January 2010
26 posts
“And, both the creators and ABC hope, viewers who have never seen the show might...”
– ‘Lost’ Creators Promise Answers in Last Season
As someone who has watched every episode, this quote makes me nervous that accessibility will trump storytelling for the final season. We’ll see!
That passengers thank the pilot when they leave the plane is a testament that stuffing people into a metal tube, hurtling them in the air, and landing on a few square feet of rubber is scary, miraculous shit.
Ironic dice
Friday night I saw some hipsters crouched down on the sidewalk of Graham Ave playing dice. Crinkled bills and all.
Afterlife / another Abraham Lincoln story
In what seems like a different life, it was so long ago, a friend proffered to me the central theme upon which he wanted to base a novel: afterlife only exists for as long as one is remembered. When people forget you, your afterlife ends.
I’m reading another book on Abraham Lincoln. For all his spiritualism and kind-heartedness, Lincoln never believed in an afterlife. The deaths of his...
To Friends Who are Doing Human Rights Activist...
zadi:
From the Google Blog
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a...
“There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the...”
– Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno
“The pilot did a beautiful job. He didn’t put it in the water like the other...”
– Mr. Falk, passenger on a United flight that landed on two wheels at Newark Airport
“he’s facebook friends with spike lee, macgruber!”
The Costco in Manhattan is amazing and a little scary.
“The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is...”
– New Yorker article on Aprovecho, a non-profit dedicated to changing the way three billion people burn fossil fuels by creating a better stove.
WatchMichael Pollan on The Daily Show.
“Do you know why I put up with this pitiful job, Mr. Donaghy? Why I fetch these...”
– KENNETH, 30 Rock (via inothernews blogalicious shiningstar michaelmcgee ericmortensen) (via zadi) (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
kathleen, you are the reblogging the shit out of this! my mom’s reaction to the kenneth character on 30 Rock: “Andres, I don’t trust him.”
Save a fucking mountain →
yeahapparently:
nickdouglas:
So apparently you can either blow up a mountain to mine it for coal, or you can, well, leave it there and maybe build a wind farm and power 70,000 homes.
It took me six seconds to email the EPA with this site’s form, and another four to sign the petition.
Done and done.
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