September 2011
18 posts
Smart Girls
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson - Smart Girls
From WFMU:
In 1989 Brian Wilson began recording “Sweet Insanity”, an album that was due for release in 1991 but was rejected by Sire. The album was made during one of Wilson’s supposedly troubled periods when he was under the influence of ….Ahh, who cares. The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson made a rap record and it is the most brilliantly terrible thing you will ever hear.
Ho-LEE shit.
I can say with great confidence that I have not heard worse.
so bad … wish i could un-hear that …
To all Occupy Wall Street Participants, here is your key to victory →
reddit.com
From Reddit, where the comments are also worth reading:
Guys, listen. Here’s the deal.
I love you guys with every shred of my hard-left leaning heart. But I think you might be doing something wrong. Here is one thing that can help you.
Tomorrow, wear a polo and khakis
Seriously. polos and khakis. Every time you guys DO finally get some fucking press, it’s a scrawny dude with dreads in a ratty t-shirt. You’re going big here, dress it. Tomorrow, Polo shirt and Khakis.
Why? Because you need to get the right-leaning equivalent of me on your side. I’m 35 right now. I understand where the hippy thing comes from. I get it as well as a guy who’s 35 can. My Counterparts do not. They think you are scummy druggies on welfare and when they see on tv a bunch of people who they think are S.D’s on W, they root for the cops to hit you again.
Speaking of the cops, Who do you think they’ll mace first? SD’s on W, or a guy in khakis and a polo? Seriously, it’s fucking cop camouflage. And if they DO come for you. When people at home see PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEMgetting abused by police… That’s when shit changes.
Seeing protesters get beat up means nothing because protesters get beat up all the time. Therefore, don’t look like a protester! This connects you to the person watching and opens them to your side!
So for serious. Do it. You’re almost about to tip this thing over. Polos and khakis. Cop Camo + target audience = Shave, shower and polos and khakis.
TL;DR: Polo shirt and Khakis = dress code for nyc protests tomorrow.
Do it.
Edit: Going to bed soon, one more thing before I turn it over to all of you.
Please spread this as much as you can. Professionalism will help push this thing over the edge. You have labor pushing you. National Media is starting to wake up to you. You’re almost there. Keep pushing.
Think: Business Casual Friday. Don’t play it up like the Billionaires for healthcare. You’re just a guy, going to work in this big office building here.
Even if you don’t think that you SHOULD be judged on appearances (which I do agree), You have to realize that you ARE. Fight the appearance fight another day. Polos and khakis.
Do it.
Harris Teeter vs Wegmans
I’m drinking some Harris Teeter “fresh orange juice” right now and noticed that it tastes very different from Wegmans. If I had tasted this without knowing what it was, I would have thought it was one of the reconstituted ones like Tropicana or Minute Maid. Of course, the HT costs half of what Wegmans charges for the exact same thing ($3/quart vs $6) - maybe that should have tipped me off.
“Amazon just split the tablet market with Apple. The Kindle Fire is subsidized because you’ll shop more. Apple will stay high-end. Every tablet maker in the middle is screwed.”
—Amazon’s Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers, Larry Dignan (via Luca)
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
—Elizabeth Warren (via jacobjoaquin)
“This is not class warfare. It’s math.”
—Obama (via aatombomb)
“Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority.”
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10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked (via sourdoughislife)
If you need an invisible sky wizard to tell you not to murder people, I’m staying far away just in case you have a crisis of faith.
(via stfupenguins)
Some people get search. Some don’t. →
practicallyefficient.com
Absolutely brilliant comparison between Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. Can you spell “corporate cultural differences”, kids?
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
—Isaac Asimov (via jacobjoaquin)
