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Barack Obama Is Your New Fixie

As requested by GG, all the things that Barack Obama has done for you (hipster edition):
Barack Obama MCed your party
Barack Obama aired up your tires
Barack Obama always lets you draft
Barack Obama autographed your Moleskine
Barack Obama bartended your party
Barack Obama bought you a PBR
Barack Obama bought you a PBR and a shot
Barack Obama bought you a […]

Encourage Your Friendly Neighborhood Bar-Taker


Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday

From the mind of Merlin Mann

condoms (and instruction on how and when to use/not use them)
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
phone number of a super-cool, non-panicky adult (who will get you out of the jams your parents must never learn of)
Surfer Rosa by Pixies
iPod on which to listen to Surfer Rosa at painfully […]

C-O-L-O-R.NET

C-O-L-O-R.NET

Seen outside Peet’s this morning.

Finally, advertising that speaks to my lifestyle.

Bozo the Clown dead at 83


DaftCats Are Playing at My House


Local Food and the Challenges of Estimating Environmental Impact

My friend Roberta just wrote an article for salon.com on local food and carbon impact! Interesting look at the complexities of trying to eat in a low-impact fashion.

MAYHEM (and safe ipsa loquitur)

Click through for further explanation.

Yes you can.


Wine-Type Taste

It’s true, Toothpaste For Dinner is “The most addictive comic on the web”

Bagel-Ful(s)

I just…they’re bagels. They’re so good and so easy. Children prepare them. In the amount of time it takes to pull out a Bagel-Fuls* from the package and cook it—you have to cook these in a toaster or the microwave—you could just toast a real bagel. Adding cream cheese would take maybe 10 seconds.
What have […]

[thx lilly]

The Mclovin’ Fund

“The Mclovin’ Fund” with Kristen Bell and Christopher Mintz-Plasse on FunnyOrDie.com
On Funny Or Die

A Little Earth Day Love

My friend Nori is getting an MBA specializing in sustainable management / environmental economics. She’s got an assignment in honor of Earth Day to get people to calculate their personal CO2 emissions. So, if you’d be so kind as to help her out, that would be awesome. You won’t have to buy […]

A Variety of Stories on That Theme

Cat and Girl

Jon Stewart on Barack Obama being called “elitist”

Doesn’t elite mean good? Is that not something we’re looking for in a president anymore? … The job you’re applying for — if you get it, and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don’t actually think you are better than us, then what the f@*k are you doing? […]

Obama’s Touch of Class

You know, maybe a few people should feel bitter.
If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this […]

“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”

“Brilliant” - Phil Haack
“A surreal nightmare” - Phil Haack
“In a confrontation reminiscent of another Charlie (Kaufman) facing down his twin brother in Adaptation, this Charlie takes on his most challenging guest ever: Charlie Rose. The topic — the future of technology — is apt, considering how we found this Web gem hiding in the tall […]

I Hope This is Never Me

<3 Married To The Sea