April 2012
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Hi, I moved to a couch on the Lower East Side in 2010 and, like, yeah, there was a couch on the Lower East Side before 2010 but I decided to pretend that there wasn’t and instead complain how, in those six months while I was off on a couch on the Lower East Side living on my friend’s [sic] couch for free, things are a lot different than when I lived there with my friend’s [sic] (couch). Now I’m...
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During his tenure, Alex Balk's most popular post...
During his tenure, Alex Balk’s most popular post was an embedded video of a kid getting hit by a skateboard during an impromptu performance in Times Square subway station.
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You know, now that we think about it, why isn't...
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Summer of Megadeth is really sorry about all those...
megaemereri:
You know, we’ve tried to mine the #cracker tag before but it’s all pictures of fucking crackers
White people, am I right?
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awpoops:
summerofmegadeth:
awpoops:
Walking to the subway after work yesterday, I stopped at the intersection of 10th Avenue and 23rd street and waited for the light to change. A bus passed, going up 10th Avenue. A woman and her two daughters were standing next to me. Dressed in matching windbreakers, I’d have to guess the two little girls were age 5 and 7, respectively.
The older girl...
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peterwknox:
lorim:
Roger Sterling on LSD. Good god this is fantastic. We’re not even half through the season and the show keeps feeling like it’s finale good.
I agree. It feels like they’ve been given permission to have fun with the show. Even the structure would never have been pulled off this well earlier in the season. Everything has been amazing.
Summer of Megadeth is halfway through a...
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awpoops:
Walking to the subway after work yesterday, I stopped at the intersection of 10th Avenue and 23rd street and waited for the light to change. A bus passed, going up 10th Avenue. A woman and her two daughters were standing next to me. Dressed in matching windbreakers, I’d have to guess the two little girls were age 5 and 7, respectively.
The older girl started freaking out, trying to...
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6h057:
thenotes:
Probably you will never purge the memory of eating at the restaurant around the corner and overhearing a guy tell his date that “deus ex machina” means “the machinery of god.”
Not as bad as trying to criticize something as amateurish and using a fanfic term.
Summer of Megadeth just spent five minutes trying to find the Joshua David Stein bit about overhearing a dude on a...
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An Awl post with more than 10 comments?
Fuck yeah, 2009!
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America discovers nepotism, again
free-cat-fancy:
I can’t be the first person to point out that everyone has only been pissing their pants when a woman has a well-connected dad, can I?
Whoa. We literally never thought of it this way. You are totally the first person to point this out, dude.
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The magic of that story is how gracefully it...
The magic of that story is how gracefully it reveals something to the reader about the nature of entitlement.
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I wrote a long article about the phenomenon of...
I wrote a long article about the phenomenon of books made entirely of Wikipedia articles.
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Proper use of ironic constructions: a guide.
fuckyeahsummerofmegadeth:
ninety9:
What We Talk About When We Talk About _________: Should only be used to indicate a meta-construction. That is, you are parodying the use of ironic constructions; therefore the effective — read: funny — use is not necessary because the entire gesture should be read a sort of droll non-attempt. “I’m not trying to be funny.”
The Way We _________ Now: More...
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My Last $100, by An Adult.
youngmegadethite:
1. Mini of Universal City.
Summer of Megadeth, for one, took our girlfriend out to dinner.
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ninety9:
I’m hardly in a position to judge what’s a fair use of time, but Lil’B giving a talk at NYU? How it this more punk rock than the Eagles playing s staff concert at Rolling Stone offices? If maybe he scheduled a second talk at a community college in Queens, or swung by a youth center in the Bronx, that fits the mythology a lil’better. Or maybe I’m missing the point.
“Surely...
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of course this "adult" has spoken at TED. →
Man. Why didn’t we think of this?
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Q: Is Nicki Minaj really going to keep *doing...
A: Probably.
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Dear Christ is Summer of Megadeth really going to...
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* Post cannot be Émile.
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We used tag humor in every one of those posts
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Q. My refund ended up being like $200 less than I...
Eh.
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Q. I failed to file taxes last year. I intend to...
We really need a Blade IV and a Demolition Man 2.
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Q. Based on my cursory understanding of this,...
You put a footnote in your question, forfeit all your money.
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Q. Is the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System as...
Maybe the government doesn’t want your money.
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Q. I really just want advice on how not to ball...
Hope you mean like ‘cement shoes’, ‘sleeping with the fishes’ type contracts. That would be awesome.
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Q. I have a new job where I now have to pay...
Well did you or didn’t you get that penalty?
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Q. I am a freelance editor. I often work for...
Are you a freelance editor of Simpsons plots from 18 years ago?
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Q. This past year I rented out my apartment...
Just does not seem worth it.
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Q. I work in the service industry, more...
BEAT THIEF
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I wrote a thing about Spotify, alternative... →
lifeaquatic:
maura:
Kind of wish the Spotify-embed news had happened today, what with the “play button” really being more of a “launch app except if you live in a country where we don’t exist, sorry, lol you really thought the web was world wide?” button, and further proving my point about the celestial jukebox’s limitations. But alas.
I live in a Spotify-less country and I’m still ok!
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Okay, Help: What's Your Ideal Afternoon in...
Don’t.
brianvan:
unbornwhiskey:
thenotes:
“[She’s] like the weather in New England: if you don’t like it, wait five minutes.”
“I have heard that weather thing applied to literally everywhere.”
“Not Reno.”
I first heard the aphorism in Reno, where it rains/snows in five minute seizures, Miles is full of shit.
It’s like the weather on Tumblr: if you don’t like it, complain on Tumblr
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I was thinking in Spanish and I said the wrong thing in English.
– Ozzie Guillen explains his comments regarding Castro in Time Magazine. (via dbreunig)
OH COME ON IT’S NOT LIKE IT WAS HITLER OR JOSE CANSECO WHATEVER
(via guntland)
That’s just a Jim Shepard story don’t forget to buy Ivyland now available on Amazon.