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Bad writing contest
The contestants:
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
The bassist from Attack Attack!
Pussy Riot probably is no Tupac, but the band members were iconoclasts who broke the mold, albeit in an offensive and obnoxious manner. Isn’t that what critics said about Steve Jobs?
If you can't sleep at night, consider your thoughts by the end of the week while your conscience is talking to you before you goto bed, and wake up to the next day intending on being comfortable in a comfortable supportive environment. Your family is what I recommend. If you claim no family then your legal guardian. There's a reason that those people are feeding you everyday... Because they want you to succeed. Some things fear mongers will retreat from.
Do not be defeated, instead try what seems to hurt you in order to make what you know is right. Sacrifice...Whether it's friends...Items, imaginary people...And I really mean that, I'm not smiling after that last point...You are what you think.
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Also im not homosexual.
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Friedman is worse though because he has been given like the top writing gig in the country
NO FOOD FOR YOU! YOU ARE DESTINED FOR FAILURE! HA HA HA HA!
deeper burns
Also "and for years the NYT has decided that Maureen Dowd calling every female politician in the country a bitch is the best use of that platform"
presumably from Mike's own business clip art collection
What is this band's deal? I had never heard of them until the bassist made nerd-headlines with his inability to grasp basic English grammar and syntax. Who likes them, is it kids? Certainly not real hard core people right? They seem kind of Biebered out, to me, in a way
also do people really squat that low when they play guitar
I think their audience is primarily suburban teens/warped tour, etc.
Emo has gone a deeply bieber direction in the last few years.
"I'm so confused right now."
edit: and the followup hit "revenge porn"
"You mean, One Direction?"
"Uh. Yeah."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Um."
"Too phony?"
"Yeah."
She went to school as Amy Winehouse yesterday. (Sprit Week: Famous Person Day)
Stumbling through parenthood.
How did she choose this star
My lady friend has been teaching her a lot about soul singers.
From Bowling!
At the time, her phone was out of commission...
Reminds me of the old, old joke, "MOM! It's not THE Pearl Jam it's just PEARL JAM! GOD!!!"
SO EMBARRASSING!
differences just confirm the system's validity
and that means you've got no meaningful agency
you don't know oh oh
you don't know you're dutiful
oh oh
that's what makes you dutiful"
(my own entry in bad writing contest)
Somebody give this man a million dollars
A+
can we talk about this? is Rhihanna trying to be ironic? is this done in earnest? i feel like kids these days aren't in on the joke...
How she is ripping off the "sea punk" movement and Jacob Ciocci's great piece about cultural appropriation in this deep internet age of cut and paste non attribution work.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-grenade-of-understanding-winners-of-the-write-like-friedman-challenge-20121115
"In order to salvage Syria, which is and isn't falling apart, we need to follow and not follow the path we did and didn't follow in Iraq. That requires a hand grenade, both post-explosion and pre-explosion, and a pregnant woman who has and hasn't had a pottery baby. We should allow our enemy, the lawyer Russia, who is our friend, to get and not get involved in the non/crisis.
Using (and not using) our Iraq experience, or lack thereof, we mus(n)t continue, or stop, our current path by digging a hole, and filling it in, with the bones of those we saved by being there, as we allowed them all to be killed. We can throw their bones into the hole, which we shouldn't be digging.
If 2006 has taught us anything, it's that 2012 is 2006 on steroids, minus steroids, in 2003. I can sum up by saying I stand by and repudiate all my previous statements about Iraq as regards Syria (as regards Iraq). I have NOT taken this acid that is corroding at my soul, but I am tripping balls."
I thought the execution of the video and the performance was pretty half assed. It's not one of her better songs, and the use of the imagery felt disjointed and tacked on.
I am so out of the loop fashion/style wise, but when I see videos like these i can't help but to think of early 90s thrift store style where we'd try to find the most ridiculous shit ever and wear it with an obvious nod and wink. it's like that stuff has now become a retro style, but somehow the nod and wink part didn't make the translation. I wish I understood this better!
>>if you watch the SNL vid carefully, you can see some 'Photoshop Background Checkerboard' in a couple places- clearly instances where someone goofed and forgot a layer or rendered things incorrectly. Crazy to see that sort of mistake on something so big.
I think it is an intentional aspect of the fashion... and it is just that, fashion. It is not meant to make any big statement, it is just "cool." And on that level, it succeeds!