What a dreadful book title.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:18 AM on July 11, 2008

Faze, yes. The ring of truth and well said.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:31 AM on May 27, 2008

In a very nice tone of voice, I have to say:
Stay to the right! Step in to the middle of the car! Don't stop at the top or bottom of the escalator! Teenage girls from whereever (you all seem blond with pink hoodies) -- stop flipping your fabulous hair on jam-packed subway cars, you are hitting me in the face!
Big boys with big bags, stop throwing them over your shoulder without checking behind you! Do NOT have loud show-ffy instructive I'm-such-a-great-parent... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 1:41 PM on May 20, 2008

That's an ugly house.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:01 AM on May 14, 2008

I did feel it was odd to leave the groom out of tribute!

On the topic of spontaneously breaking into song, mr. thinkpiece and I were recently on vacation in Belize and were walking along the beach. We saw a couple sitting on their veranda -- the guy was wearing a Columbia University t-shirt. mr t-p said, Hey, Columbia, me too, and the guy stood up, closed his eyes and sang the school song, at the top of his lungs. Same trip, a cab driver was extolling the virtues of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:34 AM on May 5, 2008

Thanks, this is great. Mr. thinkpiece capsized recently and had a very hard time (we were in calm water so it was hilarious to watch) getting back in the kayak -- it seems like it would be easy but it's not. I'm going to send this paddling tutorial right on over.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:16 AM on April 17, 2008

This is amusing and disturbing -- not the 'news' but the reactions in the thread. Evangeline, I too have had Botox, 2x a year for the past five years.

After having had breast cancer three times in twenty months, I had developed the most incredibly deep deep worry furrows (too young, two kids, incurable disease) between my brows. It made the phrase 'frown lines' seem prosaic. When Tx was completed, I was back to work, speechwriting for a well-known cosmetics mogul who... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:36 AM on April 16, 2008

You must have missed Obama Girl, et al.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:22 AM on April 16, 2008

So black and sexy, you’re so fine
‘Cause I’ve got a crush on Obama

OmieWise, I was agreeing with your point by noting that Barack Obama has being on the receiving end of tons of looks-based commentary, Obama Girl as an example.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:03 AM on April 16, 2008

I kinda liked this gizmo once upon a time.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:18 PM on April 11, 2008

Wait, dirtdirt, is that Chachi there on that thigh?
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:12 AM on April 8, 2008

This is like dancing about architecture.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:52 AM on March 4, 2008

Without wanting to get you any more exercised, I would suggest that kisses, maybe more than anything else at all (butterfly kisses included) feel better without the thinking. After all, they are a better fate than wisdom, as the poet said.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 1:36 PM on March 4, 2008

Sorry, in my family, eyelash brushes are known as butterfly kisses because of their feathery silky wispy feeling.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 1:38 PM on March 4, 2008

I love a Dave, and now everybody knows why.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 12:34 PM on February 4, 2008

I have a 17 year old daughter who is completely dissolved in tears, making plans with her bffs to go down to Broome Street with flowers. She said, "Is everyone an asshole? I thought he wasn't an asshole!" Breaks my heart for the young people. He gets eternal props for the lovely job he did in Brokeback Mountain.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:26 PM on January 22, 2008

Surely the phenomenon of celebrity is now so ubitquitous that we could expect to be immune from its sullen spell when tragedy blights the spotlighted incumbent? No! - not when a callow youth, whose very profession is to inculcate empathy in his audience, is suddenly clutched to pale Thanatos' side. And are we wrong to care so? Never! Let's not be ashamed of compassion, dear friends, wherever we find it - there's so little of it about in these dark and troublesome times.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:58 PM on January 22, 2008

Mother of a 17 year old girl, here, and I know she'd like this. I sent her the link, so thank you, chunking express. I appreciate it too.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:28 AM on January 9, 2008

Thank goodness for the coffee truck at the corner of 41st and Park, and the sweet, efficient master marketing genius of a coffee-and-a-buttered-roll pusher -- perfect pour of 1/2 and 1/2, perfect 1/2 splenda, brilliant swipe of butter on that doughy thing, by the way -- who has mine across the ledge almost before I've even stepped up. I never have to utter a word, I just give him a big giant smile and push the change back at him. Every damn weekday.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:59 AM on January 4, 2008

Most of you women know that you are attracted to (good-looking) men who take control like that.

Please, stop pronouncing him good looking!! He's an insecure-guy's version of what they think women think is 'good-looking', ok?

"Take control," ok, maybe. "Like that," not so much.

Are there any women out there who are "woman-enough" to agree?

Spit-laughed on that, that's hilarious.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 9:24 AM on January 2, 2008

Retiree medical care is a crisis of impending epidemic proportions, as you demographic-watchers have pointed out. This is not news. It's why benefits are now being 'marketed' as a partnership between employer and employee, why employees are being educated and given more benefits options, including the high deductible health plan with a health savings account attached. This option is triple-tax free savings for use to pay out of pocket medical expenses now, but even more importantly (although... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 6:37 AM on December 27, 2007

If the company you worked for made promises as to retirement health coverage, they need to keep their promises, not dump anyone they want whenever they want.

In an ideal world, sure. But if the money gets used up, it's gone. We are learning this lesson with Social Security, with pensions disappearing, and now with retiree benefits. Your health coverage is in jeopardy too. In the not too distant future, your company will simply provide you with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:54 AM on December 27, 2007

I guess it was a mistake to check in to Metafilter while waiting for my coffee to brew. The pre-teen exotic dancer filming herself and the futile, humping dog and probably, the very amused papa posting it to You Tube -- there's some depressing po-mo case to be made there ... but I got nothing more before caffeine. It's a little too meta. Anything gave me a nice laugh, so there is that.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 5:09 AM on December 10, 2007

Not to diminish the poignancy, the patriotism, the sacrifice ... he is mad hot. Josie is one lucky woman.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 4:46 PM on November 11, 2007

Thou shalt not think the un-trimmed beard look is made up for by ... anything.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:24 AM on April 20, 2007

I was at an art party recently and Steve Martin was a guest. He is polite, elegantly dressed, soft-spoken, attentive and much better looking than he appears on screen. He has a very sophisticated vibe going, not the slightest bit of 'goofy' around the edges. He was similiar to the character he played in Shopgirl, and I've read that short story was based on his own experience with a shopgirl in Barneys.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:21 AM on April 20, 2007

This is fascinating, thank you for posting. The standard rock and roll sexuality of the songs is de- and then re-contextualized -- I'm not sure it's not by design, by the way -- so that it's hard to escape feeling like these girls are rapturous about Jesus, so much so that they just gotta touch themselves. Their outfits are costumes -- juxtaposing the covered up almost Amish thing (except they've got piercings and big earrings etc) to maximize the impact of the song lyrics. There's that funny... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 9:03 AM on April 14, 2007

annoyingr
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:14 AM on April 10, 2007

They're in da club -- very loud, very crowded -- to get and/or be vapid and show off, not discourse on the war. Sorry, unsane, I call fish-in-a-barrel FPP.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:07 PM on February 15, 2007

Sorry, unsane, I call fish-in-a-barrel FPP.

sorry, thinkpiece, I call fish-in-a-barrel comment

So, are you saying you knew it was an easy target post?
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:30 PM on February 15, 2007

The accomplice has long been rumored to be Al Cowlings, OJ's lifelong friend.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:26 AM on January 16, 2007

This is excellent, thank you TPS! Who cares if they want to sell their funds? The free classes are brilliant and much more engaging than learning from a book -- I've tried that numerous times. I never even open 'em up once I leave the bookshop.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:20 AM on January 10, 2007

This is my very favorite Christmas song, and I pretty much hate them all. I can be in the worst of moods, standing on line waiting to pay for crap I don't really want to be buying, wondering how to fit in all I have to do in not-enough-hours, and the Pretenders version will come on, and I am a teary, sniffling holiday mush ball. Although the Pretenders used the "happy" version of the song, Chrissie's emotional connection comes through loud and clear. Her voice catches in all the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 12:39 PM on December 21, 2006

This piece prompted me to map my own NYC geography ... In the early 80s I lived in the east village and clubbed in very remote-seeming and underpopulated Tribeca. In the late 80s, we had a kid and bizarrely found a great deal on an apartment at 86th and Park, and I gotta admit, the amenities were awesome. In the 90s, with kid #2, we moved to a big fat loft in Tribeca just as PS 234 opened, but still there were few and far-between family-friendly amenities in the neighborhood. Longings for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:02 AM on November 20, 2006

On preview, phaedon, nope.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:03 AM on November 20, 2006

Meh, back atcha DenOfSizer. I meant Manhattan and I qualified it by saying "... I've lived in." I, meaning, not you.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 9:23 AM on November 20, 2006

I don't understand why 'Muslim' bears on the post. Was the police action somehow connected to the guy's religion? Was there a profiling accusation? I missed that ...
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 9:54 AM on November 16, 2006

Dr. Twist, I may have missed it elsewhere, but the only Muslim reference I've seen is in the poster's headline.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:06 AM on November 16, 2006

The OP seems to be drawing a connection between the victim being a Muslim, the Patriot Act, and the behavior of the cops. Do we now automatically assume that the guy's religion has something to do with how the cops overreacted, and that they were hyped about terrorism? As far as I can tell, that is an inference on the OP's part, and is unnecessarily inflammatory.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:09 AM on November 16, 2006

I'm not being disingenuous, ok, Chuckles? I think it's a bit premature to trot out the Muslim-Patriot Act connection, and I think it was done to cast this mess in a certain light and draw a certain response. The acts of violence and abuse of power I witnessed on the video were abhorrent enough -- and I have no doubt his skin color was a factor. I just can't leap to the conclusion that the cops assumed the guys was a Muslim, and therefore, a terrorist threat.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:51 AM on November 16, 2006

The Voice is one thing, of course. On another level, when I see her clips today, I find just laying eyes on her for the duration of a song invigorating. A real face -- animated and contorted and crinkly. A real body -- sort of sweetly flat-chested. Her own kooky outfits. No makeup! Nothing concocted in committee, crafted by stylists, nipped, tucked. She's so unmediated in comparison to what I've gotten used to as 'performance' it's like she's from another planet.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:16 AM on November 13, 2006

For me, the best part of the piece is the title, her taking possession of him, her ownership of him.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:14 PM on October 31, 2006

Oh, thank you for this -- sublime. I think it is quite Chaplineque, actually. The b+w, 8mm quality, his somewhat stiff upper body with swingy arms and legs. particularly in the last bit as he steps off down the alleyway -- I can almost picture him wearing a bowler, swinging a cane.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:41 AM on October 27, 2006

The whole Bridezilla phenom is bizarre (do these women exist, or is reality tv is creating them?). So cheers for this, thanks tellurian, and excellent work, Univeristy of Tampa women. A snappy tagline to Altar-ations would have helped to cue that it's subversive ...
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:37 AM on October 18, 2006

No,no, tellurian, I meant the site itself needs a great tagline ... yours did the job! Altar-ations -- the bridezilla antidote. (I don't have time to really do it properly ...)
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 2:07 PM on October 18, 2006

My boyfriend and I recently jumped into a taxi with a Sikh driver at 2 a.m. in our hometown, NYC. We were laughing about something, and chattering, gave our address and continued a high-spirited and animated discussion after politely giving the driver our destination. At one point, my man gave me kind of a nuzzle on the neck -- all extremely PG. The driver, who'd obviously been monitoring us in the rearview, screeched across two lanes of traffic to the curb and ordered us out of the cab!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 11:19 AM on September 20, 2006

Why can't I drink while I pee? Seriously, just last night, my man teased me mercilessly for taking my beer into the bathroom!
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 10:23 AM on September 1, 2006

It is a cynical microcosm, but it doesn't solely indict men. Like a lot of women, she wants it both ways -- to be independent of the men, but to have someone with "balls" defend her when she's feeling vulnerable.

She clearly says she cozied up to the next guy to get away from the last guy -- it's hard to feel sorry (worried, yes) for her when her own opportunistic intimacy draws loners who've caught that scent, and (not surprisingly, given they're men)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 7:46 AM on August 28, 2006

The Danish Prince is Hamlet. Much of Deadwood dialogue is written in iambic pentameter. Milch is experimenting, wildly -- and sometimes he hits the mark, sometimes he doesn't. "A" for fucking effort, I'd say.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 8:55 AM on July 22, 2006

That pop-eyed look could be a symptom of thyroid eye disease, or Grave's.
posted to MetaFilter by thinkpiece at 1:22 AM on May 9, 2005