November 2010
Watchturnabout:
lizlet:
President Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline (by Mitch Cohen)
I haven’t seen it posted on Tumblr yet today, so here’s this year’s annual reposting of President Bartlet calling the Butterball hotline.
Hope everyone’s Turkey Day is going well so far!
Happy thanksgiving!
I have awesome friends. Love y’all, have a great day!
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Well that was underwhelming
npr:
Three Myths About Thanksgiving Travel
Normally I wouldn’t take the time to call this out but I respect NPR’s Tumblr (outside of the whole ‘whee, we’re on Tumblr but only following established media outlets!’ thing). They usually post thought- and attention-worthy content in an attention grabbing but un-showy way (my favorite recent example!). Of all the media...
I really should learn how to drive, if only to do...
turnabout:
factsarenothing:
turnabout:
Pancakes are not even my favorite, but I would volunteer to go on this trip.
I’m an excellent navigatrix. I have references. (well, Megan, but that counts, right?)
We can get waffles, too.
Let’s not get too crazy, now!
I think we can compromise, here, and strike a nice balance between pancakes and waffles. Maybe throw in some fruit or cheese...
“It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.”
– Henry Ward Beecher, as quoted in The Teachers’ Institute, Vol. 18, No. 1 (September 1895), p. 16 (via Wikiquote)
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Have I mentioned?
That I am sincerely and incredibly grateful to not just know smart, striving, balanced do-ers all over the world (which in and of itself is pretty special!) but there’s also this thing where I can open my laptop or iPhone and see what all my smart, striving friends are up to — which re-inspires me day after day after day.
No lie, it’s still pretty magical to me. I hope that...
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the...”
– John Schaar
Found this quote again, randomly, and still love it.
(via blurintofocus)
Ideation and action!
“The NYPD busted a major cocaine and heroin trafficking ring in Washington...”
– Gothamist. I guess this explains why the police were knocking down the door of my next-door neighbor at 6am this morning? (via matthewgallaway)
Holy crap! That’s why they were playing dominoes all the time? (Note: I can be extremely obtuse and naive about this sort of thing.) (turnabout)
...
Danger Days
northerndownpour:
Out of the album’s chaotic creation, a concept came together, one loosely inspired by a comic-book project that dated back to the band’s earliest days criss-crossing the country in a beat-up van. “Sonically, we were trying to make stuff from the future,” Mikey says. “We imagined California in this post-apocolyptic 2019. These were all songs that would fit into that world.” Bit...
“But we’ve also reached a point where that emotional connection between customers...”
– When Brands Became Human | Sparksheet
Loop Coyotes →
ultraprison-:
sexartandpolitics:
hoitycoity:
We have a small number of coyotes that are let loose in the Loop at night to cut down on rodents.
What could possibly go wrong?
Who I am kidding? THIS IS AWESOME.
The LA Times had a great story last year about how a whole bunch of cats actually live in Disneyland year-round — during the day, they hide in the shrubs, but at night they eat...
“4. Transmedia
This is now the preferred term in Hollyweird for what we used to...”
– I wish he’d been able to talk some people who are excited about opportunities, rather than afraid of the alternatives.
Warren Ellis on the Death of Blogging | Underwire | Wired.com (via jaybushman)
I do so love the evocativeness of “shotgun storytelling.”
“For the last, colleges are a perfect launching ground—they are built to reward...”
– The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review
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“However: Cooks Source can not vouch for all the writers we have used in the...”
– Home
If only they’d worried about having “reputable people” on staff in the first place.
“For Smith, it is the gravest of sins that Facebook allows us to share our likes...”
– Literary Writers and Social Media: A Response to Zadie Smith - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Perfect.
"Modern art was CIA 'weapon'" →
northerndownpour:
pyrrhosrepublic:
“For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted...
Put your hands up!
daveholmes:
Everyone who’s living every minute of every day in total abject career panic say YEAH!
What about the days we all get drunk?
Watchshananaomi:
Welcome to Bar Karma, a mystical watering hole on the edge of the universe.
“It’s not an exact science here. It is a bar after all.” This? This will be fun.
