Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Scandal! and Booky Things
Gasp! You got excited, but no scandal here, just an explanation of (perhaps) why a scandal is just so juicy and appealing to people. The NYT book review of How To Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Laura Kipnis.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
All I want for Christmas is MIMI
Mariah is releasing a new Christmas album. WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Also: a weekly throwback!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Jay Z wrote a book?
Coming out Nov 11, Jay-Z's book is called Decoded. The rapper was quoted:
“When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The first was to make the case that hip-hop lyrics—not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC—are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history. And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to.”
The book apparently decodes 38 of the rapper's lyrics. Honestly, I would really like some more info on his life with Beyoncé, but this should be interesting too.
So Cambridge right now: Citation Salutations
Parking tickets in Cambridge now come with yoga poses on them. So you are reminded to relax when you get your ticket, instead of swearing or slamming your door etc. The artwork is described as a way to change the way people interact in the city. Coined "citation salutations," the envelope suggests poses for the offender and ticket-giver to do together. Here, they're clearly lost it. Who is going to hold hands with the dude that just gave you a ticket? In fact, that seems unadvisable. Regardless, it would make my day to see some ticket official and Cambridge resident doing backbends and breathing to the sun.
Nice idea, but really? The most popular retort on the Boston blogosphere: "Is yoga going to pay this shit?"
Click 1st image for detail.
Literary Symbolism: The Staircase
...no longer allegorical...
[ascension, self- realization, acceptance of a higher power]Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Happy 114th Birthday!
The world's oldest man turned 114 in Montana today. He apparently only eats two meals a day and listens to the radio often. Walter Breuning lives in a retirement community where his state senator visited today.
114 means that he was born in 1896, thus has seen the century "turn" twice. In 1896 there were only 45 states (Utah was adopted) and Queen Victoria became the longest ruling British monarch and the X-ray machine was invented.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
because its relevant
or to be more accurate: because it makes me laugh.
other purposes: to date myself.
also: because it is reminiscent of myself and maggie. or at least, i believe it to be.
that is all.
arboursculpture
The trees are trained to grow in these intricate shapes as saplings. The chair appears to be a Cherry and that guy looks as if he could be related to Rich...
Monday, September 13, 2010
Molly's Dream Dress as seen on Lady Bacon!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Rebuttal to Cee-Lo
This chick is awkwardly addressing Cee Lo Green's painfully catchy song.
HERS:
HIS (the original, for those of you who haven't been so lucky as to hear it)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Oldie Faves
Hi! After an extremely successful night of listening to Mariah, JLo, etc songs/videos, we've decided to try to throw you guys one a week.
baby girl don't make decisions when you're mad!
Monday, September 6, 2010
save the words!
This website, savethewords.org, is an effort by Oxford's dictionary to save endangered words. The words are "up for adoption," or you can just cruise around the website checking out words you never knew existed.
Here are some personal favorites with some usage tips:
Squiriferous adj.: Having the character or qualities of a gentleman.
Chivalry surely isn't dead, that young man was squiriferous.
After college, I plan to start my own business...
tragematopolist n.: a person who sells sweets
Willy Wonka is the most famous literary tragematopolist.
Impress your parents, perhaps veil a complaint.
antipelargy n.: reciprocal or mutual kindness; love and care for children
Her father never showed any antipelargy; he completely forgot his daughter in his will.
"Just headed back to my crib/lovenest/pad," easily transforms into a less cheasy, more intellectual phrase.
nidifice n.: a nest
There was a single egg in the nidifice.
Ask a "dumb" question and still sound smart.
quaeritate v.: to ask
I really must quaeritate, how long have Tom and Jane been together?
(I adopted this w3rd. derrrrrrrr)
You can really add some edge to your pissed off comment with this one.
blateration n. blabber, chatter
I just could not be at that party any longer, I got stuck in a corner listening to her blateration.
warning explicit *language*
This song is so addicting and now it has a brand new equally inappropriate music video! Cee-lo's suit...?
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Palindromes
Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same backward or forward. Here are some of our favorites.
1. Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.
2. Do geese see God?
3. Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
4. Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
5. A nut for a jar of tuna.
6. Dennis and Edna sinned.
7. Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
8. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
9. Ana, nab a banana.
10. Borrow or rob?
11. Vanna, wanna V?
12. We panic in a pew.
13. Never odd or even.
14. Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
15. Murder for a jar of red rum.
1. Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog.
2. Do geese see God?
3. Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
4. Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
5. A nut for a jar of tuna.
6. Dennis and Edna sinned.
7. Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
8. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
9. Ana, nab a banana.
10. Borrow or rob?
11. Vanna, wanna V?
12. We panic in a pew.
13. Never odd or even.
14. Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
15. Murder for a jar of red rum.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Modern Art? Necktie patterns? "Booze under a Microscope"
Rosé:
Vodka:
Daiquiri:
Image gallery from TIME online. See more drinks: here.
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