March 2009
151 posts
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If you’re ever interested in hemmorhaging followers, post a picture of yourself dressed as a victim of a tiger mauling. Good thing I haven’t scanned those shots of all the other years I exploited tragedies in exchange for fun-sized candy bars.
Like last year, when I trick-or-treated as the Lindbergh baby.1
1 I’m kidding. I actually dressed as Tara Reid’s career.
“Declare yourself a bank and apply for a government bailout. Everyone else is.”
– My friend Tommy’s reaction to my financial difficulties. In a related story, I am now J-Money, Member FDIC.
“I cannot be loved. I’m like a dog from the rescue home. There’s no...”
– Morrissey, responding to a fan at Carnegie Hall who shouted “I love you”.
—thanks to my friend Craig for sending this Moz-tastic concert review my way
Through the magic of the New Facebook (now with...
Audio Playerz
Could someone email me the html code for a Tumblr audio player that doesn’t look like it belongs on a necklace they bought at Claire’s? I’d like to share more ear worms with you guys but when I do, it makes my page look like the lamest Trapper Keeper ever.
Also, I have the html skills of a coke-addicted marmoset, so keep this in mind.
Hit me at thetyping [at] gmail [dot] com.
Who Wants to Make Out With Me?
What if I said I recently brushed my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush?
What if I also said I was wearing a dirty Bruins1 hat and a thin veneer of self-loathing?
1The hockey Bruins. Not the pastel blue and yellow Bruins.
The Post of the Unknown Tumblrs
I’ve read all of your secret message tumbls and—like everyone else—I wonder if any of you have been describing me, either with adjectives from the Positive collection or those from the “You suck dogs for quarters” seasonal display near the register. Either way…I hope you are.
When I was in college, there was a fraternity who wore t-shirts that said “Loved...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Nick Lowe (74)
Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians (38)
Robyn Hitchcock (33)
Badly Drawn Boy (31)
Morrissey (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Everybody lives in the same nightmare, they just react to it at different...”
– Robyn Hitchcock, from a March 2006 interview with The Believer.
Secret Message Tumble
luckyshirt:
I want you.
Looking at my stained R.E.M. t-shirt and the milk dribbling down my chin into an oversized bowl of Fruity Pebbles, I’m just going to assume that this was meant for me.
I am irresistible right now.
“Want some syrup with those flapjacks there, Slappy?”
– Detective John Munch
This is by far the greatest line of the day, arriving in my ear canal at around the nine hour mark of the SVU marathon.
In a related story: please kill me.
Listen
A Dog is Not A Dependent. Neither Is An Ovarian... →
WatchThis is the greatest thing I have seen in forever. It also pretty much ensures I’m doing nothing but playing my 8 Bit NES all day.
No, that’s not a euphemism.
—via Boing Boing
rrrrred:
What is the most difficult thing you’ve ever given up?
What did that feel like?
Was it worth it?
—A six-going-on-seven year-long relationship that started when I was a junior in college and kept going until I’d watched better than half of my twenties disappear, leaving me with a pile of J.Crew pastels and stacked packets of double prints from Foto One. I didn’t...
GPOYW
OK, you guys have all been liberally basted with Hotness.
I haven’t licked my monitor this many times in one day since discovering that Cheeses of the World online catalog.
That’s all. Now get back to posting more pictures of yourselves so that I can print them off and weave them into a quilt.
Um.
Or maybe I’ll just click the “Like” button. Either way.
“And it rained/Like a slow divorce”
– That line from Robyn Hitchcock’s “Balloon Man” neatly describes what I just slogged through for 10.5 miles. My shoes are soaked, my face chapped, my hands doing their best imitation of the frozen delicacies I defrost for dinner…but I got through it.
40 more miles this week....
“I’m not as much a fan of my ironic, smartass material as other people...”
– Nick Lowe, 1998.
Here’s wishing a Happy 60th Birthday to Nick “Basher” Lowe. Even if you don’t know him by name1, you’ve probably heard the bands he’s produced—everyone from Elvis Costello to The Damned to Huey Lewis & the News—or you’ve...
