brilliant
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - “The Road” (via skeetonmischa)
I might be more excited for the soundtrack than the film.
10. Just be a vegetarian, and understand that most meat-eaters do respect your views, but that they’re not as complicated and complex as you’d like to think they are, and that most people are actually, yes, quite aware of the arguments you’d like to ‘respectfully’ make, what they’re doing, the various reasons why it’s uncool, and that we should eat more vegetables, and that we don’t need to be guilted about it, and if we did, we’d read Michael Pollan’s book instead, or at the very worst, Elizabeth Kolbert’s New Yorker review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, which is both (A) quite great and (B) will save you $15 or $20 and save us from hearing you opine on what you read by the guy that wrote Everything is Illuminated talking down to all of us about eating our vegetables.
I just joined Yelp to defend a coworker from some awful bitch who felt the need to criticize her by name in a review of the bar where we both work. Just having a profile on Yelp honestly makes me feel like a huge piece of shit. Ok, I know it can be useful, but as someone who has been in the food/beverage industry for years—it’s probably the most infuriating site ever.
A bunch of morons who know nothing about a city stumble into a neighborhood pub, a grimy but amazing dive or a pizza place that has been adored by the community for generations. They have no concept of community, not idea what it’s like to wait tables or prepare a meal for someone, no patience and some absurd idea that they are better than everyone else. Obviously, I’m not talking about everyone. I’m talking about those people who come in when a restaurant is slammed and get all huffy if they are asked to wait a few minutes. The people who fail to recognize that dated/tacky decor is what some people love about certain places. Sorry, lady, we don’t have your 64-calorie beer. Why are you even drinking beer if you are that concerned?
In one review, the woman who hated on my BFF said a waiter at another restaurant “should have realized” that the chicken in her salad “wasn’t fresh.” She apparently thinks everything is a server’s fault. Despite the fact that he put in a new order for her and BOUGHT HER DINNER, she still felt the need to slight him in the review. Bitch, make your own chicken at home. We would rather not have your 10% (or less) tip than have to deal with your diva ass.People pretty much suck.
I’ve never had a terrible experience in a restaurant that warranted a bad review. I can’t imagine having so many that I need a place to complain about it regularly. It seems that dining out and the Internet can bring out the worst in people.
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1993
S & P
packin’ and mackin’
Bamboozlin’ and smackin’ suckers with this track
Throw the beat back in!
Please make sure, when you buy a ticket for “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” to pronounce the title in full. I know you will. There was a plan to call it “Push,” until another movie got there first. But why not call the new one “Precious,” and leave it at that? After all, Deborah Kerr didn’t star in “The Innocents: Based on the Novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ by Henry James,” and Dustin Hoffman didn’t star in “Rain Man: Based on the Overwhelming Desire to Win an Academy Award by Dustin Hoffman,” so why the change in rubric?
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I just found out that someone I don’t really know, but with whom I share many mutual friends, once used the word “narrow” to describe me. I’m confused about a lot of things right now. That’s weird, right?
In counter-point, Michael argues that what he is doing may not be ‘Melville,’ but it is still very creative. Huh? May not be Melville? The writer? Because no, making brochures for pregnant aerobics is not Melville. I don’t think anyone says that, though? ‘Advertising! I guess it’s creative, but it’s not Melville.’ I also like that Melville is still the go-to reference for living the dream life of creative fulfillment.
At last night’s IMPRESS THESE APES finale, Christina performed an original song and dance number. In roller skates. With a kazoo solo.
She is my BFF.
One of my co-workers found out that someone stole his Netflix. He realized it when the discs were returned to Netflix before he received them. Still, what considerate mail thieves! Once I received a Netflix that had been opened, but whoever was tempted to steal my mail realized that they had no interest in watching Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and put it back in the mailbox.
