January 2012
1 post
clientsfromhell:
Client: Can you just get rid of this here?
Me: The Lorum Ipsum?
Client: Yeah, just fill it with dummy text that doesn’t mean anything.
November 2011
5 posts
I’ve Got The Conch →
Youth Lagoon released a great record this year called The Year of Hibernation. It captures the youthful fright that Win Butler stuffs into every Arcade Fire record: there’s a wide-eyed wonderment, a…
For Services Rendered →
To me, the service you choose to listen to music on a mobile device comes entirely down to two things – selection of music and streaming quality. I’ve been concerned lately that Rhapsody can do…
Hundred Years War →
With the release of the latest Atlas Sound record, I’ve been working on the website and listening to Bradford Cox records. Here’s two of my favorite cuts from Deerhunter’s Weird Era Cont., the…
October 2011
1 post
Watchnenhance:
funnyordie:
Child Star Psychologist with Kiernan Shipka
Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) has been in so much therapy on her show that she’s qualified to be a psychologist for other child stars, like Nolan Gould (Modern Family), Danielle Fishel (Boy Meets World) and Eden Wood (Toddlers & Tiaras).
yes.
Yes.
September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
5 posts
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July 2011
5 posts
JAZZ UP THE WORBS
clientsfromhell:
After editing to an entire document of bad spelling and punctuation errors (and then creating a trifold), this is the response I received from my client:
Cuppla thing
1/ its led lighting - shes hold a compact fluoro
font color on green needs to be more obvious
High expense less expense is invalid.perhaps high running cost vs super low running cost caN YOU SEND ME A DOC...
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
cuteroulette →
tobeginwhereiam:
popsong89:
I’m not going to even try to justify my love for this site. Its ridiculous. Its a total daymaker/waster, and its adorable.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
What hath God wrought.
March 2011
3 posts
“r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
who
a)s w(e loo)k
upnowgath
...”
– e.e. cummings - r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
February 2011
3 posts
“Jenna, why are you so happy? Have you been soaking your tampons in vodka again?”
– Liz, 30 Rock s04e19
solarcaines asked: What's inside the mind of a Greg Jennings?
January 2011
2 posts
“Every time I put these gloves on I feel like I’m fisting a Samoyed.”
– Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: “Quebec”
December 2010
3 posts
(follow me at skilletfest.tumblr.com if you find my continued silence disturbing.)
November 2010
2 posts
solarcaines asked: If you could pick only one classical composer to listen to for the rest of your life, who would it be?
Bonus question: What is the best kind of Pepperidge Farm brand Flavor Blasted Goldfish?
Bonus question: What is the best kind of Pepperidge Farm brand Flavor Blasted Goldfish?
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
5 posts
Review: Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (2010) →
In approach, Halcyon Digest easily has the most generous palate of any Deerhunter record, which at first sounds like a dangerous experiment in amorphous territory. After…
"I would look at the lilies, and there would be a...
lauracricket:
I was just sinking into sleep last night when this pulled me back to consciousness. I was somewhere between thinking and dreaming, not so deep that I didn’t notice the (somewhat cliché) poetry of that sentence, but deep enough that I lost all sense of its origin & context on the way back to the surface. Besides the bare words, there was only the impression that it was...
garooga asked: why would you want to shade a lamp?
photolodico asked: how do you feel about morning sickness?
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running a new blog this semester for my Writing Nonfiction Genres class. check it out at skilletfest.tumblr.com.
If I’m not around here now, I probably will be later.
August 2010
8 posts
1 tag
“I am now telling the computer *exactly* what he can do with a lifetime supply of...”
– Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
well, that's comforting.
Stuff White People Like (1-87) 46% (40 out of 87 Questions Correct) Fun quizzes, surveys & blog quizzes by
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Surreal, atmospheric, gruesome, classical. Tommy Lee Jones is dignified, as usual, and the whole film has the raw, dirty, dust-strewn quality of a Peckinpah western. Jones (also directing) reaches a little far in his thematic aspirations, giving the movie an occasionally unfocused quality, but in its best moments, it’s moving, funny, horrifying, and...