May 2010
27 posts
Crazy things to try
The other day I half joked that BP would set off a nuclear bomb if they were allowed to and if they thought it would work. It seemed like the most preposterous idea I could come up with to get my point across. I learned from CNBC today that the Russians did exactly that to stop a spill in their waters.
Again, no word on if it worked or not, but I’m amazed that nuking the pipe is even an...
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This is so fucking unfair.
(also, the first person that says Shake Shack gets a punch in the eye. NOT THE SAME THING).
Watchneonmarg:
Rachel Maddow looks at the history of a 1979 offshore well that spewed for 9 months, all the same things were tried as are being tried in this current disaster… and the 1979 one was in 200 feet of water. Amazing.
I saw this tonight and was also amazed, but wonder now as I did then, these things they’re trying have names, right? Top Hat, Top Kill, Junk Shot. I’m guessing...
So at some point I decided that I wanted to hang a helicopter tail rotor on my wall.
No, that’s a lie. Not “at some point,” I know exactly when it occurred to me: I was watching Iron Man, and I noticed that Tony Stark had a wooden airplane propeller hanging in his workshop. “That’s kind of cool,” I thought, “too bad I couldn’t give a shit about old...
On bros, and the Icing of same. →
marklisanti:
O, the World and its Neverending Mysteries!
[via alexbalk]
Thus ends several days of confusion and age-related insecurity due to ignorance of another new trend. Thank you Mark, thank you Alex, thank you mysterious frat boy Awl writer.
Rand Paul
I was getting tired of the string of family values Republicans getting caught having gay sex, so it’s a bit of a relief that we now have one, a doctor no less, getting caught being a fucking idiot.
Rand Paul has made a lot of mistakes in the last few days, but the one that sticks out to me was his failure to be as media savvy as his old man.
I mean, we all remember the Paultards of...
laffing about that time mark graham made me... →
molls:
i feel really old.
Aww.
Defamer. Seeing anything from the glory days of the Lisanti/McAleer/Abramovitch era recalls a simpler time, a time that exists in my memory almost exclusively in hazy images lit by golden, magic hour sun. A time of weeknight music gigs, worrying amounts of In ‘n’ Out consumption, and downtown dive bars.
I don’t know if I ever acted on any...
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The Awl and Sady Doyle disassemble Weezer
This piece, which I realize came out eons ago, is amazing. In particular:
… the vast majority of the men I have spoken to, about the album, are under the impression that it is about them. One man I spoke to about it pointed out that, for men, Rivers Cuomo is both Liz Phair and Liz Lemon. He’s the pathetic dork in the glasses who can’t get laid and has gone at least slightly...
Not gonna lie
I’m shockingly drunk right now, the problem is that I’m fairly sure I had an A+ Platinum Tumblr post ready for you all, but then a sucession of Brooklyn bartenders made sure that my memory was erased, and all I’ve got left in the way of entertainment is a somewhat flaccid description of my night: I saw Sia, rocked it; went to the local bar, was bored; went to the “new hip...
Hey, remember Tumblarity?
Man, those were a neurotic few months, amiright?
