December 2008
46 posts
“[Person’s Name] just lost 5 pounds the hard way :(”
– A female acqquaintance’s most recent Facebook status update. I literally have no idea what she’s referring to,. (I did not add the frowney face. That’s all her.)
Fan death - Wikipedia →
Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.
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Does Anyone Know a Bullet Store That Sells...
Sachar Mathias: the menu is amazing
Max Silvestri: beer, cigarettes, condoms, plantain chips, cat food
Max Silvestri: "I am going to get so screwed up Ima try and fuck my Mexican cat"
Sachar Mathias: hahahahaha
Sachar Mathias: are plantain chips mexican?
Max Silvestri: plaintains are?
Sachar Mathias: I thought they were puerto rican
Max Silvestri: who cares
Sachar Mathias: is that a category of food?
Max Silvestri: plantains are a mexican fruit, aren't they?
Sachar Mathias: they're definitely east williamsburg
Sachar Mathias: who cares
Max Silvestri: someone should put this chat up on theworst.com
“In the tradition of FreshDirect, Kozmo and Peapod, two enterprising hipsters in...”
– (via nytimes)
There are lots of jokes I could make about this but I won’t make any of them because whoops I’m the laziest and will absolutely use this.
Elvis Perkins In Dearland (.com) →
The band’s new website is online, and it’s streaming three tracks from their new album. Their new album which is very, very good.
Way To Go, Guys
Tracy’s Roommate: Tracy Morgan, not Tracy Jordan, will star in and produce the comedy Freshman Roommates with T.J. Miller, one of the scared kids from Cloverfield. The movie focuses on a college kid who drunk-replies to an e-mail from a Nigerian prince. But this is no scam. Something that becomes clear when the spoiled son of a deposed African dictator (Morgan) shows up at his door to...
“Which CELEB would You PUKE On? Type POLL”
– The away message of GossipinGabby, the AOL gossip chat bot.
Greg Johnson: Lock Up Your Kids! CC Sabathia is... →
If you aren’t reading Greg Johnson’s blog, what the fuck are you doing with yourself? Sort it.
Lookout, folks! The contract is for 7 years and 160 million dollars. Dear The New York Yankees. If you think, in 7 years, and 160 million dollars, CC Sabathia will still be alive and have yet to eat himself to death, then, my friends, YOU GOT A BIG DUMP IN YO PANTS! This guy will spend it...
THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED →
Grand Street is about to get a whole lot cornier.
On Monday, Williamsburg residents Maribel Araujo and Aristides Barrios will open Caracas Brooklyn — a Venezuelan restaurant specializing in the stuffed cornmeal patties called arepas.
I literally have no use for the East Village anymore. This is the best news I’ve heard all month.
Grub Street Interviews Top Chef's Danny →
And it’s all dynamite. All of it.
You said in the episode that the word “new” made you think of pickles. Why? Pickling is an old technique, and basically to make something new you have to start with old first. That’s why I came up with the idea of pickling — do different types of pickling on the plate, and maybe have a protein, a Chilean sea bass or sirloin or filet mignon or something...
Is Momofuku Williamsburg in the Works? →
God I hope so.
Watchgabrieldelahaye:
curbthis:
Curb Your Shining
This is the best one so far.
I have now watched this three times.
Pluggers Are Serious Business
A long time ago I wrote a thing about the comic strip Pluggers. I got the following email this morning.
exactly who is intolerant?
I do not like your hateful comments about the cartoon strip Pluggers. Exactly who is judgmental and intolerant? Today, the censors, the book-burners are on the left. You liberals are the intolerant ones who sensor what books schoolchildren read, try to censor...
On Why There Should Never Stop Being Die Hard...
Andrew Ti: oh man
Andrew Ti: watched part of the new die hard with gabe and edith yesterday
Andrew Ti: that shit is so insane
Max Silvestri: i love the new Die Hard
Max Silvestri: I've seen it like 4 times
Andrew Ti: shit is totally bonks
Andrew Ti: I really expected him to launch the semi into the fighter
Andrew Ti: next time, he's going to launch an aircraft carrier into a satellite
Max Silvestri: He's going to shoot a grappling hook into the moon
Max Silvestri: and drag it to earth to kill a robot
Andrew Ti: send a fishing line through time to smash a truck from the past into the same truck in the present
On Whether to Have a Big Terrific on New Year's...
Max Silvestri: do people go out on january 1st?
Gabe Liedman: well, they are massively hung-over
Gabe Liedman: but it is in the middle of the week
Gabe Liedman: so maybe they dont already have plans?
Max Silvestri: yeah
Max Silvestri: i mean, i may go out of town
Gabe Liedman: nice
Gabe Liedman: grand cayman?
Max Silvestri: I hope
Gabe Liedman: sweet
Gabe Liedman: don't get "firm"ed
Max Silvestri: is that when tom cruise rapes you and then pays you a million dollars never to tell anyone?
Gabe Liedman: i think that's called getting jonathan lipnickied
Pentagon Shoots $22 Million Into Guided-Bullet... →
Everyone who said the movie Wanted was stupid owes me an apology.