August 2010
35 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Michelangelo Signorile (3)
Dark Night Of The Soul (1)
Paul McCartney And Wings (1)
PJ Harvey (1)
Wavves (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The fatuous and dishonorable attempt to posit conservatives as the prime engine...”
– This is who `we’ really is, Glenn - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com
“Culturally-speaking, fatness exerts a masculinizing (or defeminizing) force on...”
– Fatshionista rocks my world, week after week.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Dum Dum Girls (10)
School of Seven Bells (3)
LCD Soundsystem (3)
Jonsi (1)
Deadmau5 (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I can’t laugh at Antoine Dodson because I am Antoine Dodson. People like...”
– The Accidental Fame of Antoine and Kelly Dodson - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton’s The Black Snob
“My biggest beef with these kind of lowest-common-denominator taunts is that...”
– Jezebel - Calling Me Fat Is Insulting, But Not Why You Think
“Don’t come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your...”
– Dorothy Allison
“Speaking for myself, all of my most powerful relationships in my teens and early...”
– Fatshionista on friendship (from this week’s Huge recap)
This. This is what I miss most of all. I miss my friend.
“Stop for breaks. Stop for ice-cream. Stop for playgrounds. Stop for flowers....”
– Bikes and The City: New Series, New Collaboration: Dads on Wheels
(Although this is advice from a father who inspires his kids to ride, I’d say that this is excellent advice to follow for anyone who wants to convince an inexperienced friend to give cycling a try.)
“I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee … Twee is whimsy without wit. It...”
– Emma Thompson
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Dum Dum Girls (12)
Hannah Georgas (10)
Lykke Li (3)
Neil Gaiman (2)
Paul McCartney (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It’s one thing having champagne while you have a job. It’s far different having...”
– Kyle Chandler on how he copes with the end of ‘Friday Night Lights’ and his current unemployment (via ausiello.ew.com)
“It’s easy to get pleasure. Just go to a strip club. Blllppp! You get pleasure....”
– — Cornel West
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
Sleigh Bells (8)
The Download 15 (6)
Saint Etienne (4)
Arcade Fire (2)
Tapes ‘n Tapes (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I just want you to know that awesomeness is possible. Always. Your body is not a...”
– (via Fatshionista)
“According to the dubious measurements of the BMI scale, I am morbidly obese. As...”
– Fatshionista
“We loan DVDs, but we don’t loan DVD players. We loan books about using...”
– the.effing.librarian discusses ebook readers
WatchOh, shut up Hasselbeck, you no-intelligence having harpy.
WatchOfficer Virginia Awkward (from TLC’s “Police Women of Memphis”) and her partner Ashley renewed their vows on a recent episode. I got teary eyed as I watched this.
The irony, as Officer Awkward points out, is that by being out and in an open same-gender relationship in Memphis, she’s breaking the very laws that she’s sworn to uphold as a police officer.
...
“If there’s one thing that Canadians of all political stripes can agree upon,...”
– Silly monkeys « You Shall Know My Veracity
“(H)aving a soulmate - albeit a completely non-existant, probably dead one - was...”
– And this is where I am right now…
(Littlest, Yellowest, Differentest)
