July 2009
207 posts
“hey helvetica - you look disgusting. have some dignity and put on some serifs”
– Stephen Colbert (via savingpaper)
June 2009
250 posts
“At least one savvy politician—Barack Obama—believed Palin would never have time...”
– From Todd Purdum’s fascinating profile of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair Ha ha ha. Remember when people took her seriously? Looks like Barack Obama was never one of them. No wonder he stayed so calm for that week in August when McCain’s campaign was doing okay.
(Late) Morning Music
Fix You - Coldplay, X&Y
NASA says it has found missing high-quality... →
savingpaper:
NASA — the revered scientific brain trust of the 1950s and 1960s who figured out a way to send three men 384,000 kilometers into space, put two of them on the moon, and return all three safely to Earth — chose to archive the historic event by placing a crappy 16mm film camera in front of an already blurry television set.
The original analogue tapes containing the pictures beamed...
WatchIn wake of tragic death reported on Twitter, Jeff Goldblum remembers Jeff Goldblum in a heartfelt eulogy.
The Onion: Fabled Burger King Employee Places... →
MUNDELEIN, IL—A legendary Burger King employee, known across the land for the heroic and selfless deed of randomly inserting a single onion ring among the french fries of unsuspecting customers, is believed to have recently resurfaced in this sleepy Illinois town, sources reported Monday. “That onion ring was such a pleasant surprise,” said Burger King patron Richard Jameson, 37, who...
Inside Michael's last show - Hours before death,... →
Fans had ponied up $85 million for 750,000 tickets to Jackson’s 50 shows at London’s O2 arena, a marathon swan song, aptly titled This Is It, that was scheduled to begin July 13. Instead, the final curtain fell Wednesday night at a rehearsal in Los Angeles’ Staples Center, where Jackson sang and danced for the last time.
No applause. No screaming throng. No demands for...
Morning Music
Where It’s At - Beck, Odelay
“Since his death was reported this morning, the top trending topics on Twitter...”
– NYTimes story on death of Billy Mays, third paragraph If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the past week, it’s that Twitter’s lightning fast news distribution can’t be ignored by mainstream media. But really, New York Times? You’re going to cite Twitter’s...
Doctor: Possible HIV/AIDS cure getting little... →
savingpaper:
As [Dr. Awadhesh K.] Gupta explains the case and cure in question, a 40-year-old American working in Berlin had been HIV-positive for 10 years. The patient’s HIV infection had been under control for four years with “conventional HAART treatment regimen” (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy). When the patient developed leukemia, however, a bone marrow transplant of stem cells was...
C.J.: Leo? Leo: It’s going to break. Tomorrow? C.J.: Yeah. It’s on the Internet right now. Leo: We’ll talk about it in the morning.
Season One of The West Wing: Where breaking news isn’t considered to be “broken” until it’s in the next day’s newspaper.
(via savingpaper)
TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead in Tampa home -... →
Mays, 50, was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. at 2853 Bowen Daniel Dr., #1201. His wife, Deborah Mays, found him unresponsive this morning. The Medical Examiner’s Office will complete Mays’ autopsy by tomorrow afternoon. Mays was a passenger Saturday of the 737 aircraft that took a hard landing at Tampa International Airport, an airport spokeswoman said.
“BULLETIN — BILLY MAYS HAS DIED.”
– Breaking News on Twitter What is the deal with this week?
Morning Music
Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple, Tidal
New York Times: Frugal Pleasures of Paris in... →
Honey, it's just the internet. If you genuinely...
srsly:
Maybe go outside, get some sun, look through a photo album (it’s kind of like a Flickr).
For savingpaper. :)
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell feat....
The Onion: Copy Editor's Revenge Takes Form Of... →
BOSTON—Bruce Huntoon, a copy editor at Pilot magazine, intentionally did not correct the copy of columnist Justin Mann Monday. “I am tired of that insufferable asshole’s mean-spirited jokes,” Huntoon said. “So, when he described the carburetor warmer as a ‘twentieth century’ invention, I decided to leave the copy untouched and let him deal with the...
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Morning Music
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural...
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I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
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“For a couple of years, this was the murder capital of America. But we could also...”
– Thomas Neal Jr., lifelong resident of Gary, Ind.
“Built as a company town by U.S. Steel in 1906, Gary had a promising start as a...”
– New York Times error. Gary, Ind. is in northWEST Indiana. On the other side of the state. This isn’t just a matter of misidentifying the geography of the city. The state of Indiana would have to be fewer than 25 miles wide in order for Gary, “only 25 miles from downtown Chicago,”...
Jackson Was Beacon of Hope for His Declining... →
Visions of renaissance have come and gone. But if there is anything left that brings a twinkle to this town’s eye, it is the pride its people have felt over the decades knowing that Gary produced Michael Jackson, a little boy born on the lowly west side who, at the height of his pop music career, was the brightest star in the world.
Although he might not have always known it, Mr. Jackson took...
WatchHardees is offering a new menu item that they call “biscuit holes.” They are served with frosting.
WatchOn May 16, 1983, during a televised tribute to Motown Records, pop star Michael Jackson performed a relatively unknown dance move. The crowd went wild. In the years since, the moonwalk has gone from dance sensation to cliche to visual shorthand for the 1980s. Here, culled from YouTube, is an organic tribute to the late King of Pop.
(via slate)
Just like Elvis
“Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general. I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death. At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, “I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.”
I promptly tried to deter...
How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled... →
19:21 - One of Michael Jackson’s ranch employee’s calls 911 The next forty-nine minutes are best described as the calm before the storm. The Los Angles Fire Department arrived at Neverland Ranch and family members were alerted of the news. 20:10 - (Story Breaks) A small entertainment site called x17online.com breaks the story. They post photos and a brief story a full 20 minutes before...
mel: like we can talk about anything other than michael jackson...
molly: anybody who doesn't like MJ should just Beat It.
mel: oh man, if i met anybody who didn't like MJ, I would Scream
molly: i mean, it's just as simple as Black and White
mel: hey, Remember the Time when MJ was awesome?
molly: I really Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', and by somethin', I mean telling people how awesome MJ was.
mel: I think we're starting to stretch it.
molly: yeah. grief sucks.
mel: do you think obama can moonwalk?
molly: i hope so.
molly: i don't know how we're going to get out of this mess otherwise.
"You're a vegetable"?
Seriously, I’ve never been able to figure out if I’m just mishearing the lyrics to “Wanna Be Starting Something,” or if Michael is actually saying, “You’re a vegetable” repeatedly in the chorus. Can anyone solve this life-long mystery for me?
If he is, in fact, saying “you’re a vegetable,” can anyone tell me why and what that means?
Morning Music
Man in the Mirror - Michael...
ABC - Jackson Five
As much as I loved 80s...
Watchapsies:
Michelle hulas, Barack ogles
They could not be any cuter.
I need to get back into the news business. Sigh.
I wish the same thing all the time. Then I remember why I left.
“Whew.”
– Gov. Mark Sanford, upon hearing the news that Michael Jackson is dead.