October 2008
52 posts
early voting
the wait was 1 hour and 45 minutes. i guess i don’t love america enough.
so i’ll be voting on tuesday with all the other chumps.
Watchthis encapsulates everything i love/hate about mad men. fantastic!
Alaska newspaper endorses Obama (BBC News) →
“She introduced me to so many things: pasteurized milk, sheets, monotheism,...”
– Dwight, The Office
Kellogg students go wild at Field --... →
• “Students were vomiting on themselves and on the Field Museum floors.” • “Students were spitting at people.” • “Students passed out in high-traffic areas.”
oh, jeff mangum. you made me wait and wait, but it was so worth it.
It’s 12:30 and I’m officially starting to hate the entire Elephant 6 collective.
Obama's Election Night: Grant Park →
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign will hold what it hopes will be an Election Night celebration in Grant Park in Chicago, a campaign aide confirmed this morning. (via)
miss teen louisiana arrested for not paying at... →
lizistwentythree:
lilahjane:
nice.
There are soooo many gems in this article.
For one, she went back in to get her purse that she left at Posado’s. Two, she had pot and Xanax! Which is hilarious.
And three, let’s not forget that she is from Bossier.
Top notch reporting, KTBS.
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This makes The Notebook look like The Shining in...
cajunboy:
Here’s the gist of the story from CNN…young Jew boy imprisoned in a Nazi death camp falls in love with a German girl who risks her life by feeding him apples that she tosses over the camp fence on a daily basis for months. Eventually, he is moved to another concentration camp, but survives until the war’s end. Once freed, he moves to America.
Fast forward more than a decade later and...
i really hate being able to smell what the interior of someone’s house smells like when i sit next to them on the train.
sparklingpants:
My Morning Jacket covers some...
“The U.S. will never lose its superpower status. We’re like Paul McCartney....”
– Stephen Colbert (via sailingonthesea) (via radarchive)
CTA plans to boost fares - Chicago Breaking News →
“Our Chicago Card customers are more elastic in their ability to absorb fare increases,” said CTA President Ron Huberman.
this is b.s.
OYSTER BEDS IN THE GULF ARE FINALLY OPEN AGAIN...
defendneworleans:
READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT AT THE TP > > >
i miss oysters.
wow, formatting a resume in indesign is so much easier than MS word.
junesix:
Here’s a bootstrapper’s/marketer’s/entrepreneur’s/fast-rising executive’s effort diet. Go through the list and decide whether or not it’s worth it. Or make up your own diet. Effort is a choice, at least make it on purpose:
Delete 120 minutes a day of ‘spare time’ from your life. This can include TV, reading the newspaper, commuting, wasting time in social networks and meetings. Up to...
“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding,”...”
– ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JAMIE LYNN SPEARS PREGNANT AGAIN! - Celebrity News | Gossip - National Enquirer
Score one for the American sex education system.
(via doree)
(via tylercoates)
“You can have a career at any time. But you only have a really short period where you can be a young hot, mom.”...
fell asleep during the debate.
november needs to hurry up and get here. i’m politics-ed out.
“Despite the indictment, Jefferson finished first in Saturday’s Democratic...”
– nola.com
jesus.
Plagued by bribery scandal, indicted La. Rep.... →
OMFG.
California activist found slain in New Orleans -... →
