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    Friday, December 11th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		10:35a
    Holiday Song of the Day: "Scrooge" (from The Muppet Christmas Carol)

    This is my favorite Christmas movie in the whole world. I have in on DVD, not to mention that I've memorized it beginning to end.

    What's your favorite holiday movie?

    Current Mood: sleepy
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    12:39 "America’s struggle against evil in the world starts with the struggle against the evil in ourselves" tinyurl.com/yfw7rlr #

    14:36 If I could go back in time I probably would have kept the title Nation of Retards... everyone in my life was begging me to go w/ Dumbocracy. #

    14:40 ....but hey, you can either be polite or interesting, and no author worthy of publication chooses the former. #

    14:48 My friend Bill: "Look, the fact that Tiger Woods has only slept around with 10 mistresses and not 500 makes me question his sexuality." #

    18:27 I've tweeted 1,900 times. I am going to try to time my 2,010th tweet for the first moment of 2010. #

    02:13 An upscale NYC sex store is giving $25 credit to all shoppers; it's probably a sad statement that I'm going to spend it on their shower gel. #

    02:16 (I mean, I guess I'm curious about how a vibrating cock ring feels? Should I try the vibrating cock ring? Like, embrace our cyborg future?) #

    03:07 One of my friends claimed he prefers MySpace over Facebook. And I always thought he was *joking* about that soundproofed basement dungeon... #

    03:14 "Comedy should be observational but its job is not to preach... our statement is 'go fuck yourselves, all of you.'"~Matt Stone of South Park #

    04:43 I almost purchased Infinite Jest; then I remembered that Twitter has ruined my ability to read a comic book, let alone some 1,104-page opus. #

    04:44 (...a comic book, a grocery list, a sentence longer than 140 characters...) #

    Thursday, December 10th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		8:24a
    Testing, testing...
     Comment notification working again? Maybe? Hopefully?

    Current Mood: tired
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    12:18 RT @martybeckerman A Moleskine notebook will not make you a better writer; it will just make you someone who pays $18 for a notebook. #

    12:21 Male friend: "I'm late." Me: "I hope your vag starts oozing blood soon." Him: "Thanks, Marty. Stay classy." Me: "I'll perform the abortion." #

    16:07 "Democracy is not an instant coffee." tinyurl.com/ykkzbvt #

    21:18 I just drunkenly made a bunch of inappropriate comments @ a party about Barefoot Contessa when I meant Giada. Oh God, this is bad, very bad. #

    21:20 (No wonder her editor looked horrified...) #

    21:48 Congress is revoking Tiger Woods's Congressional Gold Medal nomination. Because NOBODY in Congress ever commits adultery. #

    02:15 Look, I am not the greatest writer in the history of literature; I am merely the greatest person in the history of the world. #

    Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		8:07p
    Bad mystic kitty! Bad!

    Current Mood: tired
    dimethirwen
         		2:42p
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    11:49 shirtless Marty -- pale, pale, ghost albino vampire shirtless Marty tinyurl.com/y9ucs4e #

    12:36 RT @billyhallowell Police Arrest Amish Man in Buggy on DUI Charges: tinyurl.com/yhwz4z8 #

    16:57 Plenty of free Christmas songs on Amazon. No free Hanukkah songs. Oh, stereotypes... #

    18:38 "All I Want for Christmas is You": the greatest song ever written by anyone not named Lennon, McCartney or Dylan? #

    20:18 "You pay anybody on any network and they say what you pay them to say. They're bought and sold." tinyurl.com/yadoy6b #

    21:40 Slate headline of the year: "Man, does Luke Wilson look fat in those AT&T ads." #

    00:41 A Moleskine notebook will not make you a better writer; it will just make you someone who pays $18 for a notebook. #

    05:24 "You just don’t say no to ... a European king"? Actually our nation was FOUNDED on doing that! tinyurl.com/yf39hlx #

    05:46 "Let’s not fuck this up by thinking about it too much."~Clint Eastwood on the creative process (attributed by Matt Damon) #

    06:09 A bible-thumping Southern right-winger has bizarre sexual pathologies? Who could have guessed? tinyurl.com/yeoce2v #

    Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		9:00p
    dimethirwen
         		7:02p
    Chirp chirp!
     Today's thoughts...


    • 17:37 just joined @boxee, a new way to enjoy entertainment on your TV & PC. join now at www.boxee.tv/signup #

    Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    14:39 Apparently Chris Brown has a new record. I wonder if it has any smash hits. #

    14:42 Star Trek: The Next Generation as you've never seen it before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9oD_xl8mI&feature=related #

    14:46 Jonathan Safran Foer wants $15 to listen to him promote his vegetarianism book?! I'm not sure I've paid $15 for vegetables in the past year. #

    15:14 When you have foreign correspondent friends... // Me &lt;by text&gt;: "Dude, you want to go to a Chrismukkah party?" Him: "Sorry, still in Kabul." #

    15:21 I haven't heard much of Chris Brown's music, but he seems too "in your face" for my liking. #

    15:48 Just in case you have any idealism left, this Greenwald post should help extinguish it. tinyurl.com/yjs77v5 #

    16:25 Your offer of free frozen yogurt tempts me, Pinkberry, but it's &lt;40 degrees outside. Also: a man does not eat at any place called Pinkberry. #

    19:05 Jesus Christ, Harry Reid, you shouldn't compare Republicans to segregationists for opposing health care; there are a million better reasons. #

    19:07 (....but seriously, screaming "you're bigoted!" to shut down debate is no better than screaming "you're unpatriotic!" or "you're anti-God!") #

    20:59 OMFG, Billy Corgan actually wrote a decent song again: www.spinner.com/2009/12/07/smashing-pumpkins-a-song-for-a-sun-song-premiere/ #

    21:07 (...or am I just drunk? I mean, heinous club music sounds good when I'm drunk, so I shouldn't trust my own judgment right now.) #

    22:08 just received huge media request to shit-talk cheerleaders; I'd be thrilled if this were 1998--unfortunately I'm no longer a bitter virgin. #

    22:13 (Context: in high school I published a book titled Death to All Cheerleaders. A lot of people thought I was making fun of Columbine. Naaah.) #

    22:16 I was just venting so I wouldn't emulate it. ;-D #

    Monday, December 7th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		1:18p
    WIN.


    Current Mood: tired
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    12:12 CNN: "Karzai: U.S. must have patience if Afghanistan not ready in July 2011." (Try saying "please," you corrupt motherfucker.) #

    13:04 Browsing the net for tips on making Jell-O shots. My favorite piece of advice: "Make sure the kids don't mistake this for ordinary jello!" #

    14:14 "Anti-Gay NY Senator Gets Probation For Beating Up His Domestic Partner" tinyurl.com/ye8nnxt #

    16:41 HST motivational posters bit.ly/Rmf6 via @defconqueso #

    16:59 Apparently people who threaten suicide on Twitter get a bunch of loving responses. If you ask me, boys who cry wolf SHOULD off themselves. #

    17:00 ( link: tinyurl.com/yz39wch ) #

    17:42 .@ronhogan "Veganomicon"? That sounds like a sadistic hippie torture device, if hippies believed in torture. #

    20:48 sad to read that Rivers Cuomo was injured in a bus crash. Maybe it will make him sad too, and he will write his first good album since 1996. #

    21:01 (To be fair, Raditude is much better than Maladroit, Make Believe and Red.) #

    21:19 Modern writing is atrocious soul-dead penguin manure. Fuck it, I'll invent a New Literature for a New Era. (Just give me a decade or seven.) #

    21:36 ~Your Friendly Neighborhood Megalomaniac Artistic Genius~ #

    23:40 "A clothing optional section...provided for audience members who would like to be nude...during the performance" tinyurl.com/yj6xbtx #

    00:43 RT @markhoppus Reading a book. Let's see if Twitter has ruined my attention span. Dammit, I stopped reading to send this tweet. #

    08:34 Afghanistan surge almost made sense w/ a deadline; if we're there for 500 years my reaction is somewhere between "bullshit" and "fuck this." #

    09:08 (did you know that in addition to writing fellatio jokes for a living, I'm an accomplished war strategist?) #

    09:23 (tried to write a funny exit strategy, just wasn't working; involved giving every Afghan woman a Taser, and plenty of hilarious war crimes.) #

    Sunday, December 6th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		12:52p
    I just ordered this dress.



    It was $34.

    I win.

    (Edit: for those of you who asked, this is the Joelle dress from b&lu.)

    Current Mood: cold
    dimethirwen
         		10:37a
    Is anyone else having a real delay with their emailed comment notifications?

    *edit* If I haven't responded to your comment(s), it's because I'm not getting my normal notifications. Sorry!

    Current Mood: tired
    dimethirwen
         		10:01a
    Holiday Song of the Day: Tori Amos' "Have Yourself a Merry Christmas"
     (BTW, sorry for the weird "videos" for these, guys. Most of them don't have actual music videos.)



    Current Mood: tired
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    14:07 Me to girlfriend, watching Everyday Italian w/ Giada De Laurentiis: "That's a delicious-looking piece of meat.... the steak looks good too." #

    14:10 (There was also a comment about the pouring of "heavy cream," I assure you.) #

    14:30 Top story on CNN.com: "Pink glove boogie a video sensation." God damn you, CNN.com, why can't I quit you? Your glory days will never return. #

    16:00 "You have the right to free speech / As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it"~The Clash #

    16:02 It feels like December in New York, yet a mere 2 days ago I was lying on a rooftop deck without a jacket like in a Corona commercial. Sigh. #

    00:42 Seattle fans: I recommend you see 20-something British folk singer Johnny Flynn on Monday for a measly $9 www.myspace.com/johnnyflynn #

    01:38 Friend: "What can you do with 7.5 hours in Mexico?" Me: "Prepare your asshole for 7.5 days of dysentery." #

    01:45 (If you avoid the taco stands, you'll be fine. Maybe. To be fair, I don't trust street meat in NY either.) #

    02:05 You know what would make the holiday season 5,000% better? If I didn't have to buy presents for anyone, yet they had to buy presents for me. #

    02:14 ~Season's Greetings from Your Favorite Greedy Narcissist #

    03:08 There are many reasons to be a proud Italian; 0 to be a proud Jerseyite // RT @billyhallowell "Jersey Shore" makes me ashamed to be Italian. #

    03:13 (just kidding, @aliciamenendez) #

    Saturday, December 5th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		11:51p
    Link cleanup
     Just cleaning up my Firefox tabs...

    Zack Hyman Photography - this guy does amazing public nudes

    Pictory Magazine - fabulous new photojournalism site with reader-submitted work. Really awesome - I'm submitting some stuff soon.

    Alpha - a very cute, strange, but hopeful sci-fi short story. Just over five minutes; definitely worth a listen.

    SyFy's "Alice" - I'll be watching this. The i09 reviewer described it as "... a shorter and less in-depth version of the TV movie The 10th Kingdom." So I'm sold.

    B&Lu - tomorrow I'm going to pick up a sewing measuring tape so I can accurately deduce my size and successfully buy clothes online. Plus, they're having a sale where you can have them pick pieces in your size for $3 a pop. Awesome.

    This past weekend, while out in San Francisco with my family, we happened across a probably crazy man with a guitar and a dog who called himself the Preacher and said that we could ask him any Bible trivia and that he'd be able to answer it. Feeling supremely confident, I stumped him three times. I asked:

    1.) Who was the only daughter of Ishmael? (Mahalath.)
    2.) Who was the only daughter of Jacob? (Dinah.)
    3.) Who was the wife of Adam before Eve? (Lilith.) (Okay, not quite Biblical, but close enough.)

    I was about to ask him who was it that slayed Holofernes, but my mother dragged me away before I could.

    I may not be religious, but you better fuckin' believe I know my women of the Bible.

    I want this shirt.

    I'm such a hippie. I totally want to go to this.

    Lastly, my friend Rebekah's sister Rosie was a finalist in Beyonce's "Single Ladies" dance video contest with this video that she co-directed (she's the dancer on the right).



    Current Mood: tired
    dimethirwen
         		5:17p
    Holiday Song of the Day: Sufjan Stevens' "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" (cover)

    (I'm going to start doing holiday songs for a while, I think...)

    Current Mood: tired
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    14:14 Do I want a Wii for Hanukkah? Pro: Mario Kart is amazing. Con: I work at home and thus would never get any writing done. Hmmm... #

    16:45 And just when you thought you never had to cringe at the phrase "cut and run" again... tinyurl.com/yc992hg #

    18:51 Watched five minutes of Jersey Shore. Normally I don't believe in censorship and the death penalty, but I'll make an exception in this case. #

    22:35 Audio interview about "Recovering Republican" tinyurl.com/ydouvyu (I was sick & not feeling super fun, but there are some good lines) #

    22:42 (The interview is *fun*, I mean, just mellow instead of raucous, mostly because I was filled to the gills with NyQuil.) #

    01:53 "Robert De Niro plays a widower who travels the country by bus...trying to reconnect with his grown children." So they remade About Schmidt? #

    Friday, December 4th, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		7:57p
    I am really, really happy at how well Cordelia is being developed in Angel. Honestly, this whole show is fantastic. It's really different than Buffy, but it still great and I love it.

    Current Mood: tired
    dimethirwen
         		11:41a
    Here Comes the Milkman
     I have a coworker who spent the first half of her life living in England. She goes back every so often to see her family. She was just explaining to me how they still deliver milk in England.

    "Well, yeah, sure, they used to deliver milk in the US too," I said.

    "No, they still deliver milk in England, to your door." And she proceeded to talk about putting out the glass bottles on your stoop and receiving the fresh, icy cold milk. My mouth started watering.

    So I googled "milk delivery bay area" and found an article from The Wave Magazine. The profile sounded awesome, but there was no date that I could see, and I had no idea if this guy still existed or did the same job. I tried googling his name, but he has no website, and he wasn't on Yelp. The only other article I could find was dated 1995 - and a discussion on a forum about milk delivery in the Bay Area was from 2001. So I went back to the original article that I had read... and noticed a phone number at the bottom.

    1-800-464-MILK

    So I dialed. And I got a voicemail saying "... if you are interested in The Milkman's services, please leave your name, address, and telephone number, and I'll call you."

    So I did.

    I am incredibly (and possibly disproportionately) tickled by the idea of a milkman coming to my cottage.

    Current Mood: tired
    dimethirwen
         		11:33a
    One can’t have it
    both ways and both
    ways is the only
    way I want it.

    - A.R. Ammons

    Current Mood: tired
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    11:21 drill, baby, dr.... oh, wait: tinyurl.com/yaxg3xu #

    11:26 "Put her nipple in your mouth, but not in a transparently Freudian way," instructs @johndevore: tinyurl.com/yhwwe5n #

    11:44 RT @JessicaWakeman sexy Xmas presents that are just wrong: bit.ly/7Tbq2y #

    12:08 "Never make a politician grant you a favor / They will always want to control you forever, forever, forever"~Bob Marley #

    12:40 Listen to my pal @shwamusic sing "All I Want for Chanukah (is Hookers & Blow)," play Dreidel & Russian Roulette tinyurl.com/y92po7o #

    16:31 Ronald Reagan: "Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers ... or to extradite them" tinyurl.com/y8gv74v #

    19:22 Christmas lights are so beautiful when you're drunk. #

    20:37 Guy at party: "I work on Wall St. You hate me, right?" Me: "Nah, I don't hate you. I mean, you should be put to death but I don't hate you." #

    21:04 whoa, a graphic artist redesigned all of my book covers for some reason & they're cool! bit.ly/5BZf2z #

    23:02 As much as it pains me to say it as a non-tourist, Rockefeller Center and the surrounding few blocks are lovely this time of year. I ♥ xmas. #

    23:07 holy shit, Palin embraces the birthers: is.gd/5bPPU (via @daveweigel) #

    01:03 I am glad that male body hair is sexy again, because I sprout more of it w/ every passing year. At least my back is silky smooth... for now. #

    01:42 They should have ended Always Sunny with the musical episode, The Office with the wedding episode, and Jersey Shore with its first episode. #

    02:47 "if you want to get dreads, you should get your girl pregnant & put the placenta in your hair."~Tracy Morgan(???) tinyurl.com/ykx7gf7 #

    03:22 This NY mag article is captivating if you're a depraved political junkie who studies poll #s at 3 a.m. nymag.com/news/politics/62377/ #

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
    martybeckerman
         		10:30a

    12:00 The major right-wing complaint about the Afghanistan plan is that it includes an exit strategy? Jesus, even a dog learns from its mistakes. #

    12:06 I don't trust myself to hold any strong opinion on the war plan, mostly because I was picturing the West Point cadets in Starfleet uniforms. #

    12:26 Friend: "My dream last night involved Kurt Cobain & Michael J Fox." Me: "I hope it wasn't sexual; those guys would be poor lays circa 2009." #

    13:21 Palin: "I want to know that we have an exit plan in place... Talk of an exit date also risks sending the wrong message" bit.ly/6AoUl1 #

    14:40 I love the moment when "I hate this, I can't write this, why the hell did I agree to do this?" becomes "holy shit, this is actually decent." #

    15:18 "not a single Republican senator voted" for marriage equality in NY: www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03marriage.html?_r=1 #

    15:21 (Of *course* you guys are the party of Freedom and Liberty and Keeping the Government Out of Citizens' Lives.) #

    15:24 (To be fair, a handful of conservative Dems voted against it too.) #

    15:29 (the culture war is not a clean divide between parties or states or classes or faiths; it's a much cleaner divide between urban and rural.) #

    15:35 (...with a vastly murkier divide between urban & suburban. anyway, I am going to stop tweeting now b/c my addiction is annoying all of us.) #

    16:01 libs should spend '10s focusing on civil unions; it's more politically viable than marriage in the short run & will defeat fear in long run. #

    16:06 yes, separate but equal is not equal, but if a majority would support the same benefits under a different word, that's better than nothing. #

    16:07 (I think that's what we're calling "pragmatic idealism" or "idealistic pragmatism" or whatever these days.) #

    21:14 "[W]e no longer take someone suspected of ... a crime & torture them ... until, half out of their wits, they confess to anything we want." #

    21:14 ~E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World, 1935 #

    21:17 (The Nazis banned this book. Gee, I wonder why.) #

    21:55 Yeah, that video of Marilyn Monroe smoking a joint is SHOCKING; it's not like she died from a drug overdose or anything. #

    01:33 synopsis of Less Than Zero sequel -- no way will it top the original but Lunar Park was great so I'm looking forward... bit.ly/8g0gEL #

    02:19 "If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."~Rollo May #

    Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
    dimethirwen
         		7:19p
    Willow Willow Willow Willow
     Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow is coming out soon (December 23rd), and they just released a few teaser pages.



    (Full, NSFW image under the cut.)

    ( here )

    ... I'll be in my bunk.

    Current Mood: tired
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