December 2009
34 posts
A friend of mine just got a drunken booty call at...
1) Outside of nursing homes, this is just not acceptable behavior, people.
2) I have to assume that this is a statistical anomaly, and not evidence of the fact that people are partying harder in LA than they are in NY.
3) I don’t even get to leave work tonight until like 7. I’m actually kinda jealous of this mystery girl.
YOU GUYS
lauramenorah:
Shut the fuck up with the formspring.
seriously.
Funny.
I was sitting in an In ‘n’ Out drive thru the other day and considering setting one of those bad boys up, until I realized that a) I’ve gotten literally three pieces of email/twitter feedback on things that I’ve written here, so clearly there isn’t a lot of pent up demand for my input on any...
On Fashion
claytoncubitt:
“Fashion is an extension of dressing. It’s a very important social factor. It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is evil....
Decisions, decisions
Yep, another “Kirk organizes his thoughts in full view of the internet” post. Sorry, tiny handful of followers…
So last night I was reminded of a phenomenon that I’d conveniently forgotten about: The bad night out. It wasn’t that I had a bad night, quite the contrary, I went and saw Avatar in 3d at the Arclight, got some burgers, then met up with some old friends...
This is an interview with the man who created The... →
(via vicemag)
“Biden added that “Any Democrat who decides for their own shallow purposes, if...”
– wonkette, trying to make me laugh through my tears
On opt outs and cop outs
A lot of my friends are very political. They grew up under Reagan and Bush, matured under Clinton, and were blindsided by 8 years of Dubya that left them feeling cynical and jaded to the legislative process. They wrote letters, marched, donated to ActBlue and MoveOn, phonebanked, you name it, but nothing they did stopped the Iraq war, or illegal wiretapping, or torture, or any of the millions of...
Fake Steve Jobs has a chat with AT&T →
neonmarg:
I so wish every word was real.
I’ve had above average luck with AT&T and my iPhone, but everyone I know in LA has had to endure dropped calls and near constant levels of phone-throwing aggravation. Maybe we all get to switch to Verizon soon, who knows?
Green Balloons →
It’s like I always say, if you’re a Republican politician and you want to have some very rough/sadomasochistic sex, you gotta remember the safe word. Just, let me say it again, don’t forget the safe word.
I know he’s probably busy reinventing journalism, but things like this make me wish Josh Marshall was on tumblr.
Washington Post profile on bailout czar's... →
If you watch the Frontline episode on the Financial Meltdown, the soothing voice over almost makes it possible think that it didn’t really happen, that it was all some scary dream, but in articles like this one and on blogs and financial podcasts and whatever other things I consume in an attempt to get a handle on just what the fuck is happening, you can see that at some point in late 2008,...
Mark Coleran Visual Designer →
via gizmodo, Mark Coleran, the man behind many, many screen interfaces for films.
A lot of these things are ridiculously overdesigned, but the Bourne Identity screen stuff was pretty believable. The interstitials, however, and all the “agent located” nonsense was kind of distracting in my completely irrelevant opinion.
re: john mayer on tumblr
meaghano:
me: how am i just finding out about this? how did this HAPPEN? peter: Please no one say “ORGANICALLY”
I have no opinion about John Mayer being on Tumblr, but as for the word Organic. I audibly groan whenever I hear that word, which is often, since people in advertising LOVE it. I’ve actually considered setting up everything from a swear jar type thing to a loud...
flav →
Against my better judgment, I went ahead and made a flavors.me page. I suppose if any of you people were going to stalk me, you would have done it by now, so I figure the coast is clear.
negging →
molls:
required reading.
Yup. If you really want your blood to run cold, skim through this pick up artist glossary, which reads like an owners manual for a sociopath.
I ran into a couple of these jokers one night at Pravda in Soho. I’d started fielding questions from some girls who wanted advice about digital cameras or some other nerdery and soon found myself beset by a dude in a...
remove 3:2 pulldown from quicktimes for free →
Hello Nerds! At the risk of attracting the attention of Andreas Wacker’s all-seeing internet Eye of Sauron, I wanted to direct folks’ eyeballs to this: A free, command line tool for removing 3:2 pulldown from quicktimes. Andreas explains:
32none looks at the source clip for valid 3:2 patterns. If it finds enough confidence then it will create a 24fps version of the source file and...
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud →
A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study were published Wednesday in PLOS One. “A piece of tuna sushi has the...
That LA list post I warned you about
I leave for LA in 5 days, and I’m starting to get excited. I didn’t really want to bore you with my todo list, but fuck it, I don’t want to forget to do any of this stuff, so enjoy a long ennumerated essay outlining my non-work LA priorities:
1) if you think I’m not going to In ‘n Out immediately after picking up my rental car, you are drunk.
2) Fritto Misto in...
