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rebeccaschinsky: Poehler preaches the truth. Tell it to...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:07:52 -0700

rebeccaschinsky:

Poehler preaches the truth.

Tell it to the people.

canadian-problems: submitted by Caylex I’d laugh if it...

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:38:38 -0600

canadian-problems:

submitted by Caylex

I’d laugh if it didn’t hurt so much.

Making the Clackity Noise

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:44:04 -0700

This is for the Marconi mafia, to whom I read this blog post aloud. It was an unexpected hit, much like everything Merlin does.

merlin:

Buffering [Sonny Payne]

When I was a percussionist in high school, we were responsible for keeping the jazz band, full orchestra, concert band, and marching band in time, and we did so through a haze of marijuana and hormones and passed-down stories of some guy’s uncle who saw Gene Krupa perform a 12-minute solo using every part of a high hat while eschewing the rest of the kit. And to this day, when I see videos like this, I get an urge to skip class and go make out with a bassoonist in a sound-proof practice room. After all, life is short, and lunch period is even shorter.

Did you read that? That was swell. One hundred five words. Less than half a page.

That’s all it took for this person (whom I’m pretty sure I’ve never met) to make my day. Now I want to follow this person or star this person or favr this person or whatever the fuck au courant verb box I need to mash on in order to see more things like that.

Yes, I realize I am — already, again, seemingly forever — carrying on like that weird relative who always smells of gin and Starlight mints as he threatens to “set you up with a sweet Doobie Brothers mix.” I love Starlight mints, but please don’t misunderstand me.

I genuinely enjoy looking at oversaturated pictures of coltish women I’ll never meet. I’m always game to make fun of “improperly” punctuated “signs.” And God knows I love reading (and posting) elliptical quotes from famous books I never finished reading. Stipulated.

But, brother. Do I ever wish more people would write little stories like Buffering’s. It’s just so wonderful. You know?

I mean, Jesus Christ, people, LOOK. We have keyboards! Literally right in front of us. Right this second.

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Bus Trips Are The New Roller Coasters

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:00:05 -0600

So you’re driving a private bus around the extremely bumpy streets of Rio De Janeiro all day. Your bus is taller than it is wide, and you’ve got a bunch of foreigners who need to go back and forth from the Villa Militaria every day, and they seem to always need to be wherever they’re going yesterday. You could slow down and carefully negotiate every pothole, ramp and depression, eking out the best path around each tight off-ramp curl. Or…

You just drive the snot out of that bus like there isn’t a tomorrow and give those foreigners in the back something to cheer about. YEEEEEEHAW!

I wish I had video, but I was seriously terrified that during filming, any bump could launch that iPhone 4 out of my hand at a hundred km/hr and end up embedded in the back of one of my colleague’s heads.

Julio’s kidlet-to-be is going to LOVE this trick.

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:05:06 -0600

Julio’s kidlet-to-be is going to LOVE this trick.

Making History / Appreciating History

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:00:06 -0600

Since his step-mom was still umpiring on the pitch on the last day, I was the one to explain to Donnie that a 7.0 mark on his tournament report constituted a recommendation that the FIH UC award Donnie with his international badge.

He got this big smile on his face and explained to me that if the FIH accepts him, he will make history as the first Bermudian man ever to earn an FIH badge. It was humbling to see a 19 year-old man appreciate what this means to his local community and to the PAHF, not just to himself.

I’ll admit it: this crusty vet got a little verclempt.

Suzi reminds us of absent friends. Get well Dani Brown!

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:05:05 -0600

Suzi reminds us of absent friends. Get well Dani Brown!

Sharing mate with Xavier and the rest of the team. I need a...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:51:10 -0600

Sharing mate with Xavier and the rest of the team. I need a gourd, bombilla and kick-ass thermos stat.

Grateful For Rio

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:31:22 -0600

I’m pretty crap these days about blogging my tournament experiences. However, I was thinking as I was flying home that there were a lot of special little things that I did feel really grateful for that I experienced in Rio. It must be the yoga thing kicking in.

So I’m going to share those things in bit-sized pieces over the next several days. If you’re interested, you can follow the hashtag #gratefulforrio.

Jay's Other Stuff: The two big news stories this week have been: A) A young couple being...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:59:20 -0600

Jay's Other Stuff: The two big news stories this week have been: A) A young couple being...:

jsmooth995:

The two big news stories this week have been:

A) A young couple being exalted and celebrated and treated as more worthy & special than all the rest of us, for no reason but the family they were born into, or are marrying into.

and

B) A man who started from nothing, yet pulled himself up to…

LoveQuicksilver: Quicksilver Lives (Again)

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:46 -0600

LoveQuicksilver: Quicksilver Lives (Again):

lovequicksilver:

It’s here! My highlights of the changes in Quicksilver ß59:

Auto Update of Application using QSApp.com (this is the last time you’ll ever have to go looking for a new release!)
Automatic updates. No-one will be waiting a year or more for the next version…

‘Open Url in Background…

I hate to bust out over-used, stale memeslang, but whatever....

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:00:00 -0600

I hate to bust out over-used, stale memeslang, but whatever. This is awesomesauce.

officialbeastieboys: Make Some NoiseThis wasn’t really part of...

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:42:00 -0600

officialbeastieboys:

Make Some Noise

This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. Enjoy

Mike

Sound On The Sound Reviews The Tranzmitors

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:11:20 -0700

Sound On The Sound Reviews The Tranzmitors:

The real point of the Tranzmitors, though, seems to be to have fun. The music they make is upbeat and catchy, influenced as much by 60s pop and new wave as by “traditional” punk. Handclaps and rich instrumentation fill out the sparsity of the underlying punk song structure, and dancing, not moshing, is the clear intent. Live, the band gives and gives, sweating through their suits as they provide enough energy for the whole room. “You think too much / Just gotta loose a bit up / And have a good time” they sing in what may be their manifesto, “Dancing in the Front Row.”

mnmlmac: No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome | 43 Folders ...

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:27:20 -0700

mnmlmac:

No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome | 43 Folders

No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there.

And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.

And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new.

[…]

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

do me a favour, love...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:32:54 -0700

do me a favour, love...:

… and shut your immensely ignorant trap.

Andy Gray and Richard Keys have since been fired and suspended respectively for their remarks broadcast without their knowledge on the suitability of Sian Massey or any woman for that matter adjudicating football’s offside rule. Somehow this is going to be twisted into some shameful victory for the feminazis as sad sack lager swillers all over that country mourn the temporary loss of such an erudite commenter to the Great Football World.

Even Morning Gloria’s response doesn’t make me feel better:

(It’s true. Women have two X chromosomes and ovaries and vaginas and do not know the offside rule. It’s science. In fact, doctors are currently developing a test to determine whether or not a fetus is male or female by asking it, very loudly, about the offside rule. In America, they plan on using the infield fly rule or the NFL’s onside kick rule.)

I’m glad there’s people like MoGlo around because I lose my ability to say anything articulate at all and just want to erupt into a huge, green, muscular version of myself and bellow “FEMINIST! SMASH!”

It Doesn't Matter Why He Did It

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:22:59 -0700

It Doesn't Matter Why He Did It:

The only concise explanation of the danger of American politics I’ve ever read.

I think it was a very bad year for her

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:19:43 -0700

I think it was a very bad year for her:

Jezebel’s Dodai seriously tells off 2010. I didn’t have a terrible 2010, but it had a distinct level of suckage that set it apart from better years. I’d still go back to 2004 as a year that needed to fuck off, or 1986 as the most fuck-offable year in history. But I respect a person’s right to really give it to the year that was.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:36:03 -0700

Punching some punk-ass boy on the playground in pre-school. It felt good, and I was disappointed to learn a few years later that such behaviour is not only discouraged, it’s illegal.

During the “Holidays”, which are clearly just days...

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:12:51 -0700

During the “Holidays”, which are clearly just days invented to make non-9-to-5ers like myself feel guilty that working people realize just how little you can do on a weekday, I get even more bored than usual.

So one day, I stumbled into YouTube to watch Robyn perform various versions of my favorite songs off Body Talk - sometimes watching the same video a few times without realizing that I hadn’t managed to click on a different one yet. No matter. She sings with the same inflections, does the same wicked-cool 80’s head toss back with straight arm flings, shows the same facial expressions in each live performance and I loved every second.

She’s what all Pop Stars used to be before the Great Corruption*: always singing live, well-rehearsed but not choreographed to the nano-second with hip-hop-hips and kitten grabbing, dressed cool and not Sexy with a capital Sexy.

She just nails that shit and I’m so glad she’s out there, saving pop music.

*I’m not sure who started it, but you know what I’m talking about. Aguleira, Spears and the ilk.