January 2009
16 posts
Austerity measures
magicmolly:
Those of us who entered the work force shortly before or during the financial crisis are forming a different set of associations with youngish adulthood than those who entered in better times.
Some words that come to mind are: panic, compromise, discount and tall can. These are not the nouns I hoped to pin to my 22nd year, but it is also true that they could be worse.
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kfan:
Concrete Blonde - “Happy Birthday”
I...
How could a doctor in Sunnydale not be hip to the...
(via themattsmith)
Well, something the show points out in a few instances (I haven’t watched it in a long while, so I’m not too quick with specific examples) is that there are some people in the community, often authority figures, who know about all the supernatural hullaballoo but choose to turn a blind eye. Which, of course, is a metaphor for all the people in our non-Buffyverse who...
MY BODY, MY SURGERY
bagcoffee:
onefootinthegrave:
jgh:
maryrambin:
Breast implants are now socially acceptable. I’m not a fan, but it’s my body. You make the decision on what you would like to do with yours. Period.
I’m so sick of this “I choose my choice!” feminism, as if taking on the trappings of a masochistic beauty standard is somehow divorce-able from the beauty myth we’ve all absorbed since we were...
Found:
cbeth:
Some production snaps from Y Tu Mama Tambien, printed out on fuji photo paper as if you’d just picked them up fresh from the one-hour photo.
I’m totally taking them home and putting them in my album so I can tell people, “Oh you know, those are just a few snapshots my BFF Diego Luna took on this epic road trip he went on. No big.”
Sometimes its fun to have a job that feeds your delusion...
Apparently, something exists called a "zebrass"... →
Hopefully...
bikerfish:
adamiss:
You’ll all stop using the word incorrectly.
Hopefully is an adverb which means what it ought to—“full of hope” or “characterized by hope.” It normally modifies verbs.
Nonstandard English sometimes substitutes the word hopefully for I hope (or some other subject with the verb hope).
Correct: They listened hopefully for the sound of the rescue party. (They listened with...
“Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald...”
– http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/01/0082319
For those of you that care
barthel:
Rachel got a job!
Woot! Give her my congrats!
Obama's first order: Close Guantanamo →
This is, among many other reasons, exactly why I voted for him. Tough act to follow, though. I wonder what he’s got planned for the second day.
“I hate electronic music,” says Katy Goodman, the trio’s bass player, over an...”
– Vivian Girls, Punks - The All New Issue — New York Magazine Oh dear God, I despise them so so so so so much. Do I even need to elaborate on that, with a set of quotes like this? (via perpetua)
The Vivian Girls are basically on a “Goth Cruise,” but for their idea of “Punk...
Question #23
triviaquiz:
Vicky brought me (Mark) on to help out every so often (lazy wench)… and here I am. We’ll be sure and let you know who’s asking what. Without further ado: This country is the most successful Eurovision Song Contest participant never to have won, having finished second and third twice apiece. - Mark
ABBA?
Porn industry seeks federal bailout →
themattsmith:
joshacid37:
davereed:
This gives new meaning to the phrase “stimulous package.”
And “money shot”.
and “double penetration”…. wait, what are we playing?
And “taxpayer rape!” Seriously, this is the funniest thing I’ve read all year. They even admit that the industry is not hurting, but want a bailout anyway. This year is going to be so much more fucked up...
