November 9, 2009
The purpose of the expressive freedoms embodied in the First Amendment is not to simply permis the greatest possible scope of expression, but also, in doing so, to also [sic] strive for excellence in the conveyance of ideas.
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regarding the last link.

  • Me: Dawns, haha. That's your first daughter's name!
  • Matty: You can't name an Asian baby Dawn. Fool.
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“ This building was just like Melrose Place, except no one ever swam in the courtyard pool and cars had a tendency to be lit on fire outside and apparently all our neighbors were trannie hookers, except that one girl downstairs who claimed she’d gone to middle school with me, but who remembered middle school? So yeah, I guess it was exactly like Melrose Place.

Choire Sicha, “Where Were You When the Berlin Wall Fell?”

Best article all day.

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“ I’ve said this before, but the reason I started writing “Going To” songs was to make fun of people. I assume this is an issue everywhere, but I always just assumed it was an issue especially where I lived that you would constantly be hearing people say how “it sucks here, but things are gonna be better when I move to—” insert city. I’m very into representing your neighborhood. You need to be proud of where you’re from or you need to get the fuck out and shut up about it. I really can’t stand people sitting around saying how bad where they live is. I think it’s really pathetic. I hate it. Because when you move someplace, the only thing that changes is your perspective. People are the same everywhere, places are more or less the same everywhere. The thing that happened over the course of time was, I started to think, well no—these people are onto something. When you go somewhere, something does happen. I had really never been many places when I started writing them, and now I’ve been to all kinds of places. And so the places don’t have the same sort of talismanic allure.
JD, to the Onion AV Club, about the “Going to” songs. •
November 8, 2009
Fuck Ruthie Madoff, this is my new favorite New York story!
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November 6, 2009
“ I think that if you’re a true artist, you allow your audience to leave you.
Dane Cook, to New York Magazine, on the nature of art and audience, apparently. (via) •
oh good god, it’s real. (via jezebel)

oh good god, it’s real. (via jezebel)

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“ Me not laughing at my own jokes = British humor.
Matthew Rebula, on humor. •

In the Cards

Sitcom idea!

One of two possibilities:

A journalist/tarot card reader who uses her readings to get scoops!

A sitromcom about a tarot card reader who discovers through the cards that an unattractive, unappealing or morally bankrupt guy is her soul mate, so she attempts to change him into her actual ideal mate.

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November 5, 2009
I searched for Liz Phair (shut up) on hypem.com and got the above helpful suggestion. Thanks!

I searched for Liz Phair (shut up) on hypem.com and got the above helpful suggestion. Thanks!

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