February 2012
16 posts
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Dinner Party... →
“Can you please tell me where your head is? Because I know it’s not here. It’s not at this lighthearted dinner party for your cousin’s birthday.”
WIREDInsider: WHY DUDES NEED TO GET ON PINTEREST... →
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Image via Aubre Andrus
When Pinterest first started in 2008, non-users laughed off the new social network as a place for moms to share images of weddings, inspirational workout quotes, and crafts. But now that it’s hit 10 million unique monthly users faster than any site ever,…
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WATCH Jay-Z x Kanye West “Niggas in Paris”
Might play this song like, 14 times in a row…
You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say...
– William Shakespeare (via sorakeem)
January 2012
9 posts
Like they say, it’s like walking into a party on any given night. It’s like walking into a party.
This is just regular everyday stuff. This is what we do.
So long, Prince
mightyboosh: Prince is going to Detroit.
dramamamma: I thought he was out of the music biz and went all jehovah?
mightyboosh: ...
dramamamma: Omg you were talking about Fielder! I thought you were talking about the musician!
Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you...
– A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway (via itsherfactory)
Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via joykillaya)
December 2011
9 posts
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Sea change, in football headlines
I was looking through old newspapers to find some of my clips on specific topics. The papers spanned part of the Brett Favre retirement saga.
It’s nearly a calendar year since the Packers last lost a game, and it’s nearly four years since Favre played his last regular season game with Green Bay.
To remember how much things change in relatively little time, check out some of these...
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Why Women Aren't Funny
Even as a friend to several very funny women, I can’t dispute the late Christopher Hitchens, from January 2007:
Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a new (male) squeeze: “He’s really quite cute, and he’s kind to my friends, and he knows all kinds of stuff, and he’s so funny...
November 2011
5 posts
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thatkindofwoman)
October 2011
10 posts
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Part of the problem with old, haunting love is that it fucks with your future...
– Justin Vernon [Bon Iver] (via rafrgsua)
September 2011
22 posts
“Because I’m sick of being batted around like a ping-pong ball. Who the hell is in charge? A bunch of accountants trying to make $1 into $1.10? I want to work. I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that? You did it yourself 40 years ago.”