February 2012
3 posts
List of ways I will judge you (partial)
rubyspurflower:
1. If your coffee order includes more than two adjectives
2. If you wear those pants that zip off into shorts
3. If you misuse the word “literally”
4. If you overuse the word “amazing”
5. If you wear heels that are so high you have to shuffle around in them
January 2012
2 posts
Letters of Note: Nothing good gets away →
A beautiful letter from John Steinbeck to his teenage son in love.
The Pizza Principle →
Since the 1960s, the price of one ride on the subway has tracked the cost of an average slice with almost eerie precision.
December 2011
2 posts
#1: hey did you hear, oxygen and magnesium got together
#2: OMg!!
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
6 posts
for years
amegrowsinbrooklyn:
i’ve been saying that every day is Halloween in Williamsburg. Apparently i’m not the only one who noticed:
http://halloweenorwilliamsburg.tumblr.com/
Frankenfont →
“An edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein laid out using characters and glyphs from PDF documents obtained through internet searches. The incomplete fonts found in the PDFs were reassembled into the text of Frankenstein based on their frequency of use. The most common characters are employed at the beginning of the book, and the text devolves into less common, more grotesque shapes...
The Performance of Nonconformity on The Muppet... →
Actual title of actual academic paper.
September 2011
3 posts
3 tags
Well, here it is. The most obnoxious thing I have... →
Wherein a man decides his fancy school’s creative writing MFA doesn’t rank well only because everybody else must be resentful of it. He also racks up bonus points for extreme condension, low-blow swipes at other schools, and some great rationalizing about student loan debt.
Choice excerpts:
This year, [Columbia] plunged down to No. 47, and is now presumed to rank behind such august...
June 2011
1 post
Here Are All the Stupid 'This or That' Questions... →
If this were a parody of presidential debates, it would be hilarious.
May 2011
5 posts
“Every once in awhile I would have to go to New York City to meet with editors,...”
– Read the whole thing, so well-told:
Laura Fraser » The Conde Nast elevator
April 2011
8 posts
Tina Fey's Prayer for a Daughter. →
projectbaby:
First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches.
May she be beautiful but not damaged, for it’s the damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the beauty.
When the crystal meth is offered, may she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half and stick with beer.
Guide her,...
Aziz Ansari Breaks Down His Food Lexicon →
Chicky-chicky parm-parm.
A Ten-Year-Old's Rant To "Boys Around The World" →
Closing Borders Store Tells Customers Where To... →
Touché.
March 2011
5 posts
February 2011
8 posts
““The average duration of quarrels, 23 seconds, is surprisingly...”
– Helen C. Dawe, An Analysis of Two Hundred Quarrels of Preschool Children
Journal of Child Development, June 1934
I think Tina Fey in the banking commercial is my...
Some amazing clips of how stars — Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo DiCaprio — got their starts: in absurdly cheesy commercials.
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator →
MTA.ME →
Realtime subway map as orchestra. (info)
January 2011
3 posts
turtlecalls.com – america's turtlecalls leader →
“for two (2) dollars i will call your friend or enemy or boss or whoever and pretend to be a turtle for up to two (2) minutes”
Four-year-old ukelele player. →
This may be my new favorite YouTube channel.
