July 2008
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The ever-lovin' Gena
My sister calls me when she’s in a public place and wants to look like she’s doing something. Alright, fine, we all do that — but she doesn’t have to TELL me! (I used to have fake cell phone conversations when I was around annoying and/or intimidating crowds. Ok, sometimes I still do. Word to the lame: turn off your ringer. A sudden brrrring! totally blows your cover.)
Signs She's Not Faking It →
“It has been estimated that there is a 95% chance that if her nipples aren’t hard, she didn’t orgasm.” (via whateverlolawants)
How do I become a subject of this study?
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"Target panic" is the Macbeth of Olympic archers →
“There is an affliction so feared by elite archers that many in the sport refuse to even speak its name,” The New York Times reports.
Or maybe it’s the premature ejaculation, scourge of the young and hapless everywhere:
Mysteriously, sufferers start releasing the bow the instant they see the target, sabotaging any chance of a gold-medal shot.
Yet the condition can also...
Occupation: Freelance Spy →
Awesome, right? And then you learn that Mary Lou Sapone (alias: Mary McFate) was an NRA lackey spying on anti-gun activists, and all the glamour disappears in a puff of sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate.
Jane asks: "Does this count as LSAT prep??" →
Yet another way to help stop hunger while testing your vocab.
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LeRoi Jones on soul food (1966)
“Sweet potato pies, a good friend of mine asked recently, ‘Do they taste anything like pumpkin?’ Negative. They taste more like memory, if you’re not uptown.”
“The first black president is destined and it’s meant to be
The threats...”
– Ludacris’ jumps in the fray with “Politics: Obama Is Here”
I dig it. (Beats that idiotic Superman-style Obama that’s been blowing around the Internet.) Reminds me of Parliament’s “Chocolate City.” But unfortunately, Ludacris also calls Hillary Clinton an...
A Very Stern Letter
nickbennettusa is a man scorned:
Your rack isn’t even that good. I’m not positive but I think the left one was bigger than the other. I’m not sure because all I did was glance at them.
You can be assured that the next time I see you I will give a good long stare at them to find out.
Your friend,
Nick Bennett
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“We simply want to place as many of our Bush loyalists as possible.”
– The White House’s political affairs office, in a May 2005 email to “agencies throughout the executive branch.” It followed up on an email that directed them to “find jobs for 108 people on a list of ‘priority candidates’ who had ‘loyally served the...
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The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful →
mandalay:
don’t expect much. senator warner is on the list. but nora will still swoon!
Swoon indeed! A lot of square jaws and tasteful office separates. Something to aspire to, anyway.
Speaking of aspirations, it looks like The Hill needs me. They, ahem, write of handsome, New Orleans-born Carl Baloney (pictured below):
Our beautiful baloney has a first name and it’s C-A-R-L.
Allow...
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“Once I found the bird niche, I knew it was where I wanted to be.”
– Dave Hermansen, the proud owner of bird-cage.com.
[Hermansen] says he is always looking for areas on the Internet with high search volume and little competition.
Before bird cages, Mr. Hermansen owned — and sold — niche Web sites about paintball, remote-control toys and electric scooters. In...
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“It’s very difficult to define what is a man and what is a woman at this point.”
– Christine McGinn. A Lab Is Set to Test the Gender of Some Female Athletes (via mattlehrer)
Katie Thomas, the author of the article, notes that “critics say the [gender] test is based on the false idea that someone’s sex is a cut-and-dried issue.” She acknowledges that people can have...
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“THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE?!!?!?!?!
I’M SO JEALOUS.”
– Poor bored Gena to her cousin Minda, who’s hanging out and babysitting our itty bitty baby cousins in Burbank.
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“It’s time for New York and New Yorkers to cut up their credit cards. The...”
– Governor Paterson
Lawyers do not blog →
EARTHQUAKE!
hydeordie:
did you feel it? that was a big one!
I love the Internet.
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“Shut up and sing!”
– A fan to Bruce after he spent 20 seconds talking about the renditions and body bags and civil liberties, or lack thereof, of the last eight years.
It never fails to amaze me that so many of his fans actively dislike his very pronounced political bent. In concert, he’s like this beacon of...
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“I just thought it would be kind of funny to create an e-mail address based on a...”
– Guru Raj, the rather hapless owner of barackobama@gmail.com, which he opened on July 27, 2004. (The New Yorker)
He’s gotten some interesting emails directed to Obama. My favorite may be the one that informed the Presidential candidate:
“I can’t make the meeting tomorrow, but I’d like to...
Set your DVR: Fleet Foxes on Letterman, Aug. 4 →
On their Myspace page, they write of the appearance:
What. The. Fuck.
Humbleness under the guise of a four-letter word.
If you haven’t listened to “White Winter Hymnal,” please do so.
gooneruk (that’s gooner-u-k!) asks
Where does your Tumblr name come from?
Well, when a man and woman love each other, they have sex. And when they really love each other, they decide to keep the baby. And if Daddy’s mommy is named Leonora and Mommy’s mommy is named Leah, noraleah comes out!
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“New York doesn’t care if you’re there or not. The city doesn’t...”
– Tess Monaghan, 24, left a job as a management consultant in New York City to help run a Build Now, a non-profit in New Orleans. (USA Today)
From Cajun Boy’s thoughtful examination of the pull back to NOLA.
I left what I thought was my future (however hazy) in Dublin to volunteer for a...
Who didn't see this one coming?
cajunboy:
Homeland security to begin issuing heightened terror alerts soon.
Anything to distract from what’s going to be a record-breaking year.
Mandalay, you done made my morning →
Being on a list with these guys warms the cockles.
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I talk to myself
Outloud. Generally when I’m having an internal debate or experiencing confusion and I really want to make a point. For example, as I walked up Union I said, “You live in a white country, Nora.”
Please give this a thought...
Is there a black equivalent to Bruce? Someone w/ equal pop & political cred that extends across my generation & last? If you can think of someone, please email me. Thanks.
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It has got to bother Bruce
That his audience is so overwhelmingly white. It bothers me. (I’ve filled Giants stadium 65 times … but where are the … ?)
'He's playing "Held up without a gun"
He’s dedicating it to the “price you paid to get here tonight” (ie gas). He adds that it’s a very rare occurence, and he wrote the song in 1984 and it’s proved “prophetic.”
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Update
I have not seen a black person since I left Manhattan.
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