July 2009
“Chino? Ew!”
– Summer, The OC.
AOL announces "All Nickelback" radio station →
sabine:
livejamie:
This made me barf all over everything. Gross.
This article is not from The Onion
“And you guys are all so perfect. You take advantage of drunk girls, you are the...”
– Emma, yelling at her boyfriend, best friend, and step-dad when they stage an anorexia intervention.
Degrassi: The Next Generation gold.
Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal on Search... →
“Together, Microsoft, the No. 3 provider of search, and Yahoo, No. 2, will have about 28 percent of search traffic in the United States. Even so, the partnership will still trail well behind Google, which holds about two-thirds of the market.”
“And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea...”
– Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Last night I smoked a joint and laid in bed listening to this song on repeat, and almost cried because it’s so beautiful.
txtsfrmlstnght:
(740): ran into someone who graduated hs with us while i was paying for booze in quarters. i love it when people from my past catch me in my classier moments.
A Korova Milk Bar just opened up in my town. Oh Westchester…
Lesbian Sensitivity Sensitivity Training →
kjohnstone:
girlfriendisahomo:
We have not mentioned Breeder’s Digest before, but we’ve been reading it for awhile and think you should too. Their most recent post (by Velvet Park blogger Professor C) is amazing and hilarious. You should read the entire post, but here’s a sample:
“Until now, only lesbians themselves have been aware of the more subtle causes of lesbian crying. Once you master...
“Gia: You look so pretty.
Stephanie: Thank you.
Gia: I love you.
Stephanie: I...”
– Gia (via barracudababy)
Samantha Ronson chucks Lindsay Lohan's clothes... →
love it.
Bushwick Is Getting Some Wine Shops →
i’m going apartment hunting in bushwick tomorrow!
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain (New... →
katharinec:
psychotherapy:
I don’t know, for some reason I find this oddly comforting…
HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational processes....
“There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in...”
– Nietzche (via barracudababy)
figout:
“No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50 thousand years of man’s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man...
I love it when I tell straight men that I’m a lesbian and they instantly want to be my friend, teach me a secret hand shake, and show me pictures of naked girls that they have on their phone.
“Walking speed absolutely reflects health status,” Simonsick says. So when you...”
– Why New Yorkers Last Longer — New York Magazine (via bijan) (via john) (via mikehudack) (via soupsoup) (via adeandabet) (via lezbehonest)
“…human speech is like a hacked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for...”
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
Big Brother
areid:
i haven’t watched this show since the first season, but bb11 just started and it’s awesome.
these are my favorites:
lydia michelle
lydia is on the chopping block on the first week. i’m kinda on edge about it.
this is the first season of big brother i’ve watched. lydia is also my favorite. although you could have guessed that considering i have...
Microsoft Office to go online — for free →
cwashnock:
(via Fortune)
Goldman Reports Big Profit, Beating Forecasts →
“The results continue a robust turnaround for the firm since it rode out the final tumultuous months of 2008 with the help of a federal rescue. They come just one month after it paid back its $10 billion in federal aid.”
With a Little ‘True Blood,’ HBO Is Reviving Its... →
“When I first pitched it, I said it’s popcorn television,” Mr. Ball said. “It has a lot going on beneath the surface, and I love the layers because I love to write layered stories. But I love the popcorn part of ‘True Blood.’ It’s just really great fun.”
He also acknowledged the elemental reason the show works: “Women love the storytelling and the romance, and men love the sex and violence.”
With Democrats Back in Control, First Bills Are... →
“To all 19.5 million people in the state of New York, we apologize,” Senator John L. Sampson, a Brooklyn Democrat, said at a news conference. “Sometimes you have a dysfunctional family, dysfunctional family members, but at the end of the day, we understand that we are all one family and we are all home now. Home to stay.”
hopefully.
Geography of a Recession →
interactive map of unemployment by county.
“It wasn’t just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook. In fact, if we want to...”
– The Online Class Divide (via notemily) (via smalltowngayblog)
Washington, D.C., Recognizes Same-Sex Marriages -... →
katharinec:
An ordinance recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries went into effect Tuesday in the District of Columbia, and a member of the City Council said he planned to follow up with a measure to allow same-sex marriage in the city.
Google Plans a PC Operating System →
”But while Google has deep pockets and a vast reach, it is in for a difficult battle when it comes to challenging Microsoft in the operating system market. Many companies have tried this over the years, with little success.”
