October 2010
49 posts
Headlines from hometown paper.
thisistheglamorous:
17-year-old boy faces felony charges in McDowell Senior High School fires
McDowell Senior High School damaged by 5 fires; juvenile in custody
McDowell activities canceled; varsity football game moved
Utah man taken into custody after pulling gun on Erie hotel worker
Closing arguments expected today in Erie ‘pizza bomber’ trial
Man accused of raping child in Mercer...
Watch30 Rock - Tina’s Chicago - Video - NBC.com
I use the second to last stall every morning. (Regularity breds regularity, if you have to know). Anyways, it’s right next to the handicap stall.
This morning somebody walked into that stall and proceeded to have some sort of meltdown. Heavy breathing, pacing, maybe a jacket being taken on and off. No pooping, just increasingly loud, but wordless hysterics.
While guy code forbids me from...
merlin:
turbine
I often tell my students to throw out their thesauruses. The fancy sounding words they substitute for regular ones often have wide-ranging connotations, sometimes derived from something as simple as the word’s component phonemes.
I.
It might also be useful to advise them to throw out their dictionaries, periodic tables, and atlases. Geez. Especially those atlases.
I mean,...
R.I.P. Alex Anderson, creator of Rocky and... →
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Gorilla gets himself into another D-town pickle...
…by joking a cool band might move away from home. I would like to assure the Detroit faithful that no other city in America wastes more energy on hyper-sensitive ”keeping it real” scenesterism.
Choose Your Own Adventure Spoilers →
My friend @effinggood writes these.
Brandon Inge is my grandmother’s favorite Tiger. She’s in the hospital right now, so although he isn’t very good, I take the re-up of his contract as a good omen.
Shane MacGowan: If I Should Fall From Grace →
This entire doc is on youtube.
Frank Vs. Lutz →
How did I never see this?? PLUS SUE.
“Still, if I was to take the entirety of Dylan’s collected works I’m not sure...”
– Detroit Gorilla (via goldenfiddle)
Vindication
Awesome for about five minutes before you feel like a jerk for correctly predicting something terrible.
“We got Bill Murray coming in, Bill Cosby is supposed to show up, and Big Bird is...”
– Tracy Morgan
30 Rock’s Live From New York, and Somebody’s Gonna Get Pregnant - E! Online
IVERSON PAPER DOLLS →
free darko
“… You end up taking it personally and you think, Well, I guess America...”
– Andy Richter
Album Taco reaches it's inevitable climax
Introducing the world’s saddest tacos:
The Daily Swarm - Belle And Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch on Opening a Taqueria in Glasgow…
John Stamos Blackmailers Sentenced to the Slammer →
I love this headline. I could read it for weeks.
WatchOh Canada, why can’t you ever be cool?
theatlantic:
Speaking of the medium and the message…
(H/t michellelegro)
“Known Menace Visual Intercept #48: Sears.com // Some men just want to watch the...”
– Known Menace Monitoring Authority
WatchBob Dylan’s 49th Beard
The Sons of Lee Marvin →
This doesn't bode well for mankind. →
Observations on the Vegas show from Forrest
pavement2010:
Just some notes on the Vegas show: Malkmus basically refused to play Kennel District. He laid on his back during the whole song and played kind of random leads. Spiral was really upset about it and there was a palpable tension for the entire set. After Stop Breathin’, Spiral stormed off the stage and didn’t come back for a few minutes. Malkmus played the entire show with his mic...
Welcome To Our A Capella Group! →
So Mike Lacher was in an A Capella group at Michigan…the <wait for it> Compulsive Lyres.