Zooey Deschanel’s cotton commercial
I’m generally not one to spaz out that much when some underground gem that I thought was just mine gets used in Madden 08 or whatever, nor am I particularly obsessive about Zooey Deschanel (never seen any of her movies or listened to any of her music). I don’t ride bikes (can you even ride a bike in heels?), go to thrift stores, or buy records. But I still somehow feel like I’m part of the demographic for this commercial, and that Cotton has stabbed a knife in my heart—am I so predictable? Plus if you try to be like “so what indie is corny anyway” they have another one with Jazmine Sullivan just to shoot you in the back as you try to retreat. Cotton has better taste than you—there’s no escaping it. BTW the Zooey cotton song is terrible but Jazmine’s is good.
The Hobo Code: Drifters a twitter.
When a hobo comes to teeny-flashback Don’s farm in during season 1, the hobo scribbles some drifter-grlyphics in chalk to other vagabonds passing by. Did you know that an official Hobo Code was put into writing? At the Annual Convention Congress of the Hoboes of America held on August 8, 1894 at the Hotel Alden, 917 Market St., Chicago Illinois, the ‘boes came up with some rules to live by.
This really begs for more background.
re everybody’s favorite fertility goddess:
I still think she could have had the best relationship of her life with that roommate.
That, by the way, is probably not the first time that happened to Joan. I realized that at the end of that first season. I’ve heard from many fans that they have no leanings that way but could probably not keep their hands off her.
Foreign Policy magazine’s new “Afpak channel” has this constantly updated impossible to remove or ignore twitter feed sidebar next to the articles. It’s not even new tweets, it seems to be on a continuous loop. Either you scrunch up the screen to eliminate it or a new 120 character block will force your eye toward it just when you’ve started to get back into the flow of the article, making your right eye hurt and comprehension impossible. FUCK WEB 2.0.
By the way, there’s an apocryphal anecdote about me and an incident in which I used the word “skullfucking.” You can Google it if you’re unfamiliar. I’m asked way, way, way too often about it. So, for the record: you see the blockquote above? That’s what I was expressing during that blown-way-out-of-proportion episode. And I was right, God damn it.
I don’t think this episode will ever stop being funny. He is right, probably.
