They Call Me MJO

My name is Michael John Oliver. I'm a journalist from New Zealand living in London.

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My video from the Women's Day rally in London on Sunday. 

[soupsn4kes-deactivated20180802]

[nbcparksandrec]

X = Y, obviously.

[wnyc]

If there’s anything the rapper Yung Jake might be better at than rapping, it’s rendering the faces of people like Miley Cyrus and Larry David with emojis. It turns out, adding together lots of hamburger icons makes for a reasonably accurate forehead for Kim Kardashian, too.

How? Why? What?  http://bit.ly/1v99hsp (via sideshow)

[theycallmemjo-blog]

k. but what if seinfeld still on tv?

[rvphaels-blog]

[theycallmemjo-blog]

Goddamn, I love you, Chris Pratt.

[leslieminknope]

please project this on my tombstone

[theycallmemjo-blog]

Perfect television. 

[pigmenting]

So much of the city is our bodies. Places in us old light still slants through to. Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling, like phantom limbs. Even the city carries ruins in its heart. Longs to be touched in places only it remembers. Through the yellow hooves of the ginkgo, parchment light; in that apartment where I first touched your shoulders under your sweater, that October afternoon you left keys in the fridge, milk on the table. The yard - our moonlight motel - where we slept summer’s hottest nights, on grass so cold it felt wet. Behind us, freight trains crossed the city, a steel banner, a noisy wall. Now the hollow diad ! floats behind glass in office towers also haunted by our voices. Few buildings, few lives are built so well even their ruins are beautiful. But we loved the abandoned distillery: stone floors cracking under empty vats, wooden floors half rotted into dirt; stairs leading nowhere; high rooms run through with swords of dusty light. A place the rain still loved, its silver paint on rusted things that had stopped moving it seemed, for us. Closed rooms open only to weather, pungent with soot and molasses, scent-stung. A place where everything too big to take apart had been left behind.

Anne Michaels, “Phantom Limbs” (via focloir)

[actuallylaurenlapkus]

Jason Chin passed away last night. He was my first improv teacher ever, when I was 18 and a senior in high school, and he happened to be the coach of my last team at iO Chicago before I moved away. He was a great teacher and an incredibly kind person. He was thoughtful and as I went through my old email exchanges with him I realized that he gave me so much confidence as a young performer.

Below is a link to the Chicago Tribune article about him:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chi-jason-chin-io-dead-20150109-story.html

Rest in peace.

[coffeebi]

Just passed a group of bros in the parking lot. They were all wearing snapbacks and muscle shirts. As I passed I heard their conversation. The one bro was arguing, “Naw man, Dumbledore was a terrible caretaker, he literally sent kids into fucking death forest for detention. Messed up man.”

[punytail]

 ♫

[paralysedbeaver]

[theycallmemjo-blog]

5000 candles in the wind

[eclaire-y]

[mcconville]

This made me laugh out loud.

[oupacademic]

"Chess’s widespread popularity has led to the coining of phrases from a variety of languages. One such term which deserves wider recognition is Kotov’s syndrome; named for Alexander Kotov, this refers to a decision made after long and hard thought but which turns out to be a total disaster."

Professor Simon Horobin on the language of chess, courtesy of Oxford Words.

Anyone care to provide a real-life example of Kotov’s syndrome? We know that we could…

(via oupacademic)

[clientsfromhell]

I am a freelance Network/Systems Designer. I was contacted by a statistics lab at a university I attended. They asked if I could make time for an interview.

They wanted to build a moderately sized cluster for the department’s faculty/grad students. We did a phone interview, and man, they...

[theycallmemjo-blog]

Yesssss....YESSSSS

[clientsfromhell]

Client:  I don’t see the updated information on the website

Me: Did you refresh the page?

Client: I don’t see why that should be necessary.

Me: Well, it is if you want to see the updated information. Just hit the refresh button, or press the F5 key.

Client: In all my years of using computers, I’ve never heard of that requirement before. Please update the information like I requested and let me know when it is done.

[goodsprings]

when someone mentions the thing ur obsessed w/ but u gotta stay cool

[theycallmemjo-blog]

Neato

[theycallmemjo-blog]

What

[penguinrandomhouse]

[A collection of best books of 2014 lists - we’ll be updating continuously as more lists come out!]

Adult Lists

Amazon’s Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Arts and Photography

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Audiobooks

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Biographies and Memoirs

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Business and Investing 

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Comics and Graphic Novels

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Cookbooks and Food Writing

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Crafts, Home, and Garden

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Digital Singles

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Fashion

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Gift Picks

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: History

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Humor and Entertainment

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Literature and Fiction

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense 

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Nonfiction

Amazon’s Best Books of 2013: Romance

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Science

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Short Stories

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Sports and Outdoors

Hudson Booksellers’s Best Books of 2014

Largehearted Boy’s List of Online Best of 2014 Book Lists

Library Journal’s Best Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Comics of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Fiction Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Lifestyle Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Mystery/Thriller Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Nonfiction Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Poetry Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Religion Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Romance Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top SF/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2014

Children and Young Adult Lists

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Children’s Books

Amazon’s Best Books of 2014: Teens and Young Adults

Kirkus Best Children’s Books of 2014

New York Times’s Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Picture Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Middle Grade Books of 2014

Publishers Weekly’s Top Young Adult Books of 2014

[libraryjournal]

Tumblarians, for your collection development/readers’ advisory pleasure.