February 2010
22 posts
Really?
Is this something everyone knows? Because I am flabbergasted.
Get ready.
Men who have had sex with any man since 1977 are restricted from donating blood in the United States. Even safe sex. Even if they can prove that they don’t have HIV/AIDS, or any other STDs. You can lie, or you can not donate. It’s like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but for SAVING LIVES.
This all because I...
January 2010
38 posts
Does your hair look/feel better the day you wash it or the day after?
Favorite Press Release of the Day, Presented...
alexblagg:
MTV MEGA STAR J-WOWW TO SPEAK TO MEDIA TOMORROW REGARDING SECURITY ISSUES OF HER HOMECOMING CELEBRATION ON LONG ISLAND AFTER ALMOST RIOT
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MTV mega star J-Woww will be available for media commentary on Long Island reguarding security issues based on her last appearance which almost resulted in a riot. She will be talking about the over 200 security...
On having a thing
I think there’s a way in which being an “avid learner” is dangerous for people who want success. Maybe this is a well-known thing, but I’ve just been thinking about it an awful lot, and it’s terrifying. I’m tearing my beard out. Some thoughts:
I guess it started a while ago. Medical specialists make more than general practitioners, at least in Operation....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Yeasayer (38)
Hot Chip (31)
Beach House (9)
Spoon (9)
Jimmy Pardo (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“When you go to a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, you are at the Pizza Hut...”
– — Das Racist’s Pazz&Jop Essay
They are the collective man. The good kind.
“Jay Leno to keynote White House Correspondents Dinner”
– An actual headline that is happening in real life
A ❤ LETTER TO MY NEIGHBY
(Written today, in two minutes, in an excruciatingly boring lecture.)
I want a burrito.
I want a salad with bacon on it.
I want a hot dog with cream cheese and everything bagel seeds.
I want red curry with chicken.
I want an egg cream.
I want a sandwich that tastes like phở.
I want to watch 30 plays in 60 minutes. 28, even.
I want a drink with ginger in it.
I want two slices of pizza for...
re: Haiti
Ten years ago, I was in an earthquake, in Kodiak, Alaska. I was in elementary school and awesome.
The earthquake was a 7.8 Richter, but it was pretty deep underground, so it wasn’t as bad as a normal 7.8, whatever that means.
My band practice session congregated at the ends of the gymnasium. I was under the basketball hoop, which was shaking uncontrollably, like me. I was very scared.
An...
First day: last semester of university. 2010.
Professor of “film as literature” class:
“I have met basically all of the working directors in Europe. Oh, and in America.”
“I am visiting from Paris, did y’all know that? Yes, I have lived in Paris, France for 16 years.”
To the young man sitting next to me in the required “World Cultures” class on Latin America:
It’s not funny to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Vampire Weekend (12)
Eugene Mirman (12)
Major Lazer (6)
Beyonce (3)
Lady GaGa (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Dirty Projectors (18)
Vampire Weekend (14)
Lady GaGa (6)
Major Lazer (4)
of Montreal (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“To hell with delicate studies of the American scene. Fuck the American scene....”
– Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to Ezra Pound (via putthison)
Bleeding into 2010: Four Easy Steps for Lady Gaga... →
joecoscarelli:
I really want this to work out for all of us.
TRUTH.
Recommendation number 5: murder Ke$ha?
I have one of these "ask" things.
You can either do it on tumblr or formspring.
But do it, I guess.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Major Lazer (22)
Islands (21)
Gordon Voidwell (19)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (18)
The Antlers (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A lovely email from my great aunt and uncle
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Subject: FW: ATHEIST IN THE WOODS
An atheist was walking through the woods.
'What majestic trees!
'What powerful rivers!
'What beautiful animals!
He said to himself.
As he...