March 2012
February 2012
People of Earth: A Special Podcast Address By Her... →
shutupweirdo:
Hear her read aloud from a written source for the first time ever!
guardian:
Three Little Pigs advert
This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion
Inside job? I suspected as much.
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Shortly before midnight, a group of officers began moving through [Zuccotti...
– Young Manhattanite via Gothamist. (via topherchris)
A New Republic Contest: Grade One of Rick... →
Columbus Rides: 10 bicycling myths debunked [from... →
viewsfromthebus:
i think they got it right
Ooh, I used to work with Oscar-winner Terry George...
I thought he’d won for In the Name of the Father.
shutupweirdo:
Yvonne’s highlights video of Shut Up, Weirdo’s Feb. 24 marathon show, which has the advantage over the official WFMU UStream video because it better shows Michele and the SUW Superstars, as well as showing Andy’s leering “sexy face” as he rubs Frangry’s feet.
If you couldn't get enough of Andy asking for...
shutupweirdo:
CORRECTION: Andy is MCing for Keili NEXT Sunday morning, March 4.
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shutupweirdo:
Tonight’s Show: Marathon Vol. 4, Part I, in which money is raised and feet are rubbed.
shutupweirdo:
Tonight’s Shut Up, Weirdo: the live-videostream version.
Skip ahead to the 7-minute mark for the start of the show.
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frangry:
The WFMU marathon is upon us and we just hope and pray that our livers, and our pride, will survive. Join Andy, Frangry, Michele “Food Bed” Colomer and the Shut Up, Weirdo All Stars as we bring in the CA$HMONEYYYY on our first marathon show of 2012!
So here’s what you’re gonna win, people:
$75 pledge: The third edition of our famed calendar; WFMU biker tshirt; bumper sticker
$180:...
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
markcoatney:
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Some really nice, thoughtful work from our policy folks on this.
My...
Shut Up, Weirdo: This Week on Shut Up, Weirdo:... →
shutupweirdo: Oh god, here we go again. The WFMU marathon is upon us and we just hope and pray that our livers, and our pride, will survive. Join Andy, Frangry, Michele “Food Bed” Colomer and the Shut Up, Weirdo All Stars as we bring in the CA$HMONEYYYY on our first marathon show of 2012!
So here’s…
Fifteen seconds worth of sound bites from my wife (see prev) for which she stood in the cold on the street in front of our house for more than an hour (she works from home). But it was the top story on ABC World News last night.
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shutupweirdo:
Topic: Three Wishes
guardian:
This is shocking —>A bus driver who used his bus like a ‘weapon’ to knock a cyclist to the ground has been jailed for 17 months, a court official said. Gavin Hill was shown on CCTV in an exchange with cyclist Phillip Mead before he lurched the bus sharply into the cyclist’s path, throwing him from his bike.
[Basketball] appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the...
– New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico, circa mid-1930s, displaying some powerful evidence of bigotry’s ability to amuse and horrify simultaneously. I’m trying to decide whether “general smartalecness” or “flashy trickiness” is my favorite quality inherent to the Chosen People, per Mr....