January 2011
51 posts
“an egyptian army officer shouted at me and told me to get out of the way and...”
– if Pitchfork Reviews Reviews was writing the Awl’s Cairo updates, by “omar little” on ILX
Wish List
The new Destroyer album and the new Cut Copy album re-recorded with someone else singing. Michael McDonald or someone who knows what he’s doing.
MYSTERIOUS TUMBLR REBLOGS
Does anyone else get reblogged by mysterious Tumblrs filled entirely with random reblogs and no original content? Named in the format “firstname-lastname.tumblr.com”? Like this one? Or this one?
Is this a known “thing”? Are they spammers? But how do they make money?
Is this The Ring, but with Tumblr?
AHHH HOW DOES TUMBLR EVEN WORK
I don’t think it actually does.
SCOTT SUPPORTS THE TROOPS
Scott: he was bragging to me about a veterans-only lit class
do you know what sounds like?
it sounds like hell
it sounds like the third circle of hell
a veterans only-lit class
that doesn't even sound like a real thing
it's like a cowboys-only art class
it's like a Kids in the Hall sketch
what do they like to read books about?
let me guess... war
what do the cowboys want to paint.?
lets see... fucking horses.
TUMBLR CONCEPT
Deal With It GIFs only instead of sunglasses a face tattoo of an ice cream cone.
“I don’t know him but he looks like a mammy’s boy. I’ve never...”
– Billy Ross, 20, Glasgow
Wondering with a morbid kind of curiosity
what conspiracy theories have popped up about Giffords’ shooting. NASA-related, maybe?
http://gawker.com/people/Glen_Runciter/posts/ →
expanses:
ONE OF MY FAVORITE INTERNET WEBSITES
GONNA GET MY PHD IN
“postbrolonial studies.”
Jared Loughner, the Mathematical Interface for...
I wrote a little bit on Gawker last night about the influence certified nutbar :David-Wynn: Miller likely had on Jared Loughner. (Miller is the self-proclaimed “King of Hawaii,” a title he took in 1996 when he “turned Hawaii into a verb.”) There is a kind of “mainstream” version of Miller’s anti-tax, maritime law-citing theories, if you can believe it—the...
CONFIDENTIAL TO: THE INTERNET
Brian Williams is funny! But please don’t ruin him the way you ruin everything else.
“A restaurant deserves to be evaluated on many scales, and perhaps the factor I’m...”
– the internet (via sailingfanblues)
important document!
Hugh Hefner: I Am Not a Sex Slave Rapist in a... →
barthel:
Maureen O’Connor would like to show you how to write a headline.
This one is classic, obviously, though I don’t know if beats Maureen’s best headline of 2010, “Man Who Raped Daughter in Dungeon: ‘My Favorite TV Show is Two and a Half Men.’”
