May
8
2012
Matt Langer
I also do a twitter.
LOL LOL LOL
OMG I didn’t know until reading this that the entire lawsuit Oracle brought against Google hangs on nine lines of code that I swear are like the easiest most rote shit in literally the entire history of neckbeards which means that on the one hand it’s like damn bro why didn’t you just write that shit yourself but on the other it’s like wait are you fucking kidding me Oracle is seriously claiming they’ve got an intellectual property claim on one number being larger than another LOL LOL LOL you fucking asshats, all of you.
May
7
2012
Haha, eat it Park Slope!!
May
5
2012
It’s a nice thing that even when someone goes far too soon—all the more so when that death initiates a particularly uncomfortable confrontation with mortality, the sort of oh-god-this-person’s-not-all-that-much-older-than-me-holy-shit-when-am-I-going-to-fucking-quit-smoking-already style of panic attack—that every one of the forty-odd times I’ve listened to Sabotage over the last day just felt youthful and fun.
Also this photo is a nice thing.
(via Max)
May
2
2012
for rilaws
May
1
2012
Talking About Talking About Race
There were two pieces published on the internet last week on the subject of race that I think are worth revisiting. One of them pointed out some very important problems about the way we talk about race and sparked a number of productive conversations for me over the weekend; the other was so pernicious and facile as to prove fundamentally destructive to our ability to have a meaningful discussion about race.
The twist is that they were both the same piece: Lindy West’s “hipster racism” scold on Jezebel.
Apr
27
2012
“The thing that sucks about those shows is that millions of black people look at them and can relate on so many levels to Hannah Horvath and Charlotte York and George Costanza, and yet those characters never look like us. The guys begging for money look like us. The mad black chicks telling white ladies to stay away from our families look like us. Always a gangster, never a rich kid whose parents are both college professors. After a while, the disparity between our affinity for these shows and their affinity towards us puts reality into stark relief: When we look at Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, we see people with whom we have a lot in common. When they look at us, they see strangers.”
Cord Jefferson
Let's Talk About Unfollowing People.
A good friend of mine has one of those Twitter lists devoted to people whose tweets he actually wants to read. He checks that, exclusively, instead of his main feed. He does this to avoid the drama of someone getting upset with him IRL because of the perceived slight of an unfollow. Another friend…
Yes! Let’s talk about this!
Had to be done.
Starships
Nicki Minaj
I feel like one thing we probably don’t give her enough credit for is how she must send the cultural right into such fits of blind rage. Like, what I wouldn’t give to be in the room when Tony Perkins watches this video and hears the lyrics “but fuck who you want and fuck you who like.”
Apr
25
2012
I hate your Gchat status.
Just putting this one here for Mike Barthel who’s prob the only one who understands why I’m about to go punch a brick wall:
I don’t watch a lot of TV news. I don’t watch cable at all. I like The Daily Show, so sometimes if I’m home late at night, I’ll catch snippets of that. I think Jon Stewart’s brilliant. It’s amazing to me the degree to which he’s able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense – for young people in particular, where I think he ends up having more credibility than a lot of more conventional news programs do.
Apr
24
2012
Ten Very Thoughtful Gavin McInnes Headlines, In Order
- “The Innate Supremacism of the Anti-Racist Movement”
- “Feminism’s a Bitch”
- “The 12-Step Plan to Restore American Femininity”
- “The Trouble with Islam: Inbreeding”
- “In Defense of Stoning”
- “More Urinating on the Taliban, Please”
- “Apologies Are for Fags”
- “I’m Not a Racist, Sexist, or a Homophobe, You Nigger Slut Faggot”
- “How to Tap the Missus”
- “Fuck Single Mothers (Figuratively)”
“Boston Consulting Group was recruiting Mitt Romney hard during his time at Harvard (‘Wining and dining’ isn’t really possible with a legendarily uptight teetotaler, so let’s say they ‘YooHooed and Hamburger Helpered’ him.)”
cc katiebakes: Pareene’s book is a PAOTD goldmine.
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