May 2011
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April 2011
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I click and I click and I click, but Hulu just can’t seem to pick a 30 second ad that’s relevant to me, and my worries, and my hopes, and my dreams, and how I live my life. Why must you taunt me, Hulu?
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Klosterman! →
AVC: What about the writers who say, “I do this because I can’t do anything else”?
CK: Okay, you have to be wary of anyone who says that when they’re asked, “Why do you write?” In all likelihood, they’re probably going to be fucking terrible writers. If you can’t do anything else, if that’s the only thing you can do, you probably don’t have a lot to offer other people, you know? [Laughs.] I...
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“Vulture reports Arnold Schwarzenegger has picked “Cry Macho” for his next film...”
– Cry Macho! (I sure hope ladies in L.A. think that I have a sufficient number of fecks. I worry that my lack of fecks is holding me back, romantically…)
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HelloGiggles.com →
molls:
Big news!
I started a new website with my partners Sophia Rossi and Zooey Deschanel! Today’s our soft launch, but in a very short amount of time you’re going to see a fully loaded website with all sorts of amazing content.
Please check out our first video (which features Rob Delaney, Shelby Fero, Jill Kushner, Tess Lynch and her LOVELY fiance, as well as many other faces you’ll...
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The Team Cul-de-sac Zine →
Nerd Business: I have a short “essay” in a charity “zine”, for Team Cul-De-Sac, the charity raising money to fight Parkinson’s Disease inspired by the work of Cul-De-Sac artist Richard Thompson, alongside a bunch of much, much, much better writers. The “zine” is on sale at Heroes Con in June. It’s my first time in a “zine”— next...
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“It’s kind of a nerdy question, but it always seems to come up....”
– “If I Could Have Any Superpower, It’d Definitely Be Invisibility” by Superman
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“What I’ve observed in recent years is that many people, in cultural...”
– Linda Holmes from “The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything”
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Waking up at 5am Needing to Google Whether There...
Is that a thing? That’s a thing that normal people do, right? I remember it being a really great episode though, is the thing. And Michael Gross? Am I right? Great on Family Ties; great in Tremors; great on Parks & Rec; great in the erotic dreams I just woke up from that I must never, never speak of. Who needs sleep?
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tesslynch:
magnetic fields — i don’t want to get...
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“I mean, the story is basically unimportant here. None of us is stupid enough to...”
– From the AV Club’s review of the new COMMUNITY. I like that phrase “schmuck’s bait“— I’d never run into that before…
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“A high school student who faked her pregnancy for six months as a social...”
– Washington teen fakes pregnancy as school project - seattlepi.com
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“Shooter’s two blog entries purporting to accurately describe Kirby’s dispute...”
– Gary Groth, on Jim Shooter’s grotesque attempts to rewrite history.
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Visual Analysis of "The Shining." →
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Steven Soderberg's "Media Diet" →
“Recently, Kurt Andersen caught up with Steven Soderbergh at New York’s Pratt Institute and came back with a nice little morsel — a list of Soderbergh’s cultural diet, broken down day by day, for the last year.”
Dear Coke Talk: On crazy girls and second chances. →
dearcoketalk:
Well, at the end of the day, this has to become an exercise in embracing your vulnerability. Your vulnerability is the dark and sticky part that terrifies you, and if you want this to work, you’re gonna have to get all warm and cozy with whatever it is at your core that brings out the batshit. After all, batshit is just a couple ingredients away from gunpowder, and if you...
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“The main problem seems to be very short skirts and high heels and generally...”
– Law firm almost accidentally a nice place to work, filled with women in miniskirts with tousled hair. The partners really had choice but to send in HR, to restore the workplace to a proper, endless gray misery. Legal profession: catch the fever! (Legal profession disclaims any responsibility for...
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“[31-year old Chris Stone] called it ‘Stickyhouse’ - really his own...”
– The legal profession just keeps attracting winners.
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THE SIXTH GUN →
Nerd Business: New essay-ish thing. This one turned out really meh, for my tastes, but hopefully people won’t mind too much…
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“Think about it: Marty McFly was a suburban teen fleeing the cartoonized dangers...”
– David Sirota.
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“The scene where Frankenstein rapes Anna was filmed over the objections of both...”
– Re: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.
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“Being original is near impossible. I remember a guy telling me, “I don’t like...”
– Norm MacDonald.
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Q: How many Cormac McCarthies does it take to... →
A: Two or perhaps three, approaching now, from beyond the tree in the long low light of morning. From some black place: a reckoning neither required nor bidden, a reckoning no judge could have ordered, but a reckoning nonetheless. One of the men carries a single glove, ready to grip the hot, bright bulb and twist it dead. The other two follow, smoking, and whisper about what is to come: the...
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Why Are You Talking on the Cell Phone in a...
You work in an office building alongside dozens and dozens of other office drones, correct? You don’t work at home by yourself, correct? Did you go into a bathroom stall, take down your pants, sit on a PUBLIC toilet and start handling your materials? And midway through handling your materials, when the phone in your pocket started to ring, did you take your hands off your most unholy bits...
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