January 2012
28 posts
“It’s not slang that bothers me, as it does so many oldsters, nor is it even all...”
– Interesting article on language and fashion by Sarah Nicole Prickett in Toronto Standard
Building Woes
I just came across this email that I sent to the builders after I had moved into my loft. The builders were terrible; It was a shit show from the start, and in the end I was left with the $2500 expense of installing glass in a window that had metal siding instead of glass (try to figure that one out). Most of the other deficiencies didn’t got addressed either, including dirt (and a pube)...
Rob Delaney: Don't Say Nigger →
robdelaney:
Martin Luther King Day was yesterday. Great day for a great man. In addition to having a moral core that was so powerful it was probably hot to the touch, he was also a genius. His speeches and writing reveal a mind that was firing on cylinders in that alleged 90% to which the rest of us don’t…
“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart)
To the person who jumped in front of my subway...
I’m sorry life got to be too much for you.
I’m sorry for whatever happened to you that made life unbearable.
I’m sorry for your friends and family. I’m sure they will miss you.
I’m sorry I was probably making a stupid happy face at the moment you died because I was getting to ride the new subway train for the first time. That is undignified.
I’m sorry the...
WatchThis is really inspiring. The photography is fantastic.
December 2011
24 posts
Daytime #ttc
On the subway. Two old ladies across the aisle are talking about mammograms and their gynecologists. The old guy and lady next to me are talking about her lesbian roommates. He wonders if they’re faking their relationship and their orgasms. She thinks not. Now they are talking about someone having five oclock shadow and lipstick all over his face. The old ladies almost missed their stop and...
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Reading...
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
“He was perfectly aware that certain once-canonical writers (always male, always white) had fallen into disrepute. Hemingway was a misogynist, a homophobe, a repressed homosexual, a murderer of wild animals. Mitchell thought this was an instance of tarring with too wide a brush. If he was to argue this with Claire, however, he ran the risk of being...
Response to Amazon's customer-as-spy promotion
This article is great. Beautifully put, especially by bookseller Lacy Simons. Also, leave it to writers to put it so perfectly: scorched earth capitalism and droid-packing spies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/opinion/amazons-jungle-logic.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
However, the comments are less than reassuring. People seem to think that the indie bookseller is...
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The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
“We remain marked, we small-towners dressed in what, as Randy and I walk into Jake’s, feels instantly like borrowed city-slicker duds. Beneath the camouflage, all of us in this room are branded by shared experience and ritual as indelibly as members of a religion who are alone in understanding its rules and expectations. I’ve noticed over the years...
Yelping with Cormac: Jamba Juice →
Brilliant.
yelpingwithcormac:
Financial District - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
I’ll have another, he said.
The clerk wiped down the counter and would not look at him. We’re not supposed to give customers more than three guarana boosts, he said.
I aint askin.
The clerk…
Ridiculous copy
Is the Toronto Star getting Harlequin staffers to write articles now? This sounds like the back cover of a terrible horror/romance novel.
“Dead and Mouldering in their graves yet still bad girls.
Scheming, betraying, devious daughters: Zainab, Sahar, Geeti.
Whores.”
Full article
Tiresome Little Sycophant
My friend and former colleague just posted this on her blog. It pretty much made my day.
*also, kids have to do presentations by powerpoint now? What of dioramas and bristol board posters? I’m sad for them.
My Hero
As part of her family studies course, my daughter has been asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on someone she considers a hero. The teacher kindly explained at our...
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Weight Loss Hot Pants
This is the largest and most hilarious load of bullshit I have read lately (via groupon):
“Today’s athletic wear incorporates technological innovation into its very threads, a feat visible in styles that force legs to jog and promise to tickle their wearers until they’ve reached their maximum heart rates.
Zaggora’s hip-hugging HotPants slim bodies by up to two jeans...
