December 2009
58 posts
#10yearsago
Looking at those tweets, I just remembered that I rang in the new millennium with my parents and the neighbors because I had just started high school and I didn’t really have friends yet.
Dear ‘oughts,
I WON.
Love, N
You Belong With Me
benzado:
nicolemarietherese:
This song, which I just heard for the first time this morning, makes me wish that I was still in high school and had an unrequited crush so that I could put these lyrics in my AIM profile.
On behalf of those of us with unrequited crushes, no you don’t.
Man, I can’t believe I’m getting on-behalf-ofs from an organization I used to preside over.
Top 10 Songs of 2009
digsyfinallyhasa:
I always do two lists, one of songs actually released in 2009 and one of songs from previous years that I heard for the first time in 2009.
Get ready to disagree with all of this.
Top 10 Songs Heard For The First Time In 2009 6. The Beatles “In My Life” 1965
What? How? Brett, you just broke my brain.
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
leilacohan:
You know, I realize the aughts or whatevs were pretty awful globally, but speaking about my own personal life, if the teens are half as good (especially as good as 2005-2009), I’ll be really incredibly happy.
You Belong With Me
This song, which I just heard for the first time this morning, makes me wish that I was still in high school and had an unrequited crush so that I could put these lyrics in my AIM profile.
Empire State of Mind
Oh.
The lyrics are:
If Jesus playin’ LeBron, I’m playing Dwyane Wade
not
If Jesus playin’ LeBron, I’m playing Dwayne Wayne.
Bummer.
What I Am Trying To Say Is...
davebluvband:
2009 was a a pretty awesome year, in retrospect. I am grateful for having such wonderful friends and getting to do what I love doing every single day. Here is to hoping 2010 can be just as good, if not better.
(Clink)
Agreed, Dave. Roller-coastery but maybe my favorite so far.
Firefly
halphillips:
I’ve never seen the show Firefly. This is ridiculous, as I am a huge Joss Whedon fan. So I’m finally going to watch. And I’m gonna copy Nicole Drespel’s Buffy/Angel blog and post my first impressions as I go along. Unlike Nicole, I will be neither funny nor petulant. I’ll probably just list lines I liked.
And Hal’s blog is already infinitely more coherent than mine.
...
leilacohan:
92y:
Tony-winning actress Patti LuPone was interviewed in Time Out New York last year, and informed us she was confused about the changes in Times Sqaure:
TONY: What is the biggest thing that’s happened to the city in the past 13 years?
Patti LuPone: What the hell are they doing to Times Square? This is my question. Is it a theme park? Is it a walking district? Is it a...
Great Books Challenge 2010 →
Anyone else interested?
“If you turn on the keypad volume on your cell phone and type 989797899897787987,...”
– (via fuckyeahthebeatles) (via ilanaglazer)
Yahoo's list of 100 movies to see before you die
davebluvband:
(via fandomisscary)
(bold movies you have seen)
1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. 400 Blows (1959)
4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. The African Queen (1952)
6. Alien (1979)
7. All About Eve (1950) 8. Annie Hall (1977) 9. Apocalyse Now (1979)
10. The Battle of Algiers (1967)
11. The Bicycle Thief (1948) 12. Blade Runner (1982) 13. Blazing Saddles...
Black Books is on Hulu! →
Update: Andrew WK is real
nshortbread:
patbaer:
healywu:
allthelatestmoves:
I have an inside source that says he heard the rumor that he is a corporate creation and decided to run with it. I’m even more annoyed by him now.
He must be real. I’ve seen him speak several times. HE MUST BE REAL.
You don’t get more real than Andrew. That dude is fucking awesome. And wonderfully sincere and positive.
I envy your...
Holiday in Handcuffs →
A woman has a breakdown at Christmas and kidnaps a handsome guy.
Starring Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
Does anyone remember the Disney TV series Ocean Girl?
I spent way too much of my day researching that show.
I had to do some tumblr unfollowing that kind of broke my heart. I’m temporarily unsubscribing from a few tumblrs that post the kind of pretty pictures which can potentially get me in trouble when I’m scrolling through my dashboard at work. Which I maybe shouldn’t be doing anyway but that’s a whole other can of likes and reblogs. I’ll still be checking those tumbrls...
Watching Jay Leno. I think I have a crush on “The Situation” from Jersey Shore. Am I supposed to?
“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done...”
– Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
“It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy) (via villagevegan) (via katespencer) (via frankhejl)
yes i will read five pages about baby name... →
leilacohan:
marielk:
i. am. that. girl.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS. Leila is NOT allowed to become a popular name in the non-Arab world! This will do nothing but deeply upset me.
It’s 2019, Leila. After your 2013 successful re-imagining of Facts of Life for the SLTN (Sassy Ladies Television Network) and the astounding box office success of the film trilogy This is About Smith -
They...
I just got through 280 emails at work, the gift that greeted me upon return from my staycation. The office Christmas party is two hours away.
Guess who is not doing anything for the rest of the day?
It’s me.
psa
chrysilla:
The next new decade starts in 2011, just as the new century started in 2001. 2010 is the last year of this decade.
The more you know…
It does not matter how many times people explain either concept to me, it will never make sense until someone draws a diagram.
Brooklyn Conclusion
This place is filled with babies.
I get it now.
A book set in a campus radio station at a women’s college where all the DJs are witches…that’s probably going to veer pretty close to chicklit, isn’t it? Miles, can you weigh in as the saddest young literary man I know?
Brooklyn
They are playing Abba. I like Abba but I don’t know if this is being played ironically or not.
Where is the handbook?
PS - Did you know that you can only ask two questions per day on tumblr? Ridic.
Why I Hate Ereaders and Doubt They'll Ever Hit the... →
benzado:
brendanmc:
I’ll probably never own an Ereader. The books are just as expensive as real books, and you can’t loan them. That’s the killer for me. I do have limited space for books in my place, but the books I do keep, I keep because I want to read them again, and I think they’re worth keeping around to loan people.
The article is like a rant from the 1940s about how television is...
Today I die in Brooklyn
Somebody put a bag down on the couch next to me but I didn’t see it happen. But now I’ve seen something so do I say something? Do they have that here? Oh my god.
Brooklyn Part 3
Brooklyn loves Annie Lennox.
If they play Into the West I’ll lose my shit.
Brooklyn Part Two
Am I allowed to watch internet TV here? Or does that use too much internet?
Oh my God. I am giving up and reading a book.
Brooklyn
I am at a coffee shop right now. And a strange man keeps talking to me and instructing me on things. First on where I can charge my computer and then on how my adapter cord is disappointingly not long enough and then there was something about my coat. I don’t even know if I am allowed to be on this couch. I want something to drink but everything is on giant chalkboards I can’t...
Rules to Live By
coreybrown:
frankhejl:
Seriously, people. Seriously.
Especially when the other party who was in involved has to see that at the top of their news feed.
Doesn’t feel good, folks. Not one bit.
It’s stupid how much weight the internet can hold.
leilacohan:
Never comment on someone’s “XYZ is single” status update on your Facebook news feed. It never makes you look good.
This is why I...
Staycation Fail
I think I forgot that the secret purpose of my annual staycation - where I use my vacation time from work to do nothing - is that I discover how much I hate doing nothing and therefore return to my job thankful.
Is it really only 3:30?
Edit to add: Is it bad that I am afraid of the rest of the week?
