February 2010
36 posts
January 2010
51 posts
Eventually, every man reaches rock bottom.
But it takes a special man, a Joe Man, to hit it… and keep digging.
Following suit, I have tried my hand at the...
Carefully considering each letter as individual… Always, seems only to frustrate. Never facilitating the same freedom, but instead, more vitally: Derision from the intended? Intentional though it not, the acrostic can be more provocative? Challenging? Enticing?
Mad Men, by Sesame Street →
Feeling Minnesota: "Art in an Outpost" →
Courtesy of: mediation
New York Times ruins growlers by making it a... →
Great job New York Times, you found out what growlers were, and ruined them by greenwashing it.
Courtesy of: peterwknox
“Are you asking me to explain the behavior of a mother fucking pestilence?”
– Tyrese Gibson in “Legion” Easily one of the top ten worst films of recent memory. Who would have guessed that?
I love that on History's "The Nostradamus...
they just prefaced a segment of the show by saying that these parts of the text are open to interpretation.
Oh, this specific part is on a little bit of shaky ground…
A Clean Well-Lighted Place →
Courtesy of: Ernest Hemingway, of course.
Pokémon, in traditional Japanese style →
Terribly nerdy, but I can handle the lameness.
Courtesy of: theredpanda
"The Minnesota Way" →
Does Lutheran practicality plus Scandinavian progressiveness, multiplied by snow, and divided by passive-aggressiveness add up to an aesthetic?
Courtesy of: mediation
Prince writes an amazing song about Minnesota... →
The Protomen's most recent album is...
A true, beautifully unironic, embracing of the rock opera.
Somehow, this has made me a retroactive fan of Meatloaf.
Roger Ebert is finally becoming the digital... →
Courtesy of the ever enjoyable: peterwknox
A word of caution for when you're working with...
On the occasion you need a couple pairs of pants brought in or hemmed, you may find yourself in need of a seamstress or tailor. While I encourage you to pursue as intimate a relationship as you’re comfortable with, as it will likely allow for the optimal tailoring to occur, I stress that the comfortable with part is incredibly important.
That is to say, on the occasion you need to...
"...after considering all possible impacts, even...
So this misuse of “as little” in place of what should be “as few” is going to cause me far more stress than a phrase of such little size ever should.
Still don't get the Late Night War? This Chinese... →
On a somber note,
The ritual neck shave is no longer being offered at Winston’s. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the operation of the razor requires a barber’s licence and as all but two of the staff are licensed only as stylists, rather than face a two thousand dollar fine per instance… they have removed it from the service.
I, for one, will be observing a moment of silence for the loss of...
I am fairly sure the person who runs the books at...
misunderstood me and thought my lastname has the word butter in it. I guess we’ll find out this afternoon.
In simplest terms
The Joeman is, in simplest terms, the Ying to MTV’S Jersey Shore castmember Snooki’s Yang.
Weight Watchers clinic floor collapses under... →
Title unedited, this actually happened.
Tiger Woods donating $3 million to Haiti relief,... →
Children Reenact MTV'S The Jersey Shore. →
I keep mixing up Pat Robertson and Rob Pattinson
I mean, it almost makes sense that a teen vampire would suggest that Haiti had made a “pact to the Devil” in order to liberate themselves from the French and indirectly attributed the earthquake to the consequences of the Haitian people being “cursed” for doing so.
To text relief to Haiti, simply send "HAITI" to... →
To order a pizza from Papa John’s, follow these instructions.
What an amazing world, where sms messaging can send relief to both yourself and others.
Turning a nation into nerds, or... "why can't we... →
“James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.”
If a single day was a metaphore for an entire...
I’m waking up around about 8 o’clock in the morning to an intrusive alarm going off. With the whole day in front of me, I’ve not a thing to do.
It’s good and bad.
The Do's and Don'ts of Online Publicity, For Some... →
Courtesy of lindsayrobertson
With the end of my internship I am officially the...
But instead of being a migrant worker from the dustbowl region, I am a twenty something post grad who just lost his job because of a limited budget.
I guess my duplex full of college students and recent graduates is the new “Hooverville.”
Count the weeks till I’m eating pan fried boot leather?
Three habits of job seekers who get hired fast →
I like this article, the one overarching habit I could stand to take from it? Be more aggresive.
Forever rising.
The Joeman and the sun are, in many ways, not dissimilar. If he makes leave, do not fear. For he, like the sun, never truly leaves us. There will be no twilight of the Joeman, just as the sun never truly sets. Like the sun, he forever rises. Though the fields next greeted by his light will perhaps not be our own, we can find comfort in the fact that, as the earth is round, the farther he...
On no occasion, has anyone ever told me I have a...
I am happy for this.
Inside of my closet.
In my incessant desire to clear myself of clutter, often I brush dust under the rug. While this does well to keep the appearance of organization, in reality I’ve only constructed this cleanliness.
Clearing out my closet this evening, I was again reminded of this, finding a bunch of things that do not belong to me and do not, any longer, belong here.
They have been gathered up, boxed, and...
Retriever saves 11-year-old boy from cougar... →
Wait, so the dog basically cock blocks an 11 year old kid from hooking up with a cougar in a Boston bar? What a dick.
It's heartwarming to know, →
that one of the first pieces of relations work I ever took part in is currently fueling the “crazy cat lady” lobby. Finally, people who are hoarding cats in their ramshackle dwellings everywhere can say: “See!? Research shows I’m not crazy! I just want to be healthy!”
Behold: the sound and the fury,
of all ten fingers striking the keyboard. Unleashing what can only be, the most dramatic email ever written. He’s on the war path, and his hands? They’re taking no prisoners.
Visually, Avatar was astounding.
That said, it’s basically a 350 million dollar retelling of Fern Gully.