February 2012
Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?
notafraidtomerge:
Today I saw a guy trying to simultaneously downshift his Porsche Carrera, change lanes, dial his Blackberry and figure out where the hell he was.
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on Prop 8 being struck down (again)
Wife: It's never real or whatever. It doesn't change us. It all seems so endless.
Me: You know what else is endless? OUR LOVE. duh.
Timothy Noah: Komen’s Problems Go Far Beyond The... →
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“It’s finished on the goddamned map!”
– SPEED (via notafraidtomerge)
Komen's ambiguous apology, by Katha Pollitt →
“Komen miscalculated by thinking its base cares only about breast cancer: in fact, those women in pink t-shirts and sneakers, raising their thousands upon thousands of dollars a year for breast cancer research, understand quite well that women’s health means more than tumor-free breasts.”
January 2012
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“Food stamp president? I’m glad we got one, if that’s what they want...”
– Gingrich’s ‘Food Stamp President’: Race Code, Or Just Politics? : NPR
aka, the quote from a South Carolina man that made me cry in the car this morning. what I want is for Obama to be as sure he’ll accept that responsibility — and campaign on it.
“Honk! If you’ve been saved!”
– Worst license plate frame to be stuck behind ever. (via notafraidtomerge)
This episode of SouthLAnd would be called "Near...
notafraidtomerge:
On the morning of Christmas eve, someone hit our brand new car, dragging a long gouge into the driver’s side door, so deep you could see sunlight through it.
Yesterday, repairs finally complete and with a rare day off, I drove from the body shop in Pasadena to Koreatown to pick up my wife from work. Five blocks later, a guy blew through an intersection where he had a stop sign...
Current TV, ABC Family’s Social Calendars ::... →
hey, look! my work on The Young Turks got a nice shout-out in this industry piece about social media in television:
A part of Ugyur’s [nightly] cable show is dedicated to viewers comments and questions, which he regularly considers to make programming choices. “The most common request we got was to cover the Bradley Manning trial. So in the last segment of our television show we’ve been covering...
No, you wouldn't.
Lady in bathroom: When you first came into the restaurant, I thought that was your real hair!
Me: It's not, but I like it so much honestly I'm thinking maybe I should dye it.
Lady: Oh, I wouldn't.
Not afraid to merge: on driving, Drive, Los... →
notafraidtomerge:
As much as I love to drive, I hate the commute and every minute it steals from my life at home. But I love Los Angeles, and even in the dark — and it always dark coming home right now, and sometimes just barely light when i leave — I can’t stop looking at her.
This is what I see.
this is where i’m putting some writing i’ve been doing… follow there for all...
“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via thatluciegirl)
i didn’t learn this story in 4th grade, but i was probably that age. thanks again, stories for free children and my hippie family for reading it to me.
“Bowie’s music was never about nostalgia, always the present, or, even...”
– David Bowie Turns 65
so LA. and also so true.
Bryan: Do you know a person called [name redacted]?
Rick: No. I don't.
Erin: Who's that?
Bryan: He's an editor. You just remind me of a person named that.
Erin: You think he should know someone because they look alike. He's not a commercial actor.
amanda palmer: the Wedding Blog →
life is long. this is how you know you’ve found the right person to spend it with.
amandapalmer:
it was a constant cause of marvel to me that neil looked at these determined and fiercely independent qualities and he not only withstood them, he not only tolerated them, he actually encouraged them. i’d fantasized for years that i’d someday find this person, who would hold me but let me go...
December 2011
Economists explain 2011 in 18 charts - The... →
i understood (maybe) about a third of these, but this is by far the best year end list i’ve seen in 2011.
“What makes the attack on “All-American Muslim” more disturbing — and very...”
– On Religion - A One-Man War on American Muslims - NYTimes.com
(i didn’t realize it was this overblown, but i knew that this “organization” didn’t do 1/100 of what it had claimed to.)
The Politics of the Top 1 Percent - NYTimes.com →
(link via a participant in our chat during the young turks on current this week.)
“I taped up two large pieces of paper and wrote “Boys” on one and “Girls” on the...”
– It’s Ok to Be Neither