February 2012
5 posts
“The stage is my church and long form improvisational comedy is my religion and I...”
– Amy Poehler. (via khealywu)
Toothbrushing and not quite deja vu
Lately I’ve experienced a sensation while brushing my teeth at night that is a lot like deja vu, but not quite deja vu.
Deja vu in French literally means “already seen.” It’s that strange feeling that you are experiencing or seeing something again that you have at some point experienced or seen before, but you can’t quite place when or where. And there is usually a...
NYC marijuana arrests went up in 2011 for the... →
halphillips:
NYC spent $75 million in 2011 to arrest people for marijuana— mostly blacks and Hispanics, even though government studies show more white people use it. So that’s what you pay taxes for.
January 2012
18 posts
2 tags
natedern asked: Can you ask yourself something?
Splitsider mentions "Noah & Dru's Novel" in their...
Splitsider mentioned “Noah & Dru’s Novel” (a comedy web series I wrote and directed starring the very funny Noah Forman and Dru Johnston) in this year in review post. We’re number three on the list!
If you haven’t watched all eight episodes lately, you can do so immediately here.
“…the creation of the UCB Theater is by far my proudest professional...”
– Amy Poehler in this SFGate article (via iamachilles)
Reddit announces black out in protest of SOPA/PIPA
The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this...
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I am worse than Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney has received some negative scorn recently after his remark, “I like being able to fire people,” referring to his time working at Bain consulting.
The criticism has made me think back to my senior year of college, when one day I found myself panicking that all of my classmates knew what they were doing after college and I didn’t. Not only that, it seemed, but they...
“Everyone must volunteer”
There were moments that no camera could capture, like the feeling of being a foreigner moving through crowds of Pyongyangites, noticing how they all wore the same shoes, belts, and red Party pins, seeing how not a single person dared to risk a glance toward this strange and towering figure.
And there was a sight so fundamentally North Korean I was too stunned to photograph it. Driving...
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December 2011
6 posts
6 tags
Shit Girls Say
Have you seen those Shit Girls Say videos that are floating around? Watch it here if you haven’t.
What would a normal human response be to seeing those videos? To laugh and share the link with a friend? To smile politely and move on with one’s life? To find them vaguely offensive but mostly harmless?
Those all seem like reasonable responses. But if you’re me, you spend a...
An outside perspective on what's happening in the...
The whole world is watching while the USA collapses
People in The Netherlands have always looked up to the USA. It won’t be long before that stops, I guess. These are stories I read, watched and heard in the mainstream media over here:
your political system is one of the most corrupt systems in the world
your politicians represent companies instead of people
your government will...
November 2011
10 posts
Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of... →
Sam Anderson via NYTimes.com
The most striking thing about reaction videos, if you watch a string of them, is their sameness. There are little stylistic differences — one guy will shriek and jump out of his chair; another will just sit there open-mouthed — but everyone basically has the same responses at the same moments. The great lesson of the genre is that we are physically different —...
WatchOccupy Wall Street vs iPhone line
A very funny video featuring a lot of UCB people.
From the good folks at CollegeHumor.
EDIT: Also, I think it speaks to the OWS divide of the original protestors (Adbusters type anarchists) vs those who came later after media attention (so called “Daily Show liberals”), at least that’s what I see after having just read the Pre-Occupied New...
“Physicists have discovered that the apparent solidity of matter is an illusion...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via hippiescientist)
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
7 posts
“AT THE Republican candidates’ debate on September 7th, Brian Williams, the...”
– via - The Economist, “A Death in Georgia”
