1. 6 hours ago 
   Don't click on this if you think you are prone to seizure, or even know the word seizure.

   via tibbon.

2. 12 hours ago 
   Food Network Drinking Game

   includes general rules and host-specific rules. here are Alton Brown’s (my future husband), which aren’t nearly has hilarious as some of the others, since he can actually cook.

   • 1 drink every time Alton Brown makes a recipe you’ll never be able to replicate.
   • 1 drink every time Alton says, “But that’s for another show…”
   • 1 drink whenever Alton uses styrofoam balls to represent food at the molecular level.
   • 1 drink whenever Alton is shot through his FRIDGE CAM.
   • 2 drinks if one of Alton’s family members show up.
   • 3 drinks if you see his Welch’s grape juice commercial. Finish your drink if you see it more than once in a half hour.

   and yes, I watch Food Network way more than I’d like to admit.

3. Notes: 4 / 17 hours ago 
   The Courtship of Eric Lander

   “How does a brainy overachiever like Eric Lander meet a girl, fall in love, and get married? He searches for a similarly brainy overachiever and then approaches her the way he would approach a differential equation—using all his skills and never letting up.

   Lander met his future wife, Lori Weiner, in a constitutional law class during his sophomore year at Princeton. “She was so passionate,” Lander recalls. “The way she talked about constitutional law and justice—I was very taken with her.” So, as Lander puts it, he “contrived to get to know her better.” Weiner was on the budget committee, so Lander wrote about the budget process for the school newspaper (and eventually joined the committee himself). Weiner worked on the student course guide. Lander offered to work with her. Weiner wanted to go to Japan, so Lander “developed an interest in Japan.”

   Over the years, the two got to know one another as colleagues and friends. “We didn’t even go out in college,” says Lander. “We just worked together.”

   But he had his sights set on the future. Before Lander left to do his graduate work at Oxford, he and his amore had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. As Lander remembers it, “Lori said, ‘I like you a lot, but I’m not interested in going out with you.’”

   To which Lander replied, “Good. I’m not interested in going out with you either. I just want to marry you.”

   Weiner had no comeback, and the two were married four years later.”

   how often does a line like that actually work? Lander is such a pimp.

4. Notes: 1 / 18 hours ago 
   

   I saw a screening of Kick-Ass last night. And well, it kicked ass. Really funny, awesome fight scenes (with a kick-ass purple-haired little girl!), and the main character was kind of adorable, even if he sounded like he was hitting puberty during the shooting of the film.

   this has the potential to be some sort of awesome cult classic, so you should definitely see it when it hits theaters, especially if you’re a comic book nerd (I’m looking at you, cerpintaxt). it doesn’t come out til April 16th so unfortunately you’ve got a bit of a wait.

   the screening was ultra-high serious-business security - we had to give men in suits our cell phones before going into the theater. you know it’s awesome when they go crazy like that.

    
5. 20 hours ago 
   My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)
   1. Rogue Wave (18)
   2. Band of Horses (12)
   3. Animal Collective (7)
   4. Sea Wolf (5)
   5. The Weakerthans (4)

   Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

6. Notes: 369 / 1 day ago  from urlesque (originally from strutting)
   

   oh man this movie. this scene. john cusack.

   <3

   (via urlesque)

    
7. Notes: 1 / 3 days ago 
   

   this photo was too awesome to not caption.

   sorry mrs. obama. I do think you’re awesome but your face was just ridiculous.

    
8. Notes: 7221 / 3 days ago  from geekasms (originally from aitoy)

   MEAN GIRLS + DISNEY PRINCESSES.

   yes.

   (via geekasms)

9. Notes: 26 / 4 days ago  from pitchfork

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   pitchfork:

   Animal Collective perform ‘Transverse Temporal Gyrus’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum (3/4/10). More images in the photobook. (via Pitchfork News)

   I wish I could have been there.. it looks totally amazing.

10. Notes: 1 / 5 days ago 
    

    I saw a sneak preview screening of this movie last night. the premise, as you might have deciphered from the title, is completely absurd. absurdity aside, it’s a total riot and I kind of loved it. 80s clothing! 80s music! and it features john cusack (swoooon!) and craig robinson (hilarious!)!

    it comes out march 26th. if you need to relax with something silly, I’d definitely recommend this.

     

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