holiday movie mania.

mascarah:

joshruben:

So many good movies coming out…

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Synecdoche, New York
• Valkyrie
• Milk
• Doubt
• W

Not mentioned…

Body of Lies

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Is this complicated?

mikehudack:southpol:mikehudack:wiesen:

If the credit markets fail entirely, some bad things will happen.

Consumers won’t be able to have credit cards (including the ones they already have).

Consumers won’t be able to borrow money to buy a car or truck. Neither will small businesses. Or large ones.

Students won’t be able to borrow money to go to college.

Large companies who have short-term debt (aka “commercial paper”) won’t be able to get new short-term debt and they will default. This will cause them to fail. They will then lay off a lot of people. Note: Most large companies have commercial paper.

Look - I get that people are angry at Wall Street. I am angry at Wall Street. But to view what is going on right now as a “bailout for Wall Street” at the expense of “Main Street” is asinine. Without the things that Wall Street does, Main Street doesn’t function. It might annoy you that Wall Street is full of overpayed douchebags who think they’re the masters of the universe. It annoys me. But recognize that this is way WAY past helping out the Wall Street firms.

NYC Tumblr Paintball - 10/25 (tentative)

nickmcglynn:

nycmeetups:

So, nudawn and I were thinking of shooting some people for fun, and since Streetwars is over, we figured it’d be better to shoot with something more painful than a squirt gun, but less lethal than a Glock. So, we agreed paintball guns were a fair compromise.

We want to ride out to a nearby course for an afternoon session (cost: $69 gear, clothes and everything included - with transportation, count on $85 total cost, not a bad deal) on October 25th. We’ll go out drinking afterward, too.

We figure we want to have our own course to ourselves, and we’d need two teams of five people at least, for a total of 10 participants. There’s a couple of us so far. We do need more people, so sign up ASAP! Open to friends of Tumblrs, too. RSVP to agentbvn@gmail.com, my Spam-safe email address. If we get enough registrants, the trip is on.

-brianvan (come on, who doesn’t want to splatter me with a few paintballs?)

I used to play paintball with some regularlity in highschool (most expensive team sport ever) and would LOVE to get in some more speedball.