January 2012
4 posts
December 2011
5 posts
#BL: In Which the Gentleman Calls, Post-Coitally →
benleventhal:
Chapter VII, Sub. 6 The Next Day
It so happens that from time to time — or perhaps of a frequency higher than that — the gentleman finds on his todo list the task of reassuring a new lady of his exceptional pedigree and genuine intentions by way of making contact with her the day after he…
Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single...
An abridged list, in no particular order.
Edmund Wilson
poststructuralism
the Situationists
“extrainstitutional intellectualism”
bourbon
“proletarian meta-narrative”
the Lost Generation
Cornell
Sacre Coeur
Jonathan Lethem
The Paris Review
paradigm
Jacques Derrida
French reactionaries
Brooklyn
“a hedonic treadmill”
Guy Debord
The New Yorker
...
November 2011
6 posts
We need to stop the daintiness and describe the alleged offenses for what they truly are in the vernacular to somehow try to capture the monstrousness. Not anal intercourse or oral sex, which sounds clinical, but butt-f—king and blowjobs and cock-grabbing and pants-groping and other assorted acts that the 67-year-old Sandusky allegedly inflicted on eight minor victims over a 15-year...
Happy Valley →
fairest:
When boys on a high school team in Texas battered a cat with their baseball bats, put it in a bag, and ran over it with their pickup truck, killing it, because it had taken to hanging around and soiling the pitcher’s mound, the animal people were outraged and demanded that the…
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
OH: "Man. What's happened. I mean the days of the...
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I started taking naps.
5 tags
May 2011
2 posts
“Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook....”
– Bill Keller, “The Twitter Trap” | New York Times (via daniellenuss)
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
9 posts
Meet Joan of Snark. Aka 30 Rock's Jezebel parody.
I really needed something good to happen this month. Tina delivered.
annaholmes:
Joan of Snark! Tagline: “Perhaps correct. Definitely exhausting.” Also, check out the “masthead”, which reads:
POLITICAL WOMAN
Activism is your duty
FEMME-TERTAINMENT
Movies, TV and More
GIRLS LIT GOLDMINE
Reading Frenzy
FASHION & BEAUTY
Because You’re a Goddess
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Protect...
placesweusedtogo:
Reading the comments on Jason Linkins’s “How HuffPo Works” piece as well as the comments on nu-Gawker, one thing stuck out to me, and that is that people who spend seemingly their entire working day commenting on articles on the Internet are really, really self-important, and also convinced they make up the majority of people reading any given website. Hint: you suck and also...
“Dr. Oz said that red phlegm could be one of the first warning signs of Lung...”
– Courtesy of Dr. Oz fans. Not that I pay attention to Dr. Oz! I swear! I was just googling to find out what my fascinating new crop of phlegm — which is not red, thankfully, as there are no quick solutions! — might mean.
March 2010
3 posts
Why yes, yes I do.
Actually, Indignant Mom, you can get off the plane too.
Alas, I never went to summer camp. →
Granted, most girls named Jessica can be difficult.
January 2010
1 post
October 2009
14 posts
Minutes from an editorial meeting
Editor 1: Best movies to watch stoned?
Editor 2: All of them.
Why, hello, old friend!
It’s come to this:
We’ll also be meeting with Joe Dolce, former editor-in-chief of Star, current social media consultant, who will propose a social media experiment for the China Grill restaurants.
Social media consultant — pretty sure that’s unemployment-speak for “Chodorow’s Twintern.”
spiers:
jessicacoen:
Virginia Heffernan’s book is the book we all want to write, but can’t. No pleasures, indeed! I’m a little sad, honestly. Going to spend the rest of the day staring at my hands and this filthy keyboard. White keyboards, what the fuck.
I think Virginia’s book will be good, but I can pretty definitively say that there is no part of me, not a single molecule, that wants to...
Why Gawker Is So Wrong About Virginia Heffernan's...
lindsayrobertson:
It’s actually amazing that someone out there who actually understands the internet is thinking about it all the time. And not the way we think about it, as bloggers (people to whom the internet affords no pleasures anymore) but as a thoughtful writer who only has to write one column per week and thus can go down the kind of rabbit holes most bloggers, with ten deadlines per day...
John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize New York Mag.
Is there hope behind the heartbreak [themes on the new album]? The melody is the hope. The lyrics are the heartbreak, the melody is the hope. If you have the lyrics being the heartbreak and the music as the heartbreak, your editor made you ask stupid fucking questions! You’re standing in front of me acting as if these questions are fair, but now we’re talking about something real. So...
“my dickhead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my dick is so fat it looks...”
– Okay, now Tracy Morgan is on Twitter.
OMG Tracy Morgan Finally Joined Twitter Y'all!!! →
NB: His icon seems to be ripped from Starpulse, and the only person he’s following is his assistant. Both indicate that there’s a lot of editorial potential here — but until there’s some actual gibberish, I refuse to get excited.
