January 2009
24 posts
“MADOFF: I’M WEAKENED AT BERNIE’S”
– a headline yesterday from my favorite least favorite newspaper
superdoofus-stratodrive:
forsooth, “¿quien es mas macho?” is a phrase uttered in parts of mexico when someone, say, declines assistance in moving a large or heavy object. it is used with a touch of derision and a spoonful of sarcasm; as if to say “wow. look how strong you are” and follow it with an eyeroll.
“Oh, what a big man you are!”
“The Nassau Coliseum is nicer than this.”
– Mike Francesca, amidst a long tirade on the current condition of the WFAN studios
“The time has come to set aside childish things.”
Riffin' on Appalachian Spring
This is even sassier than Rick Warren’s voice when he said “Malia and Sasha”!
“Hi. I am looking for a band that needs a drummer. I really enjoy playing drums...”
– Drummer in search of Band! (Cleveland) (via dmx)
drned:
molls:slippy:
RIP INDIE 103.1.
WHO LIKES REGGAETON?
I do. Go fuck yourself.
Ugh. More on this later.
(via trainwrecks, who is not implicated here)
“After saying he was retired, Rickey went on to add, “but if a club came out and...”
– Just FYI. (via Walkoff Walk) (via maura)
Ladies and gentlemen: the Seymour Cassel of baseball
I made a year-end mix.
If you want one, email me with your mailing address or a good reason why I should just send you files online. Also I will be posting the mix later in the week in two parts so if you’d rather listen to thirtyish-minute streaming mp3s you can wait for that.
catbird:
youngmanhattanite:
Twitterer/New Yorkerer Sasha Frere-Jones is confused by Tumblr. Help him out, kids.
Sasha, Tumblr is like a reinvention of LiveJournal. Twitter is like a reinvention of the megaphone. Hope this helps.
No wonder he has no problem with Twitter. (emphasis mine)
jhnbrssndn:
msbadkittie:
abbyjean:
clearest video yet of oscar grant. VERY STRONG TRIGGER WARNING. this is video of a man being shot and killed. it is fucking terrifying. (via slant truth)
this is the first time i’ve seen the video. i don’t even know what to say. the moment i heard the shot, i started to cry. jesus christ. i’ve just seen a man MURDERED. EXECUTION STYLE.
So, this whole...
“What difference does any of this make? Can’t we still get all the...”
– Marc Cooper, L.A. Weekly: The Autopsy Report (via Matos). The above quote is pretty much the only thing from this long and depressing yet essential read about the decline of the L.A. Weekly that’s not on point. By making his piece an elegy specifically for the Weekly, Cooper seems to have...
catbird:
tuneage:
Animal Collective - “My...
“Come summer, I was determined to make Queens work by testing my hobbies:...”
– Ibid. Gee, I sure love Orientalism; I just wish those ethnic folks would stay off my bike path!
“I moved to Jackson Heights in late 2006 precisely to discover these discreet...”
– some doof named Adam Ellick in the Sunday NY Times, via a thread titled “The Stupidest Thing You’ve Read Today” on a forum I read
“At most firms, risk managers are not viewed as ‘profit centers,’ so...”
– Joe Nocera here, one of three financial pieces shared today by Balk.
The Michael Lewis two-parter is the best, both because it’s not easily summed up, unlike the Nocera piece (in short: VaR (Value at Risk) was a great risk predictor until it became an unofficial ratings standard in lieu of...
Related: Am I the only one who feels like there’s a sort of psychic connection between internet males and Wall Street males and the fact that they have all the same viewpoints and behaviors?
And if not, where do i sign up to short-sell internet males?
This one goes out to award-winning Ayn Rand scholar offnotes: I get that internet males espouse Objectivism because they don’t understand the benefits they receive from their parents/socio-economic class position, but how do they not see the gigantic glaring contradiction in being the same internet males who say “content yearns to be free”?
(P.S. This is a rhetorical question...
“The best thing on TV was Keyshia Cole’s show
Lookin’ good Keyshia...”
– Skillz, “2008 Rap Up”
