Hey Crowdsourcing Friends,

Where do you get your (daily or otherwise) web zen? I've found myself wandering through the internet lately, hungry for something good and beautiful, but my normal outlets are not fulfilling my needs anymore. I'm burned out on Jezebel, BoingBoing, Gawker, all my crafty blogs, GoFugYourself, and various and sundry others. ( ( Read more... )

Is anyone listening to Passion Pit? Jeremy? (They're from Boston?) Jesse?

They are BURNING UP my iPod these days.

I'm a member of emusic and I frequently download their freebie indie music like this album called Fiscal Apocalypse, that lead me to download three new bands: Pas/Cal, Passion Pit and Takka Takka. They're new to me, at least. And in the ( Read more... )

For those of you who love the internet and all it's wondrous tubes, you must read

this

right now.

That is all.

UPDATE: In other internet news. My emailed daily horoscope wants me to vote for Obama. Check it out!

Your horoscope for October 30, 2008 Today, lksdfj, you may be touched by a person (probably a man) who exudes the kind of enormous ( Read more... )

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Hey Y'all,

Ma McKean is in town for like, 11 days (not all of which she'll be staying in my tiny apartment, phew) (), so you guys probably won't be seeing much of me for a while. I do plan to sneak away for Sara's bday shin-dig, though because 1: Sara + Bday = awesome and 2. my mom doesn't drink so neither will I for 11 days. That's just the way it ( Read more... )

 "[Enter appropriate phrase here] gets 2 billion hits on Google." is the new "Webster's Dictionary defines [Enter appropriate phrase here] as..." in journalism, folks. As an English Professor, I feel it is completely unacceptable to start any piece of written text with either of these stupid writing crutches.

Most. Boring. Intro. Ever.

I'm looking ( Read more... )

OMG guys, look what the lolcat dragged in.
From: www.totallylookslike.com

The Children's Museum of Manhattan is showing a whole exhibit of Golden Book art ( Read more... )

You Guys,
The Jones Beach John Mayer show was SO awesome last night!11!!!!1!
There were so many awesome things that I can't even make full sentences out of them, hence a list:

John Mayer is:

--"a douchebag." No really, he said this himself on stage, mockingly. Hil-larious.

--totally guilty of make all those ridiculous O-faces that Jezebel always talks ( Read more... )

I hereby predict that "I have the dumb" will be the next Icanhascheezburger CATch phrase.

Ex:


(And really guys, I know you are all sick of hearing me talk about these damn cats. I promise one day I'll have something else exciting going on in my life. Right now, teh pickins r slim.)