May 2012
There IS crying in roller derby
There are times when you lay on the track and cry because you broke your ankle, and there are times when you lay on the track and cry because you THINK you broke your ankle.
Really psyched that tonight it was the latter
Are you a Boston-area EMT or certified first...
The Boston Derby Dames are looking for two volunteers to sit trackside at Saturday’s bout and assist our skaters in the event of injury. You’ll have one of the best seats in the house! We’ll also provide you with some tickets to this game for your friends and tickets to future games so you can watch as a spectator, plus a free BDD tee shirt of your choice.
Never seen derby? Not...
“It was quite an amazing thrill marching down Pennsylvania Avenue and receiving a...”
– Focus | The Daily Times - The Way We Were, 1972-2012: Maryville High grad recalls 40 years of change
A woman who graduated from my HS in 1972 wrote this silly column about my high school and included this gem. In case you were wondering if the south was still … well … you know
Don't Hire People Who Went To Grad School →
trappedintime:
Oh really? Fuck you too.
This article is incredibly poorly written, barely researched, and reeks of the kind of Malcolm Gladwell meets Jerry Seinfeld commentary to which the internet has given rise (What’s with that? Oh, well, looking around, my gut tells me THIS is the reason).
BTW, the link to the Chronicle actually links to the author’s own blog post about...
“Jorts! I forgot about my jorts! I’m wearing these. I want everyone at this...”
– Me, while unpacking my summer clothes. My home made knee-length cut-off-and-cuffed jorts just say summer to me.
oh dad...
Me: We're going to a baby shower. Well, sort of a baby shower. Like, a BBQ baby shower
Dad: Oh yeah? They gonna cook the kid?
Opinions are like assholes ...
You know who’s not really that important? The Vice President
You know who’s really not important? A Vice Presidential nominee who LOST
You know who’s really REALLY not important? The daughter of a Vice Presidential nominee who lost
Bristol Palin’s ruminations on gay marriage can sit right next to Lindsay Lohan’s parenting tips and Amanda Bynes’ driving manual...
“While this may seem like an innocent prank to some, it was an act of torment...”
– Judy Shepard, mother of murdered gay son Matthew Shepard - The Raw Story (via brooklynmutt)
I would care about this NOT AT ALL if Romney would just say, “Yeah, I did that. It was a horrible thing, and I’m sorry about it every day.” The fact that he blows it off as “I...
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– President Obama Embraces Marriage Equality (via enteekaygee)
Ok, time for the real talk
Word on the street is President Obama will formally endorse gay marriage in a television interview today (about damn time). Why is this a big deal? Because homophobes have been allowed to pretend that hate is a valid political opinion for too long, partially because the left entertains it. The left allows this debate to go on because they act like it’s a debate.They hem and haw and wink at...
“Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he...”
– Denis Leary, 1992 (via bringingupbaby)
“But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on....”
– Rachel Maddow
Cc: North Carolina
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i am very sad and very disappointed with my home state tonight
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FIGURE IT OUT, NORTH CAROLINA
Fox News contributor laments ‘mistake’ of letting... →
It’s hard to wrap my brain around the fact that
a) this man came on television and said “I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote.” (that’s a direct quote, friends … oh, and it gets so much worse)
b) that Fox News host Kirsten Powers asked Shawn Hannity to repudiate it, and Shawn Hannity REFUSED
Huh … and they keep...
“Yeah, well I’m 118 pounds and I totally stole her lunch money.”
– Things you say when you play derby against girls twice your size … and come out victorious
What Right Is Really At Stake? →
In which Orson Scott Card, author of the classic Enders Game series, tells us why gay marriage is an abomination. Seriously. Oh, and he’s even so bold as to write the sentence, “There are no laws left standing that discriminate against gay couples.”
In case you were wondering, Orson Scott Card is a tool of epic proportions.
Watchpatrickdonohue:
Mumford and Sons — “England” (The National cover)
Just shouted at Adam, “HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE MUMFORD AND SONS?! THEYR’E SO. EXCELLENT.”
Real talk here for a minute … I feel like that time in my life where I fall in love with new bands and songs has sort of passed. Maybe I’m too old, or too jaded, or too distracted, or just too impatient to sift...
"Difference Between a Cool Girl and a Loser," From... →
ohmygod please read this.
Something tells me John Gibbs went on to work for Rick Santorum’s campaign… or at least be a major contributor
If you need a doctor's appointment quickly, the...
Turns out, just an injured (torn/strained/etc) intercostal muscle (aka, the muscle between your ribs) that is spasming across my chest. Yowza. Prescription anti-inflammatory to the rescue!
“Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody...”
– Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! - The Daily Beast
This column rides the line of “angry old man sez get off my lawn,” but I don’t care because he’s shouting about things I believe in. Stephen King is an unabashedly lefty liberal who can use phrases like “pay...
“Men don’t take time to end things. They ignore you, until you insist on a...”
– - Joan, Mad Men
Facts on facts.
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Mad Men has been ON. POINT. this season. Totally loving it
Woof. Yup.
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I HEARD THAT
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April 2012
“And so, if we can hang on, it will be in the twenty-fifties that the manners and...”
– “The Forty-Year Itch: What Mad Men Shows About American Pop Culture” (via downlookingup) (via sylvysparrow)
This was also a segment on NPR Weekend Edition, and it was thoroughly fascinating.
