December 2011
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“Several weeks after I visited the set in Portland, I had breakfast with...”
– Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia” | The New Yorker
Also, “Stumptown Girl”? Could this be better?
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Pre-emptive and of course totally subjective...
1. If your engagement involves a ring, buy a damn ring holder. Buy a few, actually. Put them in every room in your house where you suspect ring-removal will happen (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom). I used to think these were for sad forgetful grannies but I am now fairly sure they are the reason I have made it one whole year and a few days without losing my ring. Having said that I will now lose it.
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“Two of the defendants, Jeanette Ogle and Randall Sorrow Jr., both in their 20s...”
– New York Times | In Georgia, Pecan Thieves Find Windfall, at $1.50 a Pound
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“Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn,...”
– A Wedding as a Festival of Ideas, and Self-Promotion - NYTimes.com
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The Hairpin | Hate Actually →
Finally someone has effectively summarized my highly complex feelings about this wonder of holiday cinema. (I have never felt like my relationship with Joe was in more of a crisis than the time I made him watch this, several Christmases ago, and at the end he was totally dead-eyed and struggling to maintain the will to live and I was all “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it was worse than I...
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Ghost of Inboxes Past
The MacBook I use at home now is the one that I was essentially granted custody of last August when I was laid off from Paste; I used the Mail desktop client for my work stuff there, but never cleaned out any of the folders. I can’t access most of it now because I can’t access the old mail server, obviously, but I just realized that there are some things saved on my hard drive, I...
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“I went into the whole affair last night with a false sense of security,” another...”
– Bytox: A Cautionary Tale of the Anti-Hangover Patch - Lifestyle - GOOD
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“We’re down at the old Hitchens place probably twice a month at...”
– Christopher Hitchens Forcibly Removed From Trailer Park After Drunken Confrontation With Common-Law Wife | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
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“Things that happen when I listen to First Aid Kit: 1. I cry. 2. I can’t figure...”
– Rookie » Rescue Remedy: An Interview With First Aid Kit
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“Focus on what you can control, which is your own work—your writing, getting...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan (via mailchimpcreative)
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“I’m writing a book about Native Americans in the Southeast in the early 18th...”
– Flavorwire » A ‘Paris Review’-Style Interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan
Man, I haven’t even made it through Pulphead yet and I’m so excited about this next thing.
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“I think this past year I have shown my commitment and devotion to my...”
– Holiday Gift Guide for Me, 1997 (Age 10) | The Hairpin
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