32 Signs You're Living in a Hipster Apartment: I have been accused of being a hipster so many times so let's see how this goes.

1. Decorative antlers adorning the wall, with bonus points if the animal they're attached to is mythical - like a Jackalope or a unicorn.

NOPE, but I just purchased a Jackalope decorative pillow. Shit. 1/2 a point2. A ( Read more... )

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So yesterday I chipped a tooth eating my lunch salad and when I got home from my emergency dentist visit my car's front bumper was partially sitting on the ground (no note, natch). This guy walking by was all "That doesn't look good." I think I gave him a look of revolted despair.

The Real Reason Washington is Boring.

Ugh, these articles.are.perennial. And this one is a particularly dumb specimen.

First comment nailed it:

So the entire city's boring because you had boring conversations with boring people at a boring house party? Perhaps it's not the city but rather your social circle that deserves an exposé.

I should say that how I decide who I'm voting for and how I decide how happy I am to vote for them are two different questions. I try to decide who I'm voting for based strictly on policy by looking at the issues they're going to prioritize and the policies they're going to implement and for someone as far left as I am that's usually a dry, ( Read more... )

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Like, I don't read Gawker so I hadn't heard about the docu drop: 950 pages regarding Mitt Romney's shady-ass finances, but this is just weird:

Whether or not a scandal or revelation or even a bad photograph of a candidate matters depends on whether or not it confirms voters’ worst fears about you. That’s why some politicians can walk away from a ( Read more... )

LJ feels like more and more of a ghost town, but for serious I've had this thing for YEARS and I'm super torn.

Like, I do have a Tumblr but I haven't quite committed to making a change. Anyone else on the Tumblr bandwagon? I just can't with Twitter.

UTTERLY UNCONNECTED TO THE ABOVE!

When the whole Mike Daisey/This American Life fiasco happened ( Read more... )

Company picnic tomorrow with an Olympian theme. We made a flag and team t-shirts and now this:

At the writers' meeting this afternoon, I developed a cheer that just may propel us to victory in tomorrow's Olympicnics. The cheer goes as follows ( Read more... )

The A(n)nals of Online Dating published the weirdo message I received!

Every 30-something year old has a little somethin somethin on the side.