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Tim Siedell, who you may know as Twitter’s Bad Banana, was...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:15:00 -0500

Tim Siedell, who you may know as Twitter’s Bad Banana, was one of the first bloggers I ever avidly read (from the Vox days!). He’s an ad man and he started his own company 8 years ago. This is the ad they made to announce it.

Perhaps we were a bit naive. I prefer to think we were confident in our talents and experience. One thing for sure, we have never regretted the decision. Which brings me to the true message of this post.
Quit your job.
That advice isn’t for all of you, of course. But it’s good advice for someone. My guess is you know exactly who you are, too. You want to start your own business. It’s a fire in your gut. It keeps you awake at night. But you’re afraid. Afraid of failure. Afraid of giving up a good job for the unknown.

Read the rest here.

madmenfootnotes: “Do you really want to be a cog?” — Bert...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:36:43 -0500

madmenfootnotes:

“Do you really want to be a cog?” — Bert Cooper/ Joe Strummer.

Just freelancin’ (via waxandmilk)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:51:43 -0500

Just freelancin’

(via waxandmilk)

GASP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:44:55 -0500

blueeyeddevil: OK. I’m ready. DAMN THIS DIURNAL TRACK OUR...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:52:00 -0500

blueeyeddevil:

OK. I’m ready.

DAMN THIS DIURNAL TRACK OUR HATEFUL EARTH SPINS ON!!!!!!!! WEST COAST MAD MENNNNNNNNNNNN SKFHJALDGLAGLAEHGEGHOEGK’s

Is this what the world series was like for yall? I guess it’s like a team of A-rods playing against a team of centaurs??? WITH CIGARETTES???

'Besides elevating the profile of the novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the original 1996 book, Mr. Fincher’s film has spawned a video game (featuring the Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as a character) and a Donatella Versace fashion line (men’s wear adorned with razor blades). The swaggering gospel of Tyler Durden, much of it taken verbatim from Mr. Palahniuk’s book, has provided the cultural lexicon with one seemingly deathless catchphrase (“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club”) and numerous pop-sociological sound bites (“We’re a generation of men raised by women”; “You are not your khakis”).'

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:10:03 -0500

'Besides elevating the profile of the novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the original 1996 book,...

Related: PR 101 thanks to Bucky Turco (btw, this was the...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:48:00 -0500

Related: PR 101 thanks to Bucky Turco

(btw, this was the original crap email:

Hey, Natasha -

I think it would be a good idea to credit the illustrator whose image you’re using on today’s FoMM post. Daniel is a friend and collaborator of mine, and it’s not cool to steal his work (nor anybody’s).

'Talk about amphetamine-style. My nose even starts to drip when I read her.'

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:22:21 -0500

'Talk about amphetamine-style. My nose even starts to drip when I read her.': An ovation for...

Yale v. UCLA (via this viable loan candiadate)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:06:09 -0500

Yale v. UCLA

(via this viable loan candiadate)

Modern Love

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:45:40 -0500

UCLA: They probably punch each other by candlelight. Yale: They just jerk each other off while...

Dave Chappelle on Sesame Street.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:12:57 -0500

Dave Chappelle on Sesame Street.

Wait, is Big Bird technically a muppet?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:04:20 -0500

I hate this musical (Guys and Dolls). It was shoved down our...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:13:00 -0500

I hate this musical (Guys and Dolls). It was shoved down our throats all through public school theater productions. Whenever there was discussion of the Spring play this was always a big contender.

“Well, what about Les Mis or West Side Story,” we would whine.

“OOO Let’s do Guys and Dolls!!” the leggy 7th graders with their tap lessons and gilded throats would neigh.

It the dividing line between the Jews and every one else in drama. The full-blooded Jewish girls, The Carlys and The Beccas fucking lovvvveedd Guys and Dolls and would sing that shit constantly, while some of us were trying to learn step, kick, kick, leap, touch.

The play always struck me as dopey and even then OVERTLY mawkish. To this day hearing any song from it makes me absolutely cringe.

CODA: We ended up doing some dreadful production of Oklahoma. Complete horseshit.

Maybe it’s the tinny quality of the recording that makes...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:53:00 -0500

Maybe it’s the tinny quality of the recording that makes this particular Gershwin jam more exotic. Or because Billie manages to understate the super sentimentality of the song by not dragging out any notes. Also the orchestration is stripped down to mostly a piano and lovely clarinet playing. It’s all waltzy instead of jazzy. I just love it.

So much like Chet Baker’s My Funny Valentine or Stan Getz’ Night and Day. Billie’s version, for me, is definitive.

Kristen Stewart

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:04:30 -0500

has the sexual charisma of a paper cut. TEAM HERMIONE

sexartandpolitics: Look at this fucking hipster. fixie fggt.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:59:53 -0500

sexartandpolitics:

Look at this fucking hipster.

fixie fggt.

"He listened for sobbing from outside the slammed door. There were none. His ear was bleeding and his..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:40:00 -0500

“He listened for sobbing from outside the slammed door. There were none. His ear was bleeding...

WGA member, striker, writer, wit-slinger, Stephen Falk talks about Nick Counter

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:42:00 -0500

WGA member, striker, writer, wit-slinger, Stephen Falk talks about Nick Counter: Counter was the...

Look, I realize that this sounds like self mythologizing but...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:13:00 -0500

Look, I realize that this sounds like self mythologizing but I’m awake at 6am on Saturday because I have a horrendous stomach ache from consuming:

—Snickers Bar

— 7/11 Cinnamon roll

—7/11 egg salad sanwich

—an obscene amount of milano cookies and a couple of dubious chunks of a meat product called “steak bites.”

I had to walk out of my hotel room, go across the street and into the 7/11 where I bundled all of these items up in my arms and waited, dead eyed, braless, and in PJamas for the Pakistani to ring me up. I remember at one point putting the cinnamon roll down on the counter and the young black guy next to me saying “hey, you shouldn’t do that” and held the roll for me while I ravaged my pockets for money.

I snatched that fucking roll of out his hands like it was encrusted with diamonds. Blood diamonds.

OH MY GOD I FEEL AWFUL.

OMG, Bad Religion, how are you guys? You doing ok? Good to see...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:57:48 -0500

OMG, Bad Religion, how are you guys? You doing ok? Good to see you. You on Facebook?

my internet is where i want you to touch

Tim Siedell, who you may know as Twitter’s Bad Banana, was...

madmenfootnotes: “Do you really want to be a cog?” — Bert...

Just freelancin’ (via waxandmilk)

*GASP*

blueeyeddevil: OK. I’m ready. DAMN THIS DIURNAL TRACK OUR...

Related: PR 101 thanks to Bucky Turco (btw, this was the...

'Talk about amphetamine-style. My nose even starts to drip when I read her.'

Yale v. UCLA (via this viable loan candiadate)

Modern Love

Dave Chappelle on Sesame Street.

Wait, is Big Bird technically a muppet?

I hate this musical (Guys and Dolls). It was shoved down our...

Maybe it’s the tinny quality of the recording that makes...

Kristen Stewart

sexartandpolitics: Look at this fucking hipster. fixie fggt.

"He listened for sobbing from outside the slammed door. There were none. His ear was bleeding and his..."

WGA member, striker, writer, wit-slinger, Stephen Falk talks about Nick Counter

Look, I realize that this sounds like self mythologizing but...

OMG, Bad Religion, how are you guys? You doing ok? Good to see...

GASP