July 2008
58 posts
“[N]o good can come of me discussing burritos. It is like asking grandpa what...”
– Jesse Thorn
June 2008
33 posts
“Alright panel, these three ladies all claim to be civil rights champion Rosa...”
– Robin Ward, “To Tell the Truth,” 1980
“Rosa Parks appeared in an episode of the [show] in 1980, with the three...”
– To Tell the Truth There are approximately 11 heartbreaking things about that sentence.
WatchJustice : “Stress”
I watched this a month ago but was only blown away upon recalling it, out of the blue, just now. Raw young impulse to violence paired with the queasy realism of the amazing Man Bites Dog.
WatchAlways Wear Gloves
More goofiness from YLNTogetherness Weekend.
WatchScott’s House
Adam made a video of my house and didn’t tell me.
Miss Hanako of the Toilet
“It’s a Japanese urban legend that can be found at most every elementary school here, and it goes like this: if you go to the fourth stall of a specified girl’s bathroom, usually on the third floor of the school, knock three times and call out ‘Hanako-san, are you there?’ then you’ll hear her reply, ‘Hai’ (yes). Open the stall and you’ll see a shimmering figure of a...
“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English for we intend to...”
– Chinua Achebe
“[I]t’s like Start The Week with cool people”
– Word Magazine on The Sound of Young America
“Never trust a man whose ass is wider than his shoulders.”
– Rick Convertino, in an amazing This American Life : “The Prosecutor”
The First Rule of Premium Cable
All of the compelling pornography is on the channel you don’t pay for.
“Testing the Sony Microphone”
A...
