January 2009
80 posts
“BLUE CHEESE WHIZ
Ingredients: 200 grams blue cheese • 200 mL milk • 2.8...”
– You know how some people say they only like the super bowl for the commercials? Well, I hereby declare that I’m only in it for the food.
(via)
How to be a hilarious asshole, take 1
Tell your still-employed friends you just saw a themediaisdying twitter that they’d been laid off. Then watch them pour over the thousands of tweets trying to find it.
hard times are hard v: the postal service may go... →
maura:
Postmaster General John E. Potter told a U.S. Senate subcommittee he wanted to eliminate the requirement to deliver mail six days a week to every address in America.
If the recession continues to hammer at USPS revenue, six-day delivery may not be possible, Potter said. Federal law has mandated the six-day schedule since 1983.
In fiscal 2008, total mail volume fell by more than 9...
If you care about women's health, PLEASE TAKE...
soupsoup:
mizzchelle:
Yesterday, millions of dollars in Family Planning funding were cut from the Stimulus Bill that the US House & Senate are voting on this week.
The Medicaid Family Planning provisons would help states provide coverage to 2.3 MILLION low-income women in the next five years. This funding would help providers expand women’s health services, including CANCER SCREENINGS and...
“The GOP won’t regulate the market but they will regulate my uterus.”
– Ashley Judd (via soupsoup) (via PPNYC, credit where credit’s due, etc)
“NBC pulled the plug on a PETA pro-veggie commercial planned for the Super Bowl...”
– p6 (via meredithnyc)
Holy shit PETA.
Comprehensive sex ed, we need it.
Joy: hey Joy: is the clap an std? me: ha ha me: is this because of what lemon wrote about you? Joy: yes me: and yes it’s gonorrhea Joy: GASP Joy: look what I wrote back me: ok me: I mean me: you are telling the internet you don’t have STDs me: i don’t think that’s bad? Joy: no, i think its funny me: ha ha me: well yes me: … me: wait, did you write that before...
“I don’t flirt on walls. Internet etiquette 101.”
– It’s like if Blair Waldorf joined facebook. From Joy.
Do you think it feels the same as the "Disneyland...
I don’t if it’s coming from the Dept of Health and Human Services or from Tara Parker-Pope, but according to the NY Times today, 30 percent of 15- to 17-year-old-girls don’t have sex, they experience it.
“Ha! *I* didn’t know Oprah Winfrey warned parents of a teenage oral-sex...”
– Yeah, this is my job. Related to this.
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via ariah) (via davidmaddox) (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via ackb) (via inothernews) (via soupsoup)
My Soapbox, I'm on it.
urg:
Dear Mary Rambin,
When I read this post, my heart starting beating so fast I actually had to walk away from my computer. The fact that you have the audacity to compare your cosmetic surgery to a woman’s right to choose merely illustrates the fact that you fundamentally do not understand the issue at hand. Before Roe v. Wade women were taking drastic measures in order to end their...
“Oh Jesus. What the fuck. Really? Did she really just have to step on that spike?...”
– a coworker in development who was recently assigned the task of watching all the horror film submissions. previously, she watched the indie arthouse submissions. (via spiegelman)
How you know you're about to have a really deep IM...
Joy: so I was watching a lot of Secret Diary of a Call Girl this weekend
(update: context)
A Riddle
What do the following have in common?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mahatma Ghandi
Nelson Mandela
If you answered:
“Governor Blagojevic’s inspirations reflecting on his arrest and possible jail time”
…well, then you’re fucking golden
(via urg:think4yourself)
You're Going To Be Talking About This: Citigroup... →
(via thedailywhat)
Yay communism capitalism.
“I think the Obama administration is not likely to cede that authority back to...”
– Spencer
Yeah, I'm wearing a flannel shirt. Suck it. I'm...
alexbalk:
Signs it’s time for a diet: When you put on a flannel shirt, see yourself in the mirror, and think, “Dude, you look like the guy from Tad.”
Yeah, something tells me that Alex Balk in a flannel shirt looks nothing like Ashley Olsen in a flannel shirt. Lets just hope he’s not wearing leggings.
Lostpedia: In case you had forgotten who Ms.... →
Thank you for this. I was going crazy trying to remember. (via davidcho)
“Only five generations ago, the first lady’s great-great-grandfather, Jim...”
– NYT (via meredithnyc)
Is Obama President? →
inauguration:
via ramblinginsomniac
“Also, my brain just called, it says Bocca is gorgeous this time of year and...”
– Erica, after two inaugural-filled, sleep-deprived nights. (via urg)
Yeah, I stopped making sense two days ago.
THAT MOTHERFUCKER’S LEAVING...
Tumblr thinks I would like a blog called "Cure For...
my inner phobic is both laughing and wondering if Tumblr knows something I don’t
Hometown pride
Joy: what’s a super trashy town in new york or nj Joy: where people come in to NYC Joy: and you’re just like, you dont belong here me: um me: nj? Joy: yeah me: no I mean the whole state
(related)
Circuit City to shut down →
soupsoup:winstonwolfe:
Circuit City Inc. said Friday it has asked for court approval to close its remaining 567 U.S. stores and sell all its merchandise
Translation: Prepare for some kick ass sales on everything from that new camera to the new HDTV you have been holding off on purchasing.
Whoa. I just got an image of us all sitting in our newly affordable luxury condos, wearing heavily...
Define: Erica
Source: gcide
Erica \E*ri"ca\, n. [NL., fr. L. erice heath, Gr. ?.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
I kind of like it.