June 2009
7 posts
'nuf said
Ben Bradshaw, the British culture secretary, issued a statement to announce his grief in which he said he was “a long-time fan of Michael Jackson and had “Billie Jean” played as the first dance at his civil partnership,” The Guardian reported. NY Times
Kopfschmerzen
dearoldlove:
The next morning in bed, with hangovers, you told me headache in German was so much better because it actually sounded like pain. That’s when I started to fall for you.
Onomatopeia du jour
Guffaw
What is your damage, Heather? →
Good news! For those of you also in love with Winona Ryder and these words that drip with the satisfying elixir of teenage angst and apathy, there’s new damage still TK!
Harem pants
I saw a girl on the street yesterday wearing harem jeans. Her chagrinned expression and awkward walk turned her into the spitting image of Disbelief, and Disbelief was saying, “How did these happen to me?”
For more thoughts on harem pants and a laugh, visit hideous thing #3 here.
Tolstoy and hilarious verbosity
[Karenin] felt like a man who has just had a tooth drawn which has been hurting him for a long time. After terrible pain and a sensation as if something enormous, bigger than his whole head, were being pulled out of his jaw, he feels, scarcely believing in his happiness, that the thing which has so long been poisoning his life and engrossing his attention no longer exists, and that it is possible...
May 2009
9 posts
Because she said so
My boss told me to find the best food blogs. I’m clueless. Favorite food blogs? anybody?
“… a searching bildungsroman”
– Michiko Kakutani on Dreams From My Father
In awe
It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser...
Now that's wry, as in dryly humorlous
Even Justice Souter’s resignation letter was punctilious and reserved. In her own resignation letter in 2005, Justice O’Connor said she left with “with enormous respect for the integrity of the court and its role under our constitutional structure.”
Justice Souter invoked nothing that grand. Instead, he told Mr. Obama that he was retiring “under the provision of 28 U.S.C. Section 371(b)(1),...
You, man, why not try an ascot?! →
Q: For some years now, I have been yearning to incorporate ascot wearing into my life. I would like your advice on how best to wear an ascot without coming across as pretentious. I would like to wear ascots daily and without being restricted to a yacht. (I want to know this man, especially if he can do it like Rupert Everett in Blithe Spirit.)
German Court Bans Very Long Names →
“The [court] ruled to limit the number of forenames a child could have, capping at five the number a mother could give her son, to whom she had tried to bequeath the 12-part “Chenekwahow Tecumseh Migiskau Kioma Ernesto Inti Prithibi Pathar Chajara Majim Henriko Alessandro.”
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
1 post
Oh, print publications, you're so quaint! →
February 2009
8 posts
A Drink a Day Raises Women's Risk of Cancer, Study... →
With 1.5 hours to go, this is the worst news of my day.
“a writer’s writer’s writer”
– John Ashbery. (Nattlebattle responds: “My cousin’s cousin’s cousin is in a family that I am not related to at all.) (via autobhan)
I lego n.y. →
(via erickroh)
Who knew legos could be so poignant?
A great man, weeping →
“Roger, sorry for today. I really know how you feel right now,” Nadal said. “Remember, you’re a great champion, you’re one of the best in history.”
Bacon Taster →
Hangover cure: bacon of the duck that bit you.
January 2009
3 posts
“There are a lot of great things about Tucson: The weather, sure, and the cost of...”
– Dorothy Gambrell, creator of Cat and Girl, on having left Brooklyn. (via autobhan)
December 2008
14 posts
“The Annual AVN are always scheduled to coincide with the International Consumer...”
– Big Red Son
D.F.W.
Knock Me Out
dearoldlove:
Heard you got big fakey boobs. What’s with that? And can I see them?
New York Hot Dog and Coffee →
Owned by Koreans, serenaded by Santa, and curiously satisfying.
Ben Orr, you are so young →
Cigarette, legs, japanese people →
I'm no longer emotionally invested in sports but,
this: ”March 13, 1962 The season ended and Philadelphia’s Wilt Chamberlain became the only player to exceed 4,000 points (4,029) and average over 50 points (50.4 ppg) in an NBA season.”
made my eyes water.
Wash that Update Right Out of My Hair
dearoldlove:
The day you changed your status to “Engaged” on Facebook, I spent 40 minutes in the shower so my boyfriend wouldn’t hear me crying.
November 2008
2 posts
GRrrrrrE
“Charts are often provided in order to display the information in a way that’s easier to understand. ETS constructs charts to hide the information you need to know, and to make that information harder to understand.”
Meet Me in the Bathroom →
“That’s very Betty Draper of you.”
-Christmasgorilla
October 2008
4 posts
Today in Russia: →
The Boob ceiling.
You Are Special (from the children's book slush...
P.1 “You are special because…”
p.2 “you like to hug…”
p.3 “and want to be huged”
p.5 “you like to touch…”
p.6 “and want to be touched.”
p.10 (last page) “you are special for being you in your own way.”
“The NYTimes”
– Even worse, from the French perspective, Americans are reckless optimists, incurably blind to the tragedy of life, to the weary convolutions of history and thus to the need for lengthy August vacations and financial regulations… For the French snob, the only admissible American is from the...
cm (text): Nattlebattle? Who are you at war with, or are these just skirmishes?
me (text): The whole thing is too long to text.
cm (text): ? So then email me dingbat.
me (email): my dad: "Nattle-battle-beetle-battle-bingest-bangest-boom; prettiest little girl in the whole wide room." but they went with Nattle-battle for the sake of ease.
cm (email): How (italicized) was that not your first post?
Book reading at 66th & Broadway
Person in Audience: What would you like your epitaph to read? Garrison Keillor: I’ll be right back.