"An Intimate Evening With Sarah Palin." Shudder. http://bit.ly/c9AEnF
@ivortossell An API is the straw that you stick into the orange. Outside, the orange looks the same but now you can drink the juice, too.
@NPsteve I'm not worried. Therefore, I am not a tyrant. Check. Mate.
@reeraw @walrusmagazine Aw, thanks. I suspect some vast right-wing conspiracy at work here.
A masterstroke of ego link-baiting by @torontoist (http://bit.ly/bxZ7uj) leaves off @thismagazine. Don't trip on my broken heart, guys!
Two words: musical number! RT @meganmcchesney: [Met with] @gfscott to start mapping out our MagNet session. Sign up here: http://j.mp/cjgM9n
Gold. RT @kattancock Most. Hilarious. Picture. Ever. http://bit.ly/bqDP64
How long is the grace period before you empty a washer of someone else's clothes? Staring at 7 finished-but-not-emptied machines.
@Repo_Mandy @balkissoon Definitely No-trition. Plus derivatives No-tritious, No-trients. Flexible, easy to understand. Nice.
@ivortossell Not sure what live audience we'd get at 2 pm on a Monday. But it was quite the interview.
@CraigSaunders Exactly. But they wield cameras everywhere they go. What could I do?
About to interview @ArtStars for the next This Mag podcast. They will apparently film me interviewing them. Yikes.
Anyone else find it weird for Google Chrome to buy the front page ads on nytimes.com today?
@emmamwoolley Sorry, I'm just too stupid for this game. Instead, I give up & play the Mountain Goats' "Get Lonely": http://song.ly/2jk5j
@emmamwoolley I'm not getting the second entendre. Or the first. ??
@sarahbarmak This interview is going to RULE
@sarahbarmak Send a poet.
@emmamwoolley But you just know that's the only reason he's doing it — to get young women to leer at him for a change.
@mikeminer Fearsome logic. @chantalbraganza Coffee, actually—fortifying for 6pm board meeting. @lisanjutras buy buy, chew chew, in fact.
Happiness is not a warm gun. It is a warm cookie.
@sarahbarmak True, this is a book/movie divide. @ivortossell I think it was at the time. I'd be interested to read the original reviews.
@sarahbarmak @ivortossell Starship Troopers is a widely misunderstood satirical masterpiece. Discuss.
@sarahbarmak ...Just as often justifying creepy Objectivist/libertarian survivalist individualism.
@sarahbarmak Dystopia cuts both ways. Sometimes a warning of loss of technological control, environmental collapse, fascist takeover.... and
@sarahbarmak I dispute the premise that sci-fi is inherently progressive. & high profit-margins for sci-fi vs. other genres = GOPer payday.
@lisanjutras Ah, then thank *you.* The internet provides, as always.
@ivortossell @mgpcoe Ah yes, forgot the simple cloven-hoof rule. Withdrawn.
Internet, settle a bet for me: would dog meat be kosher?
Am definitely going to @tinyalligator's new show at Music Gallery on Thursday, April 15. You should too: http://bit.ly/dbKIRy
@goldsbie Thanks for the link, was surprised not to have seen them before. Letter of the law, I suppose.
Are these Rob Ford campaign signs displayed directly over the front doors of city hall? For reals? http://twitpic.com/1dhzii
@emmamwoolley @ivortossell I think this is a test you fail just by taking it.
@ivortossell @emmamwoolley "Maximum Otter" — band or album? Discuss.
Press day for This Mag (i.e., "hurry up and wait" day). So close.
@ivortossell Wasn't "Oily Otter" a release of Ubuntu Linux?
@karenkho: I certainly do. @b_goldberg: Every day should be Odelay day. @mhousley: Agreed.
@emmamwoolley Ha. My favourite mondegreen was always "give me your iron lung" for "give me your higher love."
@walrusmagazine I threw a 1996-themed party a while ago. These were all played. Also that year: Beck's "Devil's Haircut" and "Where it's at"
@walrusmagazine Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" (http://bit.ly/c1lG8a). 2nd biggest hit of 1996 (see http://bit.ly/aslAi2). That or "No Diggity"
@Wheels Sorry, delayed reaction. Had the F&M Maple Red cask ale at Volo. Tasty.
On the patio at @barvolo. Nice. http://twitpic.com/1copn3
Writers! It's "People who...," not "People that...." See here: http://bit.ly/dzF7Nk
@catesimpson Yeah, your "roadkill" note reminded me. I noticed last week but then forgot to tell the internet.
@boyreporter I would argue that everyone, at every point on the gender spectrum, was (and should be) annoyed by that photo.
@mikeminer Now I'm wondering what the golf balls' former media incarnations were.
@NPsteve Golf Balls & Firewood monthly is now iPad-only.
Oy. My local 7-11 tore out half its magazine newsstand and now uses that space to sell golf balls and firewood.
@ivortossell I think you mean Spoon? Just: Spoon. Not "The Spoons"... Egad.
Dear @torontostar — when quoting from a blog post, you should link to it. Rule of web etiquette. http://bit.ly/9qRkWH
Was given a Rice-Krispies square made with mealworms. Ate it. No difference. Does it mean mealworms are OK, or that R-K squares never were?
I worry that the Scott Pilgrim movie (http://bit.ly/ds58bf) will be collateral damage of the Michael Cera backlash (http://bit.ly/aM2Tts).
Swipe Magazine — an art journal written and published by Metropolitcan Museum of Art guards! http://swipemagazine.com/
@ivortossell Yes, also the Olympics. [Fist shake] @sarahbarmak Of course, typography. How could I forget? @typeter Two too many!
@MissStaceyMay I'm definitely getting a t-shirt made that says "DANGER PAL" — or maybe it's a better band name?
@sarahbarmak That would be terrible. Gawker would be exclusively about my preoccupations: The Wire, socks, and making fun of fax machines.
@sarahbarmak No! They must abide by MY wishes.
@sarahbarmak I'm 100% against Gawker's hipster-linguistic prescriptivism. Go back to the Académie française, you bunch of control freaks!
@shawnmicallef That VW commercial was the first one I ever remember concertedly searching for online in mid 90s. Perfect concept, execution
@SarahBoesveld — Post-Press Pass, I tried emailing your G&M address but it bounced. can you ping editor at this dot org?
Yikes. RT @stevenwbeattie: Wrong, wrong, wrong. RT @ETCanada: John Malkovich & Frances McDormand have joined Transformers 3 cast.
@griffithgreene (delayed reaction) Yes, devoured the NYTMag story. Very curious to see Treme.
Fact! Duke, UC Berkeley, and Harvard each offer courses devoted exclusively to literary, social, and political analysis of "The Wire."
@mondoville "Marinating in Andrew Sullivan's cerebral juices" strikes me as a terrifying prospect.
Hm. Spotted my first Amazon Kindle in the wild. On the queen car.
@mikeminer Boy, travel's really taken its toll on you, hasn't it?
@economicwoman Re budget 2010 and shoes: Canadian finance ministers always wear a new pair of shoes on budget day: http://bit.ly/d9tq2Z
@economicwoman Think so, though probably not until after 10.
I have a punchline without a joke, so I'm dumping it here: "Correlation Street"
Frightening new phrase of the day: 2012's "maturity wall" in the bond market — http://nyti.ms/9Ypwh2
@boyreporter I'm skeptical. Prove me wrong, Microsoft. Prove me wrong.
@MissStaceyMay Yeah. This copies everything slow, clunky and human (and nice!) about newsstand browsing, and sucks all the charm out of it.
Also, I stand staring at this Tele-Newsstand while everyone else waits in line, watching what I buy on a huge screen? It's a prank, right?
Arg: http://bit.ly/d4krq8 — Instead of buying directly on the tablet, let's rig up a huge unwieldy centralized tabletop!
@boyreporter @MissStaceyMay That video drives me nuts. "I know! Let's take something digital and convenient, and make it clunky and analog!"
@metametasans Exactly. Though I still prefer the origina Fonz version, not the compromised second draft: http://bit.ly/dkEc7H
I think the "bad pop culture redesigned with twee modernist iconography" meme has jumped the shark: http://bit.ly/9uezGz
Got a very nice card — paper! In the mail! — from the @shamelesswire crew as a thanks for "all the RTs." Classy!
@economicwoman Love this: "We are promoting freedom of expression and diversity in a way that is positive and supportive." COMPLY.
@thementalward @MissStaceyMay Blue sweaters? Mustaches? Michaëlle Jean's Blade Runner getup from the Olympics opening ceremonies?
@MissStaceyMay @thementalward I'm really not sure that's true. What would they look like?
Got a U of Regina press release about a middle-eastern cookbook that only features recipes including bison—mideast-prairie fusion. ??
@canice Hey, who you callin' a white geek? Oh, wait, me. Yeah, that's accurate.
Digging "Wired Reread" (http://wiredreread.com). Wish I'd thought of it — first 3 vols. just sit on my shelf, not making me internet-famous.
Google News: WHY? This is not helpful: http://twitpic.com/17n9fv
@canice That IOGraph program looks nifty. Just downloaded it, it's running now. The suspense....
@hyfen Yeah, mine does that too. Wish it would mark it as listened at the 85% mark so if you turn it off at the credits it still counts it.
In a world gone mad, it's nice to know you can always count on your dad to blog your press releases.
@mikeminer "Now That's What I Call Journalism!" (which, PS, should be the title of an annual writing compilation)
.@mikeminer Found him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Livingstone
Wordpress ninjas! I need some help diagnosing & untangling a screwed-up commenting system. Payment likely booze.
@mikeminer I know! Just how they expect to manage without a mimeograph operator — my stars.
.@karenkho The list of positions the Times is actually hiring for (http://nyti.ms/3pXcfh) is illuminating. Wall-to-wall devs, engineers.
@sarahbarmak Porky Doorstop would make a great nom de plume.
That print I bought ages ago, finally framed and on the wall. http://twitpic.com/170bcv
@AlisonGJ I always go to http://w3schools.com when I have to look up something html-ish.
RT @thementalward: This whole changing of the national anthem thing is such a distraction ploy. Tired of it already.
(This job/internship fair at Jart House has no open wifi for employers manning booths. Lame.)
Utoronto-connected friends! Anyone have a utor-wifi password you're willing to share with me for a few hours?
RT @jasonmcbride68: Oh, wow, just learned that Ryan Trecartin's coming to Toronto! (hat tip @carlzoilus) http://bit.ly/9qqhs4
A fellow iPhone user called me this afternoon. Name and number came up, but so did a little Google map with a location pin. Is that a thing?