January 2011
21 posts
Translation
When I say, “I like your shoes,” this usually means “Your shoes are different enough from normal shoes that I feel the irrepressible urge to comment on them.”
SNL
Every week I tell myself that I’m going to actually watch SNL on Saturday.
Every Sunday at 5:00 I realize that I completely forgot.
I expect this to continue until the day I die.
$5 Albums
If you still pay for your music, check out Amazon. Through January they have 1,000 albums available as $5 downloads, many of them really, really great albums from the past couple years.
Mozart and Poop
Apparently Mozart was a big fan of poop jokes. Or at least a big enough fan to warrant a wikipedia page “Mozart and Scatology.”
In fact, he even wrote a song (or at least the lyrics) entitled “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schon sauber,” which translates to “lick me in the ass, right well and clean.”
You can find a full translation of the song here.
And here...
Just Put in My Two Weeks' Notice
I feel free. Let the countdown begin.
New Baby!
I’m apparently also going to be an uncle in a few months. I’m not sure how to process this information. Congrats to my brother. The good news just keeps rolling in. I should go buy a lotto ticket.
New Job!
Good news, everyone: I have a new job. I received final confirmation this afternoon that I will be taking over Owen’s vacated position at CollegeHumor. It’s hard for me to succinctly explain how great this is. I took my current job in a moment of desperation: the time was almost up on our sublet and I was almost out of money. Now after two years of quiet, soul-crushing...
Hal Phillips: Universes →
halphillips:
I’m trying to think of the largest and most continuous fictional universes that exist. If you wanted an ongoing, open-ended set of stories following the same characters/places/etc. over an extended period of time and building on what’s come before, where would you turn? Here are the biggest…
Also, Isaac Asmiov’s Empire, Foundation, and Robot series all take place in...
Well this is just a horrible idea →
Denouement.
mymotherwasright:
Accidentally flinging my wool sock into a public toilet was a great way to end this day!
Why were you taking off your socks in a public restroom?
Rock is Dead
There are only three rock songs on the UK’s Top 100 Singles of 2010. They are as follows:
#25: “Don’t Stop Believin’” (Glee version)
#84: “Hey Soul Sister” (Train)
#93: “Dog Days are Over” (Florence and the Machine)
This is sad.
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