August 2010
“NorthWest Bank and Trust is the 104th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the...”
– FDIC Press Release PR-2010 (via ericmortensen)
Fuck the FDIC
July 2010
On offense
danavachon:
This Tumblr was not a day old when a picture of four beautiful young women in cocktail dresses seated on a white sofa effected outrage among its subjects; I took it down as a courtesy to the evening’s hosts. The women in the picture objected to the Tumblr title, a reference to DeLillo’s great quote in White Noise, “I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own...
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nycthe:
Just blocked YM on tumblr
Cool story, bro.
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Will the Semitic Web ever be realized?
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Overheard in my living room
7 year old son: I can’t believe God invented butts.
FIN
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The morning massacre at Ed's Lobster Bar →
Every day, Ed McFarland kills 400 pounds of live lobster. Starting at 8:30 a.m., white vans splashed with bright-red lobster illustrations on the side roll up outside his restaurant, Ed’s Lobster Bar on Lafayette Street in SoHo.
Drivers drop off 50-pound cardboard boxes filled with lobsters, which are snoozing on beds of ice after an overnight flight from Maine or Nova Scotia and a long drive...
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Oh hi there. I was on TV this morning. →
(via maura) “I didn’t like her that much” is the new fuck mainstream media.
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When Johnny Strikes Up the Band
rendit:
So whenever I get off the train at a certain hour on Thursdays in Virginia Square there is always this semi parked at the corner of Fairfax by the 7-Eleven where I stop in to buy a ___ or a ___. It’s a large, refrigerated trailer in back and I figure the guy is restocking said Slevin or the Cosi next to it, blaring his stereo to whistle while he works.
And it’s always this godawful...
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Angry Blogger: I’m thinking it was my long-awaited return.
liana:
Paul Simon - Graceland, live at Central...
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dpdsprings:
I have had 2001 in my disc drive for about three weeks but every night I fall asleep at or around the moment the bone turns into the spaceship. Maybe Eyes Wide Shut will ever remain my only Kubrick film seen!
Oh, right, he also made Dr. Strangelove, but fuck that movie.
Dr. Strangelove auto-reblog, mostly to say this person is headed in the wrong direction.
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been thinking...: Out ahead →
I’ve always had this thing about being in timezones ahead of friends, loved ones, business interests. Namely, I hate it. It makes me irrationally irritable and itchy. If I am two hours ahead of them in some anonymous work day, I feel antsy in the minutes left waiting for them to stir. Feel…
The West is the…best.
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No but seriously, what the fuck?
justsayjolie:
Gentlemen, why are all of you having your periods right now? And by all of you I mean ALL OF YOU IN THE WORLD AND BUT SERIOUSLY WHAT? THE FUCK?
RAG AGAINST THE MACHINE is a period piece set in your boring 20s.
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The beer industry lobby (AKA Anheuser-Busch InBev,... →
ericmortensen:
They get what they pay for and the microbrewers get screwed.
Eric is on the right team.
Aside from the really fucking good lyrics, click around Arcade Fire’s lyrics page for the song, Suburbs. Very clever.
(via rickwebb)
“The four actresses left in the running are Rooney Mara, who recently finished...”
– ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’: Lisbeth casting down to four | EW.com (via marrina)
I’m currently reading this awful book, and wow, the Die Antwood chick would be GENIUS casting.
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tylercoates:
bnf:
Friday’s shaping up to be the perfect day for Critical Mass.
That’s right, pigs! You won’t ruin this for me.
I don’t want to turn this into a “thing,” but referring to cops as “pigs” is equivalent to dismissing all those who participate in Critical Mass as unruly and disruptive. I love you B, but I wish people would choose their words more carefully on the Internet.
...
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Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There's No Oil →
“WASHINGTON (AFP) – With BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone’s lips is: where is all the oil?”
NEW ORLEANS (Mother Jones) – I don’t know who the fuck these everyones are, but I’m happy to help out them, and ABC, and this AFP reporter writing that due to BP’s...
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The way we ogle now.
ninety9:
Just got back from lunch (PST y’all!). While eating, two cute mostly because they were teenagers walked in. I was about to gin up some PG-quality (one of them was, like, fourteen) internal monologue when their mother, who was trailing, came around the corner.
As they walked in, I thought quite clearly to myself “Dude, you should be checking out the Mom, because that’s who you are...
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Attention Bigots: There Is Already a Mosque Near... →
kenlayne:
This seems important?
RAGE OFF: WTC Mosque vs. Harlem Target!
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"The authority also plans to eliminate one of the... →
maura:
DISLIKE.
This is BULLSHIT. Let’s protest. All night vigil at Talmadge Hill.
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D.R.I. - “I’d Rather Be...
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D.I. - “The Puppet”
Doesn’t...
“Kyle Pope just doesn’t have enough experience or wisdom to understand that the...”
– Choire Sicha, on The Observer’s Kyle Pope’s assertion that Capital New York’s biggest competition is The Awl [in Ad Age] (via whatevs)
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Having absolutely proven the elitists at Young Manhattanite were fomenting the Target backlash with a blink tag, we are going to repair to our CSA stocked kitchen and make ramps with organic hoozles (look it up, all the rage this year) and take a bunch of pictures. Maybe add in some casual racism because that is how we roll knitta.
Bullseye
Historical perspective.
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“At brunch, we didn’t save.”
– Wheels within wheel people.
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Knicks star Amar'e Stoudemire heads to Israel... →
hifiny:
Huh, who knew? (Apparently, not him.) Tamir Goodman, eat your heart out.
“On the flight to Israel. This is going to be a great trip,” announced the power forward, who plays in the NBA for the New York Nicks, via the micro-blogging site Twitter.
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soupsoup:
I love Target. Stop being such elitist wannabe young Manhattanite assholes.
Not sure what you’re talking about. I don’t eat lunch below 100th Street.
