December 2009
November 2009
“All too frequently the average amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and...”
– Sam Haskins (via simko)
sort of. there’s a world of difference between a hasselblad h3 and a nikon d3. just as there’s a difference between a bösendorfer concert grand and a yamaha concert grand (for further purposes of this analogy point-and-shoots shall be likened to a spinet or...
i was not impressed with nick cave's soundtrack...
justin:
superdoofus-stratodrive:
in fact, i was extremely disappointed and it almost felt like he was masking some sort of ruinous spite while he penned score.
What did you think of the film in general?
aside from the soundtrack, i thought it was very good and i won’t include any spoilers here. i wouldn’t say oscar-worthy, for anyone involved, but it was very good. yes, i...
i was not impressed with nick cave's soundtrack...
in fact, i was extremely disappointed and it almost felt like he was masking some sort of ruinous spite while he penned score.
this is my running list of women writers who...
tragos:
newsweek:
tanya77:
Margaret Atwood. And Barbara Ehrenreich, obvs.
evangotlib:
meaghano:
joan didion
marilynne robinson
alice munro
mary gaitskill
grace paley
anais nin
Who else?
(I don’t think Lorrie Moore is a badass, but that is certainly up for debate. I’m not even sure what I mean, but I just don’t think BADASS when I think of her.).
Runners up include: Carson...
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did about three hours of yardwork this morning.
i got a blister and saw lots of centipedes, earthworms, slugs, and grubs. also acorns. thousands of acorns.
katastrophic:
…i work for a company that profits off people’s spawning. i just can’t wait to go to work and be waste deep in cribs when i don’t even deal with baby stuff…
the “waist deep” idiom written as “waste deep” is, in this context, the finest malapropism to ever appear on the internet.
and to be honest: my montana hardness sees nothing wrong with...
A pocketable camera for an [D]SLR nerd
marco:
I used to carry my SLR[DSLR] and laptop with me in my huge backpack every day, but a few changes have resulted in almost never bringing my camera day-to-day anymore:
My commute is now on the subway, which is much more crowded and much less practical for backpack-wearing. I have a great messenger bag that works much better for the subway, but it can’t comfortably hold more than a few...
Rough Cut
diablocodyisnotevenherrealname:
Can someone please let the rest of the world know what “rough cut” means? Please. Please.
a “rough cut” is a randomly chosen mid-work savepoint sent by the editor to the producers before said editor starts the tedium of a breathing-down-the-back-of-the-neck final edit. the editor picks some version saved before they went to bed at 5:45am the previous...
brianvan:
ohhleary:
The discussion was never about how much Union Square sucks. There are private vehicles parked on the sidewalk, and the cops turn a blind eye. It’s illegal, it’s obnoxious, and it’s unsafe, no matter where it happens or how crappy a public space it is.
…the NYPD refuses to enforce the laws that protect pedestrians and cyclists. This incident reinforces the disturbing...
“’ (…) All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.’
‘There is correct...”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch. (via msodradek) (via tragos)
Is your Johnson Rod broken? In need of a quality... →
(via fapper)
also on sale: blinker fluid
biteofpythias:
superdoofus-stratodrive:
biteofpythias:
holy crap tv’s at walmart are cheap. i have real resistance to shopping there and generally won’t do it. but they really are cheap. what’s fair employee treatment worth to us….
in all seriousness i will come over and drive polebarn nails through each of your knuckles (feet and hands) if you shop there.
wait, is that what spurs the...
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.”
– — Jodie Foster (via HotIndieMedia on Twitter)
I’m currently reading Blood Meridian so this resonates for a number of reasons.
(via nerdshares)
Nwk supports the reading of Blood Meridian.
(via newsweek)
As does Tragos. You haven’t lived until you’ve engaged yourself in a long debate about the...
“Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have...”
– My Econ professor, re: the stimulus package (via onemoretimewithfeeling)
-if only. and i just dumped my entire portfolio into broom-making, pin-smithing, and latex-casting industries.
i feel bad for people that don't have eyes that...
many people try but their intentions belie their perfectness and therein is where they show their cards like a fucking sucker.
and all of tonight’s posts are to be blamed on my general hyperactivity that’s usually well masked by my outer rackets, due to cold medication ingestion. i’m hell when i’m swell, etc.
on cold medications:
i’m now pretty sure that dm is included to distract you from the occasionally felt lung-knifing via long-tail pain cutoff by inducing a gnat-like attention span and its side effect is general silliness.
one dose a few hours ago and i feel like the building i’m in is on wheels and nobody is at the wheel but that’s ok because we’re in outer-space and clear of asteroid...
How to know the BBQ place you are about to eat in...
josh:
It’s better to skip a meal than eat crap barbeque and be made angry and ashamed. Look out for these warnings:
no hot sauce on the tables. Anywhere with good BBQ will have so many people asking for hot sauce that it will already be out. Furthermore, if you want NC-style barbeque, there shoul be vinegar-based sauce out.
photos on the wall of great barbeque chefs. No photos of where you...
psst! hey buddy, this here is the good stuff from...
the classical
-the fall (256kbps cbr,...
"The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven...
The Road is so fucking metal.
via
the film is set for release on the 25th of this month, i’m already getting antsy.
If you look beside the sun over nyc right now you’ll see two faint sun dogs.
“A boat is a hole in the water your throw money into.”
– (via fromtheoldman)
i owned a 17.5 foot open-bow/tri-hull glastron with a 150hp merc before i moved to nyc; the above is very true.
turtle lake is hell on props. also: i probably should have dumped money into replacing the transducer so i would have known the depth when i was about to gun it to...
won’t be home
-old 97’s...
