35 MOST AMAZLINGLY PUNNY BEACH HOUSE NAMES
My farewell to the Summer. (Sunset Beach reprezent.)
I’m reblogging this to keep myself honest, because when people ask about the name of my beach house, I’m not going to want to admit I stole it.
It’s designed for women….it’s warm and fuzzy….and it’s very simple to use.
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Local designer of an iPhone app for wedding registries, featured on the local News on 6 this morning (via entropyas)
Barf
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Quincy Jones feat. James Ingram - “Just Once” (1981)
My dad is convinced he can sing like James Ingram.
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Janet Jackson - Alright
Lest you think I welcome September with MC Skat Kat alone.
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Paula Abdul (feat. MC Skat Kat) - Opposites Attract
The Walkmen - Driver 8
The Walkmen gamely said they’d cover whatever song was left on the list from the A.V. Club’s A.V. Undercover series. And nailed it.
Mandatory Labor Day Picnic–Sept 6
As the summer draws to a close, our thoughts turn to the glories of autumn–the crisp air, the colorful leaves, and the end of summer Fridays. Truly the glory of autumn is the glory of labor. It is in this spirit that The Company is pleased to announce the first annual Mandatory Labor Day Picnic on Monday, September 6th from noon until dark. The meeting will, as always, be held in the Prospect Park conference and recreation facility.
The Board of Directors is particularly pleased to wave goodbye to the summer of 2010. While the quarter was quite profitable for our Costnerballs™ line, the summer was challenging for our Beyond Petroleum division, and saw the untimely closing of our flagship Deno’s Immigration Center and Bikini Bar™ franchise. However, let us assure you that management remains committed to these product lines. The Company will continue to lead the way in taking petroleum out of the pipe and into our environment and local communities, where it belongs. Moreover, we believe as strongly as ever that eastern European women deserve a place at America’s great table, and we will not rest until they are cleaning that table in bikinis, fully integrated into this nation’s grand tradition of forced labor. The Company has been embarrassed by our recent bad press, and we take publicizing our role as a force for good very seriously. We will lead. We will not go back!
So, let us return to our Prospect Park facility and wave goodbye to a wonderful summer and the successes of our Memorial Day picnic and Guac/Off. The Board of Directors has generously authorized the purchase of hotdog buns, fixins, and non-food items (cups, plates, trashbags, etc.) Employees are asked to supply chips, sodas, meats, or desert. While we will not hold a formal Guac/Off, employees are encouraged to continue to hone their craft in anticipation of the 2011 contest. We are also looking for employees willing to person the grill throughout the day. Those who do so will receive swift promotions within the organization, not to mention the great admiration of their hungry colleagues. Please alert management if you would like to pursue this opportunity.
We need not remind you that those who do not attend will be fired.
THIS IS A MANDATORY MEETING.
Directions: Take the F train to 7th Ave – exit at the front of the train on 8th ave. walk up the hill on 9th to Prospect Park. The Bandshell is right there on your right. we’ll be on the other side of the bandshell. if you get lost, make sure you’re on Prospect Park West.
IMPORTANT, PLEASE NOTE:
The Company has also generously arranged for an “after-party” this year, in conjunction with the birthday of Christopher Kelly. At approximately 8pm, all are welcome to join us at our rooftop garden bar on 230 Fifth Ave (at 28th Street) in Manhattan for drinks, dancing, and a preview of the drunken nightmare that will be our holiday party.
The August Day Plutocracy Would Love Us to Forget →
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the most ‘radical speech’ an American ex-President has ever delivered.Now, this means that our government, national and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics. That is one of our tasks to-day. Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete - and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, and I most dislike and the wealthy man, whomsoever he may be, for whom I have the greatest contempt, I would fight for him, and you would if you were worth your salt. He should have justice. For every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. The Constitution guarantees protections to property, and we must make that promise good But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.
We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.There’s much more and Teddy Roosevelt essentially called on his fellow citizens to smash the nation’s rich down to democratic size - to “destroy privilege” - in front of 30,000 people in Kansas. He knew the real deal.
Glee’s Emmy Opening
Music arrangement, etc. done by the amazing Amy Miles.
Electric Light Orchestra - Do YA
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Needed this.
These guys!
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Emmy Night?! More like… Harold Night!
wow! this picture really hit me. this is so amazing that these guys are up there.
Fucking awesome!
Zach!
AWWWW!
In 1938, Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish kids escape certain death from the Nazis. He never told anyone that he did this.
While on ski trip in Switzerland, Winton took a detour in Czechoslovakia to help the children of refugees. Nazi Germany had recently annexed a large part of Czechoslovakia and the news of Kristallnacht, a violent attack on Jews in Germany and Austria, had just reached Prague.
Winton set up a rescue operation for the children, filling out the required paperwork for them to be sent to homes in Sweden and Great Britain. He had to raise money to fund foster homes for all of them, and then he sent 669 children away from Czechoslovakia on trains before the Nazis closed down the borders.
Winton told no one that he did this, not even his wife. In 1988, his wife found a scrapbook full of pictures of the children and letters from parents in their attic. She arranged to have Winton’s story appear in newspapers.Many of the children Winton saved went on the BBC television program, That’s Life, to meet him for the first time since the war. They refer to themselves as “Winton’s children”.
Winton is now 101 years old and has received awards from Israel and the Czech Republic as well as Knighthood from the Queen of England in 1993.
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More people like this, please.
Hey! Download Chambaland’s Clever Girl mixtape (by clicking the above image) for your weekend! Twelve tracks, some old, some new, all compiled and remastered as shiny new 320kbp mp3s. POSTERITY, GUYS!
One of the most anticipated releases of 2010! Everyone download this! Dan is nothing short of amazing.
See you in my best of 2010!
