January 2011
The Doree Chronicles: In Character: Audrey Rouget →
ofakind:
Sweet, virginal, achingly naïve Park Avenue princess Audrey Rouget is the heroine of Whit Stillman’s 1990 film Metropolitan. When I first saw the movie I must have been around 12 or 13, growing up in the Boston suburbs, and the world that Stillman…
This post got me wondering whatever became of Carolyn Farina, the actress who played Audrey. My googling reveals that she...
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WatchToday’s Incorrect Cable News History Lesson: The Romans Dug the Suez Canal
As I was watching TV this earlier morning, I was surprised to hear MSNBC correspondent Richard Lui assert that the Romans dug the Suez canal 2,000 years ago. In fact, the canal was dug about 150 years ago by The Suez Canal Company.
I went to msnbc.com and found that the video is still online, so I made a clip of the...
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“Steve Brodersen, identified as Sheen’s friend by Extra, told the program that Sheen suffered a hernia injury while laughing too hard at the television from his home.”
Clearly, Sheen was not watching his own show.
CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO - A body was found in the freezer of a recently deceased woman’s home in New Mexico, and is believed to have been there for more than a decade.
Two family members were cleaning Barbara Sharpe’s home when they found a body stuffed inside a freezer in her bedroom.
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Deputies found a document in Barbara’s home that stated she hid her...
Unexpected Comedy: The Five Funniest Best Picture... →
skybarn:
Hey, look what I wrote before.
Great piece! But how could you leave “It Happened One Night” off the list? It was probably the best comedy ever to win Best Picture, IMHO.
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under humor, personal,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #humor, #personal, #television
tanya77:
“Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and two small sons… He returned to acting when George Lucas, who had hired him to build cabinets in his home, cast him in a pivotal supporting role for his film American Graffiti… After director Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to do expansions of his office and Harrison was...
"Gaiss warns that an amusing error message can... →
What kind of crazy talk is that? Tumblr will hear no more nonsense from you, Mr. Gaiss!
Will.i.am named Intel's director of creative... →
rafimama:
Will.i.am is joining Intel as its director of creative innovation.
The world’s largest computer chip manufacturer announced the music producer and frontman for the Black Eyed Peas will contribute to the company by way of music and input in developing smart phones, tablets and laptops.
In a message on Twitter, Will.i.am said, “Its official. I just became the director of creative...
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“‘And yet, as contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can...”
– Alex Pareene
nom nom nom →
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"Dale will be so nasty to his team's servers that... →
Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Top Chef Live Blog on Gawker. (Join us for the next one tonight — the post goes up at 9 pm Eastern, and the show starts at 10!)
Oh-Honey-No This just in: Marcel is now Eminem.
son of spam The drinking scenes make me miss Jen.
Lizawithazee You don’t often hear “anger management class” without...
skybarn:
You know who’s really angry at Ricky Gervais? The one’s he didn’t insult.
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said, “The only thing worse than being insulted by Ricky Gervais is not being insulted by Ricky Gervais.”
"Sticking to an all-potato diet for 60 days has... →
No matter what else happens in his life, he’ll always have this accomplishment. Nobody can ever take that away from him.
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mrsoptimistic:
anti-propaganda:
Afghan girl raped, killed by US troops
‘The daughter of an Afghan politician has reportedly died of her injuries after being raped by American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s southwestern province of Farah. …
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This is what war is. Rape and murder. No side is better than the other in the end. The only difference is we are in their...
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It's a group experience that'll warm the cockles... →
List of Unusual Deaths →
Over 100 of them, in fact — spanning thousands of years, from the Age Antiquity to the 21st century.
Just when I think Wikipedia can’t surprise me any more, it goes and does it again.
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Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Top Chef live blog on Gawker. (Join us for the next one tonight! The post goes up at 9 pm Eastern, and the show starts at 10.)
katekate is squared Tom can squeeze my lemons any time.
DahlELama I can’t even open a can of tuna in eight minutes and 37 seconds, let alone make tuna tartare.
Lizawithazee Jamie’s going to...
