February 2012
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Toby: “Welcome, you are now in the minority. Enjoy.”
Me: Severe minority. In fact, I think it is just you and me. I am pretty sure.
Toby: Huddled in a secret corner.
Toby: “Hello, engaged ladies and college freshman girls. 30-something white male here. Is this seat taken? … Yes? Oh, okay…I’ll just, uh…”
Me: We are smoking in the alley out the...
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A beacon for all Twin Citians.
southtwelfth:
One of my favorite pieces of anything I read last year was Dan Sinker’s extended, real-time novella of fake @MayorEmanuel tweets. It was great for many reasons, but principally because it started as a not-that-funny one-off joke (Rahm Emanuel likes to say “fuck”), and then, once it had captured its audience’s attention, slowly built into this sprawling, surreal love letter to...
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Dawes is a plot point on this week’s Parenthood.
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michaelzimmer:
The Magnetic Fields, “Andrew In Drag”
AH! “Andrew In Drag” got a music video and it is great.
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well now that i’ve seen that will someone let me know when they release a version of “Give Me All Your Luvin’” that has zero-Madonna and four times as much Nicki and MIA? TIA
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Aaaaaand now Toofer is wearing the J.Crew shirt I lectured in on Monday.
[Previously]
during a guest lecture today I managed to say, in context and without advance preparation, “Maybachs-on-bachs-on-bachs-on-bachs-on-bachs” at which point the largely 18-19 y/o group of students went O.O because they don’t expect their instructors to know stuff like that
:: high fives self ::
teacher of the year
Things I have already said today:
1. “I woke up and was just, like, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT GOOGLE.”
2. “The furniture situation is not an issue.”
3. “My alpaca farm is going to be a neat place.”
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