February 2012
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Adulting: Step 156: Don't be a re-runner →
adulting:
The other day, my dude and I had an extensive brainstorm to come up with a verb that describes the (super annoying) act of telling an looong anecdote about a TV show or movie that the other person has not seen. Eventually, we settled on “rerunning,” as in, “Ugh, her. She reruns all the goddamn…
The only time this isn’t annoying is when you’ve both seen it. Then...
jephjacques: How I Get Guitar Tones I Like →
jephjacques:
“How do you get that guitar tone?” is a question I get asked pretty often. So I thought it would be fun to do a quick walkthrough of my recording setup and the way I build guitar parts. We’ll be dealing entirely with high-gain metal-guitar distortion here, but a lot of the principles I use work…
Reblogging as a reminder to myself, so my future releases sound better
This can be the new tween TV sensation: That’s Bangin’
That’s Bangin’ follows the middle and high-school travails of a group of kids who just happen to be the children of porn stars. Plot points include:
“It’s my birthday, but Mom got the wrong kind of party favors! Now no one’s parents will let them hang out with me anymore.”
“I think Sarah...
“You know I was married for 23 years to the love of my life, and he died six...”
– Washington State Representative MAUREEN WALSH, Republican, on why she voted to legalize marriage equality in her state.
Dear New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others in the Republican Party who continue to demonize those who want marriage equality: this is what courage, and not cowardice,...
cjfuckingsewers:
meowremix:
thefrogman:
I did not see that coming.
wut
the fack
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Rejected lyrics
Songwriting is hard. The process is considerably different from writing poetry, because with song lyrics you have to take into consideration the melody and the rhythm of the words. Even if you’re writing lyrics before any of the music is composed, you want them to be loose enough to work around whatever the song becomes.
In any case, sometimes lyrics just don’t work out and end up on...
archieoutofcontext:
let it settle for a second … there you go
courtesy of bettyandveronicafashions.tumblr.com
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Hope Floated, then They Burned Her: The True Story...
Kindle Edition.
January 2012
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A title that I think speaks for itself in terms of content and theme:
A Goth Named Billy
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
(via neil-gaiman)
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of... →
wilwheaton:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.”
“Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like...
December 2011
5 posts
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Guess what time it is?
Time for Lessons on History and Culture and Science and Stuff!
So, you may know that we all use the Gregorian calendar, as popularized by Pope Gregory XIII, but you may not know that its rival, the Julian calendar, was not actually named after Julius Caesar. It may seem natural to assume so, given the Juli- in each of their names; but remember: Caesar’s name was not...
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Already posted on my main blog, but I figured I would dupe the link announcement here since it was originally just going to be a post on this thing: You Deserve a Fucking Martini. It’s a silly, one-off thing, but I hope it can serve as a valuable reference to future generations wondering how to make a proper martini.
HTTP status cats →
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This may be relevant to the interests of some of you.
November 2011
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September 2011
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Roses: Timeless Romantic Image or Terrible Roman Reminder?
Ladies, don’t trust a man bearing roses, or and singer who wants to lay you down in a bed of them. But why? you may ask. Aren’t roses the most romantic flower?
NO. While this little fact may have been lost to our culture in the sands of time, I come with it to YOU, the READER, to remind you of its true significance, of what...
August 2011
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I tweeted earlier today about a couple things I’ve been thinking about recently: Harry Houdini and Back to the Future II. It gave me an idea for a grand fanfic, or a series of fanfics, about deleted scenes involving the things that Old Biff could do with Young Biff to get the younger Biff’s self-esteem back up after the failed rape of Marty’s mom. I mean, the guy must have felt...
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I scan the newspaper every day for stories about suicide because I like to think it reminds me of her, but it doesn’t. I do it for me. I like ideas. I try to get them from anywhere. I read about another man stepping in front of the Caltrain in Palo Alto or Mountain View and I try to fill in the blanks about the things that must have been going through his mind when he did it, and just before...
July 2011
10 posts
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She looked at me and said, “Sometimes all you need is a beard and a shirt with a moon on it.”
“Is that a three wolf moon reference?” I asked.
She stirred up her iced chai with her straw and had this pleased little smile on her face. It brought out her dimples.
“You’d also look good in plaid.”
“Yeah,” I said, “and while I’m at it...
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You’re a jack of all trades But good at only some
You want to be prolific But are known to only some
Time to face the fact That you can’t get prolific-famous Unless you’re already famous For something else you’ve done
You’ll never be a middle-class James Franco, son
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You were always telling dick jokes That made me roll my eyes,
Except that one that always had me
Rolling on the floor instead.
You were the worst kind of friend,
Borrowing stuff and never returning it,
And that was assuming you asked
To borrow it in the first place.
But I won’t forget the time
You actually came through for me,
When that guy had me
In the trunk of his car
And...
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