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November 24

“ Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful a chimp did not eat your face. Does anyone else think that’s why Oprah is retiring? That she was interviewing a woman with a chimp-eaten face, struggling to find that special Oprah balance of sensitive New-Age “compassion” and carnival-barker HOLY SHIT FOLKS LOOK AT THE FREAK, and suddenly thought WTF am I doing with my life? That’s my theory, but I am open to others.

mimi smartypants

Pretty much, yes.

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i think Oprah lost all that shame long, long ago.

(via kleptolovestory)

Oh yeah, I forgot about all that “The Secret” bullshit. I’ve been asking the universe to make Oprah cease to exist for years, and NOTHING.

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This ubiquitous poster and indicator of substandard Caucasian interior decorating has a disturbing provenance. It was one of a series of three posters created by the British propaganda office during World War II, and the only one never displayed publicly.
“‘The others were ‘Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might’ and ‘Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory.’ The government plastered Britain with those two posters. But it held back ‘Keep calm’ for even more upsetting circumstances.
“‘The plan was, it was to be displayed and it was to go up if Germany ever invaded [Britain].’”
It was actually a call for British citizens to submit peacefully to Nazi rule.
(via If The Lamp Shade Fits)

This ubiquitous poster and indicator of substandard Caucasian interior decorating has a disturbing provenance. It was one of a series of three posters created by the British propaganda office during World War II, and the only one never displayed publicly.

“‘The others were ‘Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might’ and ‘Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory.’ The government plastered Britain with those two posters. But it held back ‘Keep calm’ for even more upsetting circumstances.

“‘The plan was, it was to be displayed and it was to go up if Germany ever invaded [Britain].’”

It was actually a call for British citizens to submit peacefully to Nazi rule.

(via If The Lamp Shade Fits)

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“ Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful a chimp did not eat your face. Does anyone else think that’s why Oprah is retiring? That she was interviewing a woman with a chimp-eaten face, struggling to find that special Oprah balance of sensitive New-Age “compassion” and carnival-barker HOLY SHIT FOLKS LOOK AT THE FREAK, and suddenly thought WTF am I doing with my life? That’s my theory, but I am open to others.

mimi smartypants

Pretty much, yes.

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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

ernie:

I like the song but I’m not sure if I’m so down with the “Frankie Goes to Hollywood and wears a shitton of eye-makeup somewhere in Shanghai vibe” going on. Can they even bring cocaine into China?

(Also, EMI Music? You suck for not allowing embeds.)

This pops up in my iTunes rotation every now and then. The first few bars always freak me out, and then I realize, “Oh, right, it’s THAT song.”

November 23

maura:

Twilight heroin baggies, you guys.

Is this the apex of the whole Twilight thing? God, I hope so; I already have to put “-twilight” in all my Etsy searches.

November 22

“ So you’re saying the decade began with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a character with a victim complex put upon by a society that doesn’t understand him while he self-consciously manipulates a cult following and that it ended with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a character with a victim complex put upon by a society that doesn’t understand her while she self-consciously manipulates a cult following?

Abe Sauer connects the Eggers-to-Palin dots.

This freaking decade, man.

(via maura)

P.S. Do not ever read AHWOSG a second time after some years have passed. I liked it on the first read (when I was 22), but on the second read it made me feel simultaneously angry and bored.

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Oh, Mitchell Hurwitz, please make an AD movie.

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kleptolovestory:

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November 20

lowindustrial:

I think one of the lamest contemporary television-series tropes has to be when an actress is crammed into a flimsy push-up bra and then the viewer is expected to believe all the other characters think she got an ooh-ah! ooh-ah! boob-job.

That episode had some other problems, too. Person 1 gives Person 2 an awesome gift, and Person 2 says PERSON 1 YOUR AWESOME GIFT IS COMING LATER and then panics because there is no awesome gift later. It’s an overused sitcom trope.

I think the weaker episodes should just try to have more Manny.

#modernfamily

November 19

Lorem ipsum

accidentallydomesticated:

clientsfromhell:

After I sent a client a mockup with lorem ipsum as filler text:

It’s good but there is a weird language on the page. It will either need to be translated or removed.

Is there a designer out there who hasn’t heard this?

Probably not. I’ve heard it often enough that I do my mockups like this: “This is what text will look like. Lorem ipsum…”