February 2012
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Technical difficulties at work
Mary: gonzalo's internet is going out, he has to wrangle cablevision
Dennis: matt's having internet problems too
Mary: christ are you serious
Mary: what is happening
Dennis: yes
Mary: is this it?
Dennis: i don't know
Mary: is this the end, dennis?
Dennis: it might be, mary
Dennis: it might be
Mary: there were so many things i wanted to do
Mary: i had like three posts in drafts
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Rick Santorum on the issues
On Title X:
As Congressman Paul knows, I opposed Title X funding. I’ve always opposed Title X funding, but it’s included in a large appropriation bill that includes a whole host of other things…I admit I voted for large appropriation bills and there were things in there I didn’t like.
I think I was making it clear that, while I have a personal more objection to it; even...
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We Are Augustines on Letterman
subinev:
I just watched the video of We Are Augustines performing on the Late Show With David Letterman last night, and I’m pretty sure they changed Dave’s life. I’ve never seen him end the show with such an oddly earnest music-related bit like that. Amazing. See for yourself here (it’s the whole episode so either be patient or scrub ahead to after the last break).
We Are Augustines photo...
I don’t know what is going on in Brooklyn right now, but in the space of twelve blocks I was rained upon, snowed upon, blown sideways and blinded by the strongest sunlight I’ve seen in months.
Maybe the apocalypse won’t be so bad after all!
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Tumblr is Wrong for Censoring Eating Disorder... →
philolzophy:
It’s still okay to have a racist blog on Tumblr. It’s still okay to have a blog where you take pictures of people eating and call them fat. In essence, it’s okay to have the kind of blog that causes someone to degenerate into the mental state where they might get an eating disorder, but once they get one we’ll sweep them under the rug unless they only talk about their disease in a...
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Can you sleep?
If so, I’d tell you to [expletive] off but hey, you’re probably asleep, so never mind. This is for the rest of us.
Drink a glass of almond milk. You could try soy or dairy or rice, but almond really tastes better.
Stare out the window, for however long.
Stare at the cat sleeping next to you. Is he rubbing it in or is he trying to lead by example? Augh! He is doing that thing where...
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Ahem. →
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The Republican Guide to Mocking President Obama's... →
“Why is Florence operating a machine?”
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Somewhere in the hustle and bustle of websites and work and production calendars and shoot dates and Nevada and Romney and Santorum and Gingrich and all sorts of other things that occupy time but are ultimately less important than we think they are, I missed the fact that Wislawa Szymborska had died.
The irony here is that I got the news late one night at work, when I was tired and needed...
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Nobody cares about your weird dreams, Mary
I was trapped in a windowless room with our motion graphics guy and D’Angelo, both of whom wanted to do karaoke, even though they knew full well that karaoke makes me terribly uncomfortable and I don’t like it. I tried to talk the motion graphics guy and D’Angelo out of this plan, and was rummaging in my bag for something with which to entertain/distract them, but before I could...
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Nevada caucus results liveblog →
Join me over at Indecision!
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Speaking of art and the internet: My NYC office is looking for a p/t designer to work in-house, M-F in the afternoons, starting very soon. It’s an entry-level gig and the primary requirement is excellence in Photoshop. Hands-on design experience necessary (college/internships OK); designing for digital media a huge plus; CMS experience nice but not necessary. This person will work closely...
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Locker room lady: Excuse me. Are you an artist, by any chance?
Me: I'm not.
Lady: Really? You're not an artist?
Me: Why, do I look like an artist you know?
Lady: I just couldn't help but notice your tattoos, and I was thinking they looked like tattoos an artist would have. Does your work involve art?
Me: Well, I mean- I work on the internet.
January 2012
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minou: hotblondecocktail: My anxiety, and I said... →
hotblondecocktail:
My anxiety, and I said that like I’m a relationship with it, has been so bad that I’m dropping weight like crazy because for three weeks I’ve felt like jumping out of my own skin and not really eating, sleeping, functioning properly, etc. I started a new medication on…
Ditto everything Minou said. I will add (and YMMV):
Think up jokes, witticisms or devastatingly...
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Lara Cohen was and is the coolest. If you had access to rubber cement and a xerox machine at any point during the mid- to late nineties, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And now her zine collection is archived at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, which means (the finding aid says so) that a few issues of my zine, those dispatches from a...
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Things I want in 2012
For my laptop to live another year (hang in there, Lappy!)
For MeadWestvaco to continue manufacturing Gregg-ruled steno notebooks, which are becoming harder and harder to find in local stores, and without which I am lost
A cure for insomnia
Tickets to see Bruce
Champagne, at some point, for some reason
A television, and a television deal for Maria Bamford
A membership to the New-York...
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December 2011
12 posts
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The other day I went for a long walk and tried to decide what I would remember most about 2011, and lord knows there were plenty of noteworthy moments, a 100k bike ride and climbing Mount Kineo alone and, oh right, upending my life in Maine in order to move back to New York for a job. There were memorable lowlights, too, frustrating minor health concerns and motley humiliations, and like it or not...
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Lately I’ve found myself thinking that the smartest, bravest and most progressive thing a lady writer can do is go out and have super-hot sex with an intellectual, bookish gentleman and then come home and write a hilarious sitcom script about an alien who becomes president, a fully-footnoted treatise about the many ways in which our economic system is completely fucked up or a...
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WatchI made a video about the influence of money in politics.
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“I think Mary Phillips-Sandy is one of the smartest, funniest and insightful...”
– The website I work for is preparing for a long-overdue revamp, which is good, but the downside is we are switching to a new commenting system and it looks like the old comments won’t transfer. I was just taking a quick scroll through the archive, for nostalgia’s sake, and was reminded of...
The Definitive Collection of Thomas Friedman... →
anedumacation:
thenoobyorker:
This is for Samia. Follow her.
this is awesome.
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Happy schlepping
I’ve always enjoyed doing errands on foot—even when I lived in Portland, where parking was easy—because it’s nice to walk, you can catch up on your eavesdropping, and then there is the moment when you turn toward home and realize what a motley assortment of things is attached to your person by means of shoulder totes and plastic bags.
Today’s haul included a whole...
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I didn’t blog about this because, eh, but last night on a conference call for supporters (and eavesdropping bloggers) Michele Bachmann kept referring to the upcoming Iowa Straw Poll (which she won, in August) when she meant the upcoming Iowa caucuses (which she will not win, in January).
Is there a German word for Freudian slip plus wishful thinking, with maybe a hint of needing a nap?
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Yo, is this racist? →
redlightpolitics:
Any Tumblr that answers an anonymous troll with “Yo, is it Logical Fallacy Day in the racist community?” is a Tumblr after my own heart.
November 2011
9 posts
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on sexism, the roots, fishbone, and michele... →
YEP.
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“Hi. I looked at the CitizensLink website so I could watch but it gave me a bad...”
– My mom will not be tuning in to the Thanksgiving Family Forum this evening. (Dennis will be, though. I’ll have to remind him about the cookie.)
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Employment history
The other day someone had left one of those free papers on the train (I think it was Metro? Maybe not) and my eye fell upon a squib that read: “Paul Mazursky has been named film critic at Vanity Fair. Previous jobs include writing and directing Down and Out in Beverly Hills.” Which is true! But also enough to amuse me all the way to Houston Street.
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An open letter to Kacy, whose Gorgonzola is in my...
Dear Kacy,
You don’t know me, and the only thing I know about you is that you wanted a quarter-pound of Gorgonzola this weekend. You didn’t get it. You also did not get a container of heat-and-eat chicken-spinach cannelloni, a tub of prepared beef chili and a small box of blackberries. I got all of these things because Fresh Direct screwed up your order, even though your name was...
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“HANNITY: Herman Cain and Lawrence Thomas used the term, high-tech lynching. Is...”
– The shocker here is that Ann Coulter thinks word processors are “high-tech.”
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October 2011
8 posts
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The dadaist-collage nature of online life has been...
but there are times when the topic seems more urgent than ever, as it did yesterday evening, when I found myself gazing at an image of Tom Brokaw wearing a lei, listening to a stream of the new Florence + the Machine album, half-reading an IM about a young comedian, half-reading a text message about oysters, clicking close tab on an article about tax policy and writing the words “Santorum...
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WatchAnother installment of Undercision 2012: Running with the Underdogs. Fred has since emailed me an adorable photo of himself posing with Marcus Bachmann in Iowa.
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