July 2010
Reader's Request Week: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Besides the fact that I just noticed I said “weeks” twice in the same few sentences and now want to kill myself—I wrote this little 8 year old movie review at Steve Spillman’s behest and I had a lot of fun writing it/watching this movie 3 times in a row.
brightwalldarkroom:
I DON’T KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW HOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE
by Meaghan...
HULU.com →
moderngirlife:
whoa. practically every t.v. show is on here. and it’s FREE.
i don’t think i’m ever leaving my house now
LOL i looked back to the first people who ever followed me and some of them haven’t posted in awhile…
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“also if you’re wondering if Secret Service agents are gonna be tapping on my...”
– Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: talked to barack obama, the president of the united states, about pitchfork
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
“Please do not messenger a hug,” she said. “You never know who would show up.”
Well, you don’t!
“Books – especially literary books – should be filled with smart, provocative...”
– steve almond got panned by the NYTBR and has (nice) things to say about it!
me: Jesus, where ARE you, who are all those people in the background?
Dad: Oh, I'm at the airport.
me: Oh, where are you flying?
Dad: Nowhere.
me: Okay where WERE you flying from?
Dad: Nowhere I am just here.
me: What?
Dad: So when is your parole up?
me: What?
Dad: When is your parole over, how long did the judge give you?
me: ...
Dad: Oh okay yeah that's not too bad.
me: ...Um...
Dad: So tell me, how long where you in jail?
me: WHAT IS GOING ON?
Dad: Oh, I was just saying that so everyone in the elevator would stop talking. See? It worked.
A Cold Freezin' Night
thebooksmusic:
…He’s 4. His most prized possession is his Fischer Price turntable:
On constant rotation recently: J. Geils - ‘Freeze Frame’, Bobby Vinton - ‘Is There a Place (Where I Can Go)’, and ‘5 Minute Hoe-Down’, which he calls the ‘fiddle one’. Sometimes Sepp complains about having to ‘work all day, everyday”. If you ask him what his work is he says “I have to play my record...
Amazon.com says in past three months, they've sold... →
inothernews:
From the New York Times:
Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books.
In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.
The pace of change is...
Looking for an intern
staff:
The time has come! We are officially looking for a part-time Community Intern to help with Meetups, Events, and Press.
You should love: People, Tumblr, email, the post office, and getting paid to do amazing things with awesome people.
We totally love: All of the same stuff, minus the post office (but even that is kind of hilarious if you’re in the right mood).
If you live near NYC and...
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a bright wall in a dark room: The Hours →
beenthinking:
Herein lies the longest essay I ever wrote. The kind that is a gurgling, gushing first draft, written manically over a dozen disclaimers and explanations you’d like to share if you’d had the time. But there wasn’t the time - for explaining or editing, much. And so here it is - all of it, shared with a bit of unusual shyness. The end.
Oh Hi, Erica wrote about a movie that was made...
things I remembered at lunch in between learning...
Remember when you were 11 and someone said something mean to you and you just put your hand up in the air, up in their face, and just very flippantly said “Brick wall.”
And then they could be like, “Free Willy!” and soar their hand over your hand, penetrating your metaphor with a pop culture illusion and you were like, “Fine, you win,” out of respect for that...
oh, the wonder of tumblr
thehighlow:
The most viewed story on The High Low right now is our post on Tumblr. Thank you to Meaghan O and all the fab, fashionable tumblrs out there tumblring. So here’s a link to our story on Tumblr, about Tumblr, that now appears on Tumblr. How meta!
Today I’m wearing children’s shoes from Payless and one of 3 dresses I cycle through for months, if that gives you any context...
“A silly but surprisingly effective alternative might be to have an...”
– um.
BOOKS AT THE BOOK FACTORY!
The books are being made in Iceland right now and they sent us photos, eeeee, they are real:
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“Please, buy a copy. We have literally put our life savings into the production...”
– the Books: Big, Huge and Exciting!
The Books are on The Tumblr and their blog is really interesting!
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“The web is changing and it needs more editors. Do not dispute me. I love you....”
– Paul Ford
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“I’m onto him,” I said. “I realized he was acting the way he...”
– ANN BEATTIE JESUS H. WHAT’RE YOU TRYING TO DO?
(this is from this little book, Walks With Men, which starts out with a kind of wait do i like this or is this supremely tired and annoying premise, I mean I had my doubts mostly because of the cover but i am in a hypercritical place when it...
multicoloredpenguinsandsocks asked: So I'm about to turn 17 and I feel like nothing. My 13 year old self would be disappointed by how little I've done, because back then I was sure I'd have a book published by now (I know, I know). I still haven't found the right story to finish. Sometimes I think I know too much, sometimes too little, and I'm worried about where I'll end up. I want to live in New York...
bitecollarbones-deactivated2011 asked: You kind of look like Hannah Murray except she has longer hair.
Suddenly concerned
Also some people, friends even, have expressed the idea that hiding ones cords and cables should be treated as the #1 priority in home decorating. As you’ll observe I treat my cord and cables kind of like houseplants or small pets. Life is hard enough without cord Denial!
Speaking Of!
staff:
Earlier this week, the NYT Diner’s Journal tipped us off to the new-old photoblog Hippy Kitchens (Holy patchouli, indeed) and now we want to wallpaper our breakfast nooks in orange florals. First step: get a breakfast nook. Speaking of aspirations, Put This On, the charming style guide for men (not guys!) and blogchild of Jesse Thorn and Lonelysandwich, née Adam Lisagor, was nominated...
housingworksbookstore:
“This post is for bloggers. Hi!
As some of you know, every six weeks or so I send out an email with books for review. This email usually features 6 or so books. They’re almost always books of ours that I’ve read, books that I am passionate about, and books that might need a little extra push from me and from you guys to get out there. Occasionally (okay, most of the...
http://lenscapon.tumblr.com/ →
Mark came by for lunch but everyone still managed to talk about videogames :(
honeysucklejam asked: How tall are you exactly?
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“As the pun goes, “A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your...”
– cosmopsis: LOLly Parton
http://whatcourtneyworetoday.com →
Yes, that Courtney.
“Whatever the location, “the key thing is the network the author can call...”
– these articles are all so goddamn depressing.