December 2009
Wait, Is Fantastic Mr. Fox The Best Movie Of 2009?... →
I agree!
Scientists 'grow' meat in laboratory [telegraph] →
I might eat this, even though the process to create it sounds almost as unappetizing as factory farming. However, I thought that my Tofurkey this year (basting option #1) was legitimately tasty; so I am pretty sure that I could be convinced.
(via gizmodo)
November 2009
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“There’s certain days that remind me why I ran for this office. Then there are...”
– President Obama (via david via jaredgeller and poobah)
“It was another whole week before Charmin called. When they offered me the job… I...”
– maura:
The Charmin “ambassadors” — you know, the people who will live in the bathroom that’s taken over the old Bar Code space, and Tweet and blog and Facebook-update about going to the bathroom? — have been hired. I guess these days, any gig is worth getting excited over…
Just when I thought it...
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“The foggy mystery of Palin’s popularity burns off sometimes; sometimes I...”
– Rudolph Delson is reading the Palin memoir for you. [The Awl]. (Personally, I’m hoping that after he reads it, he’ll promptly return it to their nearest giant bookstore with liberal return policies)
Raucous new music from Vampire Weekend [lala], decking the hall in Seattle next month.
(via stereogum)
belated orcas
When we had finished our errands, filled the trunk in the returning mist, rounded everyone and everything up and were finding the express lane with me behind the wheel, I had no expectation that we would arrive in to get a spot on the evening ferry. I thought that at best we might make it through the pounding rain to see a line of cars or the boat pulling away. But instead, even though we...
“The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to...”
– Steven Pinker’s candid critique / smackdown of Gladwell’s latest collection. [NYT]
“This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”
– reprising Don Draper’s advice to a friend who just turned thirty. [Mad Men - Wikiquote]
Rock Music Goes The Way Of The Beard →
tylercoates:
Carrie Brownstein on the evolution of rock music in the past decade:
I remember going to Coachella and playing songs from our album The Woods. The tunes on that record were abrasive and scary, full of imbalance and uncertainty. But instead playing rock that day, I felt like we were throwing them. Rock music should be unapologetic, but looking out at the audience, I wanted to hand...
“Pirate Radio: It’s Almost Famous Meets Empire Records—on a Motherfucking...”
– Eric Grandy [the Stranger]. I’m pretty sure this headline isn’t supposed to make me want to see the movie, but strangely it somehow does. The review, however, quickly corrects that impression.
WatchWhat’s this? Pitchfork is was streaming Heima, the Sigur Ros documentary about playing shows in weird places. One week only, get your dose of Icelandic tourism, weird kids flying kites, glaciers melting, and strangely omnipresent sheep while you can.
“I never wore a helmet riding a bicycle, and, in a way, the movie is for children...”
– Wes Anderson, in a profile by Richard Brody coinciding with the release of the Fantastic Mr. Fox. [newyorker]
“Today’s a sad day for fans of music, fans of music writing, other music...”
– Foster Kamer, “Music Blogging Haz a Sad: Maura Johnston & Idolator Break Up” [BlackBook]. My music blog reading habits are growing ever more lackadaisical, but It’s really astonishing how quickly the site went from astute and thought-provoking, to shallow and mindless in the...
In Which We Made Every Kind Of Sandwich Imaginable... →
I think I’ll miss the recaps almost as much as I miss the episodes now that this season of Mad Men is over. But what a fantastic finale, right?
For this weekend’s road trip, I hastily made...
“This is just one of those moments we never want to forget because it reminds us...”
– Charles Muedede, from his review of Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum.