Chris Mohney

I have been fighting a battle for years

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:57:44 -0500

against the replacement of double quotes by pernicious single quotes. But I’m tired. So tired. Should I just ‘give up’ and let it happen, like freezing to death?

kryz: I cannot wait until 2012, when all this will have an end. Because we all die. I like seeing...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:05:00 -0500

kryz:

I cannot wait until 2012, when all this will have an end.

Because we all die.

I like seeing what people are asking ol’ Google. A tired game but still yields occasional fruit. Though the above series of tragic queries kinds of puts the lie to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

Copyedit job

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:24:46 -0500

One of my ol’ employers — a small press that does outdoors guidebooks among other things — is starting a new series of guides that focus on “peaceful” places. The first is about New York CIty and they need someone local to copyedit the manuscript. Haven’t seen it myself but I’d guess it’s about 150 pages of text. The job pays, but we’re talking small-press book industry rates, not NYC, so don’t expect butter in your rum and cola. Pro copyediting experience mandatory, book experience helpful. If interested, email me at cmohney@bbook.com.

Photo

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:22:38 -0400

nickdouglas: chrismohney: World’s most forlorn tyrannosaurus OH MY GOD THAT’S A STEGOSAURUS YOU...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:49 -0400

nickdouglas:

chrismohney:

World’s most forlorn tyrannosaurus

OH MY GOD THAT’S A STEGOSAURUS YOU IGNORANT DICK

Whatever, Satan planted all those bones just to confuse people.

World’s most forlorn tyrannosaurus

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:51:20 -0400

World’s most forlorn tyrannosaurus

The last time I had a good Halloween costume, a couple years...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:25:39 -0400

The last time I had a good Halloween costume, a couple years back. Just black clothing and a hood covered with a hundred flashing LEDs. No concept but fun to look at. The LEDs were attached with magnets though, and over the course of the night they all attracted each other and collected into a mass near the center of my body. At the last bar of the night I lost the hood and someone took this picture of me channeling the power cosmic.

Was looking for this old Superfriends clip purely for the part,...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:31:00 -0400

Was looking for this old Superfriends clip purely for the part, at about 9:30, where Solomon Grundy says “Heh heh heh … evil power repel all goodness!” Why hasn’t someone sampled that for a hip hop song? Of course, in Part 2, the bad guys knock over the World Trade Center around 1:00. Eat your heart out Michael Bay.

Appropriate for the season. Think I’ll just leave this for...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:56 -0400

Appropriate for the season. Think I’ll just leave this for awhile. Also appropriate that it was in reference to this post.

nickmcglynn: THRILLIST JETMYSTERY REUNION YACHT PARTY PHOTOS...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:09:16 -0400

nickmcglynn:

THRILLIST JETMYSTERY REUNION YACHT PARTY PHOTOS

(via RandomNightOut.com)

(NOT PICTURED: Mike Albo.)

Always thought this was underrated. Van Der Beek was even good!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:01:35 -0400

Always thought this was underrated. Van Der Beek was even good!

Nothing makes me happier

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:58:00 -0400

than seeing one of our posts has attracted a groundswell of traffic and angry linkbacks from the white supremacists at stormfront.org and elsewhere. Thank you, guy who stood next to Taylor Swift with a swastika painted on him! Also, much love as usual to my Zionist media masters.

3 of my biggest fans

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:17:30 -0400

3 of my biggest fans

Rooftop of my discontent

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:42:35 -0400

Rooftop of my discontent

mudwerks: (via laura9)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:35 -0400

mudwerks:

(via laura9)

At first I thought “Spider egg remote control” meant...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:56:25 -0400

At first I thought “Spider egg remote control” meant you could somehow command this thing to lay eggs remotely, but I guess they just call the actual remote a “spider egg.” I’m still ordering one.

kryz: Want!!1! I want 100 of these. I wonder if you could...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:42:35 -0400

kryz:

Want!!1!

I want 100 of these. I wonder if you could control them all simultaneously with the same remote. This is like supervillain territory here.

Junket-roversy

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:33 -0400

Well it’s certainly nice that Alex has moderated his opinions since busting my chops for flying business class on a press trip. All things considered I would have much rather had Albo’s trip to Jamaica. Even a “big budget writer” like me has feelings, you know.

maura:

You should read Alex’s whole post, because it talks about how most peoples’ hands aren’t clean when it comes to taking freebies, despite codes of ethics proclaiming lily-whiteness. But I really think his kicker is important (fear of class and journalism talk!)

alexanderbasek:

This is all my way of saying, leave Mike Albo alone, let him take his free trip. If you don’t want writers that take freebies, then you get Alex Kucynzski in the Critical Shopper column instead—someone who is so rich that the world is her freebie. What’s worse?

REVIEWS OF MY SON’S TOYS: Indian Drum Rescued from a batch...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:39:56 -0400

REVIEWS OF MY SON’S TOYS: Indian Drum

Rescued from a batch of cousinly abandonments. It’s an electronic instrument that makes a snare-drum noise when struck, or starts playing a tune, and lights flash within. No big deal. But if you flip it on its side and roll it, the drum plays a nonsense-song and pulses its lights along with its own rolling motions … it has some kind of accelerometer inside, I guess. In this mode it’s sort of mesmerizing, especially when the room is dim or dark and the lights’ reflections play off the windows. I’m pretty sure this would work well with “Interstellar Overdrive.”

Bite It? Nah, this is more of a headspace thing. Just roll it and let it go, man.

The tender pink minds

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:00 -0400

The tender pink minds:

mmmm, how I want to bite into those tender pink minds, like succulent filets they are. Meanwhile, how awesome a win is this for Thrillist and JetBlue? Huge buckets of free publicity and major outlets lining up to pay for the trip after the fact? Note to media: We also will pay to send you places in exchange for stories about the trip and if your employers will pick up the tab in embarrassment. Because once someone pays, there is no shame. Bonus if you can get even more stories because something heavy falls on you. [Full disclosure.]