February 2011
Mr. CARNEY: Well, the first offer we ever had to have a song in a commercial was from an English mayonnaise company, and they offered us a lot of money.
Mr. AUERBACH: Yeah, it was a lot of money.
Mr. CARNEY: It was crazy money, especially at the time. It was insane.
Fresh Air
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“When sorting the “mock” resumes, an investment banking recruiter (white, female)...”
– definitely well endowed in the brain category
“I’ve said that if the allegations against him are true then he is the foremost...”
– Julian Assange fucked up the AARP crowd’s shit last night on 60 Minutes
January 2011
“All teenage girls are at least half-lesbian, always admiring their friends’...”
– Let me go post this on tumblr before I even read it
“The allegations against many appear to confirm wider suspicions that the vast...”
– Letter from Kabul
Sea Captain Date is the only place for Sea... →
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“One of the early lessons of the rebellion against Mubarak is that American support for democratic dissidents is indeed a strategic matter, and that the absence of such American support can lead to a strategic disaster. Such are the wages of realism. It is a common error that prudence is thought about the short-term; the proper temporal horizon for prudential thinking is distant and long....
“The critical flaw in our health-care system that people like Gunn and Brenner are finding is that it was never designed for the kind of patients who incur the highest costs. Medicine’s primary mechanism of service is the doctor visit and the E.R. visit. (Americans make more than a billion such visits each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.) For a thirty-year-old with a...
“This is such a typical Obama speech: Sounds great, full of platitudes, but when you stop to think about it for two seconds, ultimately meaningless. (And no, I do not think he is secretly a Muslim bent on destroying America.)
Somehow, if George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams etc. were alive today, I do not think their first concern would be restoring access to...
“For a good chunk of its running time, The Mechanic is a buddy movie about two...”
– AV Club
“Mr. Furuichi and many other young Japanese say that young people here do not react with anger or protest, instead blaming themselves and dropping out, or with an almost cheerful resignation, trying to find contentment with horizons that are far more limited than their parents’.
In such an atmosphere, young politicians say it is hard to mobilize their generation to get interested in...
A woman whose nudity I enjoy has liked a photo of another nude woman I posted to a highly anonymous blog of nude women.
“After the final amen, I strike up a conversation with Wing, Guy, and Art, three...”
– The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard
Philadelphia Magazine-Body Snatchers →
“The cutters drove down from New York usually in the morning. They arrived in broad daylight. They went to work on a rusted table in a cramped, fetid, windowless, blood-encrusted embalming room one of them would later liken to the back of a butcher shop.”
Weezer-Across the Sea
Listen to this while...
“In 1919, when astronomical observations validated Einstein’s 1915 predictions...”
– via
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Police: Teen Closes Eyes For Hypnotism, Stabbed By... →
“I’m thrilled and proud to attend Hamburger University,” said Zhou, who in 2007...”
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“I have not seen any argument in support of state bankruptcy legislation that does not essentially boil down to politicians wanting to undermine collective bargaining agreements and pension commitments. (“We’ll tank the markets, but damn it, we will stick it to those unions!” Sounds vaguely like, “We’ll tank the markets, but damn it, we will get our $50 billion in spending cuts!” ...
“Throughout Korea, Manchuria, and southeast China, tigers were considered both sacred and a scourge. Until around 1930, tigers continued to pose such a risk that, in North Korea, the bulk of offerings made to some Buddhist shrines were prayers for protection from these animals. Nonetheless, tigers were held in high esteem in part because it was believed that they, too, made offerings to...
“The New York American, in its summary for the packet, says:—Our commercial and...”
– The 1843 Economist is everything you thought it could be
When the Dow last hit 12,000 oil was $130 a barrel. Have a nice day.
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“I find it easier to give a friendly little push to some of the forms and hang my...”
– Nabokov Theory on Polyommatus Blue Butterflies is Vindicated
PJ Harvey-The Life & Death Of Mr. Badmouth
“We have to give our young people more pieces of paper that prove they’ve learned things.”
-The President
“We need to invest in technologies that can make American parents into Korean immigrant parents.”
-The President
Investor's Weigh In on For-Profit College... →
In which hedge funds uphold the public good as for-profit colleges, lobbyists, and legislators scramble to waste the governments money
“Watching the bystanders there was a feeling that they almost did not know how to...”
– AWL ON EGYPT
I’d like to think that every time a business leader has been on CNBC to accuse Obama of destroying the confidence of corporations to invest and hire in America he’s gone home to find a trail of rose petals leading to his master bedroom. On his stately bed he finds his wife drinking a glass of champagne and wearing seductive lingerie made in a factory he just set up in a Burmese labor...
I had a dream last night where I was walking through a forest of dead rust colored Redwood trees with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and a group of friends I haven’t seen in years. We were being killed slowly by the forest collapsing around us.
“There are countless examples of needless, brainless excess during the Be Here...”
– Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation?, Pt. 8-The Ballad of Oasis and Radiohead
UK couple causes 27K worth of damage to church... →
Karl-Heinz Krueger, a passing motorist, told a local radio station, “The old man was more confused than the woman. He kept saying, It’s the machine - it told me to turn this way, but I suddenly ran out of road.”
“As a picture of the urban future, Lagos is fascinating only if you’re able to...”
– A Reporter at Large: The Megacity