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Dear grocery store clerk: I’m choosing to believe that the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:05:00 -0400

Dear grocery store clerk:

I’m choosing to believe that the number of times you looked back and forth between me and my ID, incredulous, had more to do with disbelief that I could be that old than with my innate ability to be kind of shifty-looking at all times. So thanks.

Best,
Jason

I’ve been researching this resort I’ll be visiting...

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:49:00 -0400

I’ve been researching this resort I’ll be visiting in two weeks, and the only way I can think of to describe it is that if it were a person, it would be Sandra Lee.

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:31:00 -0400

It doesn’t get said often enough: 1,000 blessings upon the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:11:00 -0400

It doesn’t get said often enough: 1,000 blessings upon the house of Bjorn Stromberg, creator of the browser extension Tumblr Savior. May all your children be hale and hearty, may all your text posts have notes.

This is arrant rumor of course, but if any company deserves to be acquired by Yahoo! it’s Tumblr....

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:38:00 -0400

This is arrant rumor of course, but if any company deserves to be acquired by Yahoo! it’s Tumblr. Congrats, guys, you did it!

VANISHING NEW YORK: Katz’s [Deli] at 125 Jake [Dell,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:32:00 -0400

VANISHING NEW YORK: Katz’s [Deli] at 125

Jake [Dell, fifth-generation owner,] was pre-med, with plans to go on to medical school, when he took a year off after college to help out his dad at the deli. He never went on to become a doctor. “When I told my parents I wanted to do this, my mother said, ‘Are you sure? Let’s think about it,’ but my father was grinning from ear to ear.” Before Jake came on board, the future of Katz’s was uncertain. […] Jake says, “I just couldn’t imagine it becoming a condo, or having someone else running it. I could not handle that. So it was an easy decision. If I wasn’t here, this place would disappear.”

Two thousand mothers just said “Yeah but is he single?”

Yeah, I got jokes.

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:04:00 -0400

Yeah, I got jokes.

theamericankid: Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:25:51 -0400

theamericankid:

Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

I was previously able to accept the reboot as fan fiction,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:50:00 -0400

I was previously able to accept the reboot as fan fiction, albeit fan fiction of middling quality. Now, though. What is it if it’s not even made by fans? More importantly, if a Star Trek movie doesn’t even pass the Bechdel Test, is it worthy of the name? I feel like we’re boldly going backwards.

crocodileblackpelvis: Boredom+photoshop

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:42:07 -0400

crocodileblackpelvis:

Boredom+photoshop

"The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:19:00 -0400

“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what [President and CEO Gary Pruitt] called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery. [T]he government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.”

- Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

With the aim of uncovering and subsequently punishing the person or persons who leaked classified information about an operation in Yemen in the spring of 2012.

“A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.”

—William Gibson

My personal definition of national security places a somewhat higher priority on not eviscerating the first amendment than it does on keeping secrets, particularly when those secrets are no longer secrets anyway, how ‘bout you?

I mean she must have had some clue, right?

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:27:25 -0400

I mean she must have had some clue, right?

stayinbedgrowyourhair: sea-bitch: ABC cancels ‘Happy Endings’ goodBYE Remember that this same...

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:15:00 -0400

stayinbedgrowyourhair:

sea-bitch:

ABC cancels ‘Happy Endings’

goodBYE

Remember that this same network renewed ‘Revenge’ without a moment of hesitation.

[T]he emotional deadening that followed was a welcome relief. I...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:35:00 -0400

[T]he emotional deadening that followed was a welcome relief. I had always wanted to not give a fuck about anything. [B]ut my experiences slowly flattened and blended together until it became obvious that there’s a huge difference between not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck.

New Hyperbole and a Half is exactly what I needed today. [ty beefranck]

Everything in the entire world is awful.

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:10:52 -0400

Everything in the entire world is awful.

"Last week, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium on most uses of..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:04:52 -0400

“Last week, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium on most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides, on the suspicion that they’re contributing to the global crisis in honeybee health. […] All of which got me thinking about other food-related substances and practices that are banned in Europe but green-lighted here. Turns out there are lots. Aren’t you glad you don’t live under the Old World regulatory jackboot, where the authorities deny people’s freedom to quaff atrazine-laced drinking water, etc., etc.?”

- 7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here | Mother Jones

Including a few I didn’t even know about. Did you know it’s totally legal and also common to feed arsenic to poultry, then scrape the bottoms of their cages and feed the resulting crap slurry to cows? This sort of thing only increases my desire to punch people who decry big government or the nanny state square in their squawking parts. The F.D.A. is charged with making sure the food Americans eat doesn’t, y’know, potentially kill them, yet hasn’t even pretended to actually be capable of doing so for quite some time.

Dog: [digs hole under fence]

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:56:00 -0400

Dog: [digs hole under fence]
Me: No! TASHA! Tasha, NO!
Dog: [eats poop]
Me: NO! Tasha! TASHA, no!
Dog: [vomits on rug]
Me: I'm gettin' rull fucking tired of your shit, dog.
Dog: [wags whole body in oblivious joy]

"I loved the ending of this episode. Not for the drama, or the relentless pressure of the plot coming..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:38:00 -0400

“I loved the ending of this episode. Not for the drama, or the relentless pressure of the plot coming to a head with the news of the merger. But for the letterhead atop the paper that Peggy inserted into her typewriter—such a perfect detail. [W]hen the details of advertising, like the letterhead, are celebrated, I find it particularly wonderful. I could imagine the slight depression in the paper as I ran my fingers across the stock. Props to the people in props.”

- Mad Men: The existential hierarchy, from Don to dead prostitutes. - Paul Ford, Slate Magazine

I want Paul Ford’s brain in a jar.

laughingsquid: IT Crowd Creator Graham Linehan Bringing the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:49:00 -0400

laughingsquid:

IT Crowd Creator Graham Linehan Bringing the Geeky British Sitcom Back For One Last Episode

I just made a noise only dogs could hear.

constructionpaper replied to your photoset: Have I mentioned that I love postcards? I wondered...

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:26:00 -0400

constructionpaper replied to your photoset: Have I mentioned that I love postcards?

I wondered for a second how one would become ‘Rims”..but then I just assumed you were really good at basketball…

Well, actually… that must be why, yeah. Can’t think of any other reason.