Streeter Seidell

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Going A'Cabin-ing

I’m very excited for this weekend. I’ve rented a little cabin in the Berkshires with no Internet and no TV so I can catch up on some murdering writing. Basically, I have trouble murdering focusing in New York for various reasons and wanted to give the ‘get away from it all’ method a shot. I’ve never tried this before but it’s worked for much better writers than me, so I’m hopeful. Hopefully I’ll be able to really murder this to do list some wayward travelers. Goodbye Internet, see you Monday.

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 BTW, I was excited to see the Phantom flex some of his vocal might when he harmonized with the yoga class. The Phantom always thought he had great pitch.

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caitlinoppermann:  
pile:   Lamebook!   After challenging us to beer pong tournament, Facebook forfeited for “now we’re a big corporate company and not a fun small internet company that can have fun” reasons. We even made these awesome balls!
   Not pictured: The ball I commissioned reading ‘Zuck Fuckerberg.’

caitlinoppermann:

pile:

Lamebook!


After challenging us to beer pong tournament, Facebook forfeited for “now we’re a big corporate company and not a fun small internet company that can have fun” reasons. We even made these awesome balls!

Not pictured: The ball I commissioned reading ‘Zuck Fuckerberg.’

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joshruben:

samreich:

Anti-Drug Dog is an unprecedentedly popular CHTV video written, directed, and voiced by me, with the uber-talented Aubrey Plaza. Digg it.

This original is brilliant. Lee had to remind me that I did the voice of the cat - I recorded it so long ago. Proud to be part of it!

Sam saying, “It’s so hard growing tits” is one of my favorite CHTV soundbytes so far.

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Hey!  I have a new BustedTee out.  This was, admittedly, a strange idea but I like the way the art came out a lot.  If you like it too, won’t you do me a solid and buy it?
Hey! I have a new BustedTee out. This was, admittedly, a strange idea but I like the way the art came out a lot. If you like it too, won’t you do me a solid and buy it?

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Dressed for an upcoming CHTV video called ‘Font Summit.’ 
Dressed for an upcoming CHTV video called ‘Font Summit.’ 

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Go Read This: Bill Bryson's "Made In America"

My favorite writer of all time is a man named BIll Bryson. His two most popular books, at least among people I know, are “A Walk in the Woods” and, “A Short History of Nearly Everything.” I’ve only read one Bryson book I disliked - I found “The Lost Continent” extremely, and uncharacteristically, negative - and I thought I had exhausted the catalog when I finished his latest, “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” shortly after it was released. But then Amazon randomly suggested a Bryson work called, “Made in America,” to me during one of my late-night drunken e-shopping sprees. I had never seen this book being sold anywhere and my mother, the biggest Bryson fan of all, hadn’t even heard of it. Being a completionist, I bought it.

And, damn, I’m glad I did.

This book is not only one of my favorite Bryson works but one of the best books I’ve read overall. The official premise of the book is an examination of the American language: where our words and phrases come from, how and why we evolved the language that we did. It sounds pretty boring, right? But Bryson could, and did, make a book about molecules and atoms engaging, so it must have been child’s play to make an interesting book about language.

Instead of writing a book about word origins, Bryson packs the title - packs it - with interesting facts and stories, not all directly word-related, but ultimately leading back to the explanation of some term, colloquialism or word. I learned that the Puritans encouraged pre-marital sex, that ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ has a forgotten verse, that Thomas Edison was in favor of answering the phone with a rousing “Ahoy!”, and that Chevrolet is named for a Swiss mechanic, Louis Chevrolet, who worked for Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, and was fired for smoking a cigarette (his name was still used for the cars, though). Every page of this book has some sort of interesting little story that explains some mystery of our culture and I couldn’t have enjoyed it more.

So, if you’re a knowledge junkie and you haven’t taken the time to sink your teeth into a good title, may I suggest this never-mentioned Bill Bryson work? Why it is never mentioned is beyond me. I imagine that it’s owned by a different publisher than Bryson works with now and they’re not excited to push another company’s product but one can’t be sure. What I do know for sure, thanks to this book, is that World War II gave us the use of “fuck” in the sense of things being in bad shape - “That’s fucked up,” “We’re fucked,” etc. Thanks, Grandpa! I’d be fucked without it.

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I don’t know how to take a nice picture so I always end up doing something stupid in the hopes of making the picture funny.  Normally, that does not work.  However, I feel that my ‘A-OK’ gesture enhanced this picture of me biking in the 5 Boro Bike Tour. 
I don’t know how to take a nice picture so I always end up doing something stupid in the hopes of making the picture funny.  Normally, that does not work.  However, I feel that my ‘A-OK’ gesture enhanced this picture of me biking in the 5 Boro Bike Tour. 

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a/s/l?

I’m hosting a chat on WashingtonPost.com tomorrow and I’m really excited.  I did a WashPo (yes, I’m calling it that) chat back in August and it was a lot of fun.  This time the topic is ‘Advice for Graduates’ so please, if you have a question you’d like me to sarcastically and evasively “answer” please submit it Here.  And check in tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11 AM when the live chat begins. 

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