The Awl

I'm not super familiar with la review of books.

looooool

http://thewirecutter.com/

this blog seems pretty rad, gotta say

i've never really read a tech blog in my life & now i understand why

yeah i think its a pretty cool idea

feel like it could be expanded to different categories too--would love a version of that for restaurants ("best for visiting family"/"best for cheap date"/etc) for example so i didnt have to sort through 100s of capsule reviews or pages of restaurant world gossip

"My Favorite HDMI Cables"

http://www.observer.com/2012/01/awl-music-01112011/

that was Awlful pun

http://www.theawl.com/2012/01/the-only-murdering-murder-guide-youll-ever-need-you-murderer

made me lol

i don't 'get' jim behrle and i feel like i will never be accepted by the cool guys at the awl because of it. :(

whenever i've read any of his poems i've been disappointed but his drawings & these couple essays, like the one about poetry scenes, are great i think. the first graf of this one is terrific, & the part about not making murders too interesting. i don't think he's partic unusual or anything, just funny/well observed &c

is there some sort of thing

what sort of thing

regarding the awl, and this board

the internet is an open space!

when does godot get here

huh. http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/bday

http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/the-incident-report-or-the-time-i-broke-it

i tried getting thru that i really did

same

I just couldn't stop thinking about how exactly that could have happened.

A classic from the Straight Dope:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/608/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture

Favorite section:

Frequently the victim suffers the injury while kneading his member in order to reduce an erection, a technique that in my experience usually has the opposite effect. One moron "awoke during the night with a desire to urinate," whereupon he "hit his erect penis with his hand in order to alleviate this desire." Other reported causes: rolling over in bed, hitting the bedpost, getting caught in your pajamas, falling out of a tree, being thrown against the knob of a motorcycle saddle, and so on.

Fracture always occurs during erection, making you wonder what some of the victims were up to. Consider one case involving a 38-year-old ranch hand. "The (medical) history was vague and difficult to obtain," the reporting physician writes. "The injury had occurred in the corral. It was impossible to get the exact details … His family was of the opinion that he had been kicked by one of the horses." Tell it to Catherine the Great, buddy.

Cecilia K Corrigan recently wrote about horses and ponies for the show "Luck." Now, she has a twitter.

i wonder if she has a cat named Princess Bunny Buttons

http://www.inquisitr.com/25536/broken-penis-cases-triple-in-jamaica-due-to-daggering-dance-craze-video/

can a moderator please change thread title to *2012 rolling broken penis thread*? thanks.

it's taking me a really long time to read because I am tabbing away every 2 sentences and grimacing in horror

3 weeks, 5 days a.i.
Since I can’t do much, we get creative. I’ve never given “the shocker” before, but it seems to be working great, for both of us. “I really like you,” she says afterward.

“Good to hear, Mrs. Thatcher.”

I just finished it my god

do we have a daggering thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4CzFrjw8KY

rolling the awl/jamaican dance crazes/broken penises

the awl's piece on the haggerty/olive garden thing was A+, but I haven't read much else on the site

I got a broken penis, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh

thanks 4 sharing hurting

u are welcome, I will try to review more websites in a similar style

do a whole bunch and then it can be an n+1 feature.

the site is impressive. the homepage is fashioned in a tuscan blogsite style.

http://thebillfold.com/

Not super familiar with that.

boxall

the billfold and wirecutter are really good, hope they keep adding stuff.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/north-michigan-pasty

as a native of the upper peninsula of michigan this angers me for reasons I cannot fully articulate. plus lutefisk is not finnish.

"internet hipsters"

:)

This article has made me feel a little violent.

these guys do some good stuff imo

they do, although I feel like it's a tough market for them, trying to be sort of the anti-clickbait "content" site in a very clickbaity world.

also it looks to me like they've completely changed their format relatively recently? And it kind of sucks?

have they?? i havent noticed

and yeah i know what you mean, but it seems like they're doing ok! there was some profile somewhere recently talking about it?