The Asides Category Archive

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November 18th, 2008

A THS/DBT review by someone who isn’t a bratty 22 year old

Bob Longmore from How Was The Show, proves my theory that The Hold Steady/Drive-by Truckers show was fucking magic.

November 15th, 2008

It’s with an I not a Y

Google suggesting the correct spelling of your name has got to be a sign of some sort of success, right?

November 11th, 2008

So it goes, in honor of Vonnegut’s birthday

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in [...]

November 7th, 2008

50 years of wanting to do with it you

50 years of popular songs condensed into single sentences. My favorite: Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night” — I’m drunk and I want to do it with you. {via}

November 4th, 2008

Our collective anxiety

The NY Times has an awesome graphic thing about which words describe people’s current frame of mind. Of course, you can’t know for sure if McCain supports are actually sad, depressed, and disgusted while Obama supporters are hopeful, cautious, and giddy. But it’s still cool to look at. I said I was excited (I went [...]

November 4th, 2008

Best election deal I’ve seen all day

Save $4 on any Threadless t-shirt with the coupon code ivoted.

November 4th, 2008

Senator Biden is now my homeboy

Joe Biden interviewed by 5th grader Damon Weaver. So awesome. {via}

November 2nd, 2008

Mood killers

9 people who kill the mood during sex. Missing from the list? The dude who keeps asking you tell him you love him during sex, even though you don’t and he would freakrightout if you said I love you any time that wasn’t during sex. {via}

October 29th, 2008

Our hearts were really thumping

I have to admit that today’s victory dance looked quite a bit like the red-shorts girls from John Cougar Mellencamp’s Cherry Bomb video. You know what I’m talking about, right?

October 27th, 2008

America’s coolest libraries

Minneapolis’ Central Library named one of America’s 10 Coolest Libraries.

October 27th, 2008

Today is Sylvia Plath’s birthday, she would have been 76

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

October 26th, 2008

Missing the mark

Good God Almighty! I wish I could make sweet, sweet love to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ piece about the lack of proper quotation marks in a lot of literary fiction’s dialog. Sing it, Sister! I hate when writer’s don’t use the quotation marks (sorry Junot Diaz). [via]

October 14th, 2008

In honor of ee cummings’ birthday

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” –ee cummings

October 6th, 2008

The newsest news star

For those playing along at home, I am pleased to announce that Princess Jaycie got the reporter job she was applying for a few weeks ago. However, I learned that the job isn’t for the school newspaper but rather the school news network. Bah!

October 1st, 2008

Google 2001

You know what kinda pumps my nads about the Google 2001 search of the Web? That you can find I Will Dare.