October 2011
82 posts
why wikipedia is the best thing ever
“The haircut incident went on to become a popular-culture reference within other television shows, both comedic and dramatic. In the 30 Rock episode “The Bubble”, Jenna discusses how to get her hair cut and says, “But if I make the wrong choice, I could end up like Keri Russell, Felicity, Season 2.” When a girl pulls out her hair due to supernatural forces in theBuffy...
wtf is psychedelia, i'm a dumb minnesotan
“[Ariel] Pink played Maus the cool music that never made it to the Minnesota prairies: krautrock, postpunk, psychedelia.” - The New York Times, on John Maus
We do so have those things, dummies.
Also, his brother Joe has written for The Tangential.
We What We Talk About When We Blog as Fast as We...
I’ve challenged myself to write on The Tangential every day this year, and sometimes it gets hard to think of new ideas. I just thought about writing something called What Does “Healthy Relationship” mean, and I was like, “Hm, maybe that would work if was writing for Concerned Mom magazine.
But that’s the funny thing about writing right now, is we’re all...
Day 28: Swap a Healthy Snack for an Unhealthy One...
barf
good:
Read more about this month’s challenge here. See all daily challenges here.
i'm a bad catholic.
Anonymous asked: so, i kind of sort of don't understand the 30 days of average thing. can you explain it to me? i'd go non-anon, but i feel dumb enough not understanding it without everyone and their mother knowing it too. thanks
pathological liar at the liquor store
today i was buying a handle of whiskey for the weekend (i mean uh, to last 3 weeks), and a girl next to me in a weird black beret asked, “rum and cokes?”
“no, whiskey.”
she was blonde and freckled and looked sort of like an innocent pixie. “i’ve never had whiskey!”
whoa. not quite that innocent.
“i just turned 21 a year ago.”
ah, she was...
i like to be lonely
cuz i’m my own best friend!
Trying to quit smoking
The other day my co-worker caught me reading an article on Thought Catalog called, “Maybe It’s Time to Quit Smoking.”
“I’m so happy for you!”
Then everyone else at work heard and they were all, “Finally!” (No one else there smokes and they think I’m a giant smoker even though I smoke ~10 cigarettes a day, at most.)
I felt kind of guilty...
Breakdown of blogs i follow here
1. stoner space picture blogs: 30%
2. alt litster blogs: 10%
3. people who draw stuff: 20%
4. cute relevant news organizations: 20%
5. local jazz: 5%
6. tech blogs i never read: 15%
*by local jazz i don’t mean the music, but like “stuff,” as in jizz? or something.
My work let me start a Tumblr for them
In case you don’t know, I blog often for my workplace, Zeus Jones. I usually write about technology, design and the occasional marketing thingy that I want to think about.
I was excited to move to Tumblr because it’s more of a community, and I can more easily post lots of the cool design inspirations I look at every day.
Like this:
Check it out.
My mom and sister's suggestions for new American...
Mom: Why don’t they have a goth doll? how cute would that be? It could have skull shirts!
Krissy: They could have an amputee doll.
Mom: Oh yeah and one with facial hair! What if she had a little Hitler beard and you could press a button on her to make it disappear?
Me: What about a doll with prematurely huge boobs?
Mom: Or a Kim Kardashian doll. It could have a big, chunky butt with...
Why I Feared Queen as a Kid
my mom had to hide this record cover from me because i was so scared of it.
I thought this robot was legit going to grab me from my bed while i was asleep.
I was basically terrified of Queen in general.
I felt like “We will rock you” and “Another one bites the dust” were aggressive, violent songs.
I didn’t know Queen was gay. I thought they were jacked dudes...
New Yorker Writer Disses Derrida
From The New Yorker
My copy of Derrida’s “Writing and Difference” is studiously dog-eared and scrupulously annotated; there are excited check-marks of assent next to passages that I can no longer make head or tail of, and probably understood little better at the time. The sentence “Now, stricto sensu, the notion of structure refers only to space, geometric or morphological space, the order of...
