August 2009
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I just realized that “Hey girl, when you gonna let...
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The gay man hanging out with Nene in this clip of... →
Nene: I have a gay magnet so all the gay men just come to me.
Bad reality shows are the armpit stains of television, but this is really, really good.
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Life=Often Unfair
I’ll take the time to reblog this one since I work with sexual assault awareness as a violence issue. I feel badly for anyone who’s been sexually assaulted. I feel even worse for people who have been falsely accused of it. Not only because the accused will have to carry that tale around the community for longer than people’s memories last, but because false reporting is a...
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Life in 10 Years →
“Really if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.”
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Finally, the New York Times said it. Teens are... →
“The traditional early-adopter model would say that teenagers or college students are really important to adoption,” said Andrew Lipsman, director of industry analysis at comScore.
Teenagers, after all, drove the early growth of the social networks Facebook, MySpace and Friendster.
Twitter, however, has proved that “a site can take off in a different demographic than you expect and become...
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“Branding should capture both the ‘is’ and the ‘ought.’ ...”
– George Sopko, VP at Stanton Communications and a former colleague
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“Here’s an example of the phenomenon in action. I worked for a nonprofit media...”
– Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing, pt. 2 | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.COM (via peterwknox)
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LE: So, since we're staying in chicago.. There's a happy hour at mcfaddens to benefit brain injury clubhouse from 6-9. $30. I think I'm gonna go.
Me: i probably owe medical science something for surviving six concussions. i'd definitely be game.
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“If I owned a restaurant, I’d call it “Location TBD” just to fuck with people.”
– Julia Allison
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Confession: In college I made up a fake Taiwanese...
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“A cardinal rule of companionship: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thy Friends.”
– Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal
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If I had a pet hamster, I would name it M.C....
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Twitter To Charge For Premium Accounts Later This... →
More reasons why Tumblr, still a free service, is destined to rule the world.
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“Fox News host Glenn Beck has lost over 30 sponsors since he called President...”
– CONAN O’BRIEN, The Tonight Show
(via the NY Times, inothernews, enjoli, robot-heart-politics, fuddmain, peterwknox)
(via lizlemon)
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Jose and Carlos are both beggars. They beg in different areas of town. Carlos begs for the same amount of time as Jose, but only collects about eight or nine dollars a day. Every day, Jose brings home a suitcase full of ten dollar bills. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house, and has lots of cash to spend. “Hey, amigo,” Carlos says to Jose, “I work just as long and...
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“In lieu of flowers, Senator Kennedy’s family said it would prefer your...”
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“A great editor once told me that “ideas are the currency of magazines” and that...”
– theotherjen
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“If you are young and/or inexperienced enough to apply for this job (say, a few...”
– From an actual, legitimate job posting for an editor position.
And I’m applying for it.
(via theotherjen)
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C-L-E-A-R
Communicate with Love, Enthusiasm, Appreciation, and Respect. I think of this every day.
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No Time for Romance: "It's not you, it's my...
Article about my love life posted in the CareerBuilder section of the Tribune’s Sunday newspapers.
When Philip Chang’s girlfriend confessed she had eyes for another, it wasn’t at all what he expected.
“I was in a relationship last year where everything was terrific until one day she told me she had been doing a lot of thinking about it and she just doesn’t have the...
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I am liking Mad Men, yes.
Dude: Perpetuating lies... how do you sleep at night?
Don Draper: On a bed made of money.
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I'm thankful I live in a country where I can have...
My kitchen is the Geppeto’s workshop of breakfast. In my tinkering for the benefit of superior scrambled eggs, I think I’ve stumbled upon a secret of the pros - Low Heat.
Instead of cooking my eggs at medium-high heat, I set it just above simmer and let it come together in slow motion.
Also, a half teaspoon of bacon drippings in the butter. Who doesn’t like bacon?
No...