May 2012
This week's American Top 40, From Best To Worst
So, after hearing (and enjoying!) this “If I was your boyfriend” song on the radio for at least the third time I decided to find out what it was, and lo, apparently I don’t recognize Justin Bieber’s voice anymore. Ha! (Ha?)
Anyway, I just thought I’d also point out that the songs on the radio right now tend to be either extra good or extra bad, with less in the...
“At her death, Ms. Goldmark was surrounded by authors, among them Ms. [Amy] Tan,...”
– This sounds like a fun way to go, although really I don’t know if I’d want Maya Hallmark Angelou anywhere near my deathbed. And if I were going to have my last words be a quote from a movie I think I’d pick a different movie. But still, what a good obituary.
“Several gay men attending Eurovision said they had found the people of Baku to...”
– The Times’ Eurovision coverage leaves me with more questions than answers.
Also on the menu...
I made some Icelandic pickled red cabbage, which is sort of like sauerkraut except red and a lot sweeter. And I tried to make Albanian minty white beans, only I overcooked them and so instead I invented Albanian minty white bean dip. I also made a Maltese dip that’s the most garlicky thing ever (two bulbs! for something that claims to serve four!)
I’m also going to try caramelized...
“Expect Gawker’s blog posts to get shorter, in future, and sometimes just be a...”
– Hmmmmm.
“The exterior walls are hung with blankets printed with so-so paintings of Franco...”
– I liked roughly 1% of the art in the RISD Graduate Thesis show, which is (I think) still up at the Convention Center. Greg Cook liked it more than I did, and also he spent more time engaging with James Franco’s ridiculous sex house than I did.
"According to my gender studies class at Yale"
There is currently a 70-comment thread on a trans friend’s Facebook wall in which a really straight mom defended her inability to remember people’s pronouns by saying she had too many other things to think about, and then when people got offended this was how she began her response. I mean come on now.
An idea you're welcome to steal.
A minibus parked at Rhode Island Pride, which will depart every hour on the hour from noon until the bars close and drive couples to a parking lot in nearby Massachusetts (the South Attleboro commuter rail parking lot? The Swansea mall? One of those places where you can refill water jugs?) where someone who got ordained on the internet (or possibly a Unitarian minister) will perform a mass quickie...
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Spent the entire day in a hospital waiting room...
Not to go into family business on the internet, but my dad’s doing fine. Kathie Lee and Hoda are also doing fine, it seems, and Will is doing fine and Sami seems to be doing fine too now that EJ talked her into not freaking out about his being gay. Brady wasn’t doing fine, though, because someone slipped some kind of powder into his protein shake to make him seem drunk at the important...
SPELLING BEE JUNE 14TH
Providence! June 14th is the 6th Annual Not About The Buildings Spelling Bee, which once again I will be organizing hosting at AS220. As usual there will be fabulous prizes and also the opportunity to gamble on spellers.
ALSO.
It’s the release party for a brand new zine that Not About The Buildings has been compiling, featuring over two dozen stores by different writers from Providence as...
“If a girl is a punk, it’s harder — they think you’re an undesirable, a...”
– Tradition - A Curse: Punk In A Small Spanish Town (1988)
“Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about
homosexuality and...”
– Huey Newton: He made some good points.
I genuinely can not imagine a more excruciating... →
Despite having flippers instead of hands, our governor just signed an executive order that all Rhode Island state offices will recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. The governor is a big fan of same-sex marriage, as are a lot of Rhode Islanders, though the chances of legalization this year are slim, thanks largely to uncooperative Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed (a...
Last night I dreamt that I broke into the hotel room of someone I only actually know on the internet. It was in New York and I don’t remember the name of the hotel but it was some kind of fancy boutique one where the novelty was that you had two kind of annoying roommates living with you in each room. I immediately felt guilty and then wondered how to tell this person—email? handwritten...
NOW HEAR THIS. →
Volume 9 of No Repeat Workday, my ongoing birthdaytime Favorite Songs Ever compilation, is now available for your downloading pleasure, but only until Sunday morning. My birthday’s on a dumb Saturday this year so I’m posting it a day early in case you have a 9-5 job or whatever.
I'm Bored.
Really, really, really, really bored. Or maybe braindead? Either way, today is not working out.
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“The X Factor will have an effect on the T factor — transportation —...”
– I can’t even guess how many times I am going to forget this information in the next few days.
“[Kim Polson, head of a Providence arts nonprofit/person I’ve never heard...”
– It Gets Worse.
I’m not sure if the “it” in the third paragraph means that quirkiness is our biggest tourism booster or that Family Guy itself is but either way if there is a Family Guy convention here I am going to be so, so, so mad.
Bus tour brings fake Rhode Island 'Family Guy'... →
fuckyeahrhodeisland:
Quahog, R.I., the fictional hometown of Peter Griffin and his dysfunctional “Family Guy” relatives, is coming to life.
The show will meld with reality this weekend when a local tourism council sponsors an all-day bus tour highlighting the Rhode Island institutions featured — for better or worse — on the Fox network’s hit series.
Fans will get to visit the bar in Johnston...
