November 2010
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“Recently, I met a friend for dinner and we both turned up wearing a pussy-bow...”
– Hadley Freeman, “Just because you admire the clothes they wear in Mad Men doesn’t mean it’s essential to Get the Look”
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Decisions, decisions.
So, I have a $50 Amazon gift certificate that wants using. Should I put it towards:
The Astaire and Rogers Ultimate Collector’s Edition
The Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels
The Tomorrow People: The Complete Series
The Children of the Stones
The Mysterious Cities of Gold Deluxe Edition
?
WatchMuji the Cat watches the cold front blow in. (With bonus washing machine and dog show noises in the background.)
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Watch“I did not spend $90 on a barspoon to make you a vodka soda.”
(Of course, I tend to be of the philosophy that if the customer wants a vodka soda, the customer gets a vodka soda, unless the ingredients don’t happen to be around—”no, sorry, we don’t keep Red Bull here”. And actually, the line about Fernet is the one that made me laugh out loud.)
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“I didn’t like Jon Pertwee, because he was again a bit too posh, and I...”
– Michael Moorcock, interviewed in The Quietus.
(I shall never, ever unsee Tom Baker as Josef Kiss now, whenever I read Mother London again. And if you haven’t read that book, fix that. Now.)
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“Q: And what about The Thick Of It app?
A: I’m about to go and see the first...”
– Armando Iannucci, interview. Please, please let this be available for the US iTunes app store.
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“But once you’re reporting for a newspaper, you’ve got a preset...”
– Chris Morris, in an interview about Four Lions on AICN.
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I JUST WANTED TO MAKE CAPS OF CREEPEDICT...
popartinferno:
That second one needs to be filed in my folder of Endlessly Useful GIFs For Internet Raging. (That would be alongside the one with David Bowie giving the finger and Tim Gunn shaking his head vehemently.)
“Oh, you’re talking about the Internet. Twelve people and their talking dog....”
– Steven Moffat, interviewed here.
(This strikes me as being the opposite of “Don’t blink!”)
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and she's not even pretty!: Who took your concert... →
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abloodymess:veganatalie: alittlebifurious: misskittyfantastico: thisislegit: bakaiwanaideyo: fuckforvirginity: avoirletrac: ny-to-paris: martin-johnson: vegasskies-: ijustwanttofuckthisburrito:
difficult to answer! my first show with my parents (or my church/youth group) probably predates most of the memories I can dig up. Brace yourself for some jesus rock:
christian show (my...
H&M opening first Texas store at Dallas' NorthPark... →
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carmaluna:
I am going to cry. My dreams are coming true. (Too bad it’s opening when I am going to be a freshman in college.)
h8 you dallas.
The thing is, I shopped at H&M when I was in the NYC metro area, and it wasn’t that impressive. I’ll definitely check it out since Northpark is so close to my in-laws’ house and we’re up there regularly. But I’m way...
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“Just as I had hoped with ‘Gee, Officer Krupke’ to be the first...”
– Stephen Sondheim on “Johanna” (Judge Turpin’s song) in Sweeney Todd, in Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes.
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“Let me state here a personal conviction that appears, right now, to be...”
– From “A Few Notes on the Culture”, by Iain M. Banks.
A little bit of political and economic philosophy buried in an essay on the history and sociology of a fictional interstellar utopia.
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