December 2011
78 posts
I have a friend in Egypt
I moved out of my place downtown. I lived on a street branching out of Mohamed Mahmoud (which is where all the gas bombs and beatings took place about 6 weeks ago). It felt like a war-zone with barbed wire on my road and with military personnel raiding my house at 2am and looking through all my stuff for “security measures”. Also, I can’t afford it anymore now that I’m not...
Tyler Coates: Some dumb shit. →
tylercoates:
My grandmother walked in the door on Friday night. My uncle and aunt (my mother’s brother and his wife) immediately started chatting with her, wishing her a Merry Christmas and whatnot. I walked into the formal living room to the make-shift bar my mother had assembled out of four varieties of…
the DANIELS blog: The Year's Best "Year's Best... →
danieldanielblog:
This has been a truly exciting year for lists about videos. With so many great lists to choose from we decided to put together a list of some of the greatest lists this year has to offer. No thanks are due to anyone who voted or judged. Nobody did except us and we didn’t do a good enough job to…
lessons
my dog is deaf. my dog is mostly blind. but after my mother and sister have gone upstairs to bed, and he wakes up from a nap to realize this, he’ll start looking for me. and he’ll brave the narrow and steep stairs to our basement, his back legs unsteady from hips weak with arthritis, to confirm that yes, i am watching tv. and he’ll curl up, not near me, but within sight. he...
This is crony capitalism.
ldsgeek:
Crony capitalism - a capitalist economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials.
codyjohnston:
Anderson Bar & Grill
Last...
Nate Varrone: The Peanuts Gang: Where They Are Now →
natevarrone:
Charlie Brown ended up going to University of Connecticut, on scholarship, where he double majored in Finance and Economics. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City to take up a job in The New York Stock Exchange. He was the co-chairman during the 9/11 attacks and was a key member in the…
prettyponytime:
This is the one where he gets nailed to the cross, right?
tesslynch:
funkadelic — can you get to that
It's Christmas Time
iloveyouspaceman:
Time for all my favorite Christmas things
check out all the christmas things this guy posts on his blog
“Colored Only” Sign Posted Over Drinking Fountain... →
jessicavalenti:
Yes, this happened.
that’s outrageous! where are the white people supposed to drink??
Truesy Musings: FUCKING CROOKS →
miketruesdale:
You may have seen me posting about Eco Pharmacy on here, Twitter and Facebook trying to get them a $50,000 grant in the Pepsi Refresh Project. I was doing social media for them at a rate we agreed upon and a $1,000 bonus to come if they did indeed win a grant. When I started they were in 125th…
I love this shit!
alamobasement:
http://www.troyabbott.com/artists/EnriqueGomez/gallery/index.html
“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story (via wreckandsalvage)
100% Bullshit. No wonder our current Congress has an 11% approval rating.
(via pauliophonic)
Sex Education
Of course, sex isn’t all pleasure or all peril, it’s both (and sometimes both at once, though that lesson may have to wait for grad school). Vernacchio has a way of getting at its positive potential without ignoring the fact that, however good sex may feel, it’s sometimes best left off the menu. “So let’s think about pizza,” Vernacchio said to his students after they’d deconstructed baseball. The...
DJ Shadow - Scale it Back ft. Little Dragon...
moresongs:
The original is great. The remix has such a wonderfully chill vibe.
-Ian
Watchmisskatie:
scottgairdner:
Forgive my overpromotion of this. Wrote and directed this and got amazing people to be in it and I’m super happy.
funnyordie:
Santa Election 2012
Who will be elected the next Santa? Christopher McDonald, David Koechner, Maria Bamford and Andre Royo lobby for your vote with their campaign commercials.
well done scott!
New Show
gonna be called Lets Rob Cash Cab
Rogue Specimens: Cognitive Dissonance →
roguespecimens:
1. Remarks by President Obama to the Australian Parliament
“Here, we see the future. As the world’s fastest-growing region — and home to more than half the global economy — the Asia Pacific is critical to achieving my highest priority, and that’s creating jobs and opportunity for the American…
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jsmooth995:
Following the stream of tonight’s #GodIsNotGreat hashtag on Twitter gives a perfect illustration of how to make a great (or evil) trending topic: it elicits a passionate response from people who get its context, and an equally passionate response, for totally different reasons, from people who don’t get its context.
(and I have to think Hitchens would be delighted by the...
“If every trace of every single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed...”
– God, No! — Penn Jillete (via lfborjas)
Watch
Watchdavidseger:
Analyze Channel 101 with Doctor Ramani
Produced and edited this series of videos for the 2011 Channel 101 awards show. Shot by Jon Hill. Starring Dr. Ramani Durvasula, who is now a big fan of Channel 101 stuff. (PART 2) (PART 3)
