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kfan: I want to turn this image into a blanket and wrap it...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:56:43 -0700

I want to turn this image into a blanket and wrap it around my soul.

Thank god for you, Meghan Deans, that’s all I can say.

YES. One of my favorite moments from Season 1. I think it might be my #1 favorite.

Reading habits meme!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:59:00 -0700

meghanagain:

AND FINALLY I am horribly curious about what books I see people reading in public, and sometimes more than that, what forms these books take. Hardcovers in expensive purses. Shakespeare in overall pockets. Weird editions of public domain classics. Library books with the covers bent back. I rode the subway home with one of my bosses and he pulled from his back pocket an advance readers copy that he’s working through; to make it more carry-friendly he’d ripped it in half along the binding and was only carrying the chapters he had left. As for me: bookmarks almost always/two paperbacks or one hardcover per bag/and if it’s a personal hardcover I always take off the dust jacket. Right now I have a desk full of stuff I am dying to read. It’s a good time to like words.

I’m going to pretend this is a meme!

I like books that can fit in a back pocket, but it’s awfully hard to find good books that size. Most decent novels are now printed in the trade paperback format. You can find classics in bookstores that are in the pocket-sized mass market format, but for recent books it’s only dreck and genre fiction. And even a lot of good genre fiction isn’t even mass-market sized anymore!

I prefer paperbacks to hardcover. I mean, duh. Who doesn’t. I use scraps of paper, receipts, postcards, or envelopes for bookmarks. If it’s hardcover, I leave the dusk jacket on and use the flaps to keep my place. Of course, it’s a little annoying to do that when I’m in the middle of the book and neither flap will easily reach.

I have a little shelf space on my nightstand and it’s crammed with all the books I want to read.

Finding time to read got a lot harder when my son was born, but that was to be expected. I didn’t read anything for the first 4 or 5 months. Now I’m reading again but at a much slower pace (less time).

Also, quitting smoking last year had an effect on my reading habits. I used to use my smoking breaks as my reading time. I did that for years. Whenever I would go outside for a cigarette, I would bring a book. Little ten minute reading breaks, ten or fifteen times a day. When I quit smoking, I found myself reading a lot less and playing a lot more video games. Those little breaks are probably the only thing I truly miss about smoking.

Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:11:53 -0700

Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: All three acts of Doctor Horrible are up! Catch it while you can. It disappears on Sunday.

In the ’90s, the cable channel Bravo used to show short...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:55:00 -0700

In the ’90s, the cable channel Bravo used to show short films instead of commercials. I remember seeing this animated short about ten or fifteen years ago, and it stuck with me. I even emailed Bravo asking for more information (all I could remember about it was the plot), and they actually emailed me back. It was called Shadow Puppets. Every so often I would search for information about it, hoping to find a video of it online. Occasionally I would stumble across other people who remember seeing it, but no video.

Anyway, I remembered it again tonight, and did a search, and I finally found it! It’s ten minutes long, but worth it.

anjalouise: duplo: abbyroad: no, it can’t be...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:11:16 -0700

anjalouise:

duplo:

abbyroad:

no, it can’t be true.

f’real?

This looks really fake but it’s still LOL

This is real. I love Jeopardy. It probably looks fake because it’s a hi-def television.

"The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate..."

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:07:00 -0700

“The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.’ He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”

- President George Bush: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’ - Telegraph

What a dick.

Internet dreams

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:30:37 -0700

I had a dream Jakob Lodwick was an ax murderer in a very 80s-slasher-movie-type setting. dalas verdugo was also involved somehow (in the dream, not the murdering).

It’s so weird when the internet invades your dreams, especially when it’s people you don’t really know.

Another internet dream I remember having is one where I was at Josh and Alexis Allen’s wedding. It had a Cirque de Soleil theme.

gabe: Kevin Smith is the George Bush of moviesgabe: he is the director people want to have a beer...

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:18:02 -0700

gabe: Kevin Smith is the George Bush of movies
gabe: he is the director people want to have a beer with
lindsay: yes
gabe: and this movie
gabe: is his hurricane Katrina

Should Kevin Smith Even Be Allowed To Exist? - Friday Fight - Videogum

The Indy Rules

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:03:00 -0700

For an Indiana Jones movie to succeed, it must have:

Nazis
an opening not directly related to the rest of the film
Sallah
Marcus Brody
a quest for a biblical object
a desert setting

It must not have:

a young sidekick
primitive civilizations

Anything I’m forgetting?

"The only thing hippies like more than making rules is making signs about their rules that end with..."

Sat, 24 May 2008 23:18:48 -0700

“The only thing hippies like more than making rules is making signs about their rules that end with the word “Peace!” God, I hate hippies.”

- Merlin Mann

Philly Boy Roy versus Patton Oswalt You don’t realize how...

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:45:00 -0700

Philly Boy Roy versus Patton Oswalt

You don’t realize how much Tom Scharpling brings to the Scharpling & Wurster dynamic until he’s taken out of the equation.

phila-dummy

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:45:00 -0700

joannalovesyou:

we discovered this morning that i’ve never seen a sylvester stallone movie. nope. not a one.

Not even Rocky. TOTAL PHILADUMMY. We’re renting Rocky immediately to rectify this.

Then we’ll have to get First Blood. And Demolition Man. And Tango and Cash. And all the other Rocky movies.

Any I’m forgetting?

"Jeff Tweedy is hilarious. He could do a standup show. Cat Power has charm. Carrie Brownstein,..."

Sat, 03 May 2008 02:34:21 -0700

“Jeff Tweedy is hilarious. He could do a standup show. Cat Power has charm. Carrie Brownstein, obviously. Steve Albini, he’s fucking hilarious. He’s fucking so funny, he could write books, or go on the Daily Show. He’s brilliant and he doesn’t take himself seriously. Goddamn, that guy is funny.”

- Fred Armisen on funny musicians

KIOSK - Red Kånken

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:03 -0700

KIOSK - Red Kånken: This merchant’s story of trying to obtain products from the Swedish company Fjall Raven goes a long way in explaining why it’s impossible to find Kånken backpacks in this country.

Speaking of David Letterman, my older brother and his friends started calling me...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:40:15 -0700

Speaking of David Letterman, my older brother and his friends started calling me “Letterman” when I was in grade school because I supposedly looked like him. I had a similar haircut. I was missing a front tooth, so it looked like I had a gap. Maybe some similarity in the face. They still call me Letterman 20 years later, even though all resemblance has faded.

The “Black Dan” portrait of Daniel Webster Daniel...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:29:00 -0700

The “Black Dan” portrait of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster is my style icon. Look at that hair! Balding yet totally awesome. When I go bald (and trust me, it’s happening), I hope I can pull this off. Even David Letterman or Bill Murray baldness would be nice. I really worry that I’ll end up looking like Rob Corddry, who has the most terrible bald head I have ever seen. It’s mostly that tiny patch of hair on his forehead that he has to shave so he doesn’t look like an early ’90s ska fan.

joannalovesyou: matt and i are arguing over whether it’s more appropriate to describe george...

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:55:33 -0700

joannalovesyou:

matt and i are arguing over whether it’s more appropriate to describe george stephanopoulos as “hunky” or “cute as a button.”

Just for the record, I am on the “cute as a button” side of this argument.