April 2011
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Just trashed 50,000 fonts from my computer
Spring cleaning, motherfucks.
March 2011
81 posts
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“Hate is indeed too strong an emotion to feel for a font, but it’s not too...”
– Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design » Overused Typefaces | Typophile
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“Okay, so I get that alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse are two different...”
– overheard in the psychology department hallway (via synchronia)
cough.
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Crazy people in my neighborhood: a brief list
a) Dude riding a beach cruiser, wearing a Michael Jordan 23 slingback. Looked like he was having fun, until he rode into the middle of the street to yell at a woman in a car, calling her a jew bitch and a devil woman.
b) Woman wearing white latex gloves, sort of walking where there would be a bike lane if there was a bike lane on my street. Kept switching directions while I pulled into my parking...
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“Of the money the Kochs have spent on politics, broadly construed, the portion...”
– Money and politics: The Koch brothers and the progressive master narrative | The Economist
Great thing about the economic realities of political activism. (How much does donating to politicians matter vs. donating to activist organization?)
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This Movie Made Me Feel Bad to Be Alive: A Review...
cavecitysink:
[Trigger warning for sexual violence against young women.]
Introductory Joke: Generally, when I find that I am jealous of a character in a movie, it is because that character is handsome or eating a decent looking sandwich or maybe best friends with a penguin. In the case of Sucker Punch, I was jealous of the main character, Baby Doll (played by Emily Browning), because she was...
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(film)
Joe: now
Joe: is there a term
Joe: for the magic moment
Joe: the magic quantum moment
Joe: between when someone IMs you a link to a wikipedia article
Joe: and when you click it and it loads
Joe: when all you have to go on is the URL
Joe: and the possibilities of what it could actually be
Joe: stretch out in your mind
Joe: like infinite horizons?
Joe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection
Joe: unfortunately it doesn't say like (film) at the end
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camp
barthel:
deepomega:
Having a hard time with this! And I will admit first off that I haven’t seen Sucker Punch, and I really refuse to pay money for it, but everything I’ve seen and read gives the impression of a director/writer who thinks he’s smarter than he is, which is the opposite of camp as far as I’m concerned. (I also had this feeling with Crank, admittedly! Crank 1 was definitely a...
Sucker Punch: camp classic
barthel:
I understand why the promos said that Sucker Punch was like Kill Bill meets Inception, but here is a more productive comparison: it is like Showgirls with fight sequences. Also, it is like what you imagine hyperspace to be like in Scott Pilgrim, it is like Black Swan but unashamed about its campiness, and it is not really all that different from, say, Crank. It was certainly not...
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If you think your life in New York is difficult
then go fuck yourself.
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While only one of the logos I designed for...
I am honored to be the model for a logo my coworker made. I am wearing a tracksuit and flashing New Jersey themed bling.
wearegatsby: Suckerpunch Soapbox →
wearegatsby:
ahem. I’m going to apologize in advance for this one.
Z. Snyder: Yeah, so Baby is committed to the insane asylum by her stepfather who wants her lobotomized so that she won’t be able to testify or tell the police what he’s done to her. He pays the evil orderly off and the guy’s like, “No…
More on why Snyder is a fucking jackass here:...
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OMG BSG BOARD GAME
emojohn:
OMG OMG OMG OMG.
<33333
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“me: HOLD ONTO SOMETHING ‘CAUSE HERE COMES THE CUTENESS. Unrelated: that’s a...”
– Deep Omega And I (via emojohn)
It’s true, though. We also accidentally came up with Maru The Cat as a nickname for your rad chilies. Because Maru loooooves boxes.
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Lessons learned at karaoke tonight:
Ladies love dudes who sing Lionel Richie.
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Some Questions About the State of Things « Thought... →
Usually thought catalog is great! But this time it is more like Chuck Palahniuk Catalog.
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“Yet political opposition to construction of new atomic power plants is...”
– Japan’s real disaster
“Not liking nuclear power” is sort of like “not liking electricity” - I think maybe what we should be trying to minimize is nuclear disasters, not the existence of nuclear power. (Or, alternatively, someone invent cold fusion! Immediately!)
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"There are two things I know about white people.
They love matchbox 20, and they’re terrified of curses.”
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The big picture
barthel:
Here is an idea: the main purpose served by the mass media (news but also TV, movies, books, pop music, the web, etc.) is to allow us to experience or understand experiences outside our own lives as physically manifest, geographically constrained individual human beings. This is not new, necessarily, but I’m trying to take it a little broader than, say, Walter Lippmann did. Because...
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The real war on Americans
Official government violence against nonviolent Americans and residents, by contrast, occurs daily. And for the last 30 years it has been increasing at an alarming rate. From the early 1980s to the mid-2000s, University of Eastern Kentucky criminologist Peter Kraska conducted an annual survey on the use of SWAT teams in the United States. Until the late 1970s, SWAT teams were generally used in...
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I would like it if news outlets would include a...
with any reporting on radiation. E.g. “the plume of radiation touching down in LA will have the same oncological effects as splitting a cigarette three ways behind the dumpster in middle school.”
mollyculetheory:
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“Does whiskey plus ginger ale have a name?”
“That’s a highball.”
“Hey: I invented the highball.”
I mashed some limes and fresh ginger into my rye & ginger ale the other night, using the blunt wooden cyclopean end of a steak knife, because of course we have four kinds of bitters but don’t traffic in anything as fancy as a pestle, and it was actually quite...
Crushing the bottle of Maker's at work
I will truly miss my boss and his never-emptying supply of boozes.
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“What JamVee’s argument speaks to is not the bills themselves but to the...”
– Is the Wisconsin Budget Like Obama’s Health Care Reform? Well, Kinda! | The Awl
Abe gets to the heart of politics.
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Today in ineffective google image searches:
“Penis ouroboros”
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“Chain World is the brainchild of Sleep is Death/Inside A Star-Filled Sky creator...”
– The Cult of Minecraft: Chain World | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via miketodd07, thirdworldgirl- )
This is why the Tea Party has so many supporters among the working class, kids.
(via librarianinlittlecanada)
The Myth of the American Dream is pervasive.
(via nanner)
The feeling of epiphanic realisation is overwhelming right now.
(via...
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Brimming with:
1) Bourbon
2) Feelings about my future in this career
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'Q: Can you give us an overview of the plot?...
rendit:
Laura: It’s pretty clear from the get go that neither Batman nor anyone else he encounters will have a single thought, no matter how mundane, that will not be shared with the reader. Within the first two panels, you have no less than two characters both speaking and thinking in separate dialogue bubbles simultaneously, about absolutely inconsequential sh*t including but not limited...
“Both our Constitution and our common law guarantee that we will be judged by our...”
– Brow Beat : David Simon, Creator of The Wire, Speaks on Felicia “Snoop” Pearson’s Arrest
Was gonna put this here, but Simon’s so on point I want people to actually read it.
Auto for David Simon.
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“Perhaps the most controversial document to surface was one that purports to lay...”
– Egypt unsure what to do about trove of security documents - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com 