January 2010
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Projects that I am abandoning immediately: the...
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Does Anyone Live Tumbl?
9:38 p.m. OMG BALK IS MAKING ME MOVE THIS OVER TO THE AWL NOW, GOD.
9:36 So the other day it was BUDGET FREEZE and now it’s basically DRILL BABY DRILL.
9:35 This has been some engrossing TV. I just totes ate a whole bag of cheddar cheese puffs without even noticing. I FEEL BAD.
9:33 Um there was some chanting in response to his “NO SECOND PLACE FOR AMERICA” line. Was it...
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Hey. You. Yes, You!
How in the mucking fruck am I supposed to get in touch with you if there’s no email address on your website? I’m not going to go dig through all the people with your same name on Facebook! And then go look at your Twitter. And then realize you’re not following me so I can’t DM you. And then, what, I’m just supposed to start googling for your old-ass Linked In profile,...
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Screenshot from a Memo, Dated 1/22/09
Sad to say, Alex Balk really was obsessed with this unfathomable name.
No but really guys, that whole Bedford ave bike... →
I love me some Erica Sackin reportage.
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It May Or May Not Be Ironic
A young New York Times freelancer, Natasha Lennard, served as a decoy—one of 200 or so—in last night’s annual New York City government-sponsored, volunteer-run homeless survey. This survey, you can imagine, is to judge the number of homeless people who are living outside of shelter in the winter. And these decoys, quite obviously, are used as a measure of coverage and penetration of the...
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Local Homosexual Unnecessarily Explains Sexuality... →
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In Case I Disappear Later Today
This is the Subaru of the FDNY-sweatshirt wearing dude who, after hitting someone with his car, because he wanted a parking space so bad (yes, the person was standing in the parking space for me, while I drove over from about 40 feet away, until of course I stopped in the middle of the street because I watched him hit someone with his car), then actually called 911 to accuse the person that he hit...
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wow. wow. →
(via maura)
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I think I've enjoyed reading the comment thread... →
misterhippity:
One of my favorite moments: ”I didn’t walk out of Indecent Proposal, but it was so bad that I broke up with my boyfriend immediately afterward, just to hurt something.”
Seriously, there is some “blog comments to book deal” craziness up in that craziness.
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Look At Them There Faggots On The Ice →
This crazy piece on figure skating outfits in the Times veers unreliably from being actually very funny to being this amazing mix of homophobia and xenophobia? (Who knew those homos in RUSSIA were destroying everything manly (??) about FIGURE SKATING.)
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Something is very rotten at the Walker Art Center →
“‘At the Walker, they have six board meetings a year, and this was the most difficult one I ever was at,’ [Yasmil] Raymond says. ‘It was the only time someone on the acquisitions committee voted against an aquisition.’”
The Haitian Revolution and the Forging of America... →
abbyjean:
DURING THE NIGHT of August 22, 1791, a wave of fire engulfed the French West Indies colony of St. Domingue (present-day Haiti), as hundreds of thousands of slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities, and massacred a terrified white population. The slave rebellion that started that night—the most successful slave rebellion in history—lasted 12 long years. It culminated in the...
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Super Letter to the Editor from The Economist.
hman:
“YO, ECONOMIST – I was scandalised to learn I had been previously scandalised without even knowing it, when I read that Gordon Brown had “scandalised Americans” by referring to our president as “Barack”. I think this may be a case of British self-flattery.
Before the outbreak of such outrage three things would have had to happen which simply did not. First, Americans would have to know...
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When Your Friends Have Children That Touch...
Tom Scocca: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz99999999999999999999999999999999999
Choire Sicha: OH HI MACK!
Choire Sicha: MACK!
Choire Sicha: M
Choire Sicha: A
Choire Sicha: C
Choire Sicha: K
Choire Sicha: MACK MACK MACK! Tom Scocca disconnected
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rendit:
I wanted to be Graham Greene filing three pieces a year from some crumbling colonial city or another and smoking opium and fucking hookers like most of you hanging out at The Awl and crying to Morrissey songs on YouTube today — ha ha, how far we’ve come, etc. — but always figured that required a fancy university degree and lots of contacts within the diplomatic corps and press club.
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Johnny Weir Promises To Destroy His Enemies
Me: You should write a book.
Johnny Weir: I definitely want to write a book. Not about figure skating! Just about the beauty and the ugliness of figure skating. The dirt.
Me: Will you tell all?
Johnny Weir: I will name names. I don’t care who sues me after it. People will love it. I always have my Mafia connections if nothing else. As soon as I don’t need to be politically...
Dave Eggers, author and editor of McSweeney's,... →
meaghano:
whether that sentence incites rage or squee, that thing sold out in the first week, and this conversation should be really interesting.
Yes! Could some attendee transcribe, please?
!!!
*screams*
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David Cho: out of curiosity: without looking it up, can you name the new york jets quarterback? (guy who throws the football.)
Choire Sicha: RYAN PHILLIPPE. no wait. it's that famous white guy. oh god.
David: seriously. can you?
Choire: um. no. i have no idea.
David: sigh. ok. mark sanchez.
Choire: HE'S the quarterback???
David: yeah.
Choire: he's not hot.
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No one's going to rail against this week's...
brianvan:
I’m going to take that as a sign that it makes at least 80% sense!
Two words: Pay Wall.
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I DON’T WANNA BE FWEINDS.
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This is totally fascinating to me! Anyway, once I found the Internet, I could finally (and sometimes anonymously!) say all the nasty shit I wanted about the people and institutions at whom I was so angry. I thought that was really subversive and edgy for awhile, then I pretty much realized that I was just being an asshole, that the web as a medium (and my own abilities, whatever those might be)...
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AwlCaseygate: the smoking gun!
brianvan:
peterfeld:
choire:
I don’t know anything about Casey Johnson. I don’t care about Casey Johnson. I did not think about her one single time ever while she was alive!
cough cough
Choire, you gonna take that from someone who voted Dukakis? THROW DOWN!
HA IT TURNS OUT I TYPED THE NAME CASEY JOHNSON BACK IN THE SUMMER OF 2004! (By the way, my typing is not terribly correlated to my...
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ninety9:
The Awl’s ass-ault on good taste (also known as ‘Big, Remaindered Asses in Lace’) continues unabated for a second day! Tres scandale!
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU CRITICIZE THESE VITAL, LIFE-GIVING, ALLEGEDLY INCOME-PRODUCING—OMG, what is the cat eating? Ew! Gross! Oh God, somehow I ran out of cigarettes, again. Sometimes I worry about the long-term effects of smoking. For instance, will it...
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A Blog Post Has Always Just Been The Answer To A...
I was walking down 9th Street just now, coming back from lunch (I know, and: waffle, two eggs over medium, matzoh ball soup, mint tea, because I’m getting a cold), and I realized that I automatically do this thing when I want to avoid people that I learned to do when I was young and spent lots of time in iffy neighborhoods. (In this case, there were a bunch of drunk guys who were bugging...
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