underemployment
The internet! Where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives!
“[T]hey’ve taken from what I’ve said an assumption that I’m gay, and in the halls and cafeteria I’ve been repeatedly called a gaywad.”
Kids are such JERKS (as is this douchey interviewer, so smirkful and undeserving of thanks). Will Phillips is WONDERFUL. It’s hard out there for a serious, tiny adult.
(via Tiger Beatdown)
boldtype, it's great
Because of book links. Such as: a brief list of books you can read online; a list of Best Books for Young Ladies; and some scans from an Edward Gorey-illustrated book titled The Recently Deflowered Girl, which seems kind of super-racist? but funny!
All right, three links, two to lists. But it’s better than a list of instructions on turning your urine into “an ideal hydroponic solution for plants!” [emphasis the author’s].
How To Spin a Hamburger on Your Finger and Impress Everyone Even the Teacher.
This looks like Quentin Blake drew it! Especially around the fingers.
Eric Left.
YOU GUYS, nominate it for best of craigslist. Because duh.
This essay, I don’t know; it reminds me that I am not a very communicative friend. I love my friends very much, but I’m terrible about showing it, and I feel like while I would rescue lots of them, I haven’t done much to deserve them rescuing me.
How do you show your friends that you love them without going all overboard and insane about it, when you are generally inclined toward overly emotional displays and insanity?
Here's THE GAME: Grab the book nearest you • Turn to page 56 • Find the fifth sentence • Reblog these instructions & post that sentence • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual; use the CLOSEST book.
Potato I have.
They simulate masturbation and flash their breasts for crowds of onlookers.
(it’s super-depressing, but quite engaging.)
Two biographies of Ayn Rand, who was clearly a crazy person.
I mean, libertarianism is already The Worst because it’s so selfish, but Randies are the worst of the worst, all I don’t want to share my wealth with the lesser-off, and moreover they should worship me for being their better. So unbearably obnoxious. Being a libertarian, that is a top-5 forever dealbreaker. If you’re going to be crazy, at least be fun crazy, or interesting crazy; no one likes loud and ignorant crazy.
If this chair were portable I’d carry one with me everywhere. Seriously. Make one that folds up like one of those tiny bicycles, it is so necessary.
La Roux - As If by Magic
I’ve been feeling all night as though I could tear out my hair, so frustrated, so angry. No specific reason why; maybe I always have “a reason” to be mad, but it isn’t focused tonight, just this rage I can’t quell. Maybe it’s time to change meds. Maybe I need a break. I’ve never been so aware of feeling quite so volatile.
Tobias Wolff: The short story, I suppose, expects a little more thoughtfulness and engagement on the part of the reader than most readers are willing to give.
Robert Birnbaum: So in spite of the demands of time and the possibility that the short story would require less of it, you think that readers would in fact reach for the longer work because it’s easier and more convenient.
TW: Yeah, it’s more convenient. It’s easier. Also, their friends are more apt to be talking about it, really. I mean, you look on the bestseller list and the people probably when you go to the cocktail party don’t ask you if you’ve read this collection of short stories, they want to know if you’ve read Lush Life, or they want to know if you’ve read The Lovely Bones, and so it’s just more socially current, and those sorts of things tend to be self-perpetuating, there’s no question about it.
-I got to edit the transcript of this interview last week, and it’s some of the most rewarding work I’ve done all year. Lucky, lucky me.
“You’re ‘Daddy Smash’ and not another word.”
YOU GUYS the funniest thing I have read in a million years. KATE BEATON! You are THE BEST.
I laughed SO HARD, my parents demanded to know what caused such an uproar, and I showed them, and they laughed as well. Especially my mother; she does appreciate an Eyre sisters (Bell brothers) joke. So, not so bad.
Real Housewives of Orange County : This Is the Way the World Ends
Richard Lawson: articulator of Bravo-born fever dreams.
Tony
Submitted by Toni
LOOK AT THIS. Someone’s dad was basically a Stooge, as in, the Three. So great. I want to favorite every single photo from My Parents Were Awesome, they are all so sweet and charming and funny and beautiful.
You guys, I faked my first research paper 12 years ago, in 10th grade; I stayed home “sick” from school and found all my sources online and then looked up a bunch of books on my topic and attributed my quotes to those books.
I took computer classes in 1989, 1990, when there were B drives and floppy discs actually flopped; I wrote my first proper research paper as a 12-year-old, getting 80 percent of my information from the internet.
Most days I feel like the oldest, dumbest person in the world. It is a relief and a shock to hear that kids 10 years my junior, who never knew life without computers and the internet, are worse at technology than me. I AM NOT YET OBSOLETE.
(soon perhaps, but not yet.)
Mister Rogers “Make a Journal” iPhone/iTouch app for kids! (via PBS)
Kidlets can make a journal with Daniel Tiger!! Ohhh my heartstrings.