March 2008
“most people around the country want to see the yankees and the blue jays on...”
– baseball tonight, just now, talking about how it would be a bummer if espn’s 1 p.m. game would be rained out. bzzzzt. a team that every single one of its non-fans is sick of and a team that doesn’t even represent this country? try again, bro. (unless you’re being ironic, but i...
“We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper with our album...”
– Axl Rose responds to the free Dr Pepper offer (fyi earfarm/jeffbaum)
shows i wish i could go to (part infinity in a...
April 18: NORTHAMPTON, MA @Elevens MARK ROBINSON (UNREST) with MMM’S LIVE ARCHIVE PUBLIC RECORD (ex-Ropers) and MY TEENAGE STRIDE
the important part is in bold.
The Rodney Graham Band featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon Opening set by Lois Friday, April 11th, and Saturday, April 12th 8 p.m. Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York
the other theme song. this was created by a...
hahah, i have another theme song courtesy of wfnx....
today is one of those days when i wish i’d gone to food world and bought a package of anisette sponge. even though my new heroine, the woman from ‘you are what you eat,’ would have kicked my ass. le sigh.
Super Handjob Mario
alexbalk: I was talking to Blagg on Friday and he had some funny idea for a game for the Wii, which inspired me (in that drunk way that anything ever inspires anyone) to come up with my own, which, if I remember correctly, was called “Happy Ending.” In each round you have to jack off a john in a certain amount of time. Obviously, the game gets progressively harder, unlike your clients, haha....
cnn: always raising the hard questions.
• is it really too much to ask that our perky bubbleheaded news anchors be at least somewhat fluent in pronouncing words that may have come from cultures where the predominant hair color isn’t “almost-green bottle blonde”? • failing that, can’t the people running the teleprompter write out the pronunication, ap radio feed-style? • how hard is “akinori...
“I never try to take advantage or gloat over a personal tragedy. However, this is...”
– Peter King, proving that Long Island can always keep it classy in times of crisis.
cnn is amazing
* interview with politico reporter about spitzer affair used a shot of the cnn.com homepage as its visual * interviewee right now just said in defense of spitzer’s straight-arrowness “he always wears white shirts”
youngmanhattanite: Bloggers self-aggrandizing? Nah. Exhibit X: Navel gazing mistaken for tipping point. the link posits that ‘hallelujah’ was made popular by blogs. the fact that the song was featured on THE MOST POPULAR SHOW IN AMERICA does not come into play until p.s. no. 2. and people wonder why no one takes the internet seriously? i know this is just ‘stereogum’s...
huh. →
am i reading too much into this announcement by thinking that it also doubles as some sideways passing of the web-snark torch—from the multi-page treatises of years past to the infonuggets so prized now? (possibly of note: i will probably never really respect the twop crew given that their initial iteration of the site, dawson’s wrap, was basically a not-very-well-hidden ripoff of...
travie just posted this, and it sounds pretty good...
plus ca change
juliaallison: I can’t do this anymore. It’s ruining my life….I don’t know when or if I’ll be back, but at the very least I need a little break. does this mean that the blog “celebrities” of 2008 have officially become the online diary “celebrities” of 1998? i guess we’ll find out at sxsw this weekend. (well, i won’t because i won’t be there until...
i swear to god this was my horoscope today.
“Consider making a change in your career today — where do you want to go next?”
maura johnston: they also did a whole post on an american idol contestant named 'chikezie' by calling him 'chikizzle.'
maura johnston: because he's black!
maura johnston: DO YOU SEE
xx: oh god
xx: i can't wait for them to introduce us to the oriental ashley tisdale
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“Pop trends and genre hybrids don’t just fall out of the sky; despite all signs pointing toward unlimited choice and fan freedom during industry restructuring and p2p smash-and-grab, repertoires are still being created to fill market gaps. In those terms, Ghostland Observatory are even more depressing: They’re a duo, one of whom wears a cape while the other patrols the stage...
hillary clinton is really going on the charm offensive, huh. (that said, saying that her being on the daily show the night before texas and ohio was “pretty pathetic” was quite well-played.)
somehow i feel a little culpable too.
doree:our culture, right now, is so obsessed with memoir and the first-person narrative. Memoir sells; novels, usually, don’t. Are we just a nation of voyeurs? What is it about something being “true” that immediately appeals to people? I blame LiveJournal. Also, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Modern Love, Oprah and MySpace.
uncle.
so i really like the madonna song. the “especially” part: the little flute filigrees on the chorus. the “except” part: timbaland saying “ma-daaaa-nah” at various intervals. is he just trying to be more superfluous with every collaboration he embarks on? oh, also, i didn’t realize that jt was on the verses with madge until i actually heard the h(ish)q...
mother of f
I HAD TICKETS TO THE VAN HALEN SHOW AT MSG IN TWO WEEKS. GODDAMMIT. wahhh
