Grandpa Burt on Flickr.
A pic of my dad’s dad in his youth (1925-ish?)
Couple things:
- My god, everyone in my family looks exactly like this
- those bangs, while probably a result of Irish whiskey and payback, are the asymmetrical hotness
My friend Nicole has a real talent for horrifying me via IM links, every single day.
ABBA - “Knowing Me, Knowing You” (1976)
Possibly the greatest video of all time.1 Uh-huuuuuuuuuuhhhhh….
BENNY: This time we’re through. This time we’re through. This time we’re through. We’re really through!
You are welcome.
I mean, seriously: just look at the goddamned thumbnail thingee. LOOK at it! That’s everything you need to know about the middle eight years of the 1970s in one fucking image. ↩
ABBA’s best work.
A Brief Note About Not Feeding The Trolls.
Us And Them
This weekend’s bitchmeme has been brewing for a while. The entry point was Mike’s decision to become an active investor again (while remaining at TechCrunch), but the main idea goes back far beyond that: bias, conflicts, and journalism.
Over the past 24 hours, this has all made for a great debate on other sites, on Twitter, and even (if you can believe it) in the TechCrunch comments. But the thing most fascinating to me about all of this is one underlying notion: that bloggers and journalists are somehow different.
It’s “us” and “them”.
“I think I threw up in my mouth a little.”
“Uh, I liked it better when it was called ___________.”
“That’s just how I roll.”
”____________ is the new ____________.”
“Uhhh… random?”
”____________ called, it wants its ____________ back.”
“Because if we don’t, the terrorists will win.”
“I…
Took the road to Hana today & kept going. Here’s the scene south of Haleakala. Ridiculous. (Taken with instagram)
