May 2010
151 posts
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How Facebook Could Regain Our Trust →
Brilliant.
April 2010
132 posts
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“Looking for a good looking girl, ages 18-25 to take a few pictures with me. In...”
– best of craigslist: Take a few pictures for cash (female) (via theoriginaljoefisher)
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“I am selling this bicycle because my therapist suggested I need to come to terms...”
– best of craigslist: Stately Dutch MILF Magnet (via theoriginaljoefisher)
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Career Test Results
You are an Inspirer, possible professions include - conference planner, speech pathologist, HR development trainer, ombudsman, clergy, journalist, newscaster, career counselor, housing director, character actor, marketing consultant, musician/composer, artist, information-graphics designer, human resource manager, merchandise planner, advertising account manager, dietitian/nutritionist,...
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“Screaming babies in Mozart wigs.”
– Stefan on SNL
Just in time, right, Ryan?
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“LATE NIGHT CARB CRAVING! HELP!”
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To: Emuhhhh / Re: God
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to reply to your God Rant post (which I guess you took down?). I wrote something really long and involved and was almost late for work because of it! Haha - or because of my inability to prioritize in the morning.
Either way, I think it boils down to this for me:
If you are going to create God in your own image, in your own mind, out of your own thoughts...
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Dear Friend With Whom I Occasionally Watch Lost...
I love you very much but I’m going to have to watch it NOW. I do too much on the Internet and, while a large chunk of it could be considered unproductive (as an artist, I think any and all information and inspiration is valid and necessary to contributing to my cache of thought and emotion…and it ought to be tax-deductible), it is what I do and I cannot avoid the Internet for two whole...
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“A man’s work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover through the detours of...”
– Albert Camus, quoted on the back of Scott Walker’s Scott 4 (via austinkleon)
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“Listen, since we’ve stopped anyway, ok. It took two days to put the set up...”
– Lloyd, Noises Off - played magnificently by Micheal Caine (as if he plays anyone any other way)
Incidentally, this short scene is a great example of how to make hubbubbub for actors. Very natural, starts promptly, ends promptly. It’s perfect.
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projectgutenberg:
She, too, remained a moment pensive, and then threw herself with renewed vivacity into the general conversation, prodigal of wit and laughter, flashing her teeth and her bon mots at all in turn.
- Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Child of Pleasure (1889) [full text]
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How to Write Badly Well - HOMAGE WEEK #5: Try too... →
Leotharg son of Peotharg, grandkin of Beotharg, whose horn had sounded over the fields of Giethen at the battle of Eyoiwylin Pass even as his people, descendants of Thargotharg the forgotten, sought shelter in the Great Forest of Than’Dythyll, sat down heavily.
‘Epyothnell of Yangdril,’ he said, ’protector of those who are lost and prophesied Lord of Balthangdrang’Grathril.’‘Speak,’ replied...
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YOU CANNOT BUY COCOA PUFFS IN CANADA!
Add that to the list of injustices right under Grits, humanely-priced cheeses and One-A-Day Energy vitamins.
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I want Cocoa Puffs.
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“Howdy, I’m looking for a deadly vixen to do battle with on a weekly basis. We...”
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best of craigslist: Male Villain Seeking Female Arch-Enemy - m4w (via theoriginaljoefisher)
This is better than most legitimate castings I see.
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“***UPDATE: A GUY CAME OUT TO LOOK AT THE CAR LAST NIGHT AND TOOK IT FOR A TEST...”
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best of craigslist: 2002 Ford Focus SE Wagon (via theoriginaljoefisher)
I’ve always said Kijiji is classier than Craigslist.
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“The man dies first, you get two wonderful years and then YOU die.”
– Liz Lemon on Marriage
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Singles' Dodgeball
Jack: Are you wearing a cup?
Liz: Oh, I forgot. Only MEN can get hurt down there. (rolls eyes)
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“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be...”
– -Mitch Album, Tuesdays With Morrie; spoken by Morrie
Day 14 — A non-fictional book: My mother always tell me this. Whenever you do anything for someone do it with a smile and a happy heart. It doesn’t matter if you save someones life if you’re grumbling, the action then loses all meaning. So if...
Think Pink!
fromme-toyou:
Think pink! forget that Dior says black and rust. Think pink! who cares if the new look has no bust. Now, I wouldn’t presume to tell a woman what a woman oughtta think, But tell her if she’s gotta think: think pink!
~ Funny Face
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A Velvet Goldmine? →
I, too, have bad memories of velvet although I think I wore it pretty well when I did.
MY VELVET MOMENT
I wore a black velvet two-piece pantsuit (the top was a halter or tank with red flowers going up one side and the pants were flared leggings with slit at the ankle) to a Christmas dance in high school. It was quite daring, as everyone else was dressed like they were going to prom (read:...
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Cognoscenti →
Working on it.
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“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
All Good Children Go to Heaven”
– The Beatles, You Never Give Me Your Money
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I think...
…it’s important to recognize the difference between proper immersion and worship, necessary obsession and idolatry.
And by this I mean that I shouldn’t have stopped buying so many fashion mags when I was in college.
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“Love is…taking the burnt piece of bacon so your partner can have the...”
– This moi.
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projectgutenberg:
Coffee is universal in its appeal. All nations do it homage. It has become recognized as a human necessity. It is no longer a luxury or an indulgence; it is a corollary of human energy and human efficiency. People love coffee because of its two-fold effect—the pleasurable sensation and the increased efficiency it produces.
- William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (1922) [full...
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Happy endings for writers who create in coffee... →
housingworksbookstore:
In 2006 we went to Toronto coffee shops looking for writers and asked them what they were working on. Harry Potter stories, you may remember, came to life in an Edinburgh café. The little-known creators gazed up from their laptops or pages of longhand and told us about the novels, poems and blogs in progress. The Star ran excerpts. What has happened to these aspiring...
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‘Kick-Ass’ Is the Quintessential Libertarian Film →
cdangt:
(via nomosshere)
Yes, on the surface, “Kick-Ass” is morally depraved. It features wildly offensive language and breathlessly violent images. It does indeed have an eleven-year-old girl who could take down Van Dame and whose mouth would make Mickey Rourke blush. It features people having sex in public. It depicts drug use. But that’s not the whole story. At it’s thematic core, it’s about...
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Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen →
mirza:
I feel like I always give up during the “Project Plateau”
Timely. I have Project Plateau Syndrome as well. #s 1 & 2 are big helps for me.
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Blackbird Cover YouTube Comments
Dude 1: awesome stuff, well done mate!
Dude 2: @dude1 its not right he,s not as good as you think
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Sephora Collection →
I want this!!!!!!
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Why We Write: Damon Lindelof →
lostlunch:
sosafe:
I was listening to the news on NPR the other day and two things occurred to me. First, only assholes feel the constant need to tell you they listen to NPR (does anyone ever say, “So I was watching the CW last night…”?) and I guess that makes me an asshole. The second was that in the midst of listening to the story in question, I had finally figured out how to...
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“After much soul searching – and by the way, it was nowhere to be found – I have...”
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Larry David on the return of Curb Your Enthusiasm for an eighth season (via tvtattle)
Oh look, it’s the best news ever.
(via sharingtime)
REALLY!? 