December 2008
89 posts
Re: the post below
The 13-year-old vegetarian pacificist in me, who got beat up at Coquitlam Centre for her Georgetown Hoyas jacket and refused to fight back, her jaw is dropping.
Bridget Jonestown Massacre part II
I have no defense for this. I didn’t even know The Handshake was Adam until 5 months after he started following me. Brynna’s magic formula is indeed correct. [Me] a Culpa.
As to the RST, I think the part I found the most distracting was the love story. Like, the author didn’t trust his own concept enough not to inject a pro-forma romance into it. Also, when you find out that...
BRING TONNES OF WEED
(via itsgoingtogetworse)
I just like that this is a metric measurement.
Bridget Jonestown Massacre part II
Ugh. I just finished the Raw Shark Texts, by British author Steven Hall. I picked it up because I was Googling sharks for disingenuous reasons and I came across the quote that David Foster Wallace’s Inifinite Jest, a book I read in the past few months and fell in love with, was, in the words of the reviewer “the blueprint” for the RST The only thing good I got out of it was that...
Yikes!
Just listening to CBC and hearing about how bad the snowstorm is down in Vancouver. I’m sorry if you’re stuck somewheres! I hope you have heat and wine and friends around you.
One more reason on the massive list for why I hate...
(via 131313thavenue)
….?
A guide to not hitting on me.
See, I’ll take pseudo-intellectual posturing. Prithee Sir David, hast thou read this fair week’s TV Guide? I say, the scriveners behind the fortnightly “Cheers n’ Jeers” are riotously incorrigible. Thou hasn’t? Well! I should say I shall show another suitor my ankle!
*note: Of course I think this girl is silly. I also think Camus wasn’t French. I also...
A guide to not hitting on me.
See, I’ll take pseudo-intellectual posturing. Prithee Sir David, hast thou read this fair week’s TV Guide? I say, the scriveners behind the fortnightly “Cheers n’ Jeers” are riotously incorrigible. Thou hasn’t? Well! I should say I shall show another suitor my ankle!
amilniazi:
Dead on, David. She sounds like a real prune. Give the guy a break, at least he...
BBC: Pope attacks blurring of gender →
matthewgruman:
blownspeakers:
Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
That’s pretty much how I rank the world’s problems too: environmental destruction, plague, famine, war, and the gays. Merry Christmas from the Catholic Church.
And don’t forget that modern...
Bridget Jonestown Massacre
adj.: The kind of writing I have thus far produced up here. Aiming for art, ending up with verbose chick lit.
Remedies?
I have the kind of migraine where all noise and light is not only painful, but triggers blinding rage. Any suggestions, migraine sufferers of the world?
Attention Fellow Canadians and Non-Americans
fucking thank you. I miss tv like it’s one of my lungs.
matthewgruman:
HotSpot Shield is a Windows application that bypasses regional sniffing. That means you can watch videos at Hulu, or the new Flight of the Conchords over at FunnyorDie.
“Do They Know it’s Christmas?” Karaoke!! →
okayfine:
A Weekend Leisure, Bronx Cheer & Man Hussy collabo!
It won’t play?
Mark "Deep Throat" Felt dead →
Fact - I interviewed Nora Ephron, romcom writer/director and once-wife of Carl Bernstein, about two days after the identify of Deep Throat was “public”. As she has since asserted over and over, she said she “told anyone who would listen” (indeed Wikipedia has it worded exactly as such), it was Mark Felt. She also made the most chillingly fearful facial expression ever when...
in which I uncharacteristically stray from my...
Absentmindedly laying down my own article from today’s Vancouver Sun for the dog’s training and then it in the cleaning-up process = more comic than you’d think. What can I say? The news section was particularly engrossing today. Speaking of gross… Sorry.
read this →
and then lie awake in bed at night in cold sweats.
also, I think this marks the end of my two-week binge of existentialist lit/film. Titles consumed include:
Steppenwolf
Beckett’s Molloy & Malone Dies
Nausea
The Seventh Seal
Of course, I understand the beauty is in the story and the language, and the stasis, but too much existential thought in such a short span of time is like,...
fyi: yo dawg i heard you like to tell people...
davidlook:
alaskamiller: that xzibit thing in your thing thing is really fucking lame. pimp my ride hasn’t been on the air for over a year now. think of something new.
cameronr: Wrong. Your taste in music is fucking lame. Are you gonna tell me that the FAIL meme is lame too? Is it lame to say FAIL outloud when you’re hanging out with your friends? Well, maybe it is. Internet Obsession FAIL. Is...
MillerCoors to stop selling Sparks →
Oh, homeless people: will they everthouroughly understand cost-benefit analysis?
rickyv:
I used to say that Sparks is what homeless people would drink if they understood cost/benefit analysis.
R.I.P. Sparks, I’ve had a lot of fun with you in my body.
I MEAN IT!
What's really important....
OMG, how can you care about this when there are children who will go this Christmas without Santa?
chuckmore:
Oh man, dill pickle pringles? Lez Intertubez? So funny! Good thing you came along and provided an even sadder image for us all to chuckle about. The blogger sitting in front of his laptop, obsessing over a different blogger, and using the most cliched blogger stereotypes ever invented…...
Brooklyn Vegan: Stone Roses Ready to Reunite →
Did you hear his last solo record?
blownspeakers:
well, at least he’s not dead.
elainecorden:
This is not going to end well. Also “Ian Brown is the only obstacle?” Oh, well then you’re almost there, arent’ you? I am going to re-unite Blind Melon. Shannon Hoon is the only obstacle.
blownspeakers:
Ian Brown is the only obstacle to a Stone Roses reunion, the band’s former bassist Mani said this...
Brooklyn Vegan: Stone Roses Ready to Reunite →
This is not going to end well. Also “Ian Brown is the only obstacle?” Oh, well then you’re almost there, arent’ you? I am going to re-unite Blind Melon. Shannon Hoon is the only obstacle.
blownspeakers:
Ian Brown is the only obstacle to a Stone Roses reunion, the band’s former bassist Mani said this week.
This would be massive.
More quotes from your favourite dad
“you’ve lost 20 pounds? Now you’re down to enormous”
oh, oh, you want quotes from my *favourite* dad.
From Lost in Translation:
Bob: It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids. Charlotte: It’s scary. Bob: The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born. Charlotte: Nobody ever tells you that. Bob: Your life, as you know...
true story
I just checked facebook and had an anxiety attack, the eradication of which required a Dr. Lowry-recommended breathing exercise in which everytime you breathe in or out, you just let a random image pop into your head, like a carousel slide projector stuffed with random pictures of things you saw once. Breathing in: the colour of Lake Kathleen in Yukon; breathing out: clothespins; breathing in: the...
The 100 Best Tracks of 2008 | Pitchfork →
every year, l drag this Louis Menand-penned New Yorker article on year-end lists out, and make the same ol’ lousy joke that it’s the penultimate word on year-end lists. Here ya go.
blownspeakers:
jordanhudson:
everybodycares:
Update on Norman
So I’m thinking about buying a new guitar. And not a new used guitar, but a new new guitar. I haven’t done that since I was 14 and got my first electric guitar—everything else has been from pawn shops and other dubious pre-owned sources.
I’m realizing that I don’t even know where to start looking. I really dislike all the music stores I’ve been to in Vancouver&dmash;they’re all either too...
Baby Pyramid Scheme!!
Had to think long and hard about clicking through to this. My mind flashed to some invention of Anne Geddes where babies are made to look like Atzecs or something.
amilniazi:
Looks like somebody released the Dreadnought!
Tonight: Computer back in action
PS U R US
cameronr:
You’re all gonna get CameronR’d.
Missing the point
me: I wish I could find someone who loved my neuroses
elianna: ok. i'm a gonna go eat my duck
you will
duh
yous a catch!
me: enjoy your duck
elianna: will do!
first you got to appreciate yourself
then everyone else will
me: ha. {redacted] says that all the time
what does it even mean
??
I don't get it when he says it and I don't get it when you do
elianna: i just figured it out
it'll come when you're ready
you obviously aren't right now
me: it's like you are typing you will find romantic hapiness when asdfasdfasdf
Guess not
elianna: ha
start with a mantra
like, i'm a funny girl
think of the things you like
and tell yourself them overa nd over
it will feel weird
me: i have good hair
Things That Happened This Weekend That I Don't...
Happy BIrthday, Looks? I woulda worn shoes that would make cows weep that they might become leather pants.
davidlook:
1) Denying a few guests entrance to the Manhattan for not being dressed properly.
2) Crashing the Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt and telling everyone I was “Cindy’s husband, Morgan.” Dinner was great.
3) Wearing my sunglasses in Tiffany’s and acting like an asshole.
4) Getting...
the gloom of the cistern →
bonus points for the pun, karen uhoh
karenuhoh:
I’m a tad, or would it be a mite, obsessive when it comes to David Foster Wallace—he grew up in my home town, after all; he crafted murky prose out of anyone’s depth, including his own—especially his own—and he died for reasons we’ll shorthand “depression,” but to me read sotto voce an outboard sputtering on fumes while navigating the twilit gulf...
