May 2010
60 posts
April 2010
76 posts
Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Ok, so here’s the thing - I can’t embed it, but there’s a video out there that I need you to watch.
Turns out, two men, at a US Military base in Afghanistan made their own video for “Telephone” (Lady Gaga, Beyonce).
I don’t care how you feel about the song, this is the way I support my troops. I support them in watching their gender trascen-dance and...
Watchabsurdlakefront:
blaaargh:
SNL: Stefon on Weekend Update “This place has everything; trance, stilts, throw-up music, an albino that looks like Susan Powter, Teddy Graham people…”
(via coketalk)
”Sounds like the visions of a dying gay man underneath too many blankets…”
The Prisoner, Then and Now
“Well why should we do critical things? Why don’t we be nice and light? Why...”
– Marlene Dietrich (from Marlene, 1984)
saw Kick-Ass
saw Date Night
saw something else but I forgot.
Want to see:
The Expendables
A Home Library’s Educational Edge →
austinkleon:
After examining statistics from 27 nations, a group of researchers found the presence of book-lined shelves in the home — and the intellectual environment those volumes reflect — gives children an enormous advantage in school.
“Home library size has a very substantial effect on educational attainment, even adjusting for parents’ education, father’s occupational status and other...
Richard Dorment applied for 300+ jobs over several... →
nerdgasms:
Job market math!
This is a depressing concept, but an entertaining read (if you can get past it being in Esquire).
….
I wrote a nice post but then tumblr ate it.
Fuck.
WatchHoly shit, Natalie Merchant performs 19th century poetry to music.
Fuck, TED keeps getting cooler and cooler.
That ICP video was spoofed on SNL. Brilliant.
Also, Bjork and Richard Branson.
HOORAY!
"Bad Ass Burgers at The Bad Apple in Chicago" →
For my Chi-Town friends
Tanzania gives citizenship to 162,000 Burundi refugees The UN has praised Tanzania for granting citizenship to some 162,000 refugees who fled Burundi 38 years ago.
Sometimes I honestly regret leaving the place.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8625429.stm)
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and...”
– Jeremiah 29:17, The Bible.
GOD HATES FIGS.
Our dream of Law & Order: Chicago is one step... →
