December 2010
41 posts
WatchEverybody likes to sing.
Christmas with my brother-in-law’s family this year was great times.
Chance of Snow 100% →
L.A. rain pshaw. Bring it on, my Northeast home.
Santa's Beard -They Might Be Giants →
Heard this on 90.5 The Night tonight in the Christmas lineup. Yea for NJ public radio!
Unrelated, ‘Mr Holland’s Opus’ is on TV. I’ll never get to sleep. And then Santa will never come!
Christmas Eve Miracle?
In order to save myself from schlepping a suitcase through New York City when I arrived on the East Coast 3 days ago, I shipped my clothes home for Christmas and just carried a small backpack. I now realize that it had my mother’s birthday card in it, too. Her birthday was 2 days ago.
This box has not yet arrived.
What I’m really trying to tell you, in a roundabout way, is that...
Ricky Gervais Essay on Atheism →
ronbabcock:
This pretty much sums up my feelings on the whole god matter, a wonderful read.
I like this a lot.
I don’t know Ron (who originally posted this), but I know he graduated from the University of Scranton a year after I did. And Scranton is a Jesuit (aka Catholic) school. My parents often joke (cry?) about their sending me through 17 years of Catholic school only to have me...
WatchTime to watch the greatest Christmas movie of all time: AD/BC: A Rock Opera
Santa Claus is Coming to Town -Ella Fitzgerald
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‘Zat you Santa Claus? -Louis Armstrong
Today I woke up, after some strange anxiety-filled dreams, totally exhausted, with a headache. More like a terrible-pain-behind-and-above-my-left-eye-which-is-also-a-little-bloodshot ache.
I crashed back into bed for awhile with a huge cup of coffee and googled. I found this which said that eye pain is often caused by dry eyes and that I should buy artificial tears at my local drug store. I...
“But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model...”
– Zadie Smith on KCRW’s Bookworm program (via yemelesshaecceity)
I like this.
Live Irish Sessions in NYC →
This article has to come out about Los Angeles, please.
Next Tuesday I hope to get off my plane at JFK and head straight to Swift, an old fave, for some sliders, live music and girly catching-up.
“…refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given...”
– Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, in an e-mail to staff 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.” via Media...
“Reincarnation better not be real, because I don’t want to come back as one...”
– Amanda Romeo, in response to this.
Presumably, she means Southern Christian Conservative kids who choose to go to Liberty University, but I think it extends to a cappella groups singing Bed Intruder on stage, minus the word ‘rape’. Which is odd. All of it is so odd.
On another note, I...
WatchGary is alive and well and living in my Christmas tree.
Now this is a freakin' story! →
I listen to Madeleine Brand on KPCC every morning for about 20 minutes. Sometimes she’s annoying, or it’s boring, and sometimes, like today, I sit in my car in the parking garage at work to listen to the very end.
This guy, an Olympian, survived in a liferaft - where he regularly fought off sharks - for 47 days after being shot down during WWII, was then captured and tortured by the...
WatchGot out to see this last night, the last night it appeared to be playing in only 3 theaters in town.
It’s really good.
Watchmikekarnell:
I spent my first Thanksgiving in Los Angeles with my friends high-fiving, laughing, and playing kickball.
For the most part I was incredibly drunk/hungover, I tried to salvage as much footage that wasn’t out of focus as I could.
Also: that’s Dave Lyons farting on Michelle’s back at the end of Thanksgiving.
Awww, this is so nice. I was at this Thanksgiving dinner, too!
NOT THAT...
A Note to the Winter Enchantment Ball Party-goers
My loving people,
We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and...
