December 2009
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I had to go to Blockbuster to buy a new copy of Jurassic Park because mine got scratched up. It is my favorite movie of all time so naturally I wouldn’t just settle for occasionally Netflixing it. Anyway, when I went to pick it up, the kid said “I have all three. The third one rules.” I said, “You think the third movie is the best?” He said that he did and I...
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A Year In Cities, 2009
Time for my annual post on my yearly travels. This year, I took a cross-country road trip:
New York, NY*
Kansas City/Olathe, KS*
Lawrence, KS
Towaco, NJ
Knoxville, TN
New Orleans, LA
Austin, TX
Tempe, AZ
Los Angeles, CA
Warrington, PA
Doylestown, PA
Fort Tilden, NY
Topeka, KS
Boston/Cambridge, MA
Provincetown, MA
*Currently living/have lived.
Links go to photos of my experience...
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What English Sounds Like To Foreigners →
capucha:
Yup, this is it. Exactly.
I’ve always wondered about this. This is the closest I’ll ever get to knowing!
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3D CSS - Velazquez's Las Meninas by Román Cortés →
This is AWESOME. Román Cortés made Las Meninas into a 3D image using only CSS and HTML. (via swissmiss and kottke)
When TV Became Art →
russann:
kateheffernan:
streeter:
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. I’ve used so many of these arguments to defend my TV habit over the past few year, but never as clearly or as eloquently as Emily Nussbaum makes them. Mostly I just called people retarded for not watching Lost.
This is an awesome article.
Cait, isn’t Emily who wrote the article about you and...
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“You are about to board the Sue Sylvester Express. Destination: HORROR.”
– Sue Sylvester
Watchamandalynferri:
mattedits:
Over a year later and it’s still good.
!!!!! my favorite song of 2008.
CAKE! (The other day I found the video of us singing it from multiple computers sync’d for maximum volume.)
This is one of my favorite past obsessions. Also, remember this gem?
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“Psshh, cuz creativity to me is like a bird…like a friendly bird that...”
– Liz Lemon
WatchLady Gaga with Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People. (via AE)
I like the end a lot. I like when people realize that Lady Gaga really is “much more”, as Barbara says, than people expected or assumed. She says that she’s a performance artist and I think people need to start seeing her as one rather than just a pop star, because she is both and not one or the other.
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Tom: It lasted longer than Avril Lavigne and that guy from Sum 41.
Leslie: I don’t know what those are.
