February 2012
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The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World →
Flavorwire made a list!
And its awesome. People who know me know that I a) love to read and b) love Amazon, especially their Kindle. I was an early adopter and see no reason to look back. I’m not particularly fond of the idea that we ought to save independent bookstores, just because they’re independent. To me, I think reading, knowledge and enjoyment are more important, and I think...
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January 2012
8 posts
Cutest Puppy GIF Ever
pbh3:
I just want to hold you forever, little puppy.
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December 2011
8 posts
First World Problems
pbh3:
For more, check out Runt of the Web: The Most Crippling First World Problems.
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My Favorite Songs of 2011
I think 2011 was a great year for music. It was a great year for the ladies with Adele, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Rihanna blowing up the charts, and I am pro ladies winning. Here is my list of favorite songs of 2011, with no particular order. As I am a HUGE music video fan, I have included the videos for all of these songs, and you’ll notice that a lot of them have pretty great music...
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The Best Songs of 2011 →
Vulture went though several publications’ top songs of 2011, and presented them all!
Spoiler Alert: Adele wins 2011. She makes an appearance on all of the top 10s save for Pitchfork and Paste magazine. Pitchfork are famous contrarians, and who the hell are Paste?
TMI With Benjamin Walker: Pseudonyms →
TMI is this fascinating NPR show, this is an episode about pseudonyms, and the use of them on online forums. Whether or not it is a good thing or a bad thing, and the implementation of sites that prohibit pseudonyms such as Google Plus.
Probably two of the most interesting interviews are with Andy Carvin and Dan Sinker. Andy Carvin is a senior strategist at NPR and one of the most prominent...
Update: Getting In Touch With The Mildly Famous
Nasri has NOT replied to my tweet. Have tried again.
Via my Nasri-stalking of last week, I have ascertained that he has a new album dropping, and he seems kind of busy. HOWEVER, Lauren Willig was getting her JD from Harvard, and doing a book tour and working on her 4th novel when she emailed me.
At this point I’m not 100% sure if I’m more disappointed that Nasri (Of all people!...
508. Eat like a local, tip like an American.
Getting in Touch With The Mildly Famous
Back in 2003 a Canadian artist called Nasri released a song entitled Go. At the time, I thought it was the greatest song ever recorded by human beings. No lies, I downloaded that shit from Kazaa, burned it to a CD, and rocked out with my Sony DiscMan. It was my song of summer 2003. Other than Beyonce’s Crazy In Love which is the actual greatest song ever recorded by human beings.
I was...
November 2011
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Life's A Happy Song →
Life’s A Happy Song sung by Bret McKenzie and Kermit the Frog from The Muppets soundtrack.
I just saw this movie today, and it was great! This is one of my favorite songs from the movie (First, obviously being the timeless The Rainbow Connection, and I also really liked another new song called Me Party). Hearing Bret McKenzie and Kermit’s banter is really cute in this piece for the...
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Covers I Like Better Than The Original
The Sex Music tumblr recently put up Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay as an example of music to have sex to. And I thought, “Well, damn. I really like the Magnet f. Gemma Hayes version better.” I’m not a Dylan fan, and (to me) there’s no doubt that the cover version is sexier.
Don’t get me wrong, most of the time, the original version of a song is better than any...
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Can we please talk about how amazing the music videos in support of Beyonce’s new album have been?
I’m currently in love with Party. It’s like a high-fashion trailer park that is also somehow adorable.
HOWEVER, I am NAY IMPRESSED with J.Cole. His flow is lazier than even Asher Roth’s, and he’s not nearly witty enough to pull it off.
October 2011
3 posts
Decline Watch: U.S. now importing Chinese shoppers... →
Decline Watch is a reoccurring feature on Foreign Policy Magazine’s Passport Blog. They’re short article about new trend in American society/place in the world order and whether or not they signal the end of America’s super power status. It sounds like kind of an obnoxious feature, but most of the articles are about trends that are purposefully sill, and their linkage to any...
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"My Ex-Girlfriend Reviews The Mix CD I Made Her In... →
TRACK LIST
Track One: “2112” – Rush (20:38) Track Two: “Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage” – Rush (10:26) Track Three: “Tom Sawyer” – Rush (4:35) Track Four: “YYZ” – Rush (4:26) Track Five: “The Trees” – Rush (4:47) Track Six: “Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres” – Rush (18:15) Track Seven: “Sexual Healing” – Marvin Gaye (4:05)
” “Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage” tells the story of a space...
September 2011
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Gavrilo Princip's Sandwich →
An article from the Smithsonian’s Past Imperfect blog, about the beginnings of World War One.
Gavrilo Princip was the nationalist who shot Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thus set off the events that would plunge the world into war. There’s an oft told story about Princip’s failed attempt to shoot the Archduke earlier in the day and his being thwarted. After said...
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78-year-old first grader starts school in Bulgaria →
This is so inspiring! a 78 year old illiterate man starts first grade! Best of luck to him.
“A 78-year-old Bulgarian man started off the new school year on Thursday like hundreds of children a fraction of his age … in first grade.
Apostol Stoyanov from the central village of Popovtsi never got a chance to attend school when he was a kid and decided to enroll in first grade this...
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Me: Why
Uterus: I hope you didn't like those underwear.
Stomach: EAT ALL THE THINGS!
Emotions: I don't care that you were crying your eyes out ten minutes ago, that was fucking funny. Now go act like you're high until I see something that pisses me the fuck off.
Stomach: ESPECIALLY THE CHOCOLATY THINGS!
Uterus: Also I've decided to act like something's constantly punching me. I hope you don't mind.
Me: why
“Both rappers [Paul Wall and Baby Bash] were released yesterday afternoon on $300...”
– Nerve.com’s Collette McIntyre on Paul Wall and Baby Bash’s arrests this weekend for marijuana possession.
20 Most Memorable Fashion Week Moments →
Fashion Week is almost here! Love it.
I’ll be following The Fug Girl’s coverage, on their blog Go Fug Yourself, as well as on NY Magazine’s The Cut Blog, and on their twitter @fuggirls.
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Brazil's Girl Power →
A really interesting National Geographic article on Brazil’s recent demographic changes. As recently as 40-50 years ago families would have 4 or more children on average. Now, the birthrate is 1.9—below the replacement rate. So what happened? There’s no one answer, but it’s really interesting to read about how Brazil organically achieved what China and India have been...
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Welcome to Target
File under “Funny because it’s true”
Via Fomato
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Music Videos Part 6: Whistling
There’s no visual theme here. There’s a common internet joke that when you google search “That hipster song with the whistling” you get Peter Bjorn and John’s Young Folks. Which is true. I was reading recently that apparently Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People is gaining on PB&J, but when I was searching, I did not find that. So without further ado, six recent...
August 2011
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kimmay:
Law and Order SVU
Agent Ice Cube: ”You know when you live here you can’t afford a vacation to Aruba, so you went to ‘Isle of Aroofa’.”
Why did I ever stop watching this show, with dialogue like that????
I think you’ll find that it’s Detective ICE-T, not Ice Cube aka Odafin Tutuola in the show. But seriously, L&O: SVU is the greatest thing ever. USA...
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Interpol - Public Pervert
Is BHL Having The Best Week Ever? →
Link to a really interesting Foreign Policy Passport blog article about how BHL (French public intellectual/philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy) is seemingly being proved correct on a number of things this week, from Libya to DSK (Dominique Strauss-Khan).
A propos of nothing, is it weird that I find BHL strangely attractive?
Music Videos Part 5: Rapper's Delight
Otis by Jay-Z and Kanye West (aka The Throne) off of their recently releasedWatch The Throne.
This video looks like it was so much fun to make. Just Hova and Ye doing donuts in a parking lot with their pimped out car and Aziz Ansari. Just because.
In general, rap/hip hop tends to be the genre with the most boring music videos. Mostly because there’s only so much excitement that cars,...