May 2009
A Nonfiction Marriage →
The most interesting thing I read this week. Unconventional marriages/relationships like Nan and Gay Talese’s always fascinate me.
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April 2009
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Text Messages from Yo Momma
Me: A dog nipped me but didn’t break the skin. Can I still get rabies?
Mom: Wash your leg if you can.
Me: Uhh, it’s not my leg, it’s my chin. I have, like, a dog hickey on it.
Mom: Haha what kind of dog?
Me: A teeny dachshund wearing a hat, wig and sunglasses. It looked so harmless.
Mom: He’s probably pissed someone dressed him up.
Things That Are Magical
1. Neosporin
2. Downy Wrinkle Releaser
3. iPhones
Feel free to add - what else does such amazing things that the only explanation can be straight-up wizardry?
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“I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured...”
– Maureen Dowd (Can someone please arrange this?)
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Talented Ugly Person Baffles World →
The success of singer Susan Boyle on the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” has caused both television networks and their viewers to reconsider the intrinsic value of ugly people, media experts say.
In living rooms around the world as well as in the executive suites of media giants, those exposed to the Susan Boyle phenomenon are grappling with the paradox - thought...
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Paul + Joanne 4evr
Aren’t they the cutest?
(via gifparty)
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Oh, Christopher Meloni, you slay me. I have been in the mood to watch Wet Hot American Summer again lately. Add that to my 8-mile-long to-do list.
(via gifparty)
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“A crab once bit me on my bleep when I was swimming in the...”
– Lil’ Kim in Us Weekly
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Joke of the Day
Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Nevermind, it’s a really obscure number and you’ve probably never heard of it.
(via schmolitics : thedailywhat)
Conformity Theory on the Freakonomics Blog →
One of my favorite examples of the powerful urge to conform with the majority comes from an experiment [Robert Cialdini] ran at Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Conformity theory suggests the park service was sending exactly the wrong message when it posted signs saying:
Your heritage is being vandalized every day by theft losses of petrified wood of 14 tons a year, mostly a small...
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Ferrell Films 'Man vs. Wild' Spot With Grylls →
This is going to be incredible.
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The Hipster Grifter →
This is the most interesting article you’ll read all week. I think what fascinates me most about this story is people’s unwillingness to believe that someone could be so…bad. All of the people she tricked had an inkling that something about her was off, but had too much faith in humanity to let it cross their minds that she might be a fraud. As Jodi of Delicate Condition wrote on...
Waking Up to New York →
The cover story of this week’s New York Magazine made me kind of sad, because I don’t have a cool coming-to-New-York story. In fact, I barely remember the day I moved to the city.
I know it was in August 2004, and my whole family brought me and all my stuff down to my NYU dorm on Washington Square West. I was wearing a Maroon 5 T-shirt, because I had gone to the concert the night...
Doctor: Flip flops can cause tendinitis →
TRUE STORY. Those things landed me in an evil Velcro boot for six weeks in 2007 and physical therapy for even longer. So beware! (Leave it to me to get tendinitis from essentially doing nothing. I felt like I should’ve made up a really cool story to tell when people asked me how I got hurt, instead of just saying, “Um, I walked too much in flip-flops?” Lame city.)
I Love You, but You Love Meat →
This article seems funny if it isn’t the story of your life. The dude and I spent an hour on SeamlessWeb this weekend, just trying to figure out where we could both order from. I only really eat typical unhealthy American fare — macaroni and cheese, nachos, burgers, etc. He can’t eat any of those things, for health reasons. Unfortunately, my 12-year-old tastebuds don’t...
“One of the great strengths of the United States is…we do not consider ourselves...”
– President Barack Obama