January 2011
59 posts
We Will Never Forget You, LOST. →
A comprehensive look back on the show that captivated millions - and me. Perhaps there’s more to the story than meets the eye, in a rewatching that is long overdue. Follow please.
Killin’ The Vibe - Ducktails
This is for Danny.
I’ve been contacted by someone wishing to ask someone else to turnabout via this blog. I usually don’t condone dances (they are the work of the devil), but I’ll make an exception for these nice young folks. And so it goes:
TO DANNY FROM BETH: “Danny, will you go to turnabout with me?”
Let’s all give these youngster a round of applause and hope Danny says...
However much the book was revised, it should have been revised more. The opening may have been reworked, as Gedin says, but it still features an episode—somebody telling somebody else at length (twelve pages!) about a series of financial crimes peripheral to the main plot—that, by wide consensus, is staggeringly boring. (And, pace Gedin, it is preceded by a substantial description of a flower.)...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Raffel lives in Chicago, where he enjoys listening to public radio and eating at various fast food restaurants.
DELICIOUS VILLAGE
PETER RAFFEL
He could have spent his entire life in that room. It was a small place, with grayish-blue walls tilting up towards the ceiling – white with several vertical lines that gave off the impression of several iron blocks stacked together haphazardly to form the building. The floor was probably what attracted his attention the most, however, for it was wooded – but not...
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via text.
Lucy: You're so weirs.
Lucy: *s.
Lucy: *d.
Peter: You're so don't know how to type.
yourblacksheep asked: Excuse me, I rather like Outsourced because it reminds me of my brown roommate. Though entire show sucks, aside from Gupta; the chubby, socially awkward one, and the music.
Anyways, I resent any anger towards NBC's comedy lineup. It lights up my thursday evenings.
Anyways, I resent any anger towards NBC's comedy lineup. It lights up my thursday evenings.
TV: And following 30 Rock is an all new Outsourced!
Me: Fuck Outsourced!
Alligator (Choir Version) - Grizzly Bear
I’ve been a bit worried about Tomboy, just...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Raffel lives in Chicago with his family. He enjoys photography and reading The New York Times. He also enjoys Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and cancelled extra-terrestrial television programs from the mid-2000’s.
KNOX MONTGOMERY
PETER RAFFEL
My mother smoked quite often. She would sit at the kitchen, after the sun had set and the darkness of the house surrounded her, place a glass ashtray carefully on the plastic tablecloth, and lean back, blowing smoke heavily into the air. It wasn’t bizarre that she smoked – everyone smoked. My father would come home from work and smoke while sitting in the...
Girlfriend - Ty Segall
courteney asked: i'm watching the social network for the first time since seeing it in the theaters and i remembered your post a while ago about the scharpling comment. i listened closely and i'm pretty sure the guy says "shark week's on." this suspicion is somewhat confirmed by my suspicion that another roommate says "great white, beautiful fish" right afterward. you might have...
I was deeply saddened to hear the news that the...
Ton Ton: I'm going to fill up the Jeep.
Peter: I think we need you here.
Ton Ton: I think I'm going to go fill up the Jeep. Don't worry, I'll bring a recipet.
Peter: Yeah, I'm gonna need to see a recipet.
Ton Ton: Do you wanna see these nuts?
Peter: Okay, do you want another Would You Rather?
Ton Ton: Yeah.
Peter: Do you know who Forrest Whitaker is?
Ton Ton: Yeah.
Peter: Okay, would you rather by Forrest Whitaker's sex slave, or not have your kids go to college?
Ton Ton: Be his sex slave.
Peter: Aw. You're a good mom.
Peter: Ton Ton, do you want a good Would You Rather?
Ton Ton: Yeah.
Peter: Okay, do you know who Philip Seymour Hoffman is?
Ton Ton: No.
Peter (pulling up picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman): This guy.
Ton Ton:
Peter: Okay, would you rather have sex with Philip Seymour Hoffman, or eat a half-eaten ham sandwich off the bathroom floor.
Ton Ton: Half-eaten ham sandwich off the bathroom floor.
Peter: What if no one knows you had sex with Philip Seymour Hoffman, but everyone knows about the sandwich?
Ton Ton: Still the sandwich.
'Creepy,' 'Very Hostile': A College Records It's... →
Officials at Pima Community College, where Jared L. Loughner was a student, believed that he might be mentally ill or under the influence of drugs after a series of bizarre classroom disruptions in which he unnerved instructors and fellow students, including one occasion when he insisted that the number 6 was actually the number 18, according to internal reports from the college.
Amazing.
Dan Deacon to score the new Francis Ford Coppola... →
I just like don’t even understand how things happen anymore.
pt. 2
Peter: I like (name omitted). We're friends now. If you're going to date someone who isn't me, I think it should be him.
Lucy: Too late, I'm already with (name omitted).
Peter: Like fucking?
Lucy: Yeah, we've discovered our passion for anal.
Via Text.
Lucy: So how are you?
Me: Kind of crummy. Just not feeling good to today.
Lucy: Are you on your period?
Lucy: Sorry, I meant to send that to someone else. Girl troubles?
WatchPRANKIN’ BEDO
A short awesome thing that we made at school. You should all check it out. I just woke up from a nap so I can’t remember what else I wanted to say with it.
Get Ready It's A New Day →
I guess I got mentioned on this dumb thing…
No, but seriously - this is an awesome blog that I like and you should check out.
Ollie on Everybody Loves Grandpa →
My dog had a special message for Grandpa that she just needed to share - the message is love.
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Helicopter (Star Slinger Remix) - Deehunter
WatchMany of you probably know this, but I made a film back in seventh grade entitled YOUR DARK BLUE. At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing of all time. With the following years, I thought it was a huge piece of shit. But now I’m looking back on it yet again and realizing it was kind of cool.
You know how you have pictures from your childhood that you back on and vaguely remember?...
Dear Internet,
When I saw The Social Network last year (probably the best film of 2010), I distinctly remember a part towards the beginning where one of Zuckerberg’s roommates says, “Hey, Scharpling is on,” on at least says something like this. Scharpling, of course, to me means only one thing - the incredibly Tom Scharpling of The Best Show on WFMU fame. I listened for it...
SETTLING
BY PETER RAFFEL
It had started with his fingernails. When he was younger, he’d bit them down to next to nothing, leaving hangnails sprawled across his tips; his mother had applied a thick yellow liquid to them in order to make the biting stop, but it’d never really healed the nails fully. That, and the years spent caustically doing work, letting his palms glide over balls and tug at...