January 2010
Curbed LA: Citing Bret Easton Ellis, Weiss... →
sarahsprague:
This might be the douche-est argument yet for an NFL team in LA. The only people who feel no sense of connection in Los Angeles are the ones who never take a break from their own navel-gazing to realize there is an actual living, breathing community around them.
The former city councilman’s argument only makes sense if you thought Crash was a great movie that deserved to...
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the best breakfast booze.
Bloody Marys are good, but sometimes you don’t want spicy and you don’t feel like vodka. Mimosas are great, but who wants to pay for champagne every time you want one?
I was introduced to this when I started my life on the graveyard shift in San Luis Obispo three and a half years ago. The bartender at the local Irish pub suggested something he called a “po’mosa,”...
it's clear where I get my comfort with computers...
My father, a man who uses the two-finger method of typing, is an adept Facebook user.
Meanwhile, my mother, the original Apple lover who works in communications, hasn’t updated her status in months despite the fact that I gave her an FB tutorial over vacation not a month ago.
This Blog Is Over
jbowesmusic:
Sorry guys. Through the grapevine, it all got back to my mom’s boyfriend and now he’s threatening to go to the police. Life=fucked. Thanks to those of you who made this a great experience. Fuck those of you who took it off the Internet and made it a part of real life.
Some of you know how to reach me. Keep in touch. I’m out, and, consequently, going off the grid for a while.
See...
so I'm asking myself as this Greg Oden nude photo...
…who the hell thinks taking nude pictures of themselves to send via cell phone is a GOOD IDEA? Even if you’re NOT famous that ish can get used against you once it falls off and you’re no longer with the recipient. His former lady sent those photos around. That’s just cold.
Then again, I’ve never been super-tall, ripped, and worth millions. Every baller should have to...
"I'll take 'Potent Potables' for $200, Alex."
samsplace:
That Jeopardy qualifying test is hard. I only got 27 out of 50.
One of my lifelong dreams is to be a Jeopardy contestant but every station I’ve ever worked for pays to syndicate it, thus making me ineligible to appear on the program. (My cousin Naomi was on last year and had the lead until Final Jeopardy.) I’m one of those annoying twit know-it-alls who shouts out the...
bendawson asked: Other than not having a weekend, is there any part of your job you dread?
I'm bored. ask me questions.
I already slept a bunch and can’t take an extra nap, so I have a few hours to kill instead of going out like I usually do on Tuesday nights.
So I set up a question page on Tumblr this time.
thank you, sir; may I have another?
4:30 pm, Monday - get phone call from office asking me to fill in from 10pm-7am for sick call. woke up at 8 am that morning because I sleep at night on my days off, so I tried to catch a nap. Failed miserably at doing so, and wound up writing and producing an hour and a half in a bad state on Tuesday morning (conveniently, when consultants were coming in to meet with AM crew. Oof.)
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we would like some tears of Favre with our vodka...
Becuase that schadenfreude is just so delicious. Throws another pick for his last pass in an NFC championship game.
Garrett Hartley will be the King of Mardi Gras this year, and he’ll never have to buy a drink in New Orleans ever again.
a shortened version of the spiel that got eaten by...
For the past four decades, the Democratic Party has bumbled the challenge of dealing with a coalition of multiple interests under its umbrella because it has failed to have a compelling, stated narrative of what it stands for. This lack of policy and political stands has allowed the Republicans to own the framing debate (because it is easy to sell “less government” and “lower...
next time I write a really long post....
I’m saving it in Word. I had a pissy, elaborate post on how Democrats suck at politics and have for the last 40 years, and then Tumblr ate half of it after I hit “publish.”
what I owe the legacy of Dr. King and the many...
An incredible debt of gratitude that I cannot repay. It is part of why I studied history and why I got involved in journalism as a youth (no matter what you and I might think of broadcast news now.)
Without him and those who stood beside him, or those like Malcolm X, who pursued different philosophies with similar goals in mind, I wouldn’t have the right to vote, and many other rights I now...
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Haiti quake deaths may be 45,000-50,000: Red Cross... →
It doesn’t matter how many times I read that header. I still can’t process a disaster where the estimates involve that high a loss of life. I think that number is higher than any of the largest catastrophes that I’ve written about since I started writing for broadcast news (generally, the larger casualty numbers on accidents and human disasters come from China or elsewhere in...
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blues for the sun.
Winter in the Pacific Northwest is intrinsically depressing. If you’re prone to depression and aren’t up to treating it, don’t move here, because in the winter months, daylight never rears its head until at least 7:45 in the morning. Our Solar Father will spend a few hours waiting to peek out from the clouds, show himself at about one in the afternoon, and then decide...
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so I think I watched all of Pete Carroll's press...
…and I don’t think dude breathed once in 45 minutes.
Win forever, dude. Win forever. So long, and thanks for all the fish, PC.
a simple fix that would stop all the complaining...
Tell all the kickers to take a hike. No punting, no field goal attempts, thus removing all the kvetching by fans about how awful it is (and that is really what it is about; going about only 50 yards and kicking for the win). The team that wins the coin toss starts on its own 20. Everyone has to go for it on fourth down. Sudden death stays.
Of course, this makes too much sense to ever be adopted.
every new medium has consequences we couldn't...
Not that I’m gonna slag on Facebook. It remains an entertaining and amusing distraction, but something’s come up recently, and it may be because I’m just a bitter, bitter bastard with the capacity for a lot of temporary hate in my heart.
I think I just had an inadvertent moment of being sick of being happy for other people’s successes in relationships.
I got sane again...
wanted to know something about me but were afraid... →
Didn’t think so.
Go ahead and ask anyway, since I’ve given in to the Formspring trend. I can’t guarantee I’ll answer ‘em all — but I’ll try to. There are some things we all ought to keep private. However, I doubt that will be much of an issue.
photo dump.
All I’m saying is that some of the random pictures from vacation will start showing up here.
what we've learned.
Another somewhat tidy list:
Grand Theft Auto is acceptable practice for driving in NYC, so much so the DMV should base any simulations on it.
I don’t want to say that I don’t deserve my family; that’s poor phrasing and doesn’t quite get the meaning across. Let’s just say I’m very grateful to have my aunt and uncle and the well-meaning cousins on my...
various things I heard come from people's mouths...
My aunt’s friend and co-worker had Jets season tickets until last night (he’s a victim of the stupid PSL thing the Jets and Giants are doing next year) and my uncle Miguel and I drove down for what turned out to be a 37-0 blowout in favor of the home team.
The Jets decided to ban alcohol sales tonight, as they did for the last game of last season, and this made for a trail of strewn...