October 2009
73 posts
“Poorhouse” by Like the Dessert →
What happens when an opera singer marries a heavy metal drummer?? My buddy Rob has started Roscoe Village’s finest living room rock band with his wife Sahara. They are live blogging as they record and then pushing up in-progress demos. I like the one about the bull best.
Everything Is Terrible!
National Novel Writing Month →
“Oh well, what the hell,” sang McWatt.
I’m no Steve Krug fan, but seriously eff the new CNN.com. This marque-happy bullshit has ruined web design.
A man is the king of his desk castle
– Mad Men S03E11: See Dick Cry - Videogum
I couldn’t watch last night, but also couldn’t wait…
The network, they said, felt I was “too pretty” to be believable as a...
– Original Sweet Dee does some seriously backdoor bragging while explaining how she was kicked off the show after the pilot.
Like Muxtape →
Tiger Style →
Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project... →
“Prosecutors also have asserted that the Medill students and their professor are not journalists and, therefore, not protected from revealing sources and turning over notes under the Illinois Reporter’s Privilege Act.”
OMG, Ladies! Have You Looked Into This Whole... →
At work, we have an ongoing dialogue about how classy prostitutes act in any given client situation. Like Always Sunny’s Dennis, we start off with many rules of what we won’t do, but pretty soon we’re pulling up to another scuzzy motel…
Have your surrogate check it out first in case it... →
it will.
Morning status meeting derailed by arguing if... →
Gonna be a long week.
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I love Charlie because he’s not garden-variety creepy: he’s like a hobo alien,...
– “The Waitress is Getting Married” | The A.V. Club
I have the suspicion that every episode of season five so far has been terrible, yet still pretty awesome in spite of itself. I guess that’s Charlie doing.
“…which is a pun.”
Grizzled” I’ve seen a lot. I can understand a lot of those types of words being...
– What Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy thinks about what you think about him - A.V. Chicago