January 2010
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While it's mean to beat up on a 14-year-old...
sheilamcclear:
… that’s never stopped me before. So, can we get rid of young Tavi, the JT Leroy-like pint-sized fashion ‘blogger’, so as to free up the market to employ adult writers to cover fashion? SHE LIVES WITH HER PARENTS.
Actually, lots of adult “bloggers” live with their parents too. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them do.
katiebakes:
“As someone who was born — or should I say bahn? — in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I appreciate the special music of New England speech as much as anyone, but honestly, guys, give it a rest. If I had a dollar for every dropped “r” in “Edge of Darkness,” I could finance a sequel.”
— AO Scott says fahk ya matha.
”’… after a hiatus spent burnishing his...
"When Janeane heard they were going to a farm, she... →
Burlap jokes and Jesus jokes! Get yer jokes about... →
“Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
youngmanhattanite:
I haven’t heard this many period jokes since I was forced to watch The View last month.
At long last, a subject-overlap between Gizmodo and Jezebel has been discovered! I didn’t think that such a thing existed.
My idea for a new Tumblr app
I wonder if somebody could develop an app that would automatically put a ”like” tag on all Tumblr posts by a given person?
If such a tool existed, it could save me from having to keep manually pushing the ”like” button every time Tom Oatmeal posts something new.
"At one Australian fan convention [George Lucas]... →
Breaking news: US to lift 21-year ban on haggis! →
His knife see rustic Labour dight, An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright Like onie ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich!
Robert Burns, “Address to a Haggis”
“Denver was not the first choice to play Gilligan; actor Jerry Van Dyke was offered the role, but he turned it down, believing that the show would never be successful. He chose instead to play the lead in the notoriously unsuccessful My Mother the Car, which premiered the following year and was cancelled after one season.”
So there you have it, folks. Apparently, Jerry Van Dyke...
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My Idea for the 2010 Oscars: A Montage Montage
Just think of all the great montage sequences they’ve had in past Academy Awards telecasts! So I’m thinking that, for the telecast coming up, they could just splice together highlights from the most memorable of those past montages into one big “Montage of Academy Awards Montage Moments”!
It could be the montage to end all montages!
“Stuff doesn't stop belonging to someone else just... →
This opinion piece posted on Salon.com last week - called “Is It Racist to Report on Looting in Haiti?” - is terrible in so many ways that I don’t know where to start …
It’s not just that the author’s premise is wrong-headed, and that she totally misses the point of the recent criticism of the “looting” coverage by the media. Or that the piece promises (in the subhead) to explain “Why...
I take it CajunBoy is too busy drinking to post a WHO DAT message to his tumblr yet …?
"Commenter katekate dubbed one designer,... →
OK, so this little feature, which used to appear only on this blog, will appear on Gawker instead from now on. It’ll run every Thursday to promote the Project Runway live blog that’ll happen that night (as in, for example, the one tonight at 10 pm Eastern) — and also to better recognize the contributions of so many folks who make that feature what it is.
The list is an easy thing...
I wish they'd asked her my question about whether... →
Now they're just fucking with us.
alexbalk:
“Michael Brendan Dougherty is an editor at The American Conservative. His breakup letter to the conservative movement, which appears on highbrow hipster site The Awl, is addressed entirely to ‘you.’”
Can you guys sue them for libel when they describe you that way? Or maybe character defamation?
Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Project Runway live blog on Gawker:
Lizawithazee Let’s see, there will be the rocker, the avant-garde Asian person of indeterminate gender, the society dressmaker trying to make it as a Real Designer, the complete and utter whackjob, the sensitive person in recovery…. take it away, lovebloggers…
Old Ocho Okay, so I...
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"So I say to the people of Haiti: Loot away. Wave... →
This just might be the worst opinion piece I’ve ever read that was published on a major blog. I mean, it’s terrible in so many ways, I just don’t know where to start.
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katiebakes:
“I saw the same look on LeBron’s face that Jordan once had — a Tupacian “All Eyez on Me” smirk, an expression that happens when everyone stares at you no matter what you do, even if you’re scratching your balls or rubbing your head, and once you come to grips with that fact, it’s a little bit liberating.”
— Tupacian. TUPACIAN.
Tupacian.
Simmonsesque.
Click here to hear the president of Oracle Corp.... →
It just gave me shivers up and down my spine! It must be heard to be believed!
(It’s more touching even than that scene in Duets where the Gwyneth Paltrow sings this with Huey Lewis - which was really romantic even though it was also kind of incestuously creepy because Huey was supposed to the Gwyneth’s father!)
More here. From http://charlesphillipsandyavaughniewilkins.com/. This...
Looks like Avatar killed some guy. I always knew James Cameron was evil.