January 2009
I'm no email booty.
bitchville:
WTF is wrong with some people these days? On Myspace I have certain creeps straight away once I add them asking me for my email address to give it to them, I’m thinking, email is for communication, right? Then if you’re communicating with me on Myspace, why the fuck would you want my email address for? It’s not like communicating via email is real time or any difference to messaging me...
newspeedwayboogie:
Beruit - Venice
New...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
The Aquabats (30)
Eagles of Death Metal (29)
Beck (18)
The Black Keys (18)
The Dandy Warhols (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
bitchville:
lhh:
copycats:
“Straight to...
Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises →
(via sujay)
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction.
singlescoop:
tarts:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a...
“There is a technical term for this kind of writing – parataxis, defined by the...”
– Stanley Fish, on Barack Obama’s inaugural speech (which he characterizes as paratactic); elaborating on that definition, he writes:
One kind of prose is additive – here’s this and now here’s that; the other asks the reader or hearer to hold in suspension the components of an argument that will not...
What was your first job?
(meme via lfarm)
I had a job at a company called Desk Top Sims. They built flight and racing simulators. My job was to update the website with photos of our inventory of parts, but I got to help do a lot more than just that there. We had simulators that could be used on a PS2 at your home, some we had built for the NHRA, and even some flight simulators built for the military and enthusiasts. It...
Yesterday, I couldn’t find the room for my Botany lab. (It was 404.)
sweetheartbeats:
beirut - la llorona
From the...
South Carolina Sen. Robert Ford pushes to outlaw... →
I’m against censorship. Legislation won’t stop people from swearing. Ask yourself, what’s the first thing you’d say after getting a $5,000 fine or 5 years in jail? For swearing?
Bonus: When I was an editor for my high school’s newspaper, I went to a journalism conference in South Carolina. The theme was the First Amendment.
After careful analysis...
…I’ve determined that the reason I have trouble sleeping may be because my bed is far too small.
Almost every day I find my phone has randomly shut itself off while in my pocket.
This always happens when I’m waiting for someone to text me back.
It is frustrating.
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler
Do normal people really just close their eyes and...
Common People - William Shatner
A Conversation With Felicia Day | Social Trivia... →
<3 Felicia Day
99 Luft Problems - Jay-Z & Nena