Team Caroline

yes, yes, it's very telling

I say “the inverse of schadenfreude” myself. Probably not helpful. 

sunplusnightplusjess:

I might have mentioned this before, but I find that very often, when I’m trying to come up with the oh-so-rare word, “jealousy,” my first instinct is to describe the emotion as “reverse-schadenfreude”

I guess I’m just a bad person?

One of us! One of us!

Barry sure knows his audience. From the Times Magazine:

“At the end of our conversation, when I asked [President Obama] if he was reading anything good, he said he had become sick enough of briefing books to begin reading a novel in the evenings — ‘Netherland,’ by Joseph O’Neill.”

How did David Leonhardt keep himself from exploding with joy when he heard that one? 

science is the new bacon

From tomorrow’s Times magazine:

“‘This is what we’re really all about at N.I.H.,’ says Gahl, a compact 58-year-old who tends to make dry jokes in his slightly gruff baritone about almost everything — except science.”

keyholez:

“X did/said Y, because of Science.” “I will microwave a Marshmallow Peep, for Science.” This is the jokey construction of the day — the one-word laff-fest.

I knew that science had jumped the bacon when I saw this in an investment-related newsletter, re: the stimulus bill:

My favorite, my all-time favorite is this, on page 76: “For an additional amount for ‘Science,’ $330,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2010.”

Yes, we are actually going to spend $330,000,000 on “Science.”

I don't even know where to start, title-wise.

Overheard in Bobst Library

Guy on phone: You know what I heard? Anyone in Kimmel after 1 am is subject to legal culpability and you know what that means. Attica. Kent State. So, I’m going to stick around here and watch for that. You should come—it’s going to be way better than going to Splash. 

Jeff Buckley / Leonard Cohen/ Rufus Wainwright

Not untrue. 

And, once again, I couldn’t help but wonder: should I have just saved the money and stayed in Colorado? 

natashavc:

All that shit is just a rich man’s Dave Matthews’ Band.