All Kidding, Asides

Why Are Europeans White?

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:30:44 -0400

alternately titled: “if you are a female and I am not attracted to you, it is likely because your ancestors’ diet consisted more of grains than of meats, in an environment where sunlight was too dim to produce vitamin D in normally pigmented skin.”

brittanymward: Hi, I’m in love with an album. Get...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:05:50 -0400

brittanymward:

Hi, I’m in love with an album. Get it.

I’m on it.

Social Issues Research Centre - Guide to Flirting

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:35:00 -0400

Social Issues Research Centre - Guide to Flirting:

apparently, I’ve been peacocking with my brain this whole time.

zachklein: My friend Emily Fischer runs a custom quilt studio...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:47:14 -0500

zachklein:

My friend Emily Fischer runs a custom quilt studio called Haptic Lab and she just introduced a Great Lakes quilt. If you grew up in this region, you might feel as fondly about this as I do.

She’s accepting pre-orders for $150, then she’s going to do a big run and deliver in May.

I do like this quilt…

katiewashere: John Hughes’ commentary: The closer he looks at...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:52:32 -0500

katiewashere:

John Hughes’ commentary: The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees…The more he looks at it, there’s nothing there and I think he fears that the more you look at him, the less you see—there isn’t anything there. That’s him.

If you haven’t watched this movie with Hughes’ commentary, you need to. It’s brilliant. And also all on YouTube.

superdoofus-stratodrive: filthyphil: Montana by Gretchen...

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:58:30 -0500

superdoofus-stratodrive:

filthyphil:

Montana

by Gretchen Bredeson

Yes, every high mountain loch in western Montana looks like this. Yes, they’re formed by glacial run-off and cold as a witch’s tit in a brass bra year-round. Yes, all you have to do is look where the fish are before you cast. Yes, Phil posted this because he knew I would reblog it. Yes, this picture reminds me of home. Yes, it’s pretty scary when you cross over the dropoff slope and clearly see schools of seven-foot-long carp and catfish, prehistoric sturgeon, gar and paddlefish circling under rootbaskets of full pines sunken twenty fathoms deep.

fathoms.

"Shouldn’t we have a category for endangered words? Perhaps we need a system of adopting words to..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:53:02 -0500

“Shouldn’t we have a category for endangered words? Perhaps we need a system of adopting words to keep them safe and well, the way people adopt favourite stretches of highway. We would sign up, promise to use our chosen words as often as possible and of course object when they are misused or threatened with abandonment.”

- Robert Fulford: When words die. (via courtneylewis)

sometimes I feel like I already do this…

windycity: canarycoal: jhilla: suitsandboots: When you think...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:27:17 -0500

windycity:

canarycoal:

jhilla:

suitsandboots:

When you think of Chicago pizza, the image of the tall wall of crust containing a thick slab of molten cheese and the layer of sauce on top comes to mind. Deep dish/pan pizza is the Chicago-style pizza. But because of its sheer decadence by nature of the giant slices with ungodly amounts of cheese, deep dish remains an investment of time, money, and effort best saved for special occasions. Enter the Chicago thin crust pizza.

Differing from New York pizza in many ways (I won’t get into them now), one of the more interesting differences is the way Chicago thin crust is served. “Party cut” or “tavern cut” into squares, the thin crust pizza offers non-homogenous pieces (inside crustless, outside with crust, and tiny outside triangles). Perhaps a subtle tribute to the Cartesian grid of arterial streets in the city, the way the pizza for the masses in Chicago is cut is a tradition worth noting.

Holler. Fuck New York Pizza. I’m deathly serious about this. I will miss you Chicago thin crust.

leading into my favorite tommy tweet of all time, “I have a dream that all pizza will be one day judged not by its shape but by the composition of its ingredients.”

I know what I’m seeking out for lunch now.

I need to go home.

with all the talk about damage done to stadium employees and...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:46:00 -0500

with all the talk about damage done to stadium employees and local businesses and even basketball fans, we’ve forgotten to consider what’s happening right now to Jay-Z’s social life.

legally speaking, the only people he’s allowed to hang out with for the foreseeable future are Kanye West and an increasingly pregnant Beyonce. it’s very possible this lockout could lead to either his darkest, or his most creatively-batshit album ever…

superdoofus-stratodrive: motherjones: UC Davis police officer...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:46:17 -0500

superdoofus-stratodrive:

motherjones:

UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting students because, well, just because.

Think that’s %$#ing horrible? The video’s worse.

Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog:

I’m sorry, this has gone too far. This has happened in police department after police department, and it has gone too far. Our police look like the goons in Russia and China. Please watch this video and send it to everyone you know. This has gone too far.

Oh hell, that’s deplorable. If this doesn’t spark outcry and lead to better discourse between the protesters and police we’re in for another round of Kent State/Jackson State atrocities.

upsetting for so many reasons, but I’m especially frustrated that this is all causing the conversation to change from “people vs. the 1%” to “people vs. the police”.

this was never supposed to be about the police, and the more it becomes about them, the more it feels entirely wasteful and utterly beside the point.

anniehinton: Kinda feel like this person was asking not because...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:11:00 -0500

anniehinton:

Kinda feel like this person was asking not because they wanted to avoid killing them but because they were actually planning on killing them, I think the traditional stabbing will work.

I agree. We should monitor Julia Moskin a bit longer, and perhaps see if she poses a follow-up question.

thenewinquiry: Today: International Day of Action my subway...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:57:23 -0500

thenewinquiry:

Today: International Day of Action

my subway was occupied. it was … startling.

chrischappel: patron’s of the chelsea market, i am looking at...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:51:18 -0500

chrischappel:

patron’s of the chelsea market, i am looking at you.

also, if I open a door for myself to enter, please don’t immediately flood out of said door en masse, rendering me a de facto doorman (especially if there’s another door next to us that’s in perfect working condition); you lazy, oblivious bastards.

brit: Next time you find yourself caught up and frustrated...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:32:18 -0400

brit:

Next time you find yourself caught up and frustrated trying to get something perfect on the first try, take a look at this early iteration of Twitter. (Via Ricky.)

oh thank god.

jasmined: The United Plates - Illinois that’s the...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:56:21 -0400

jasmined:

The United Plates - Illinois

that’s the strangest looking Gino’s East pie I’ve ever seen in my life.

fred-wilson: what he said kirklove: Washington Square...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:55:00 -0400

fred-wilson:

what he said

kirklove:

Washington Square Park

Snapped this coming down a back staircase of Skirball center at NYU. Man that is one beautiful view. Love that damn park.

Wash Sq. Park was never once this pretty when I went there. not once.

(and I wish ~~Citibank~~ Sallie Mae would take this into account when they’re declaring mine “past due”…)

I officially have no Halloween plans or costume.

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:45:36 -0400

anniehinton:

Is eating an entire pan of lasagna while watching scary movies acceptable?

this is a good question. what if I’m just “fat” for Halloween?

… not sure about trick or treaters, but it’s enough to scare me when I look in the mirror.

jessk: Indian girls hold up their name change certificates...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:58:37 -0400

jessk:

Indian girls hold up their name change certificates during a ceremony in Satara, some 250kms from Mumbai, on Oct. 22. More than 100 Indian girls named “Unwanted” by their parents are to get new names this weekend as part of a campaign to tackle bias against women that has led to the country’s huge gender imbalance. The girls named “Nakusa”, which means “unwanted” in the local Marathi language of western Maharashtra state, got rid of their first name for good under an initiative in the district of Satara.

“Now in school, my classmates and friends will be calling me this new name, and that makes me very happy,” said a 15-year-old girl who had been named Nakusa by a grandfather disappointed by her birth. She chose the new name “Ashmita,” which means “very tough” or “rock hard” in Hindi.

(via PhotoBlog - 285 girls make fresh start in India by changing their names from ‘Unwanted’)

this is horrible. It’s possible I may have 285 Indian daughters sooner than I thought…

bijan: splatf: The Apple-fication of everything yeah. i...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:51:00 -0400

bijan:

splatf:

The Apple-fication of everything

yeah. i ordered ~~one~~ two. their video pushed me over the edge.

I want to order two, over the edge. three maybe, even.

dbreunig: Eric Fischer is mapping language communities on...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:50:11 -0400

dbreunig:

Eric Fischer is mapping language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s language detector. (Via Eric Fischer)

those Balkans don’t seem to care too much for the twitter.

also, English is apparently the most boring language ever spoken.