December 2009
153 posts
Striking Students Part 2 →
goedwingo:
To all my fellow students striking, I’d like for you to click above and read Ms. Tara Raffi’s article that she wrote yesterday for the Daily Cal. I definitely support the students right now and their right to strike in all means necessary; however Tara’s article is excellently written and it provides some important arguments and questions towards those who are striking.
It seems to...
Hunters vs the Hunted →
goedwingo:
On August 15, 2009, Wired writer Evan Ratliff decideds to abandon his entire life and create a new identity for himself for one month. As part of the adventure, Wired then issues a bounty of $5,000 to track him down.
What follows is an interesting tale of trying to disappear in the digital age where any of your information can be tracked. As Ratliff and his pursuerers discover,...
Black Friday = Blu-ray Friday?
goedwingo:
Do I need to wake up at 4:30am on Black Friday to buy a Playstation 3?
Striking Students
goedwingo:
“Tell me what democracy looks like, this is what democracy looks like!” shouted Kathryn Lybarger, an organizer for the workers union, as students threw used paper cups, apple cores and banana peels at the front door. “What does a regents’ meeting look like? This is what a regent’s meeting looks like!” “We will bring your job back,” Lybarger assured Houam Ounniyom, a laid-off...
Lesson Learned
goedwingo:
Dear Matt Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces,
A few weeks ago you went off on Radiohead and their song Harry Patch. You were quoted in the article saying:
“F—- you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That’s a put-on. That’s a branding technique and Radiohead have their brand that they’re...
My Mom the Ironiccist
goedwingo:
Tonight, my mom called me on my cell phone to distinctly tell me that using my cell phone too much will either give me a brain tumor and/or make me sterile. I tried to explain the irony on her and I tried to hang up, but she kept telling me facts. As a result, she caused me to use my cell phone longer.
Oh mom.
Leonid Meteor Shower or How Hipsters Ruin...
goedwingo:
So last night, my girlfriend and I decided to go out and watch the Leonid Meteor Shower. It was a pretty clear day to begin with, but we decide to go up to the Lawrence Hall of Science to get a real clear view of the stars.
We arrive around 12:30am and look up to the night sky as we wait for planet Earth to slowly orbit into the shower. About twenty minutes later, a group of dirty...
Fun conversation with mom
Mom (slyly pulling out some chewing gum from the car's dashboard): Here... it's meth.
Me: Oh, thanks mom.
Mom: I thought you were going to take a nap, go to sleep! Eat it later, it's not really meth! Geez.
goedwingo:
This mashup is amazing. Someone...
Holy guacamole
goedwingo:
I just realized something:
Moujan is awesome →
goedwingo:
My friend Moujan is awesome. One day when I host the Late Night Show and she’s coming back from her victory at the Oscars, I will ask her if she remembers her first appearance on national television. And then I’ll say, roll that clip.
Lamebook →
goedwingo:
Move over FML, Fail Blog, and Texts from last night. There is a new king in town.
Indie Concert Month
goedwingo:
Man, what a great month for going to concerts. Since Mid September, I’ve scene The Dodos, the Lonely Forrest, the Grand Archives, Brooke Waggoner, The Scenic Aesthetic, Owl City, Jason Lytle, and now I just got back from Liam Finna and Eliza Jane. Liam was amazing and it’s unbelievable that he can recreate and maintain his explosive energy at every show he goes too. He blew my mind...
“When you’re running … there’s a little person that talks to you, and that little...”
– Will Smith (via goedwingo)
“Don’t answer your phone while holding a conversation with an actual human being....”
– Art of Manliness (This should honestly be the 11th Biblical Commandment or an Amendment to the Constitution) (via goedwingo)
zomg. I have an idea
goedwingo:
I finally have a film idea that I’m going to start writing about. Technically, I have a pretty good idea of a 15 minute short film I want to make. However, before I write it I wanted to write like 4 2-3 minute short films as practice. Each “practice film” would be written in a different writing structure so that when it came down to writing the “real film”, I would be well versed...
Old Fashion Shave
goedwingo:
So lately I’ve been trying to live a more simpler rewarding life. This mostly consists of getting rid of materialistic items that I have lying around the apartment that take up space, cleaning up around the apartment, and doing things that will make me stronger and wiser.
Wet Shave essentials
One of the things that I recently got interested in was wet shaving. Wet shaving, for...
“So, for me sometimes it can be a relief, a kind of decompression to just play...”
– Trinley Dorje (Buddhist Monk via Destructoid) (via goedwingo)
