how embearassing.

hd satellite image of that cruise ship that tumped over.

the nile

"All the same, Ms. Deen said she would not change her own lifestyle or cooking style drastically, other than to reduce portion sizes of unhealthful foods. 'I’ve always preached moderation,' she said. 'I don’t blame myself.'" nyt

mad men

via

bebe takes a nap

snoozin. maybe later, some treats?

mob wives big ang rap tribute

i like cars, i like diamonds, i like the wise guys because they know how to treat women. via.

what is yella bear doing?

well, his vet appointment didn't go so well...

only in that it never happened! the vet had an emergency and had to cancel on lil' ol' yella, so he got to go for a walk instead. he saw some ducks in a pond and JUMPED IN!

looks like he's living each day like it might be his last. i hope he gets those results soon.

i forgot my bag.

oh and i've been meaning to show you this.

the most embearassing facebook posts from last year.

how obama expect me to finish dis homework when he black out wikipedia!!!

teenagers are so so dumb. gawker has collected teenage wikipedia freakouts, and they are awesome.

thx midge!

last night on glee

jingle punks hipster orchestra

so you just need a couple of bangs and a pair of wayfarers, i guess. more here.

bless his heart.

everyone pray to baby jesus that yella bear's final heart wormz test comes back clean today. it's been a long journey, and he is due for a clean bill of health!

pina bausch

we can go see this in 3D at lincoln center. who wants to? via.

gchatz w/ john

John: also, while i support this, it's sort of upsetting that this is finally facing such major opposition while the defense authorization act which legalized indefinite detention of american citizens without trial just breezed by.
me: illegally detained prisoners cant show me unlimited baby sloth videos
John: that's true
if i had unfettered access to videos of baby sloths while being indefinitely detained in cuba, i wouldn't exactly call that prison.
or torture
i guess you have to pick your battles
me: i just tried to wikipedia something
son of a

sam worthington's shirt doesn't fit

i certainly know how he feels. i have a section of my closet that i call the "only under a sweater section." those are the button up shirts that are so tight i can only wear them under a sweater because the buttons pull so much.

i wish they made sweaters for pants though.

also the fred armisen as dramatic actor bit is pretty funny too.

have you seen moneyball?

11 biscuits, i thought. and more of brad pitt's little eating-while-acting trick.

a must read.

newsweek's andrew sullivan makes a balanced and sweeping case for the success of obama's presidency thus far, and not just from a liberal standpoint.

The job collapse bottomed out at the beginning of 2010, as the stimulus took effect. Since then, the U.S. has added 2.4 million jobs. That’s not enough, but it’s far better than what Romney would have you believe, and more than the net jobs created under the entire Bush administration. In 2011 alone, 1.9 million private-sector jobs were created, while a net 280,000 government jobs were lost. Overall government employment has declined 2.6 percent over the past 3 years. (That compares with a drop of 2.2 percent during the early years of the Reagan administration.) To listen to current Republican rhetoric about Obama’s big-government socialist ways, you would imagine that the reverse was true. It isn’t.

...

A depression was averted. The bail-out of the auto industry was—amazingly—successful. Even the bank bailouts have been repaid to a great extent by a recovering banking sector. The Iraq War—the issue that made Obama the nominee—has been ended on time and, vitally, with no troops left behind. Defense is being cut steadily, even as Obama has moved his own party away from a Pelosi-style reflexive defense of all federal entitlements. Under Obama, support for marriage equality and marijuana legalization has crested to record levels. Under Obama, a crucial state, New York, made marriage equality for gays an irreversible fact of American life. Gays now openly serve in the military, and the Defense of Marriage Act is dying in the courts, undefended by the Obama Justice Department. Vast government money has been poured into noncarbon energy investments, via the stimulus. Fuel-emission standards have been drastically increased. Torture was ended. Two moderately liberal women replaced men on the Supreme Court. Oh, yes, and the liberal holy grail that eluded Johnson and Carter and Clinton, nearly universal health care, has been set into law. Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician. (via)

here we go!

commence internet protest. 

SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

read up, be informed, and contact your representatives, y'all.