January 2012
12 posts
Maurice Sendak vs. Stephen Colbert →
Facebook proves that even if we have good friends...
And that all good friends, no matter where they live, will continue to be good friends even when they never move to live with you and hang out on Friday and Saturday nights.
They still love you.
At some point in every writer's life
he begins to think that the things he thinks are important and that he should try to explain them because gee golly heck he’s a writer isn’t he and Mark Twain did it and why shouldn’t everyone get to be a witty columnist and still write novels everyone reads and talks about and have a following like Joss Whedon and
then he snaps out of it and reminds himself all the words he...
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The Cake President
Every night The Cake Boss initiates his secret Cake-Comm, in the Cake-Vault deep below the catacombs beneath Carlo’s Bakery.
“Cake President? It’s me, Buddy.”
“What is it this time, Buddy?”
“Look, I got a real problem! Just this week the water went brown, Mauro didn’t bring enough sugar, and a bride came in and squirted colors all over one of my...
Anonymous asked: Adam, what does the word "leadership" mean to you?
December 2011
8 posts
SIMONF: Go Daddy shows how desperate they are by... →
Oh hey! I will be doing this!
occupyallstreets:
After a successful boycott attempt endorsed by Anonymous and Reddit users, Go Daddy denounced their support for SOPA.
Customer Service reps are now calling customers who plan to transfer domains and begging them to stay.
Do not be fooled by their decision, Go Daddy not…
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I used to have a blog.
That’s true, that’s not just a thing I’m saying now. But I’ve always been at odds with blogging. On one hand, I just can’t convince myself that anyone should care what I’m thinking about or what I did during the day or who I’m currently disappointing or what I actually want to say about the things that are hurting my feelings or...
I Work For The Internet →
jimdewitt:
staff:
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop...
November 2011
19 posts
The Majority Of Tumblr Posts
davidfuternick:
1. Bragging Posts
2. Cats
3. Memes
4. Memes with Cats
5. Pictures of Meals
6. Pictures Bragging About Meals
7. Good Music
8. Angry Rants
9. Videos of Babies
10. Angry Lists
11. Reblogs
A second experiment at the European facility that... →
starline:
inothernews:
joshsternberg:
More tests are needed. But, still.
No no, they just traveled back in time. IT’S JUST THE SAME EXPERIMENT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. THIS IS THE DARKEST TIMELINE.
I love the idea of all of this. As long as they don’t they don’t destroy this particular universe.
Exciting how much stuff we don’t know yet or something.
Things The Great American Novel Must Have
War
Magic
Love
Lovemaking
Violence
Injustice
Defiance
Legends
Apathy
Death
Baseball
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“In one scene, Johnny Depp wears a Justin Bieber shirt at a Lakers game and sits...”
– http://splitsider.com/2011/11/i-watched-jack-and-jill-so-you-dont-have-to/
Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to...
EVERY DAY.
Definitions of Things
Art: “I don’t know what it means but I like it.”
Comedy: “First I thought this, but now I think this!”
Film: “Just don’t make me look at actors I don’t already know.”
Fiction: “You want me to read this? Is it any good?”
And stuff.
“This is on a bus back from camp. I’m 13 and so are you. Before I left for camp I...”
– Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, ends his last song That Power with a spoken word poem. It’s the end of his newest album, Camp, and though the songs are amazing, this is equally beautiful too. And no one does this. (via cliffclinton)
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”
– David McCullough (He continues: “We all know the old expression, “I’ll work my thoughts out on paper.” There’s something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does.”)
I Don't Believe in God, But I Believe in the...
I’d like to have a discussion on this topic: Some higher being may not enforce his rules for goodness on you, but the internet can and will. As a primer for this discussion, let’s start with: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/02/on-judge-william-adams-beating-his-daughter-and-internet-revenge/ What I’m not saying is that the posting of the Judge Adams beating his...
Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to...
Caveat: Don’t use Google or Wikipedia.
Report back or don’t.
October 2011
15 posts
Leviathan Wakes - "Meh"view I didn't write the...
For a hundred pages, Leviathan Wakes had me tricked. I almost didn’t need to read the rest of the book - there was no way what had been set up could collapse in any way that was disappointing. And every time you get one of those books, where you know you’re in the middle of something you’d blow your friends off for, things click. You start filling a hole airport novels just...
Dan Gurewitch: Advice to Political Journalists →
dangurewitch:
Love your interviews with politicians - great suits! But I feel like there’s this super helpful follow-up question you have in your back pockets, and none of you guys use it! Maybe you’re shy? Or you’re just excited to get onto your next question because you had it written down on your pad? In…
Kurt Vonnegut reads his (then) short story,...
I am currently phoneless. In case anyone was...