December 2010
Raise your hand if you get where I'm coming from
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Though I am a man of science, I can’t help but feel a vague twinge of unease when New Year’s Eve rolls around: some primitive part of my brain keeps whispering that if you don’t kiss someone when the ball drops, the rest of your year is doomed to be romantically lackluster. Doomed.
Relatedly, this does not shed any light for me on why doomsday prophets are so popular. Those...
“The receptionist knew that no one was supposed to come behind the desk. If...”
– Richard Stark, “The Outfit”
No lie, “they believed in machine guns” runs through my head probably once every couple of weeks.
“So huge, in fact, that Hearst published it in his Cosmopolitan magazine later...”
– Internet Piracy of the 19th Century | Atomic-Robo.com
“The world collapses, life goes on. Life, despite. Things are rearranged into the...”
– Goudou Goudou (5) | HiLobrow
sick on christmas eve?
I’ve got that “killed half a bottle of chloraseptic in two days” swag going on, that old fashioned “sixty cough drops in one day” swag. Happened right after I got a new laptop, too. Must be the webcam shooting sickness directly into my throat.
Anyway, here are some things what I wrote:
Best in comics, 2010 edition: I contributed numbers seven and four. I should...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Kanye West (54)
Gil Scott-Heron (26)
Royce da 5’9” (21)
Redman (20)
Young Dro & Yung LA (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“My thinking is simple. I just want to record my ancestors’ culture. That is my...”
– Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work - NYTimes.com
“Ten days before all signs of his existence were wiped off the face of the earth,...”
– The Impossibility of a Diaphanous History Machine | Mulholland Books
Charlie Huston writes dialogue like people talk, with commas for pauses. I like that.
UNIQLO CALENDAR →
wish i had an ipad so i could use this
UNIQLOCK →
this is the best clock
“I’m not sure whether they had recognized me or not,” she admitted....”
– ‘Baywatch’ Beauty Donna D’Errico Feels Overexposed After TSA Scan
hey donna, what’s a terrorist look like?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Gorillaz (95)
Gil Scott-Heron (48)
Big Boi (45)
OutKast (37)
Ski Beatz (31)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The Mourner (December 1963): “When the guy with the asthma finally came in...”
– First Lines to Richard Stark’s Parker Books | Miskatonic University Press
“Addy Walker’s story begins as she and her mother are escaping slavery to find...”
– Addy Doll, Books, Clothes, More | American Girl ®
Whatever parent would buy this for their daughter needs to get their whole face slapped off. What an awful idea for a toy.
“Jay-Z dodged a major bullet there, as he was moving weight. But it’s even closer...”
– Jigga and the Fourth Amendment. « PostBourgie
WatchThis NoID beat goes so hard. Killer Mike, TI, “Ready Set Go.”