February 2012
14 posts
click here for great article from last sunday’s new york times magazine. even being in advertising, i didn’t know most of this.
delicious.
added in chicken sausage too for some protein.
workaholics.
adam: woah hey, cool guy. fedora brothers!
blake: no, no, no, no. adam, c'mon man. one fedora per crew.
adam: no, i'm pretty sure the more fedoras the better. 'cause i look like i'm in a ska band right now. like i'm in reel big fish.
blake: uh, i beg to differ. we're not a house full of cubans, man. we're white dudes. we gotta be careful. 'cause we can be very unfashionable very quickly.
i wish i could take the credit for writing this...
i see you riding round town with the girl i love and i’m like, haiku
i can’t find the video to embed it, but click here to watch a fantastic clip of joan rivers. i wish i could be her…minus the face.
Why is there so much hype, though? It has to die out at some point.
Oh, you know how white people are. We’re fairly certain that black people are physically gifted and Asian people are mentally gifted, and it’s, like, so wild when those conceptions are shattered by a charming, capable young man who happens to be both! When this kind of thing happens, we’re naturally compelled to...
New tag line for my life: “eye roll at everything.”
“Let’s talk philosophy before we get to the math. The purpose of any ad is to get the attention of people with money. U.S. advertising is a $600 billion ploy to distract you from your life and get your eyes and ears focused on a brand or product. Every day, the typical American is exposed to up to 600 advertisements on televisions, buses, streets, and browsers.”
January 2012
33 posts
read this before sunday.
the league
pete: is that a detective hat or a cowboy hat?
andre: it's a modernist porkpie by juicy, if you must know.
“can i get headphones for this?”
– my mom, about her iphone.
“well, some of those things are symptoms and some of them are just being a...”
– ann perkins
“it’s a law. like water…or dinosaurs.”
– taco
“you remember…california is the state with all the land.”
– j ho
the visible man
I recently finished Chuck Klosterman’s seventh book, and second novel, The Visible Man, and it was a doozy.
I fell in love with Klosterman’s writing with his 2003 essay collection, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Klosterman’s essays on pop culture, reality, media and the intersection of it all are awesome and super fun to read. They’re the conversations you could have had while sitting around a bong...
http://drunkronswanson.com/ →
well, i just finished chuck klosterman’s newest novel, “the invisible man”, and it was weird. weird, weird, weird, weird, weird.
anyways, i plan to write a more eloquent review once i’ve had a bit more time to process. in the meantime, as with any chuck klosterman book, there are a handful of really fantastic quotes i would like to share.
“People will look at the...
Jenna: Tracy, how do nice people dress?
Tracy: Socks on their hands, no belt, roller skates.
“The bottom line is that blogging is like sex. You can’t fake it. You...”
– Kevin Anderson Freelance Journalist & former Blogs Editors for the Guardian
“Audiences everywhere are tough. They don’t have time to be bored or brow...”
– Craig Davis Chief Creative Officer, Worldwide J. Walter Thompson
“Good luck Schneider Corp, u slap that bass”
– best text message ever.
shit humans say. shit aliens say. shit short people say. shit tall people say. shit young people say. shit old people say. shit middle-age people say. shit attractive people say. shit ugly people say. shit people who are kind of attractive but only when they wear makeup say. shit kim kardashian says. shit i say. shit you say. shit we both say together in unison. shit we sing in rounds.
basically...
Top 27 TV Hipsters (according to Evan Shapiro,...
4. COSMO KRAMER (Michael Richards, Seinfeld): He had an extensive vintage wardrobe, hosted a talk show in his apartment, lived in the most expensive neighborhood on earth with no apparent source of income, wrote a coffee table book about coffee tables, invented a fragrance that smells like the beach and created an imaginary job with no pay. He may actually have been the mold from which all...
Two (sad) things:
The average office worker today enjoys no more than three minutes at a time at his or her desk without interruption.
The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen.
“In general, things in a place like Portland are really great, so little concerns...”
– Carrie Brownstein
for anyone who hates best buy (which has to be most everyone), this article will make you happy.
“If the president tells a reporter your TV show is his favorite, it’s de facto political, regardless of the premise or the creator’s original intent. Barack Obama’s loving The Wire is a little like Amy Carter adding the Sex Pistols to the White House music library - it shouldn’t mean anything, but of course it does. Whenever a president (or even a senator) is asked...
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the new york times, new york magazine and the new yorker all writing pieces about portlandia.
#occupyjerseyshore
December 2011
17 posts
portlandia
“‘Portlandia’ is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small differences: the need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist, with outsized militancy, on the importance of those shadings.”
-“Stumptown Girl” by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker