Katie Hate Sushi.

"I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey...."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:50:37 -0500

“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four black people. Who are these black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down, let’s break it down: me, I’m a decent comedian. I’m a’ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a fucking dentist! He ain’t the best dentist in the world…he ain’t going to the dental Hall of Fame…He don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist. See, the black man gotta fly to get to something’ the white man can walk to.”

- You neglected my favorite part of that joke. ”If a black dentist wanted to live in my neighborhood, we would have had to have discovered teeth.”

Chris Rock (via whatwouldcaseydo) (via noahkai)

Good old Alpine, exit 2 off the Palisades Parkway.

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allisonweiss: Awesome night with @ohshervin. @theteganandsara...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:47:37 -0500

allisonweiss:

Awesome night with @ohshervin. @theteganandsara were wonderful. Now it’s Brooklyn or bust.

Aw. You two are too adorable.

NY Times: Attorney General plans "reshaping" of Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Division

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:15:56 -0400

NY Times: Attorney General plans "reshaping" of Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Division: When I worked at the DOJ, the stories out of the Civil Rights division were hair-curling. Thank God they’re tasking Holder with undoing some of the damage Shonetta Cutler worked.

inothernews:

Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.

As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.

To bolster a unit that has been battered by heavy turnover and a scandal over politically tinged hiring under the Bush administration, the Obama White House has also proposed a hiring spree that would swell the ranks of several hundred civil rights lawyers with more than 50 additional lawyers, a significant increase for a relatively small but powerful division of the government.

The division is “getting back to doing what it has traditionally done,” Mr. Holder said in an interview. “But it’s really only a start. I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal.”

Before we give the Today Show shit about hiring Jenna Bush Hager as a correspondent, can we give them shit about hiring Tiki Barber as a correspondent? It's the fucking "Today Show," people. This has nothing to do with a God-damned "meritocracy."

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:02:53 -0400

Before we give the Today Show shit about hiring Jenna Bush Hager as a correspondent, can we give them shit about hiring Tiki Barber as a correspondent? It's the fucking "Today Show," people. This has nothing to do with a God-damned "meritocracy.": I thought she was supposed to be a teacher or some shit.

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katespencer: The Avett Brothers - “I And Love And You” Wow. I...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:51:09 -0400

katespencer:

The Avett Brothers - “I And Love And You”

Wow. I can’t stop listening to this song.

Me neither. “Laundry Room,” from the same EP, is also amazing.

I have tumblarity

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:48:16 -0400

I don’t know what that is or why I have it. Anyone?

Allison Weiss you are smart

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:37:48 -0400

allisonweiss:

It is kind of embarrassing when a person hears a song you wrote about them and gets the wrong impression that you’re a really intense person, when in actuality you’re pretty normal, it’s just that singing something like “You’re all I’ve ever wanted” has a better ring to it than “You’re pretty cool and I like you enough to want to date you at least for a little while unless it doesn’t work out, which is totally fine.”

I blogged!

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:39:59 -0400

I blogged!:

I know, right!?

"You’ve killed a man.” “That was for self-defense, not for lunch."

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:13:59 -0400

““You’ve killed a man.”
“That was for self-defense, not for lunch.””

- Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse

All that stares back at you are bloodless zombie eyes …

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:29:38 -0400

All that stares back at you are bloodless zombie eyes …

Aw. One of my favorite Chinatown landmarks. I miss working in...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:26:37 -0400

Aw. One of my favorite Chinatown landmarks. I miss working in lower Manhattan sometimes.

andrewfutral:

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Don’t bag on the Swiss Guard, d00d. They can disembowel...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:45:46 -0400

Don’t bag on the Swiss Guard, d00d. They can disembowel you with their bare hands and not leave any evidence.

inothernews:

In case you were wondering, here are the prerequisites for those thinking about joing the Swiss Guard. Not listed: “Extensive knowledge of ninja moves” and “Ability to project onomatopoeic thought bubbles onto TV screen during hand-to-hand combat with would-be Papal assailants”.

Three songs? When has that happened on SNL?

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:09:52 -0400

Oh, and, also — Coldplay got three in November because they had to cut a couple of Amy Poehler’s sketches in light of the fact that she was giving birth.

inothernews:

Pearl Jam got three I believe.

shorterexcerpts:

U2 didn’t get 3.

Somewhere I’m sure Kanye is pissed off he didn’t get three (and after that mess he treated us to, we’re thankful for that.)

Almost positive they've never closed the show on a musical act before. There was that one time Pearl Jam sang three songs... but now I'm just dating myself.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:08:57 -0400

Notably, a couple of years ago U2 played “I Will Follow” over the closing credits. It was amazing. Amy Poehler started weeping and screaming when Bono came over and hugged her.

inothernews:

I’d bet that was true. When they got Pearl Jam on the show (waaay back when, like in the 1870’s) the band was huge, and I think they wanted folks tuning in more for PJ and less for the sketches. Did the same with Bruce Springsteen as I recall.

mindset:

They only have three songs when they’re really short on material. That’s what watching 30 Rock has taught me anyway. A lot of the sketches they did use were just recycled from previous shows, like that lame country music infomercial and the zut alors guy. That comic strip convection skit was suspiciously similar to the Broadway convention skit from a few months back now that I think about it… whatever, unnecessary speculation.

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Facebook

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:56:58 -0400

I can personally attest that at least in some circumstances, finding your first high school boyfriend on the internet is really satisfying, at least when his current internet presence is just as douchey as his real-life presence at the time of your break-up.

allisonweiss:

I’ve been trying to find my highschool boyfriend (ex boyfriend from highschool, not current boyfriend who is in highschool) on the internet for like two goddamn years and I never can find him, which for some reason makes me think he’s dead. But I KNOW he’s not dead because I heard through the grapevine that he recently acquired a wife and child and I just really want to see photos of this. Sam, if you’re reading this, get a Facebook!

I did a day of background on this movie. Unfortunately, it...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:38:23 -0400

I did a day of background on this movie. Unfortunately, it is.

inothernews:

I hope the movie’s not as overwrought as the poster.

intweetion:9790:

cool.

Turns out

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:27:44 -0400

My car dealership has free internet for me to use while I’m waiting for them to change my oil. Score!

Some of you live in NYC; 100% of that demographic should be HERE...

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:47:20 -0400

Some of you live in NYC; 100% of that demographic should be HERE within the hour.

I will be here practicing controlled breathing and self-hypnosis and convincing myself that learning Bangla won’t be that bad.

allisonweiss:

REBLOG AND SUPPORT!!!

TONIGHT @ Sidewalk Cafe
94 Ave A. (corner of 6th and A) New York, NY
8:00pm - FREE w/ 2 drinks
(that’s a small price to pay for the best night of your life, am I right?)

If you still need convincing, download my free live album from last time and hear for yourself how much fun we had before. www.allisonw.com/free

SEE YOU THERE, INTERNET.

I got a badge, y’all.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:55:12 -0500

I got a badge, y’all.

Things that have happened since I Tumblr'd last

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:44:36 -0500

1. News of JOY’s new EP leaked. W00T.

2. I became a diplomat. For serious.