January 2011
35 posts
Charge it to the Game
Normally I couldn’t care less about it, but last night’s accidental line-up of The Biggest Loser and the Australian Open Final proved an interesting double feature on the human psyche and in particular the warped obsessive world of “athletes”. It’s true that the lifestyles the Loser contestants lead are disgusting- how could you not be depressed when you wake up at 3...
Decision Points
Ultimately every woman is either a Marilyn Monroe or an Audrey Hepburn. When you figure out which a woman is it becomes so much easier to deduce all the facts, tastes and values that construct her life.
Tell Me:
How is dating NOT like a job interview?
WatchCan’t wait to see this.
Things
Why no newsreader has made a memoir called “…And Another School Shooting In The United States”: My Time Reading The News is beyond me.
2006-2008
In a bid to find some old photos for Dee’s birthday I logged into MySpace this afternoon, a move that made me feel clinically depressed…
In the second stage of high school MySpace was the website du jour. Between 2006 and about the end of 2008 I could be found every night, without fail, avoiding homework and trawling the site “pimping” my profile and writing to other...
The Hangover
No, this isn’t a post about the worst movie of all time (yes, it really sucks and no, Zach Galifianakis is not funny) but rather about the actual thing- a hangover and this post will include possibly all synonyms for the word “vomit”. I’m not hungover today (I spent last night being a square enjoying fresh sheets, the first season of Californication and a 12am bedtime) but...
Oh, Inverted World!
All the hipsters are hanging out to go and see The King’s Speech whilst professing to love Blue Valentine is now a massive faux pas.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
-Roland Barthes
Bright Lights, Big City
Truman Capote’s travel sketch on New York, like all of my favourite works, makes me feel something akin to a peak experience. This is the best paragraph:
It was a sad winter inside and out. For a child the city is a joyless place. Later on, when one is older and in love, it is the double vision of sharing with your beloved that gives experience texture, shape, significance. To travel alone...
Talking Shit
Andrew: I hate barbara walters
Christopher: what turns you off?
Andrew: she’s so arrogant and she makes “The View” shit. i hate the days when she’s on it. she just interrupts and gloats. no one cares that she “had the privilege” of interviewing the israeli prime minister
Christopher: it’s true. she does love to name drop. especially about Sheiks and the...
21st Century Breakdown
Have you noticed how every family thinks they’re “that only decent family that still has dinner together once a week where they play board games and talk about real issues”?
December 2010
29 posts
“However much more authentic the selves we present on Facebook are than they were in the anonymous Internet wilderness that came before it, they still fall far short of our true selves, and confusing our Facebook profiles with who we really are would be a terrible mistake. We are running our social lives over the Internet, an infrastructure that was not designed for that purpose, and we must...
The Philosophy of Emma Welling
“I find it truly baffling that people can walk into several shops that probably have a wide selection of perfectly acceptable clothing and still leave with a tuquoise shirt with Elmo’s face on the front of it.”