December 2011
28 posts
The Most Important Thing I Learned In 2011, by...
the-faraway-here-and-now:
the most important thing i’ve learned in 2011 came in the form of an experience i had at an airport. i think. unless i’m forgetting and it occurred somewhere else, but the fact is that if it didn’t occur in a starbucks in amsterdam, it may have occurred in a peet’s coffee and tea in harvard square, or at a coffee bean & tea leaf in los angeles, or at a caribou...
Shit Girls Say
natedern:
Have you seen those Shit Girls Say videos that are floating around? Watch it here if you haven’t.
What would a normal human response be to seeing those videos? To laugh and share the link with a friend? To smile politely and move on with one’s life? To find them vaguely offensive but mostly harmless?
Those all seem like reasonable responses. But if you’re me, you spend a few hours...
Devil's Advocacy →
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith →
from December 23, 2010. This is mostly for Ben because it has some interesting observations from Jaron Lanier about programming and art and, like, society and stuff.
The most important lesson I learned in 2011
If you fall asleep (drunk) at a Christmas party, Chris Scott (and also my mom) will make you go home.
Stupid rule.
The Innocent Intricacies of Ida Indiana →
abbijacobson:
I was asked to be a part of this awesome project, Alphabooks (Instant Books). This is my book!
Merry Christmas!
Abbi is the coolest.
NAKED PEOPLE gets interviewed by Jiji →
juliawiedeman:
It’s our first NAKED PEOPLE interview! Oh the process!
This is a very excellent and necessary read it you’ve ever thought about doing a one-person show.
Watchbenjaminapple:
Watch Rob Michael Hugel say my name out loud in a list of people who have donated to help him finish his web series! Then go to his Kickstarter page and put your name on the list!
Improv Ramblings: Imaginary Games
chrisreblogs:
I mean game games. Not improv “game.”
In a scene where you have some card game or game show or board game that is made up.
And it doesn’t have to be a made up on actually. Say it’s Monopoly. Unless you have a very interesting take or view point, seeing folks argue about rules is boring.
I would much rather, not matter what the rules are or are not, that we all agree that...
Nadler calls for full DOJ investigation into NYPD... →
One of the writers from Family Guy was arrested at... →
jasonsaenz:
mattmayer:
The real problem is that it is taking things at this level to get people like me, who haven’t previously batted an eye, to see that there’s a problem at all. I’m sorry to all for my years of apathy. That’s over. This type of thing is absolutely frightening. And the powers that be are using their own citizens, the very people they are supposed to represent, against...
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Doctor Love: Nerds and Male Privilege →
Brett: i think this is up your alley so far
Brett got me an article on Nerdom and male privilege for Christmas.
It’s interesting, smart, and well written. I’ll be honest, the nerds I tend to run with are of the comedy-slash-comics-nerd variety and I’ve never had firsthand experience with anything close to what’s addressed in this article. But the plight of Female...
The SANDMAN Graphic novels are on introductory... →
neil-gaiman:
I don’t think I know anyone with a Kindle Fire but this is just a friendly reminder that Sandman is wonderful and masterful storytelling and might be Neil Gaiman at his Neil Gaimaniest and also is, in some ways, a love letter to comic books and storytelling and being a human and also immortal but not immortal and also Curtis should really read it.
Truthful Tuesday.
jezebelthegreat:
Every night when we go to bed, in the half hour between the lying-down and the falling-asleep time, we ask each other:
“What are three things you liked about today?”
Sometimes one of the answers is something as simple as, “I liked laughing with you while we watched that really lame episode of Billy The Exterminator.” Sometimes it’s something more memorable and intimate.
We...
december: a month in which i will attempt (and...
citizenkerry:
The other day I was catching up with a good friend at Le Pain Quotidien (or, as I like to think of it, “the chain that’s taking over Manhattan”), and I had a revelation.
My friend was about to fill me on an Ongoing Issue she’s having with someone in her life who drives her crazy. It’s one of those deals with no simple answer in...
