The Woj (In Exile?)

thomasjohn: LMAO I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:45:39 -0800

LMAO I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING.

luckyjimjd: I was going to run on the “Party for Revolutionary...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:59:19 -0800

I was going to run on the “Party for Revolutionary Social & Economic Transformation by Any Means Necessary”. But that didn’t test well in the focus groups.

HELL YES WITH THE BOTTLE OF BROWN LIQUID YO THIS BOY THIS IS...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:03:12 -0800

HELL YES WITH THE BOTTLE OF BROWN LIQUID

YO THIS BOY

THIS IS MY SON

Reading queue, revision 6

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:39:12 -0800

As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (finally, geez)
David Foster Wallace’s essay about the porn convention
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the Movies
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Osamu Tezuka, The Book of Human Insects
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe
Pat Jordan, A False Spring
Doug Glanville, The Game From Where I Stand
Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete
Kenny Moore, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon’s Legendary Coach and Nike’s Co-founder

Reading queue, revision 5

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:39:08 -0800

As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (75%)
David Foster Wallace’s essay about the porn convention
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the Movies
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Osamu Tezuka, The Book of Human Insects
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe
Pat Jordan, A False Spring
Doug Glanville, The Game From Where I Stand
Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete
Kenny Moore, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon’s Legendary Coach and Nike’s Co-founder

Check out this guy's belly tat

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:44:04 -0800

Check out this guy's belly tat:

It says “comrades,” right?

Zole Games: Every day I'm Crystalin'

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:16:45 -0800

Zole Games: Every day I'm Crystalin':

zolegames:

I planned on playing a bunch of video games while I was home on vacation, but what I mainly ended up playing was SNK’s sort of Zelda-like Crystalis. If you haven’t played it, it’s definitely worth checking out. If nothing else, the setting is unique: it’s post-apocalyptic but cartoony and…

Auto-freaking Crystalis reblog. Might be my favorite game ever. Some little shithead deleted my saved game when I was maybe five hours from finishing. I never did finish it because I kind of moved on from NES soon after. I’ve come back to it via emulation in years since, but never with sustained attention.

Photo

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:09:53 -0800

The Dø, Both Ways Open Jaws

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:50:47 -0800

The Dø, Both Ways Open Jaws:

I’m not sure if that album title is English, and I don’t know how to make that character in their name, but I do like the singer’s “elfin coo”.

Amadou & Mariam f/ Santigold, "Dougou Badia"

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:10:28 -0800

Amadou & Mariam f/ Santigold, "Dougou Badia":

This is exactly as cool as you’d expect it to be.

I just shared Cookie Monster, so then I went looking for this. I...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:51:43 -0800

I just shared Cookie Monster, so then I went looking for this. I love this. An all-timer.

It’s not immediately obvious because of Cookie Monster,...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:50:19 -0800

It’s not immediately obvious because of Cookie Monster, but those ladies are pantless.

Reading queue, revision 4

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:37:00 -0800

As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 60%)
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the Movies
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Osamu Tezuka, The Book of Human Insects
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe
Pat Jordan, A False Spring
Doug Glanville, The Game From Where I Stand
Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete
Kenny Moore, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon’s Legendary Coach and Nike’s Co-founder

Favorite music, 2011

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:38:46 -0800

I’ve already done my TV and movies lists, so music is the obvious one I’m missing.

Songs and albums are mixed in together. (A lot of songs this year — I think that reflects not so much what was available as the fact that I downloaded a lot more free singles than I usually do.) No order.

If I haven’t listed your favorite album, it’s probably because I didn’t hear it.

Action Bronson, “Set It Off”
Apathy, “Check to Check”
Danny Brown, “Outer Space”
Wiley, 100% Publishing
Earth, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
Bobby Long, A Winter Tale
Lana Del Rey, “Video Games” — shut up
Shabazz Palaces, “Swerve… The reeping [sic?] of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding [sic?])”
Omar LinX f/ Emilio Rojas, “Say Goodbye”
Glasses Malone, “May 1st”
Spank Rock f/ Big Freedia, “Nasty”
Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am
Ben Sollee, Inclusions
Diz Gibran & Moonshine, “SLICK”
Jojo Pellegrino f/ Vinnie Paz, “Pellienza” (Vinnie’s verse is a goddamn riot — this doesn’t have all of them, but it’s close, and it’s so amazing)
Mount Moriah, “Lament”
Braids, Native Speaker
The Answer Page, “Cold Blue Light (In Circles)”
EMA, “The Grey Ship”
Theophilus London, “I Stand Alone”
Balam Acab, “Oh, Why”
Fielded, “White Death”

Reading queue (update 3)

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:18:58 -0800

As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 55%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the Movies
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Osamu Tezuka, The Book of Human Insects
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe

TV, 2011, ranked

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:16:45 -0800

Since I watched way more television this year than I did movies, it seems fair to make a parallel list: shows I watched this year, ranked, with season(s) and episodes watched noted. Many of the shows are new, but a few are catalog titles. I’m mixing those in anyway. This list is highly approximate. (Duh.)

Breaking Bad (S2-4, 35 eps)
Justified (S2, 13 eps)
Archer (S2-3, 16 eps)
Downton Abbey (S1, 2 eps)
The Sing-Off (S3, 10 eps)
Terriers (S1, 5 eps)
Game of Thrones (S1, 10 eps)
Prime Suspect (UK) (S2, 2 eps)
Men of a Certain Age (S2, 12 eps)
Louie (S2, 13 eps)
Parks and Recreation (S3-4, 13 eps)
The Chappelle Show (S2, 2 eps)
Homeland (S1, 12 eps)
Suburgatory (S1, 9 eps)
Alphas (S1, 11 eps)
Angel (S1, 3 eps)
Boardwalk Empire (S2, 9 eps)
Revenge (S1, 10 eps)
Up All Night (S1, 11 eps)
Modern Family (S2-3, 23 eps)
Community (S2-3, 17 eps)
Treme (S2, 11 eps)
Wilfred (S1, 13 eps)
Detroit 1-8-7 (S1, 4 eps)
Prime Suspect (US) (S1, 10 eps)
Hart of Dixie (S1, 8 eps)
True Blood (S2, 2 eps)
The Hour (S1, 6 eps)
Episodes (S1, 7 eps)
Castle (S3-4, 20 eps)
Grimm (S1, 7 eps)
Beavis & Butt-head (S8, 2 eps)
X-Men (S1-2, 19 eps)
Californication (S4, 5 eps)
Covert Affairs (S2, 6 eps)
Shameless (US) (S1, 4 eps)
The Chicago Code (S1, 4 eps)
2 Broke Girls (S1, 2 eps)
Glee (S2, 2 eps)
Once Upon a Time (S1, 2 eps)
Ringer (S1, 2 eps)
Breakout Kings (S1, 5 eps)
Pan Am (S1, 2 eps)
American Horror Story (S1, 1 ep)
The Cape (S1, 2 eps)
Free Agents (S1, 1 ep)
Lights Out (S1, 2 eps)
The Playboy Club (S1, 1 ep)
The Borgias (S1, 2 eps)
The Killing (S1, 13 eps)
Person of Interest (S1, 1 ep)
Suits (S1, 1 ep)
Falling Skies (S1, 10 eps)
Terra Nova (S1, 1 ep)
A Gifted Man (S1, 1 ep)
Unforgettable (S1, 1 ep)
The Secret Circle (S1, 1 ep)
Hell on Wheels (S1, 1 ep)
Allen Gregory (S1, 1 ep)

Movies, 2011

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:34:00 -0800

Since it seems clear that I won’t be watching a movie tonight, here are the 2011 movies I saw this year, ranked. I’m sorry I only saw 16 17 (I forgot Moneyball!). I’ll do better next year.

The Descendants
Contagion
Win Win
Warrior
Drive
Bridesmaids
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sweet Little Lies
The Lincoln Lawyer
J. Edgar
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
Super 8
Tabloid
Thor

Reading queue (update 2)

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:52:46 -0800

Almost as much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 40%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the Movies
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Osamu Tezuka, The Book of Human Insects
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe

Me > RT @Chip_Buck: Rosenthal > Olney »»» Heyman— Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj)...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:24:50 -0800

Me > RT @Chip_Buck: Rosenthal > Olney »»» Heyman
— Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) December8, 2011

Testing Twitter’s new embed code.

This is pretty damn cool.

Reading queue (update 1)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:52:26 -0800

Almost as much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:

~~Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280 (started, 30%)~~
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 20%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
[Random book from the shelf]
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe