July 2010
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brilliant bastard behaviour
Yesterday I realized that, generally, the people who are most amused by me being needlessly hurtful toward others, are the least likely to deal well with that behavior when directed toward themselves. This got me thinking about the nature of TV’s enduring character, the brilliant bastard.
Current brilliant bastards include House, Lightman (from Lie To Me), Jane (from The Mentalist) and...
Time Management.
Weekends are never long enough. In between balancing my sleep debt, cleaning, laundry, and an inevitable list of social obligations, I always feel behind the 8 ball.
Too much to do, in less time.
In the rest of today, I need to read a book (or two), iron a week’s worth of clothing, fold a similar amount of clothes, make notes for two meetings, and take some time to get a coffee with a...
French Words With No English Translation →
verbadjectivenoun:
underscorelick:
barcalounger:
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur: As defined in...
Randeep: plus i'm looking @ my swag
Maria: ...your swag?
Randeep: stuff i bought
Maria: Your meaning of swag might be a bit different from mine
Randeep: what is your definition of swag
Maria: black kids with neon sneakers
(Jon: I'm laughing my ass off right now)
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someone is wrong on the internet: So did anyone... →
So did anyone else hear the rumor that Andrew Breibart used to sell prescription meds to high school students? Sounds absurd to me, but supposedly in the early days of Drudge money was tight and he was really wound up. So he had a bunch of scrips to not really hard drugs, and sold them to kids for…
Brilliant
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Childish Gambino (41)
The Futureheads (32)
The Roots (19)
Metric (15)
The Bravery (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
joncrowley.ca →
Because sometimes, a man needs to buy an egotistical URL, and then put it to the most self-obsessed use possible.
10 consumer goods i cannot give up →
Cleveland Comic Book Writer Harvey Pekar Dead at... →
catbird:
(via goldenfiddle)
that’s depressing.
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I walk away too well.
If there’s anything I worry I might be too good at, it’s walking away from a relationship, or an era in my life, or a definition of self.
I walk away without noticing, at times.
This isn’t to say I run away from things when they’re difficult, more that I’m too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. When a friendship dies a natural death, I might throw an...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
Editors (10)
Amon Tobin (10)
Blur (6)
Broken Social Scene (4)
Drake (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Bahahahahah.
So apparently either my love of batman, lack of pants, or belief that feminism isn’t a weapon to belittle women you disagree with has cost me a follower who was willing to stick with me through weeks of silence,
I’m so, so okay with that.
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Regarding yet another internet feminism debate:
I don’t have a problem with outraged responses to bias in media coverage and institutions. This outrage is important. I do, however, have a problem with internet feminism when used as a means to attack women who are too _____, not _____ enough, or too much like the media conception of the perfect _____. My understanding was that feminism, among other things, was in support of the concept...
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Internal Debate.
What are the upsides / downsides of posting a pic of the hilarious long sleeve tee / boxer briefs outfit that is my sick day clothing?
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Batman
I’m writing this on my iPad, as I watch “Superman / Batman: Public Enemies” on my laptop. This is how I do a sick day, and it’s probably also an indication of my appreciation of Batman as a character, a design, and an icon - arguably one of the most enduring of modern times.
Why Batman?
An innate understanding of branding: a complex but easily interpreted system of ...
Influencers Suck →