November 2008
74 posts
Recognize the Real →
recogthereal.blogspot.com
from a coworker…bookedmarked for later use:
and this one is good for really ghetto old-school hip hop mixtapes that DJs used to sell out of their trunks
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NEW YORK—For the fifth straight year, Jordan McCabe will return home for the holidays and spend the night before Thanksgiving running into every smug and unlikable asshole he ever went to high school with, the 26-year-old reported Monday.
The trip back home, scheduled for later this week, will reportedly bring McCabe face-to-face with an endless string of pricks from his past, each of whom he will have to engage in awkward conversation, and generally pretend to be happy about seeing again.
“They’re all going to be there,” said McCabe, purchasing an Amtrak train ticket for Rochester, NY. “Every last one of them, just as shitty and conceited and phony as ever.”
“I can’t believe I’m going to see all those assholes again,” McCabe continued.
Though he will initially intend to stay at home with his parents, grandparents, and other relatives, McCabe told reporters that after spending approximately five hours in their company, he will grow antsy, borrow his father’s car, and drive to nearby Marleybone Pub. There, McCabe expects to bump into at least five insufferable assholes in the first three minutes.
” —26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
mandog →
stephenpetronis.com
Now this is something I can get behind…
“Chicago has long been a place that seems comfortable — or, at least, well adjusted — to losing, a place where you put your head down and shoulder through whatever hand is dealt you. (How could it be otherwise, considering all the practice that the cursed Chicago Cubs have provided over the years?)”
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A New Wind Is Blowing in Chicago - NYTimes.com
Uh, yeah…annoying.
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Today’s Hidden Gem
This is Al Green doing a cover of I Want to Hold Your Hand. I originally found this on Soul Sides Vol. 2.
Unbelievable. This may be one of the better Beatles covers I’ve heard. You just made my day, E - thank you kind sir.
Ho. Lee. Shit. This is in the Joe Cocker realm of Beatle covers. Stellar find.
This puts me in a good mood.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
—Mark Twain
“Another question is what effect a president desperate for a cigarette and trying to quit might have on your life expectancy and mine. Obama’s steely calm is now one of our country’s major assets. If he needs an occasional cigarette to preserve it, let’s hand him an ashtray, offer him a light and look the other way.”
—Michael Kinsley - Michael Kinsley on Obama the Likely Smoker - washingtonpost.com
“That optimism was missing yesterday. Bob Lutz was not on stage, reassuring the media that the 2011 Volt was on track for its 2010 launch. You did not see him reveal the latest GM midsize sedan or listen to him tell the world that GM is building the best cars in its 100-year history. Lutz wasn’t there. And the production Volt sat at its very first auto show debut in the GM booth alone, uncovered and without fanfare, much like GM itself. The brightest light in GM’s future product arsenal—and perhaps the first vehicle in years from the automaker to truly pioneer propulsion technology—raised as many eyebrows from attendees at the show as would a common Cobalt. It was, in short, depressing.”
—A Sad, Spooky World Without GM and Chrysler: 2008 LA Auto Show Analysis - Popular Mechanics
“While the wrap is certainly good for traveling — it’s compact and doesn’t wrinkle —- more often than not when I wear one I’m left feeling lumpy and exposed, and rather than striding around with liberating 1970s confidence, I find myself self-consciously tugging and adjusting the low neckline and skimpy skirt, and find that sitting down is an ordeal. Where, yes, a wrap works with curves, it also slides between breasts in a conspicuous fashion and the belt can cut in a way that’s less than flattering to anyone with any flesh at all. What’s more, a cami can spoil the line — not to mention show under the unforgiving jersey — and I’ve often been at the mercy of fashion tape, safety pins and even last-minute tacking. Theoretically wraps are adjustable and the jersey stretchy, but I find the typical dress dilemma —- if it fits in one place it’s too small on top, or vice versa — to only be magnified in a wrap, where I’ve experienced both dangerously loose bodices and frumpily bagging skirts, both of which kind of defeat the alleged “easy sexiness” of the design”
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The Wrap Dress Myth: How “Easy” And “Flattering” Is It Really?
So true. Good on paper, bad in person.
