December 2009
WatchStone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby
I’m listening to Tiny Music: Songs from the Vatican Giftshop
This album is underrated.
End of a year
As retrospective as I’ve been the last month I thought I’d make a giant verbose post about the year or even decade, but I really do not have anything to say that has not been said somewhere else.
This year was as exciting, promising, and edifying as it was exhausting and disappointing. All in all 2009 was a pretty neutral year for me, but when compared to years like 2005 and 2006,...
britticisms:
“Maps” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
Watchtlicious:
beauinnewyork:
RuPaul’s Drag Race…Season 2…so excited!
OMIGOD OMIGOD!!!
I need this hot mess RIGHT NOW. Also, I love that Henry Rollins in a guest judge, haha!
“A visual graph of U.S. pop culture might resemble a massive Venn diagram, a...”
– The Atlantic: 10 American Ideas of the Decade
This is my favorite description of modern U.S. popular culture. As a niche oriented as our culture seems to have become, certain big spectacles or major scandals transcend the individual niches and become commonly known throughout the country despite...
3/12 = 1/4
Of the twelve people I work with only three people are in the office today. Wheee!
“Writer Matt Fraction has been the breath of fresh air the X-Men have been...”
– I was following this best of 2009 list until we hit this snag. (via discodazzler)
I was following that same list… haha.
James Blunt makes decade's best-selling album →
yousoldtheworld:
oh, UK…you and I are done professionally.
The US is worse in terms of top selling artist of the decade: Eminem. As far as albums:
1. The Beatles, 1,11,499,000 units sold
2. ‘NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000 units sold
3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546,000 units sold
4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000 units sold
5. Eminem, The Eminem Show,...
On "Family Feud," the question was "What do people...
switchblades:
absurdlakefront:inothernews:piscesinpurple:
(via inothernews)
Did anybody say “raincoat”? ‘Cause that would’ve been my answer.
I’m doing this from memory: Top answer was “raincoat”; then “condoms”; then “bulletproof vests”; the last two were “guns” and “sunscreen”. The other two: “sunglasses” and “helmets.”
The first thought in my head was armor and then a shield. I’m...
On "Family Feud," the question was "What do people...
inothernews:
piscesinpurple:
(via inothernews)
Did anybody say “raincoat”? ‘Cause that would’ve been my answer.
I’m doing this from memory: Top answer was “raincoat”; then “condoms”; then “bulletproof vests”; the last two were “guns” and “sunscreen”. The other two: “sunglasses” and “helmets.”
The first thought in my head was armor and then a shield. I’m such a nerd. You should...
Work Drama
A co-worker just submitted her resignation. Shit’s getting real today.
“The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there...”
– Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
forwhenifeellikesharing:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -...
Must decompress
I went from being fairly happy and stable the last couple of weeks to this week…
It’s all work related.
Quarterlife crisis y’all.
Watchfrozenvision:
It’s interesting how, as our technology advances, our privacy is thrown to the wind.
Thrown to the wind with necessity and security are always claimed. Most are too indifferent to care or just resigned to obeying what they’re told to even bother fighting for privacy.
Is it bring your kids to work day?
No.
I don’t really don’t care that you couldn’t find a sitter today, I don’t want two 8 years olds in the office all day. I cannot handle it.
Posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect →
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man responsible for the Christmas day plot to blow up a train near Detroit, has left a trail of personal posts on the internet like everyone else of his generation. The insights into the psyche of this young man that are possible through his internet history leave me transfixed.
Those posts, beginning in 2005, show a teenager looking for a new life...
Le Boo
I can’t scroll more than four pages into my dashboard. How will I escape work my overwhelming amount of work now?
“I think one of the reasons why kids today have quarterlife crises is because...”
– Twenty Something: Instead of traveling, writing and trying to figure out what we want, should we be marrying and having babies? (via robot-heart) (via apsies)
There must be something in the water recently about quarter-life crises. I’ve been reading about them quite a bit the last month. ...
What is the point?
People in my office love to call and bitch at people about things that are missing or were done incorrectly. In some cases this could alert someone to a real problem, edify them, and allow them to correct future actions, but 90% of the time I think people are just calling to bitch.
A bunch of labs are missing and the patient doesn’t have an appointment to come back? What is the point of...
soylentgreenispeople:
absurdlakefront:
soylentgreenispeople:
oh perfect. some lovely tenant in my building smashed all the fitness machines and cut the belts on the treadmills. awesome.
A very literal Rage Against the Machine fan strikes again…
THEY RALLY ROUND YOUR TREADMILLLLL WITH A POCKET FULL OF SHELLLS!!!
They don’t gotta burn tha weights, they just remove ‘em!
Your...
soylentgreenispeople:
oh perfect. some lovely tenant in my building smashed all the fitness machines and cut the belts on the treadmills. awesome.
A very literal Rage Against the Machine fan strikes again…
The Chicago Machine: A hypothetical situation
Taken from the same Chicagoist article where I pulled the Lindsay Graham quote. This is probably the most accurate account of the Chicago workings that I have seen, haha.
Lindsey Graham clearly doesn’t know anything about Chicago politics - and Jarrett isn’t about to school him in how it’s really done. If Barack Obama wanted to push health care reform Chicago-style, we think...
“You know, change you can believe in, after this health care bill debacle, [that]...”
– South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham
I like my politics paid off and seedy. Fuck yeah Chicago!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Portishead (14)
Tool (10)
Murder by Death (9)
Kylie Minogue (8)
The National (1)
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