Everything is Fiction

Massive spoilers for those who haven’t read the books.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:55:55 -0500

Massive spoilers for those who haven’t read the books.

southtwelfth: Come October, this is something you will be able...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:11:46 -0500

Come October, this is something you will be able to buy from your local bookseller, courtesy of Coffee House Press. You can leave it out on your living room table to impress dates when they come over. Your date asks, “You have a book about tape, flags, meetings, and city buses?” and you say, “Yes, I do,” and your date says, “This date just got interesting.”

If I weren’t already excited about this book, the above scenario would seal the deal.

I hope that makes the back cover.

Danger Den: my friend jay's blurb for something called 'HE FEST'

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:47:14 -0600

Danger Den: my friend jay's blurb for something called 'HE FEST':

beckylang:

Hey, you’re a guy. You like your beer cold, your engines revved and your girls gone wild. So come on down to the heteronormative party of the year — He-Fest! The only chromosome that matters this weekend at the Roy is “Y,” with testosterone-torqued displays ranging from the outdoors to…

thepenguinpress: We need your vote! Every year Penguin selects...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:05:20 -0600

thepenguinpress:

We need your vote!

Every year Penguin selects the best book videos for The Davids, named after our CEO David Shanks. And in 2013, we’re opening the voting to the public.

So head to www.penguin.com/thedavids and cast your vote. Note that you don’t have to vote in every category.

Of course we strongly, strongly recommend you choose our Thomas Pynchon entry for Best Animated Video. (You would not believe the amount of trash-talking in the offices this week between the imprints.)

Do this today.

This is some bullshit.

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:41:00 -0600

Via the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jason Adkins (Director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference) is saying that the GLBT community isn’t equal. Not equal? There should be no such thing as second-class citizen.

That’s some bullshit. Adkins is a fool. And what’s the public purpose of marriage at all? You don’t need to be married to reproduce, and there’s certainly no guarantee that marriage creates a more stable population.

Marriage, at least the contemporary, 21st-century version of marriage (which is all that matters, since that’s what we’re living), is a love license.

Twitter is down

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:34:27 -0600

but I can’t go on twitter to complain about it. so

When you see the broken Twitter Robot, instead of the Twitter...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:25:41 -0600

When you see the broken Twitter Robot, instead of the Twitter Fail Whale, you know things are really wrong.

I’m trying to remain calm.

katieheaney: rookiemag: Freaks and Geeks Reunion :) -...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:16:59 -0600

katieheaney:

rookiemag:

Freaks and Geeks Reunion

:)

- Petra

How is it that everyone BUT James Franco looks better?

Photo

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:32:01 -0600

beckylang: President Barack Obama openly weeping as he talks...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:46:17 -0600

beckylang:

President Barack Obama openly weeping as he talks to his campaign volunteers [x]

omg i’m crying too barry

Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Observations Now that President Obama Has Been Re-elected

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:16:15 -0600

Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Observations Now that President Obama Has Been Re-elected:

roxanegay:

1. We know the Obama presidency has been flawed but I don’t think we do enough to acknowledge the Sword of Damocles that has been hanging over his head since he assumed the presidency. He was damned if he did or did not with regard to so many issues. Not only did he inherit a complicated economic…

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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:35:49 -0500

mprnews: Whether you spell it pierogi or pyrohy, it means...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:56:02 -0500

mprnews:

Whether you spell it pierogi or pyrohy, it means comfort food. For nearly 40 years, pierogi production begins early every Friday morning at St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in northeast Minneapolis

Read more about the tradition from reporter Dan Olson — and see more photos from Jeffrey Thompson here.

Spell it Varenyky, like the Ukrainians do.

Monotremes

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:49:56 -0500

Biology and Evolution are weird bedfellows.

Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg 22 days after mating, and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes place after 10 days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days, at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months.

Male echidnas have a four-headed penis. During mating, the heads on one side “shut down” and do not grow in size; the other two are used to release semen into the female’s two-branched reproductive tract. The heads used are swapped each time the mammal copulates.

kanyewesanderson: Rushmore / Can’t Tell Me Nothing

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:51:21 -0500

kanyewesanderson:

Rushmore / Can’t Tell Me Nothing

jamesurbaniak: THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS CLOSE AT HAND. Half hour...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:10:50 -0500

jamesurbaniak:

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS CLOSE AT HAND. Half hour actually. And 11:30, not midnight. Anyway.

(Update/clarification: This is a special, not a season premiere. Season Five to begin early 2013.)

Proofread your work: It’s you’re, not your, as in...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:16:13 -0500

Proofread your work: It’s you’re, not your, as in “Smile, you are on camera.”

Probably stop drinking whisky on the job.

By the by, did you know that whiskey (with an e) refers to Scotch? And when it lacks the e, that’s Irish. I’m sure Whisky Park sells both. Or none.

theatlantic: Picture of the Day: Barack Obama With Jay-Z and...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:38 -0500

theatlantic:

Picture of the Day: Barack Obama With Jay-Z and Beyoncé

[Image: @BarackObama]

Yes

2 things. I live in a carriage house. My toilet also...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:07:13 -0500

2 things.

I live in a carriage house.
My toilet also doesn’t flush, so I have lifted the lid and tied a cord to the plunger. You pull the cord to flush your “business” down the drain.

Thanks for this little gem, Sarah Hepola

via The Morning News

itsnevernotfunny: On this alone.

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:33:41 -0500

itsnevernotfunny:

On this alone.