March 2011
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Fashion Lingo
youredoingitright:
Does anyone else get a little grossed out every time you read the word splurge. I mean, there has to be a better ‘clever’ way to categorize the expensive from the cheap than splurge vs. steal. There HAS to be.
Agreed.
January 2011
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“The production and arrangements evoke a narrow window of time—sometime...”
– Destroyer goes soft rock? Brain. Exploded.
October 2010
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“In 1991, economists were predicting that Japan would overtake the United States...”
– The New York Times on Japan’s “Great Deflation.”
September 2010
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“For security reasons she would not allow his name to be published.”
– I could be reading this wrong since I’m on my lunch break and don’t have much time, but is this a typo or purposeful mix-up to protect source’s identity?
Update now that I’ve read it: Typo, of course.
August 2010
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WatchThis video makes my all-things-anthropomorphic-loving heart go beep beep. Somewhere, my plastic Hawaiian lei (just in case) is strangling my black feather boa (prom ‘97) as my moldy, stinky volleyball knee pads (you never know) and Groucho Marx costume (duh) look on. (Via Etsy.)
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Presidential Hopeful Tim Pawlenty Shows Off... →
I keep reading this and marveling at how Pawlenty’s fox smokes Red Hots. (Does she mash them into a fine powder beforehand?) Yes, I’m 12 years old.
July 2010
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Robot learns to flip pancakes →
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“And I’ve started to find myself going, God, these projects need editors....”
– Paul Ford, “Real Editors Ship.”
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The Curse Of People's Sexiest Man Alive →
Not included: Mark Harmon, People’s SMA 1986. Although he was written off St. Elsewhere that year. (Pointless information: Harry Hamlin was the SMA in 1987. HARRY HAMLIN! Such a dad jeans call. Makes sense.)
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“I never felt, ‘Oh, I think I look good.’ I always tend to be more in...”
– Somehow, reading that Penelope Cruz struggles with insecurity makes life a teensy bit more navigable? (Via Jezebel)
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The Beauty Breakdown →
$450,000 for a lifetime of trying to look as good as Photoshopped models and other beautiful famous people. Ugh.
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They've cracked it at last! The chicken DID come... →
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Buried ship found at World Trade Center site →
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“Teenage girls are worth more than looks, and we don’t need another media...”
– Well put, Tavi.
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“The perfect jeans are absolute. They could as well be expressed in a...”
– Jenna Sauers on the “Torturous Art of Buying Jeans” and wearing them in the bathtub a la Joan Collins.
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“‘That last one is hauntingly brilliant,’ Bulwer-Lauter says....”
– Hopelessly cliched over at Not The Los Angeles Times.
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“Think of the universe as a box of scrabble letters. There is only one way to...”
– How to make your brain hurt in one easy step: Read this.
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“Most of Long Beach Magazine’s staff will be leaving, including publisher...”
– Granted, it’s been a while (four months) since I moved in such circles, but the merger of LiveLB and Long Beach Magazine (Live Publishing purchased the magazine, formerly owned by the Molinas) seems incredibly troubling.
As I understood it, that LiveLB was (is?) pay-to-play was (is?) an open...
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The most boring article about jousting you'll ever... →
Would like to see this through the eyes of Theo Douglas or Steve Lowery. I barely made it to page two.
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Somebody received money for writing this. →
Meanwhile, in February, Facebook turned six years old. (LinkedIn, also mentioned, celebrated seven years of operations in May.)
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How Intestinal Bacteria May Make You Fat →
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to “I hate Giselle Bündchen’s guts,” no?
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“The Ixtoc was estimated to have leaked some 3.5 million barrels of oil after...”
– Of course! Thanks, TPMMuckraker, for pointing that one out. (It’s an otherwise good piece about how a federal environment agency bungled predictions about what would happen to sea turtles in the event of a major oil spill.)
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WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on... →
The kid makes it sound so easy!
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“Michael also keeps track of his brother’s many mechanical parts. “So many things...”
– To do: Read this New York Times piece on quadruple amputee war vet Brendan Marrocco; cry; laugh. It’s a niece piece of journalism, right here.
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“I see dead film careers.”
– Funny, Coker!
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