January 2011
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S! A! T-U-R!
So I spent my day blogging about the Senior Bowl and playing Black Ops and now I’m spending my night catching up on various feeds and eating Wal-Mart bread in the form of toast with leftover pizza joint marinara sauce and there’s a part of me trying to forget the dreams I wish I didn’t feel like I needed to forget and wishing there were a way to make someone know how much you...
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Comment of the Year Race Heating Up!
Re: “Runaway”: Dis song is a shit. Fuck Kanye
Re: Nicki: LOL NICKI SO WACK SHE DUMB IZ FUCK LOL LIL KIM A MURDER HA SHE LEARNED FROM THE GREATEST(BIGGIE) NICKI LEARNED FROM WAyNE BIGGGGGG DIFFRENCE LMAO AN LIL KIM AINT GOTA RAP FOR YEARS AN SHELL A STILL HAVE MORE MONEY THAN NICKI LOL SHE DONT NO DAT JOCKIN DA NEX BITCH STYLE WILL GET U FLIPED
On my “Requests” page: i...
Hey, brain? Quit it with the reminiscing in the dreams. Sincerely, MGMT.
Watchblackbeans:
byduanewatson:
While getting food at a Punjabi deli in New York’s East Village, musician Derek Beres (of EarthRise SoundSystem) dropped a beat on the deli case as the man behind the counter burst into song. (Via Vulture and my man DG.)
The guy at the counter kills it. Someone give him a record deal.
“Raekwon spits like he just ate a jalopino. Ima start listinin to him now”
– Favorite comment of 2011 so far at the ol’ Review.
Rittz, “High Five” (White Jesus, soon...
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This Is A Serious Question
Can someone compellingly contrast ethos and mythos as concepts for me so I can figure out whether I should bother trying to fit them both in a bar in this verse?
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Florida people know what I'm talkin' about.
maaaaatthew:
Publix’s chocolate chip cookies, oh my god. 2 dozen, ONE DAY.
There was a sale a few weeks back that was two dozen for like $4, I think? I got them and my roommate got four of the bigger ones for a little less.
Not only was I done with mine quicker, I didn’t feel like a complete moron FOR BUYING THE BIG PUBLIX CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WHO DOES THAT!?!?!?
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(if the Academy were to reveal the voting results... →
Your Parenthetical Aside of the Day comes from Nate Silver, who explains instant-runoff voting with elegant broad strokes and mashes up the Oscars and Idol in a brilliant bit of frenzied insight.
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Unsolicited tip for Plenty Of Fish: Instead of blanketing every conceivable contextual ad space on the Internet with your rather useless ads, try dropping a dime or three on your 2003-era interface.
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Can anyone explain Cricket to me?
kdek:
Like in simple, easy-to-understand terms? What’s a wicket? How are you dismissed? Why is the pitch so big? Why do you stop for tea in the middle?
So I like to think of cricket as a modified baseball with the pitcher and batter in the middle of the field. I think that makes a lot of sense to Americans.
The object of cricket is to score runs (if you’re on offense, or batting) or...
Ever Wonder What a Football Scholarship Offer... →
blackbeans:
The Forcier family website gives us some insight on written offers from football programs to convince prospective athlete-students to join. Interesting to read as National Signing Day is right around the corner.
Stanford’s has a lot of words, and Arizona’s has words that aren’t spelled right.
Oh, Arizona.
everything about this video is amazing →
This is the MP3.
“No Strings Attached” poses the question: Is it possible to regularly have...”
– Ebert!
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The desktop meme: Another of the many Tumblr memes that I’m not buying into, not least because I had to minimize eight windows just to see my desktop.
Also, this seems like a good time to finish that 2,000-word piece on Deadspin, doesn’t it? Remind me to do that.
“Mainly I just be writing on any fucking thing, on the back of somebody’s cable...”
– Freddie Gibbs, proving why his interviews are hotter. (via theskyisballing)
Note to self: Expound on this.
“It’s true, breasts can be eye candy and baby food. They can fill out a...”
– From Salon.
One of the half-written pieces I have in my head? On Miranda Kerr’s 2010, and a kid being born days after the year ended so counts.
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Promo Blasts Are The Best
The Miami Heat are not the only ones to put all the talent on one team!
This four member group consist of great solo artist, that have decided to put there solo careers on hold and focus all there energies on turning the music industry inside out!
And I’m not even, like, an important music blogger.
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SURVIVAL THEMES: Top 100 Charting Singles of... →
survivalthemes:
1. Amerie - “1 Thing” [Columbia 2005] 2. Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat” [Blackground 2001] 3. Sade - “Soldier of Love” [Epic 2009] 4. R. Kelly - “Step in the Name of Love” [Jive 2003] 5. Anthony Hamilton - “Charlene” [So So Def 2003] 6. Alicia Keys - “You Don’t Know My Name” [J 2003] 7. Aaliyah - “Try…
Hey, Maura…
Still in my dreams, only thing changin’ is the scene.
I almost cried, twice, when Obama talked about how hopeful Christina Taylor Green was and when he mentioned how we think about others and what we have done for them in the wake of tragedy. If I hadn’t been on a couch with other college-aged guys in the room, I would’ve.
Remember through action. Learn through communication. Improve through cooperation. We can have an America that will...
Yung Joc ft. Gucci Mane - Goin Ham →
jordansargent:
If “Goin Ham” wasn’t an obvious enough “It’s Goin Down” rip by nature, then Joc makes it as explicit as possible when, at the beginning of the song, he says, “they want that old Joc back.” (Debatable.) And then, just to be clear, he opens the first verse quoting the song itself: “N*ggas in my face…” But all of this is okay because “It’s Goin Down” is one of the best pop songs that...
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You know what would be good, people?
Instead of trying to demonize someone or something, trying to understand where that person is coming from. I can’t fully comprehend what would make someone want to shoot and kill a Congresswoman, but I would like to know, if only because I think the way to change a mind is to, I dunno, try to change it, rather than evacuate it from a skull with a bullet. Calling someone a...
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Epiphanies Have I Had, January 7th, 2011
“Low” is about the worst possible song for morning drive-time radio. It’s a song for clubs and strip clubs, and it’s not even a particularly good one, and I’d have to guess it’s far too high-energy for the average driver.
I have never once heard someone describe a pre-nup as something women should get to protect their assets in marriage. Obviously, women do...
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“He’s had a six-year stretch now where basically he’s been going 24/7 with...”
– President Barack Obama, on the departure of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs earned $172,200 last year. (via officialssay)
:|
(via hilaryalehman)
Okay, but if he is literally working every hour of every day, he’s making less than $20 an hour. I say we give our President the...
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Hannibal Buress' presence on this list has far... →
Fully Validated Kanye West Retires To Quiet Farm... →
SPILLVILLE, IA—Following the widespread acclaim and media adulation over his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, multimillion-selling recording artist Kanye West announced Wednesday that he had finally received the exact amount of approval he needed to attain and had therefore retired from the entertainment industry to live on a small farm in Iowa.
Oklahoma would have been the...
"My fave subject by far barb" →
Remind me to write about this?
www.yearinreviews.com →
Well, there’s a killer app for criticism clearinghouses…
Plenty Of Fish
A reminder that there are that many fish in the sea because most of ‘em have been tossed back.
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So I started my 2010 in Review series in 2011 with... →
Timeliness: Never my strong suit.
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Sadder: That I have a roommate who routinely falls asleep in a chair or on the couch while watching Modern Marvels, or me being okay with living with him not just since August 2009 but through the end of this year?
Note to Self
The Pizza Hut lunch buffet was a much better idea in concept than execution.
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Over/under on when this will be a book deal? Ugh. →
The Longest Road: Who Wants Me As A Roommate? →
jbowesmusic:
I’m moving up to NYC in a little over a week and am currently in need of a place to stay. I’m using other means of finding a place as well, but this is an awesome community and I figured it couldn’t hurt to say something here. If you have an extra room, or know someone who does…
Hey, young NYC people I know: Help my boy?
I Mean...
I just fist-pumped upon learning the exact thing I wanted to be BOGO was BOGO. Also, I use BOGO in casual conversation, occasionally.
Also, UGH.