May 2012
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Charlie Brooker on Richard Herring podcast →
Context.
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"29/31" Might Be Our Favorite Garfunkel & Oates...
thecomedybureau:
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome sing in the roles of the same girl at ages 29 and 31, respectively, and it’s pretty f’n NSFW hysterical. Who knew Riki could go hardcore?
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“Many large firms have discarded the traditional notions of partnership —...”
– “largest law firm collapse in United States history.”
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I'm Having a Difficult Time Answering the New...
The good news is I only have to pick seven of these to answer:
Where were you on December 7, 2006, and what did you have for lunch that day?
What kind of breathmint did the first person you kiss suggest you use for your bad breath?
Which subway car is your favorite (London Underground only)?
Which of your grandparents do you love more?
What is your dexterity?
Which of the seraphim would you...
“I was like all of you. I believed in the promise of the Internet to liberate,...”
– Longreads: Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?
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WatchGumbel, episode 6.
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“I think one of the things that surprised me was there’s an artifice—that’s not...”
– Greg Rucka, being interviewed by Brian Michael Bendis. (You have to get past this really bizarre part where Rucka claims to be the only person comparing current events to Nazi Germany (??? p.s. !!!) to get to that part, though). Feelings-making interview for me because… those guys are...
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aencre:
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“If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going...”
– Derek Walcott, as cited in Advice to Writers by Jon Winokur (via litverve)
“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety...”
– Paul Fussell passed away; I’d read his book B.A.D.: The Dumbing of America back in high school— it was just this entire book of this guy complaining about everything.
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“[T]hey often dealt sensitively with themes the writers weren’t officially...”
– Alex Pappademas, writing for Grantland, about the time the Incredible Hulk got sexually assaulted at a YMCA (“You won’t like it this time… but I will!”). Also: I totally remember that issue of New Mutants…
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“…He said that the older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the...”
– leonard cohen in a 2002 spin interview culled from this pitchfork article
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“After delving further into Buress’s comments, we found a Chicago Tribune review...”
– The Daily Eastern News strikes back against Hannibal Buress’s Animal Furnace!
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“We paid you to deliver a certain number of episodes for a certain budget in a...”
– NBC Executive to Lorne Michaels, when he left Saturday Night Live.
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WatchTribord — “Back to Water.”
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“And please, leery tragi-men, don’t dribble on about “Scarlett Johansson’s arse...”
– Behold: the Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D experience | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian. See also, ”the cube went bonkers and spat out a bad guy called Loki, who looks like a cross between Withnail and the sort of grinning pervert who’d have sex with a fistful of...
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Watchcriterioncorner:
Teaser Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER
okay, so it doesn’t have all that much to do with Criterion, but omg what if it did??
kidding aside, i think i speak for many of us when i say that this is the year’s most breathlessly anticipated film, and the first snippets of footage contained in the teaser above manage to drive me all sorts of hysterical without so much as...
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“A 33-year-old Knoxville, Tenn. man with 30 children appeared in court this week...”
– I get how you can sucker Women 1 through 10 into letting you raw-dog it, but what the fuck, Lady #11? (Context: here’s a graphic of all the usable drinking water on Earth). He made it onto the Wikipedia list of men who’ve sired the most children (thanks internet!), though he’s...
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