December 2009
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emergency! omg! how is this possible?
“Down for that” and “up for that” mean the same thing.
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well, how 'bout that
I had forgotten writing it, but I just came across this list. I met my boyfriend three weeks later.
Paul Westerberg is 50 years old today.
skybarn:
You now feel/are old.
What should you feel if you don’t know who he is?
2009 - most commonly uttered phrase from my...
Please don’t put this on your blog.
how not to get stoked for NYE
Get completely trollied the night before. I’m toooo oooold for this, man.
The End of the OOs: My Decade in Bad Decisions
Inspired, of course, by The Awl.
I spent NYE 2000 with my high school friends at a party I’d been forbidden to attend. At stake was a trip to Europe later that spring. “Go to that party,” my mother warned me, “and you will not go to England.” I went to the party. I got caught. I still went to England (not because my mother was not a woman of her word, but because an unrefundable deposit had...
Canada's Olympic Hockey Team being announced...
Scott Niedermayer will serve as captain…
Goalie
Martin Brodeur, New Jersey Devils
Marc-Andre Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins
Roberto Luongo, Vancouver Canucks
Defence
Dan Boyle, San Jose Sharks
Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings
Duncan Keith, Chicago Blackhawks
Scott Niedermayer, Anaheim Ducks
Chris Pronger, Philadelphia Flyers
Brent Seabrook, Chicago Blackhawks
Shea Weber,...
David Frum: U.S. looks for bombs instead of... →
“There are two ways to protect air travel: look for bombs or look for terrorists.
U.S. officials have consistently preferred the first policy. The underwear bomber dramatically illustrates the futility of that policy – and the huge potential advantages of the second.
Yet the government still won’t learn.”
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cry, cry, cry
sometimes, kids, that’s all there is to do
I've got blisters on my fingers!
…from playing The Beatles Rock Band all. freaking. weekend.
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the consequences of your bad decisions will find...
Always.
three ideas for inventions
1. A mirror for people with eye problems. The mirror would be underneath a layer of glass that is made of their prescription, so they could do their eye make up in the mirror without glasses! (This one might also be solved by wearing contacts, I know. But I bet there are people out there who can’t wear contacts who could use this!)
2. A combination of a digital camera and a polaroid,...
“One must be too disgustingly in love with self to be able without shame to write...”
– Dostoyevsky, from A Raw Youth (Alternately: the truth about bloggers.)
in conclusion:
It is more than a little bit depressing that a list of new year’s resolutions I wrote when I was 15 could, line for line, apply exactly to my life currently. I will be 26 in one week today, and in so many regards I have changed not at all. I still bite my nails, I still lack patience, I’m still vain, I’m still a drama queen, I’m still trying to be Scarlet O Hara.
...
a series for December - list of New Year’s...
We’ve come to the end!
23. Stop biting my nails.
24. Be mature—whatever it entails.
25. Remember.
26. Watch Jeopardy.
27. Stop watching soap operas.
28. Stop pretending TV shows are real.
29. Improve my handwriting.
30. Do my theory (for piano) before Tuesday.
31. Make my footprints in the sands of time, and hope to hell they don’t get washed away by the waves!...
Lainey's Brilliant Blinds: Casting Couch →
I’ve figured out the the replacement (Blake Lively), the power player (Harvey Weinstein), and his wife (Georgina Chapman). But who is the reject?!
I’m combing through past Vogue and Vanity Fair covers…what else would be considered prestigious? Anyway, this one is juicy. Guesses?
best of the decade recaps:
The Awl’s The End of the 00s series.
gift exchange
My boyfriend bought me the new iPod nano and…..tickets to a Leaf’s game…..against the Oilers!!!!
I could not be happier. I am SO lucky!
Merry Christmas all!
Yes. I have five siblings.
autismsucks:
jaydensmommie:
paulewogblog:
Is my small-town midwest showing?
Oh yeah? I have 6. Suck on that, King.
lol my hubby has 4 brothers 2 half brothers 2 half sisters 1 stepbrother and 1 stepsister…I needed a chart to explain it to my dad
I have eight siblings. Do people still say booyah?
it's okay, guys...I think I'm being ironic
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people who have fulfilling lives don't have...
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I've come a long way, baby
Has it really only been one year?
(Of course, the shirts meant how military officers... →
The link will be all over your dashboard, but I don’t care. Read The End of the 00s: The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by Spencer Ackerman.
a series for December - list of New Year’s...
22. Stop being obsessive.
Life sentence for murder of Jane Creba →
A man accused of killing a Toronto teenager as she shopped on busy Yonge Street on Boxing Day 2005 has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison.
Jeremiah Valentine, 27, entered the plea on Tuesday, just four days short of the fourth anniversary of the death of the 15-year-old Grade 9 student.
In 2002, "Big Yellow Taxi" was pre-lubed and... →
I swear this will be my last link to this list. But seriously, guys….seriously. Read the whole thing.
Please, I beg of you this. Please, please,... →
Read this post, and then the comments. It will change you.
best thing I've read today, out of context
She’s even smoother than a smoothie, because those often have seeds, and seeds would never dare sully the smoothness that is Diane Sawyer.
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defining out of touch:
What’s 30 Rock?
peterfeld:
johnmayerwillchangeyourlife:
knarf567:
RT @johncmayer: Dumb: “Epic fail,” phrase used 2 make fun of someone’s failed attempts, written by people living in their parents’ basements
And what’s the phrase to make fun of failed attempts at making music for people to listen to while living in their parents’ basements?
but for me, the question of the guilty pleasure...
The whole idea of a guilty pleasure is rooted in the belief that there is “good” art (acceptable to like) and “bad” art (not acceptable to like). And for this distinction to exist there must be an arbiter of goodness, somebody who decides what is good and what is bad.
This is where I get stuck.
In University I went with my modern drama prof and some of my classmates...
No, you shouldn’t have guilty pleasures. If...
maura:
- themattsmith
Ding ding ding.
But that’s just it, right? People claim guilty pleasures because they want to maintain the pretense of having good taste while downloading Gettin’ Jiggy With It.
Cut to Chuck Klosterman in Esquire:
“People who use this term are usually talking about why they like Joan of Arcadia, or the music of Nelly, or Patrick Swayze’s...
F2K reaches No. 1 →
maura:
Pour one out for all the bad music from the past 10 years, everyone.
And then they came to the end…
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so then...Tumblr is smoking crack today?
What is going on with the dashboard?!?
if you're going to a holiday party and you ask...
Further, when in doubt is it preferable to be underdressed or overdressed?
I know it's cool right now to hate on 2009
But I have nothing bad to say about it. I feel like I figured my shit out this year. I fell in love! I told my readers about my daughter! I got promoted at work, wrote twenty thousand odd words of a novel, started keeping a clean house and learned to save my money. I’m paying my bills on time, I’m not giving in to as many self destructive tendencies and even though I’ve...
akinator, the web genius--no really, it reads your...
Has eaten up proooobably twelve hours out of the last two days. Seriously. I’ve been most impressed with it guessing Kurt Browning, Pierre Trudeau, Glenn Gould and Jay Gatsby.
And to the people who are not totally and completely impressed when I show it to them? Whateeeever, man. Whatever.
Play it yourself!
a series for December - list of New Year’s...
19. Save my money. Get a bank account.
20. Stop being jealous.
21. Stop trying to be Scarlet O Hara.
"Women will always have emotional needs that they... →
(via natashavc)
what was the best Christmas gift you ever...
(or gave, if you’d rather answer that)
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im spreading knowledge internationally
shetoldmesomemore:
im such a do-gooder.
You have no idea. Inspect inspect inspect is my new motto!
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Man paralyzed by herpes denied benefit: top court →
I know if I don't see Avatar it's gonna be the...
lawful:
jaimeleigh:
And ten years from now people will be all “Whaaaaat?” when I say I’ve never seen it. That’s right. I’ve never seen the matrix.
If your BF loves you, he’ll fix that.
He’s on it. I’m guessing this will be remedied in the next week or so…
To be fair, every dude I’ve ever dated has tried to watch it with me. I just get bored ten minutes in!
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a series for December - list of New Year’s...
17. Stop playing the martyr.
18. Stop being a drama queen.
I know if I don't see Avatar it's gonna be the...
And ten years from now people will be all “Whaaaaat?” when I say I’ve never seen it. That’s right. I’ve never seen the matrix.