caring is cool.

just help the man live his dream. don’t be a jerk about it. do it. (if you can.)

jonaspolsky:

by Jonas Polsky

This morning I went to work, was told my position had been eliminated, and I returned home. That’s the conflict presented in a romantic comedy where the quirky girl sets out for another coast to start a designer bead store, but not for me.

What I want to do with my life, is…

Trevor, everyone, this is what Awesometown will be. It will be everyone you like, living together, creating a town they want to live in. LET’S GO THERE, ‘KAY??

P.S. Someone needs to get that cat away from the edge because that doesn’t seem safe to me.

nevver:

Kalie Ciesemier

(via cake-light)

(i’m going to be posting about this so much this week. i’m both sorry for possibly over-promoting and also not sorry because i’m really excited!!!)

some of you are obviously already familiar with videogum and gabe delahaye. you guys can skip this if you want. this is mostly for people who aren’t familiar with either. bye! see you guys soon!

for those of you NOT familiar with videogum and gabe, it’s a syper funny pop culture blog, written by gabe. videogum is one of the most consistently funny things on the internet and that’s entirely because of gabe. i know it’s not very cool to be a huge fan, but i’m just a huge, unrepentant fan of gabe’s writing. he’s just really, really great at what he does. one of the most remarkable things about him, and about videogum, is the insanely tight-knit community that has formed around them. again, i attribute that to gabe and his ability to create a sense of exclusive inclusivity, where everyone is welcome to join this smart, funny community of inside-jokers. everyone wants to be part of the group, and everyone can, because the commenters are also, almost without exception, really, really nice. it’s pretty special.

so, perhaps you can imagine my surprise and fangirl barfy-excitement when gabe emailed me and asked ME, of all people, to be the guest blogger for a whole day, while he’s out of town. A WHOLE DAY. ME. what? why? how? who? me? why?

this might not be the biggest deal to some people but it kind of is to me, and i am probably OVERLY concerned about doing a great job and not being a disappointment. partly because i want to impress the other monsters, and partly because i don’t want to make gabe regret asking me, i’m spazzing out a teensy weensy little bit. i’m sure some laid-back dudebros were chosen and were like, “sure. whatever.” i am not that dudebro. i’m super excited to have been asked and taking my responsibilities VERY seriously. i don’t write until friday but i’m already getting started, drafting and practicing and stuff!

so, please come read the site on my day. you don’t have to comment if you don’t want to, but you totally can. it would just mean a lot to me if my non-videogum friends and family were sharing this success with me.

also, definitely check in during the week and read the other bloggers, too, because they’re all VERY funny. and read lots of the stuff that gabe wrote, too, because he is like a giant laughter tree and we are little joke mushrooms, growing happily in his shadow. (what? i don’t know. i’ll get better by friday, promise.)

I have always admired people who committed whole heartedly to one specific scene or look. What happens if a goth wants to just go to the gym? What if a vintage person just wakes up and feels like wearing their fuglies? Do punk girls ever want to look really soft and pretty? HOW DOES THAT WORK??? For whatever reason, I was never able to make myself get that enthusiastic about any one scene, but I always thought that the people who did were pretty cool. 

Like this guy! I find the steampunk scene to be equal parts marvelous and cringey, but I wholeheartedly applaud this dapper gentleman for fucking GOING FOR IT. 

(Source: Flickr / damonabnormal, via my-ear-trumpet)

FIERCE.

ad these ladies to my ‘when i grow up’ list. 

keep bangin’, ladies.

ohhjohn:

(via playagainstyou)

very important scientific research at work here. totally official.

“very science. very research.” - gabe delayahe

(p.s. i’m a european showerer - i.e. filthy - and i am gratified that “science” is continuing to back up what i intuitively knew already. stop bathing all the time, weirdos. stop washing your hair so much. just let your body be the way it’s supposed to be. all your washing and shampooing makes you need more washing and shampooing. you’re just doing what The Man wants you to do, to buy more products. OPEN YOUR EYES, SHEEPLE.)

amazing.

goldenfiddle:

NYT: At Home with Patrick Dougherty

fuckyeahwestwing.

BARTLET FOR AMERICA, Y’ALLZ.

(man, that looks nothing like rob lowe. i mean, it’s better than i could do, but only just.)

thebibliosaurus:

periscopestudio

(via bibliosaurus)

ah, the good old days! let’s definitely try to get our country closer to ye olde late 1700s, when life was simple. (oh, it was simple because only rich white men were allowed to make any decisions. so simple for everyone else, right?)

sluthaditcoming:

whereismyfloss:

loveepicly:

lipstick-feminists:

ericaisazombie:

sexismandthecity:

divasonyce:

rosietherioter:

fuckyeahlgbt:

marriageequality:

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warning: what follows is a long narrative of my thoughts related to something very few people care about, or can relate to. enjoy!

i’ve been searching the interwebs for The Perfect iPad Case. i’m the sort of person who puts their devices in a case and never takes them out, so the case IS the device for me. i haven’t seen my iPad, iPaddy, naked since i took it out of it’s cabbage leaf, and iPhy III, my iPhone, has probably only been naked a total of an hour in her life. i just pop them in and don’t ever remove them, aside from periodic case washings.

when S bought me my iPad for my birthday (best present ever, doodz), i got the Apple brand one, since it was the cheapest and i wasn’t totally sure what i’d be needing out of my case. there are some things i continue enjoy about the Apple one.

1) i like how slim it is. it doesn’t add any weight or bulk.

2) it’s not fancy so i’m not worried about it getting dirty or anything.

3) it fits snugly and feels surprisingly protective, for how thin it is.

4) all ports are exposed, which i guess is a common problem with 2nd party (3rd party? i have no idea what the terminology is.) accessories. i wouldn’t have guessed that something that obvious would be something often overlooked in accessory design, but okay. 

my major complaints for the Apple case are:

1) how filthy the case gets and

2) how impossible it is to clean. it’s made of some kind of microfiber stuff that is like ick-velcro. it’s now covered in dirty fingerprints and various mystery stains, which kind of clashes with the “futuristic super vixen” image i am trying to perpetuate. it’s more like “futuristic super vixen with surprisingly scummy hands.”

3) i also use my iPad a lot like i used to use my filofax, so i’d love some paper and maybe even a pocket for storing bills and receipts and stuff.

so, in an effort to find The Perfect iPad Cover, i have spent literally HOURS pouring over sites, looking at pictures, reading reviews, checking various weights and such. overall, most of them seem to suck. (i know. we can file this under Problems That Aren’t Really Problems.)

i got pretty excited about the DODOcase. check out this sexy bitch of a case. 

GORGEOUS. and it looks like a Moleskine! 

(gonna digress for one weensy sec to say that Moleskine notebooks are a major weakness of mine. as we speak i have the tab open to buy my yearly calendar from them, as well as a recipe notebook. they will go nicely with my notebook, my mini-writing pad, my yearly calendar from last year and my NY city guide. i can’t stop buying them.)

but one of my concerns about the DODOcase is the extra weight the bamboo frame adds, and the fact that they stress that the bamboo will totally break if you drop it wrong. i don’t need it to be made of titanium, but if it can’t protect iPaddy from a wee fall, that kind of defeats one of the main purposes of buying a case at all. also it’s pretty expensive. it hasn’t got any additional pockets AND it only kind of works for propping the iPad up at an angle. so, not 100% sold. i got my grubby goonhands on a friend’s, and i admit it remains as sexy as i imagined. but pretty heavy, with none of the elements i’m looking for.

then THIS Moleskine brand iPad cover happens. this gorgeous collision of my passions. this miraculous explosion of perfect synergy. this mad lovely goulash of my most heartfelt dreams. it’s like they looked into my soul, saw what my heart was crying out for so passionately, and then gave it to me.

LITERALLY cannot overstate my excitement.  

(one might say this feeling unapproachable, if one were inclined to say things like that… my gummies know what i’m talking about.)

important p.s. we only have that one picture by which to judge the quality of the product. i can see it having similar problems to the DODOcase, with regards to extra weight and maybe not being good for propping at an angle. there will be plenty of time for reality to destroy this perfect golden moment of anticipation for me. right now, i am imagining that it is EVERYTHING i want. please don’t take that from me.