December 2008
The Weather Network becomes a pop-culture... →
“I’ve had not one but two separate occasions of being in the depths of the Algonquin wilderness, portaging my canoe, and I’ve had somebody stop me on the portage trail and they recognized me,” Leonard says with a laugh, noting that despite the odd circumstances, the fans still wanted the scoop on the skies.
I’ll admit that I used to be somewhat obsessed with The...
I might just be the only moron who turns on the...
betterthancupcakes:
amilena:
But if I don’t do it like this, I either sweat like a pig or freeze to death.
Guilty. My heat control doesn’t work well. And if I don’t have my window open, I wake up feeling gross. I need fresh air.
Same. I feel really wasteful but my roommatee can’t function unless our apartment is sweltering. I also need my room to ice cold when I sleep. I’m the...
If you're not watching the Britney documentary...
cvxn:
fatmanatee:
jgh:
Do yourself a favor and change over to MTV. Bitch is back.
Bitch’s shit is airing on a channel we don’t get here in Canadastan. I’ll do myself the favoUr of watching it online as soon as I can.
Uh, we have MTV in Canada. I don’t know what channel it’s on in Van, but it’s part of Shaw’s everything but the premium channels package.
I don’t own a poncho. If someone asks me, ‘Do you own a poncho?’ I don’t say no....
– Demetri Martin (via redkite) (via ericnelson)
Racism is the new snark.
lenachen:
So I know I already mentioned this Gawker piece but I just went back to read the comments, and holy shit:
“Asian is the last stop before Gay.” #
“My wife already knows when she’s tired of me and kicks me out that my next wife will come from Korea or Sri Lanka.” #
“Mr. Butterfly Champion gets his Madame Butterfly*.” #
“He so horny**!” #
“White nerds dating Asian girls is a trend. I...
November 2008
every trend has a sell-by date, and the fake tan thing definitely expired this...
– simon doonan (via sarazucker)
This D&G ad for jewelery is pretty stupid, and uncreative, but commenter ben says it more eloquently than I:
ben Says: November 28th, 2008 at 19:46
Honnêtement, c’est pas mon habitude, mais là, il faut quand même dire que c’est “limite mauvais” comme pub. C’est complètement raté non? Pas très joli, pitch stérile,montage de base,surjoué, j’ai beau chercher un truc qui m’aurait...
Feministe » How not to bomb your neighborhood deli →
How have I never heard of this?!
jamiemurnane:
“The Super Scrabble gameboard has nearly twice the amount of spaces of a standard board (441 spaces compared to 225). The added room allows your words to spread further and faster than ever before. To the familiar double and triple letter and word scoring spaces are added all new quadruple letter and word scoring spaces, tempting you to reach for bigger and bigger bonuses.”
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Blue Mailboxes Disappear As Mail Decreases →
When’s the last time you sent an e-mail or paid a bill online? Now how about the last time you sent a letter? This year, the U.S. Postal Service will deliver eight billion fewer letters than it did seven years ago.
[…] And this is why Louisville is doing away with a third of its 900 mailboxes.