January 2011
171 posts
We're both having bad days at work
homosexualsittinghour: I want to cut multiple bitches.
me: cut so many bitches!
homosexualsittinghour: MULTIPLE...BITCHES.
me: the streets will run red with the blood of cut bitches
homosexualsittinghour: God seriously.
I might get a snow day on Wednesday
But all that really means is that I’ll be working from home.
At least I can do that in my underwear.
fluctuat asked: wait? i am just now making it on your fav list?
URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
roxanneritchi:
[via]
“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even...
f0rcedpri0rity asked: blowjobs with congestion are very difficult!
Salman Rushdie and David Cronenberg on videogames
David Cronenberg: Do you think there could ever be a computer game that could truly be art?
Salman Rushdie: No.
There's a beautiful game called Myst. Have you seen that?
I haven't seen that. They say this is democratic art, that is to say, the reader is equal to the creator. But this is really subverting what you want from art. You want to be taken over and you want to be-
Shown something.
Exactly. Why be limited by yourself? But they say, "No, it's a collaboration."
I like computer games. I haven't played many. At the Super Mario level I think they're great fun. They're like crosswords because once you've beaten the game, you've solved all its possibilities.
There's nothing left.
Whereas this is not true of any work of art. You can experience it over and over. And if you come back to it in five years it's a different work, it's a different thing. There's a different thing between a puzzle and a book. These are just very clever puzzles and they are very enjoyable and they require certain skills which are quite clever, useful to develop. Sometimes they make you use your mind in very interesting ways because it requires natural steps. You have to think in ways you wouldn't expect in order to find the solution. But it's just a game.
You would say, then, that a game designer could never be an artist?
Never say never. Somebody could turn up who would be a genius. But if one thinks about non-computer games, there are many which people say have the beauty of an art form. People say that about cricket, people say about every game. But actually, they're not art. You can have great artists playing games. You can think about a great sports figure as being equivalent to an artist. I could see that there could be an artist of a games player, a kind of Michael Jordan of the Nintendo.
They have those competitions internationally.
In the end, a work of art is something which comes out of somebody's imagination and takes a final form. It's offered and is then completed by the reader or the viewer or whoever it may be. Anything else is not what I would recognize as a work of art.
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It's not his fault. He's underexposed.
I really wish film people would stop trying to weigh in on whether games (a media form they largely don't understand nor have sufficient experience with) are or can be art. I also wish game people would stop looking at film like a child desperately seeking approval from his father. They can't validate us and we don't need it.
February 22nd. Chicago Tumblr Meet-Up. Who's in?
fluctuat:
Scarlet
3320 N. Halsted
February 22nd, 7pm-?
$4 You Call It’s
$4 Jamo, Rumple, Jager
21+
GIRLMEETSBEAR: I landed in Cairo the night... →
kellyegan:
It was 3 am in the morning when I finally gathered my things, paid for my visa, and climbed into a van set to take me out of Cairo to a small hotel along the outskirts.
Since I was American, spoke absolutely no Arabic, and was traveling as a single woman, right when I got off the plane my hotel…
I'm confused.
Things are going too…smoothly…today. What calamity is awaiting me at 4 pm? There has to be something that’s going to send me into a stress-based booze bender tonight. That’s how my job works. Now I’m paranoid.
The SUN IS OUT
homosexualsittinghour:
Day. MADE.
This is the sad state of affairs during January/February in Chicago.
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Good news about America's scariest volcano →
Just because it’s swelling doesn’t mean it’s going to blow.
RE: Snow, 2
correlationstonone:
It occurs to me, as my spine comes to terms with the fact that I just moved a few hundred pounds of wet snow that the changing nature of labor is probably why so many Americans are so depressed.
Two days of snow and cabin fever are enough to make anyone nuts, but through the mist of cube-slave seated indolence I can see the 12-foot pile of snow I moved. The chemical response...
I wish peole wouldn't get so bent outta shape when...
-rosasparks-:
warrennotg:
“Oh noes! Someone I don’t know, and probably will never know, just decided that I was not worthy enough to keep on their Rolodex of viral videos and pictures of cute animals. Heavens to Betsy, how will my self-esteem ever recover from a number on a website going down? WHY DON’T YOU LIKE MEEEEEE?!”
This, right here, y’all.
So true. Half of the time when I unfollow...
HIV and the sins of the past
absurdlakefront:
shiksafaghag:
I was doing some light reading this morning (epidemiology and virology evidence on the origin of HIV, legitimately more fun than my GI lectures), and it seems that there’s a grain of truth to the argument spouted by crazies that HIV is a punishment from God. No, I don’t believe that God invented a virus to warn us of the evils of homosexuality, nor do I believe...
I have seriously never had a week as stressful as this at work. I can’t decide whether I want to scream, punch shit, cry, or quit.
Not even functional
me: yo dude
Khalil: Yo
me: hows it going?
me: not bad
Khalil: lol, wtf
me: lol what?
me: ha
me : wow
me : I just answered my own question
Khalil: Yes you did.
me: god I'm not even a functional human being right now
Khalil: Doesn't seem like it.
Plane ticket acquired.
Hotel is locked down. Flight is a go. Game Developers Conference pass earned. This boy is all ready for a trip to San Francisco next month!
Watchpitchfork:
Robyn lets loose in this madcap, 60s-inspired video for “Bad Gal”, a new electro-dancehall track from producers Savage Skulls & Douster. Directed by Tim Erem.
I’m sort crushing on this thing right now.
“In the past year, every continent except Antarctica has seen record-breaking...”
– Climate Progress, “As floods and extreme weather devastate the world, CBS News explains the link to global warming.” (via ryking)
“Fuck you, Kings of Leon. They’re self-centered assholes, and they missed the big...”
– Glee creator Ryan Murphy’s response to Kings Of Leon’s refusal to grant rights for one of their songs to appear on Glee, from the Hollywood Reporter. Apparently deciding that you have enough money and declining the “privilege” of having your song neutered to serve some saccharine pseudo-storyline...
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Wake up.
Boyfriend leaves for work.
Get dressed.
Get on crowded train.
Get to work.
Walk in office door.
CHAOS OMG DEADLINES THIS IS BROKE FIX IT NOW I NEED THIS AN HOUR AGO OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING.
I'd like to thank Cut Copy for this morning's...
This was my train to work soundtrack today.
My ideal pant length falls between a 30 and a 32
c-newt:
spramped:
Which is annoying because no one makes a 31 length. Sometimes a 30 is just right sometimes I’m waiting for a flood. Same with 32 except the flood part.
This is the story of my pant life.
This is also the story of my pant life.
“Jersey Shore will have more seasons than Arrested Development. Hope you’re proud...”
– Gizmodo’s Jason Chen. (via vanityfair)
One of those days
Where everyone and everything just annoys you. I need a people-free day.
“Lesbians and gays across the country are literally putting themselves in the...”
– Stephanie Bell, in her letter to Iowa State Representative Kim Pearson (via speakgirl)
The conversation is changing because we’re actually starting to believe in full citizenship.
(via aatombomb)
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If there's one thing I love
It’s staying 3 hours late at work for poorly planned deadlines that don’t have any real purpose but to impress clients we’ve already sold to when I can’t do any work until my other coworkers get their stuff done.
The Flaming Lips performing The Soft Bulletin at... →
axelrod:
bg5000:
I’m there.
Oh, that could be good
I’m pretty sure I need to be at this.
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Choices
or
Djokovic or Federer? I just don’t know!
Am I ashamed that I decide who my favorite tennis player is based on how hot he is? The answer would be no.
