May 2012
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New Story Idea for Gawker
3,000 words on how “don’t touch my junk” changed forever the way we view personal liberty, terrorism and cloth-covered genitalia
Today marks 550 days since Don’t-Touch-My-Junk-Dude’s self-recording of his famous admonition to a TSA agent went viral, thereby changing forever the way western society views personal liberty, the war on terror and people publicly...
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*** Breaking Siren News ***
Trenton to buy new warning siren
Columbus looking to change warning siren policy
Clinton brings back tornado-warning siren
Sirens to alert public
*** Tune in tomorrow for more breaking siren news! ***
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The big featured story on Gawker right now is a post marking the seventh anniversary of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch. It’s over 3,000 words long.
Now, before today, I would have assumed that it was impossible to come up with 3,000+ words of commentary about Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch seven years ago. But Gawker did just that, proving my assumptions wrong — not...
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ninety9:
Can’t wait for the new Dan Harmon series which will be about a showrunner who is widely loved on the internet by a bunch of people who probably don’t know what a showrunner actually does and there will be an episode about how the showrunner really sustains his sense of self worth because of all the posi things people on an internet service say about him and then the people on the...
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“You’re at a Parisian café, and you’re reading... →
That’s true. Sartre would say you were probably stupid the whole time.
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“Also don’t believe anyone that says I have sex with animals. And if there’s a...”
– Dan Harmon, in the course of explaining how he got kicked off his own show and nobody from NBC even called him about it.
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strictlyalright:
“I’m always hesitant to claim that any movie “changed my life,” but this one actually did. At the time I first saw it, I’d never considered the possibility of telling a story without narrative. It changed the way I thought about all art, and it made me want to be a weirder person.”
Chuck Klosterman on Richard Linklater’s Slacker. So if you...
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Virginia House of Delegates rejects gay judge →
youngmanhattanite:
“The debate in the House of Delegates was homophobic and embarrassing and showed a disrespect to a chief deputy commonwealth attorney and decorated veteran who was honorably discharged,” said Sen. Adam P. Ebbin (D-Alexandria), Virginia’s first openly gay state senator. “It’s offensive that the Senate wouldn’t even grant Lt. Thorne-Begland the courtesy of a vote.”
Virginia....
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"Fred Davis, the ad man behind 'I am not a witch,'... →
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Correction of the Day
“An earlier version of this post included a photo published in error. It showed Andrew Garfield, the actor who played Eduardo Saverin in the movie ‘The Social Network,’ not Mr. Saverin himself.”
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I was kind of disappointed that there wasn’t a link to a secret hidden discussion thread in this week’s Awl newsletter. I was hoping that might be a weekly thing.
themattsmith:
Let’s all see what else we can get Biden to say.
That he’s in favor of getting all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan now? Oh, and renewing the ban on assault weapons! Gee, the list is so long, I almost don’t know where to start …
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Has the Sendaklash started yet?
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
I feel our culture and many people’s childhoods lost something special today, but personally I was kind of frightened by Where The Wild Things Are when I was younger, and not in a “oh, I’m so curious to face my nightmares and fears” kind of way but an “eww, those teeth and googly eyes, no thanks” kind of way. But I was also frightened of balloons at that time, so I...
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A thing that has been said, according to Wikipedia
“The backwards guitar sound has been said to ‘suspend the laws of time and motion to simulate the half-coherence of the state between wakefulness and sleep.’”
Pete Campbell shtupping Rory Gilmore … still processing that.
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ninety9:
Interesting Wikipedia rabbit-holing dicoveries: in 1990 the haus style of the Times was still “Miss” for unmarried women.
I knew this first-hand. In 1987, I worked as a reporter for a local newspaper that fallowed the Times style manual. Every time I interviewed a woman for a story, I had to ask her marital status so I’d know whether to put “Miss” or Mrs.”...
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The other night I ordered takeout from a nice little Vietnamese restaurant in my area. While I was waiting to pick up a few orders of Pork & Shrimp Bun, I overhead snippets of conversation from a man seated nearby, including several references to “working for Arianna,” and a declaration that he was “110 percent certain” about something. (I didn’t catch the object...
April 2012
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