December 2008
white farmers vs. zimbabwe →
watching 'friends' in gaza: a culture clash. →
Hamas then arrested Mr. Alassar, saying he had no license to perform, but released him after he gave a live sample of his hip-hop to a bemused, bearded official. “Hamas is not against art,” Mr. Alassar said. “They just don’t understand it.”
play nice. →
“if adults were subjected to the same indignities as children.” haha, this is hilarious. also written by frank rich’s (the nyt columnist) son. who is about my age.
everyone knows everyone
eeew, what is reunion.com, and why does it know all the places i’ve lived in the last two years? and my mom and dad’s ages and cities? TOO MUCH.
Places Lived:
Brooklyn, NY
New York, NY
Evanston, IL
Bloomfield Hills, MI
"you're likable enough, gay people." →
“fighting AIDS is not a get-out-of-homophobia-free card.”
holla @ frank rich.
"americans just want good things to come to good... →
“in our society, we meet so many good people of different faiths that it’s hard for us to imagine God letting them go to hell.”
this is nice.
“god, you were the reason most people got zero work done in the computer commons”
– — yogesh.
this is true. i probably dragged down all my friends’ (and acquaintances’) grades in college. but some funny ass shit went down in university library. i miss college.
c’est tout ce que j’aime
from postsecret:
a reader’s email response:
——-Email Message——- Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: Indians aren’t bad. I am an Indian American and honestly, I think people should feel honored to have sex with Indians. I mean, we DID write the Kama Sutra.
——
haha. say what you want. but i will pretend that all indian people...
suddenly, last summer.
i have no idea what to do this summer. the summer after the first year of med school is supposed to be our last true summer, after this summer it’s all exams and internships and white coats and what-have-you. i’d like to go abroad. i guess my options are as wide and as narrow as i want them to be. cape town, joburg, freetown, kampala, dar es salaam, nairobi, mumbai, dharamsala, what?...
adele + mick boogie = 1988. →
maggie sent me this. it’s adele’s album, 19, remixed by some dude named mick boogie with 80s hip hop beats. it’s kinda amazing. the best remixed tracks are ‘melt my heart to stone,’ ‘right as rain,’ and ‘tired.’ there’s also a great remix of her cover of ‘make you feel my love’ (originally a dylan song). i’ve been...
“i am not humping per se, merely circulating my waist in an aesthetically...”
– my little brother, when asked why he was humping the air.
obama harasses people via email →
how is this a news article.
obama's speechwriter →
is 27.
please don't slow me down
nyc november 2008, by mai.
13 December 2008 22:24 To: me I wanted to let you know that I am very proud of you. You are my only friend who is not on gchat right now and I know how much you love chatting online. Respectfully, Morgan S Jones
estonia to allow citizens to vote via cellphone by... →
whaaaaaaaaaaat? estonia is so tech-savvy. it just makes me think i’d be tracked via satellite with that “authorization chip” though. eek
via mai bamboo.
“i would get out of this crunked up world and go to china, which is in jupiter.”
– my friend kate g’s 7th grade student, in response to “what would happen if plants did not have chloroplasts?”
stressed-out new yorkers seek ashrams in the... →
my favorite part about this article is that one of the guys used to go to fire island and the jersey shore for his “getaways.” i am sure i know exactly what he looks like. also, how do you go from jersey shore to monastery?
"some people would consider a pair of pants a...
i went to starbucks yesterday and had the eggnog latte. it was not a wise choice. also some undergrads on a double date were discussing the philosophy of art next to me so i had to turn my sugar ray song up, loudly. i see your highbrow discussion and will raise you one 90s pop-rock song. also, if someone ever took me to starbucks on a date i would cut them. i prefer wafflehouse thank you.
keep the lighthouse in sight
yesterday i gave my first pulmonary and chest exam! let’s be honest, i couldn’t hear a flipping thing. i already gave a breast exam a week or so ago, which was pretty easy. today we looked at x-rays with the radiology residents. i like when we do these things. it makes me feel like i am actually in school for a reason. even though i accidentally called my mock patient fat yesterday and...
riots spread in greek cities →
i didn’t even know greece had sort of frequent riots, or an anarchist movement.
sarah palin's clothing tab was actually $180,000 →
“New spending reports reveal that that the RNC’s tab came to a princely $180,000, spent not only at high-end stores like Saks and Nieman Marcus but also crappy “regular people” stores like Foot Locker and Wal-Mart and Toys R Us.” (via wonkette).
happiness is contagious →
“Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more likely to be happy yourself, the study found. A happy friend of a friend increases your odds of happiness by 9.8%, and even your neighbor’s sister’s friend can give you a 5.6% boost.” — LA Times.
i am going to fail med school
i am at caribou and the trivia question of the day is ‘what is the name of the blood vessels that transfer blood from the heart to the body?’
clearly i got it wrong.
in my defense i was really excited to get ten cents off and read it wrong. to make matters worse, we are literally learning the cardiovascular system now. i am kind of horrified.
an essay on leonard cohen's 'hallelujah' →
by bryan appleyard. hearing sheryl crow’s version taught me that no matter how much i love her, the girl’s singing is sometimes… foul. the rufus wainwright version is pure cheese. buckley did it well.
“Bush should consider pardoning–and should at least be vociferously...”
– BILL KRISTOL, WHY ARE YOU A JACKASS.