September 2009
Does anyone else think that Dove's "Campaign for...
sweetcaroline:
Dove,
You are a company that says “Buy our products and you will be beautiful”.
How can you have a campaign for “real beauty” if you are making money off of people’s insecurities, telling them that they aren’t good enough without your products.
DUMB.
Caroline
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"Dammit Punto!" has become an all too familiar...
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Television
The more I watch the less I like.
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Whip It was pretty much amazing. →
I think the entirety of the North Star Roller Girls were in attendance at the theater; true story.
What does your bookcase say about you?
roomthily:
It’s hard to escape the theory that there is an exhibitionist side to our bookcase obsession - it’s about showing off how much you have read, or plan to read, or pretend to have read. You are subtly suggesting that you are the sort of person who keeps Finnegans Wake handy, for example, just in case you ever fancy dipping in for a quick, albeit incomprehensible, catch-up.
via BBC
I...
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Whip It - Sneak Preview Saturday (9/26) -... →
kvknowsherfun:
You’re damn right Lacey and I are going.
^_^ Saturday Night.
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Worst Superpower Ever
I am the heaviest sleeper I know.
I’ve slept through fire alarms, tornado sirens, earthquakes, engines to almost everything that has ever moved on roads, rails, water, and the in the sky, fireworks, being carried outside, being pushed out of bed, and this morning I slept through my alarm clock resulting in me being almost two hours late for work.
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The percentage of Iowans who say they strongly oppose gay marriage (35 percent)...
– Iowa Poll: Iowans evenly divided on gay marriage ban | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register (via donotronix)
Say it with me again; rights don’t exist to protect the majority - the majority can presumedly take care of themselves. Rather, rights exist to protect the minority.
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Author Dan Brown strode through the brass lobby of a bar and ordered a beer, his...
– Merlin Mann (via syntheticpubes)
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Dear Commercials during Mad Men,
If you’re so fucking loud that my reaction is to hit mute when you come on how much do you think you’re selling to me?
Steve
P.S. Fuck you. My ears hurt.
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I wish Obama was as far left as the right thinks he is; real socialized healthcare would be awesome.
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I noted that it was virtually impossible to mount an honest defense of the...
– The BRAD BLOG : Corrupt U.S. Health Care System Far More Deadly Than Previously Realized (via donotronix)
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Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it’s just that...
– Funny man Zach Braff on abortion (via growingup) (via alice-emme)
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Twins release 2010 schedule →
wintwins:
boofda:
Opening Day at Target Field on Monday, April 12, will be marked with a 3:10 p.m. game against the Red Sox
Christ; Boston. Couldn’t we be against Kansas City or some other .400? I’d like for the Twins to to at least win the first game at Target Field.
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txtsfrmlstnght:
(651): i turned job hunting into a drinking game..
Anyone else get one of those Overheard In Minneapolis chills? You know, the kind where you go, “Is that me that’s posted there?”
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
yourmonkeycalled:
Then: The Wealth of Nations Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class Now: Buying Out Loud: The Unbelievable Truth About What We Consume and What It Says About Us
Then: The Gospel of Matthew Now: 40 Days...
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Your health insurance may consider you being the... →
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