February 2012
18 posts
I watched the Oscars tonight with two friends who came over and prior to that I cleaned my apartment, ridded the place of the remaining wine bottles and food cartons that had filled it in the past four days. And I made jokes on the internet and found the whole thing silly and I guess that’s, I don’t know, the first part of getting over something very sad that’s happened. I felt...
The Daily What the Fuck Are You Kidding Me
langer:
Um, idk, seems to me like maybe scolding a victim for not coping the way you think she ought to be coping is the real All Kinds of Wrong of the Day here? Just a thought.
“I’ll never forget that night.” Whoever wrote that really needs to turn off the screens go take a walk outside.
Little Rhody
Please don’t click through unless you want to read poetry about my weekend written on an iPhone on an Amtrak train.
They ate fish and steak with the sun in their eyes for Anthony’s 95th birthday. There were, what, four, five generations? Surely there were people there born before any of this was built, all this along the water. (Imagine it then! Imagine the Indians!) And surely...
Remember on The Sopranos when Tony gets shot and is in the coma and has that dream or vision of an alternate life or whatever it is where he’s still Tony but he’s normal and boring and is just a shlubby, affable businessman? I’m on the Amtrak right now sitting next to John McCain’s version of that.
January 2012
35 posts
Just saw ‘Chronicle’ and it is actually pretty good. No, not the Boston-area TV news magazine (Mary Richardson!), the teenagers with superpowers movie. I liked it! Movie review! (Actual movie review next Friday.)
Important Movie Thoughts
Without revealing my own feelings for the movie (I loved it, really honestly loved it), I find it weird that people criticize War Horse for pandering and schmaltziness while celebrating with ardent fervor the pieced-together, insightless, complete cop-out that was Melancholia. They’re the same movie, philosophy-towards-moviemaking-wise! Only War Horse is earnest about its conclusions while...
(In that analogy I’m someone who audited Choire’s class once and then fell down the stairs.)
Watching the new Gawker people audition is fun in a “It’s fun to see how Choire Sicha’s former TAs have taught their students and then those students tutored some high school kids who then went to college and now have graduated and are now their own people and they say ‘Oh yeah, I’m aware of Choire’ and then everyone’s like, sigh, everybody’s old...
[SOMETHING'S HAPPENING AT MY JOB]
That’s what we’re internetting about today right?
“While it’s easy to forgive the less-than-stellar chops of many an action...”
– I kind of didn’t like Haywire.
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Splat
To whomever threw an egg at my window last night: I spent forty-five minutes scraping yolk off my windowsill today and another forty-five washing all the glass, all while trying to convince myself that it wasn’t some deliberate thing because my neighbors don’t like me or that it wasn’t a GAY HATE CRIME. So I’d just like to thank you for making me feel sorry for myself for a...
“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night...”
– Kylie Minogue is in this movie.
It’s 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They’ve been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh’s family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer....
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Is it unfeminist to say that Hello Giggles is one of the worst websites ever created? Have you even SEEN these videos that someone named Marissa A. Ross does? And not to mention every single other thing that’s written on the site? I’m trying to do a whole post-Gawker not be an asshole thing, like positivity is probably way better than the alternative, but holy hell what a dump of a...
