good shit i liked: january 2k13

These doppleganger portraits! Mostly because I, too, have a doppleganger.

Hint: I am not the one in black and white.
Zoe Hyde‘s Miserable Lesbians — I have no interest in watching Les Misérables at all in any form ever. I don’t like musicals — though there are exceptions — and I don’t like period pieces that take place before World War II. There is nothing in this story for me! But I laughed at this post anyway. It was the only post about this movie that I have laughed at. Also, she’s right. We are so lucky. If you think you were born in the wrong era you are probably 1. white and 2. deluded. Reexamine your priorities, child.


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Shades of Light’s Young House Love Lighting Collection — Okay, look, I’m not going to front. I kind of, sort of, 40% hate-follow Young House Love. It’s not personal — I’m sure they’re very nice people! I’ve only heard kind things about them interacting with their fans and readers! — but, let’s be real, that whole cutesy-ass, DIY, hip and home-y aesthetic is exactly the kind of bullshit that I just loathe. It’s not that their shit isn’t cute — it usually is! — it’s that… I prefer people who live in the real world and don’t have homes that can actually act as backgrounds for photoshoots for retail catalogs. It’s just not my thing. Regardless of that, though, the lights are legit great. I want this one in the hammered gold and this one and this one in eggplant and I really 100% appreciate how much they stressed keeping the prices low. I am never going to be able to buy a $400 light. Ever. But I can probably swing one for just under a hundred. Eventually.


vintage-y arcade pictures
Chris Lindstrom’s Professional Resume — Chris Lindstrom is one of my favorite people on the entire internet and this is perfect.


these dudes
Rae‘s Roadside America in Louisville — I love Rae, I love her photography, and I love kitschy Americana. Perfect.



Robert Ball
Kimmie‘s Candid/Not Candid which made me actually laugh out loud.


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Kelly‘s frankfurt winter — I have known Kelly for a long time! We used to hang out in real life all the time. Now she’s all smart and cool and lives in Germany, but at least she takes super awesome pictures of her adventures and shares them with us boring people.


BLOG LIFE
This post about why Ben and Kate was/is so unbelievably great and also everything in my Ben and Kate tag on Tumblr.



Lorelay Bove
Kevin Babbles‘s Nuts — I didn’t develop an allergy until I was 20. I sympathize.


this perfect comic
& the artist’s ten year anniversary tweets about it

This Wikipedia list of 1990s one-hit wonders in the US is possibly the best thing I looked at this week. 1995-1997 were some good years.



Gail Albert Halaban

RIP 30 Rock
Every single post at Vintage Las Vegas!


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If you haven’t eaten one of these, you are legit missing out.

good shit i recently liked: january 6, 2012

Good Shit I Recently Liked:

Almost Done with Christmas and Christmas Day (Rae Hartsock @ Say It Ain’t So) — Those decorations! The pups! My dream home!

Ranked: Every Saturday Night Live Cast Member Ever, From Worst to Best (Phil Nugent @ Nerve) — MOST of these are WILDLY WRONG, but I still enjoyed reading it a lot and it brought on a lively debate on my Facebook.

Hard to Find Week Pre-Party: Cover Girl Crackle Laquer (The Polish Addict) — This one is hard to explain kind of. This blog is defunct and the post is from 2008, but I was looking for a swatch of some nail polish and I somehow ended up on a road ending at this post. A post where crackle finish polish was hard to find because it hadn’t been rebirthed. And where it apparently used to crackle way damn cooler than it does now. I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A WEIRD TIME CAPSULE MOMENT OKAY, GOD.

It’s Okay to Be Neither (Melissa Bollow Tempel, via Together For Jackson County Kids) — Fantastic. Enough said.

Anne’s Things (Ranch Dressing with Eartha Kitsch) — This was so moving/beautiful! The relics of our lives are so small and powerful.

20 Dated Celebrity Endorsements from Over a Decade Ago (BuzzFeed — These are just the BEST. The late 90s and early 00s were so ugly and metallic and just awful. So great.

Louis CK’s Shameful Dirty Comedy (Frank Chimero) — This is ridiculous on point. And it’s exactly why I love Louis CK so so much.

good shit i recently liked: december 16, 2011

Since I am still trying to play catch-up with the 31 Days of Festive-Ass Flicks (I won’t apologize, but, uh, OOPS.) I thought I would throw together a list of Good Shit I Recently Liked:

What I Learned in First Grade (Elisha Lynn at My Black Tongue)
I Am So Not Sorry About My Vagina, And Other Apologies We Should Retract (Sara Benincasa @ Jezebel)
The Spielberg Face (Kevin Lee of Fandor)
Hear 10 Seconds from Every Hit Song of the ’80s (WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)
Pinochle (KT Kieltyka for The Hairpin)
The Last Photo of Walt Disney at Disneyland Park (George Savvas at Disney Parks Blog)
Make Everything OK
On Orange Juice (Anthony Geffen at Well, That’s Just Great)
Tradition (xkcd)
Ghost of Christmas Past (Ranch Dressing with Eartha Kitsch)
Adventure Time! (Rae Hartsock at Say It Ain’t So)

Now I’m going to go to sleep for awhile because I haven’t slept more than three hours at a stretch for the last… week and a half. AND I AM TIRED. And I finally caught up on all the movie watching. The writing can come LATER.

But really, thanks for hanging in there, doods. I believe in me. I believe in you. I believe in us.