things like this, but lack the emotional strength to...
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lonelysandwich looks like he smells as sweet as a...
Oh my God. That man is a triumph of humanity. His scent cannot be compared entirely to something organic, even something of God’s making. It is, simply, something *of* God. I love lonelysandwich. I don’t care who knows it.
Go ahead! Say anything!
Formspring [in my pants].
Here’s mine. Anything you want, kiddos. Also, what’s yours again? I forgot?
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You can believe me or not
but I basically didn’t care about Favrd that much. Sure, it made me smile when a lot of people liked what I wrote, and I would be a dirty liar if I said it didn’t matter to me at all. But I never crafted tweets for Favrd or shied away from posting something that wasn’t funny because I was worried people would unfollow or anything like that.
And I never tried, specifically, to...
I had pretty much stopped looking at anything...
weselec:
ALL Y’ALL PARTS OF THE PROBLEM IN THA HOUSE, LEMME HEAR U HOLLAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
Me too. That shit had gotten a little too “According to Jim” for my tastes.
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Jason Bateman is my new BFF
In that he totally crossed in front of my car in SoHo yesterday. (Why I was driving in SoHo, I don’t want to get into. Don’t do it, kids.) I know when you live in a city like this, you’re supposed to pretend that it’s no big deal to see celebrities, because, you know, no one is really all that important. But you best believe I texted-while-driving to tell my great aunt that...
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On 'Conspicuous Compassion.'
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Conspicuous Compassion
… I have bought this book and given it to people who work in the charitable sector more times than I can remember.
Here’s a sample first chapter [PDF] from Conspicuous Compassion. Looks backordered on AMZN right now, but I will absolutely be buying and reading this very soon.
I quote the sample at length because, as I walked down the street...
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Gays And Transsexuals Can't Enter Heaven -... →
oh, Your followers are blind too much heaven on their minds
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Ani DiFranco- The Atom
I have this great-great...