January 2010
45 posts
she hates my futon « The Famous Boot →
kfan:
Craig Mitchell’s “She Hates My Futon” is back online? When did this happen? It’s still not finished, but it sounds like he’s going to try to finish it? Is…is this real? Dare I get my hopes up one more time?
[Note to 99% of the people reading this: “She Hates My Futon” was a serial web novel that everyone online in 1998 enjoyed reading at the cubicles of their dotcom jobs. As recently as a...
merlin:
MacGuffin
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”
Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to...
Watchkleptolovestory:
monkeyknifefight:
mattie:
Conan O’Brien, Old Time Baseball. NBC has pulled this from YouTube, like the champs they are, but here it is, in all its amazing hilarity.
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, NELL.
NBC why would you let genius like this go?
I like how he calls it 1864 baseball. Hey, anyone want to go play some 2010 baseball later? Man, I really loved the Astros when they...
meghanagain:
Yesterday I went looking for an old draft of something, and then instead of finding that I found a file of short stories written by some poor dear college classmates of mine. (I guess we emailed drafts to each other? For things?) So if you’re one of the, what, ten people who was in Intermediate Fiction with me, I’m sorry. I can’t bring myself to delete any of this stuff. But: I also...
fuck yeah lyrics?
shooshee:
I see all these people that get song lyrics tattooed on fuckyeahtattoos and think there was a time in my life when I over-identified with The Cure or The Smiths or Depeche Mode but thank gawd I didn’t have the funds or the access to a tattoo artist, because over time the lyrics you identify with now, or then, really lose their meaning.
Oh, no shit. You know I’d have some damn...
BREAKING AWARDS SHOW NEWS. →
sarahb:
acceptanceworld:
bingoparaphernalia:
abbyjean:
Notorious rapist climbs stage, is met with applause and loving jokes about how he could beat folks up (for example, prior to and/or while raping them). Movie featuring notorious rapist, which is about the hilarity of roofies, hating women who don’t and/or do have sex, and Zach Galifianakis maybe being a registered sex offender (HA!...
Norked
osmium:
adj. in the state where the New Yorker has gotten away from you.
“The most Norked man in America was killed by a stack of falling magazines today in his 5 story walkup in Greenpoint.”
One time I had to take the subway from Brooklyn to 86th Street at 3am, and Sarah gave me her copy of the New Yorker to read on the way. Was she norked? Did I nork her? I need usage advice!
P.S. I fell...
firmuhment:
Doubt
sarahb:
Am I the only person who doubts the validity of Sleep Talkin’ Man? People have been forwarding this around all week and it just doesn’t ring true. I have no doubt that this man talks in his sleep often, and sometimes says funny things like, “Legs time! Everybody get your legs!”, but I don’t think he says, “I’d rather peel off my skin and bathe my weeping raw flesh in a bath of vinegar...
Pizza Turnaround →
mrgan:
Domino’s new ad campaign is sort of mindblowing - they’re admitting that their pizza is terrible (cue focus-group quote: “the crust tastes like cardboard.”) Just look at the campaign video - it’s sort of uncomfortable.
The cheap part is where they say, oh but we’ve changed things! Hurrah! It’s a new day at Domino’s! They’re pretty much daring you to try their new pizza and say it’s not...
A list of fictional people I sometimes think about...
kfan:
sarahb:
bigstar:
Lorelei Gilmore
The family from “Swingtown”
Lindsay from “Freaks & Geeks”
Susannah from “O, Susannah”
The women in Whitney Otto’s A Collection of Beauties At the Height of Their Popularity
Vickie Milner
Rolf from The Sound of Music
Wallace from Season 1 of The Wire, even though he died
grown up Susan Pevensie
Jaye from Wonderfalls
Kaylee/Mal/River...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Tegan and Sara (20)
Sea Wolf (14)
Yo La Tengo (11)
Pixies (11)
Liz Phair (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
When I get more than 4 keys on my keyring
osmium:
in my head, my name becomes “Josh the Janitor.”
In my head, my name becomes “Alison, the Medieval Dungeonmaster,” but I think that’s from “Seinfeld.”
“We’d much rather play for fifty people who know us than a thousand who don’t...”
– Paul Westerberg, neatly summarizing the one salient point of every “niche content” consultard; be picky about who you overserve. (via merlin)
“Security is both a feeling and a reality. The propensity for security theater...”
– Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com (via kleptolovestory)
Yes. Yes, it is.
