March 2012
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February 2012
“He was saying that the NBA All-Star Game was on at the same time so he might...”
– Letty Aronson, producer of Midnight in Paris and Woody Allen’s sister, said she hadn’t talked to the filmmaker but was “pretty sure” he knew he won for best original screenplay. [Hollywood Reporter (via grantland)]
If I hosted the Oscars
tylercoates:
I’d have Uggie shit in a pie for some hilarious The Artist/The Help sketch. I’m only going to assume that nothing that hysterical happened during tonight’s ceremonies.
I feel like that dream might have been realized had hosting duties gone to Team Bridesmaids instead of Billy Crystal.
“The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content...”
– Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko
Unghhhhhh yes guys stop making it so hard to be on your side
(via nickdouglas)
Yes, content silos are frustrating, but he really should’ve used an example other than Game of Thrones for that comic about how horribly difficult...
fourfour: How they lost →
fourfour:
I have discovered what I humbly consider to be the most perfect use of the gif wall medium possible: The reaction shots of Oscar losers.
Mesmerizing and, if the spinning fan is any indication, incredibly taxing to my computer’s little brain. The first NINE rows are Meryl Streep losing to: Cher, Shirley MacLaine, Jodie Foster, Geraldine Page, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslett,...
“I think that for some voters, selecting The Artist is the equivalent of choosing...”
– Oscarmetrics: Predicting the Big-Ticket Categories - Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland.
I will try to remember this vaguely consoling mindset — I liked most of last year’s nominees better than any of this year’s — when this perfectly fine, completely enjoyable, but...
“A tall girl wearing stretch pants and a big tee shirt walked up to me after a...”
– Kathleen Hanna on selling out in the 90s (LUV HER)
“If it’s the structured premise of these articles you’re stuck on, try replacing...”
– It’s Time to Retire the Technology Addiction Article « The Bygone Bureau
“To even have that opinion, Santorum has to have given thought to which sex acts...”
– Ana Marie Cox, taking a creative view of today’s proceedings and the current republican madness. (from “Sex, Rick Santorum and the conservative imagination” [guardian.co.uk])
“What is even going on anymore? Is this show still about cooking good food? Or...”
– Gabe recaps the most ridiculous episode (at one point, the cheftestants competed in a biathlon for ingredients, and this was not obviously the most insane part) of the most never-ending season of Top Chef. [Videogum]
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Is that blogging?: I’ve had a slight fear of... →
distorte:
[…] I am quite partial to pictures of clouds, for example. I might be the most romantic person you know, if by romantic you mean unwilling to perceive the world as it is, naively optimistic about mountains, and vaguely distrustful of industrialism in general. How romantic!
Although this tumblog is sort of named after a line from a song (that turned out to be its...
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WatchAmerica’s long Whit Stillman drought ends on April 6! Feel like I should probably be shopping for plane tickets to New York or Los Angeles right now.
(via Damsels In Distress || A Sony Pictures Classics Release)
“43% believe a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a...”
– I’d side with the 19% here, but acknowledge that this would be one heck of an experiment. Someone should make “Shadow Phonebook Congress” a reality show. [Rasmussen Reports™]
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“At one point Mikovits […] was hiding out on a boat to avoid being served...”
– Yet another high profile retraction from Science [#] complete with crazy upon crazy details that leave me longing for a Law & Order to rip this thing from the headlines. “Fallout From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Retraction Is Far and Wide”[NYTimes]
Watch“Let’s just call it Fancy Entourage.”
(via bestrooftalkever)
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“No doubt there are worse things than being young and male and unable to throw...”
– Stephen Squibb, ”Late Patriot Football” [n 1]. Loving all of the post-Super Bowl deepthinkpieces. See also, an hour of Tom Brady having a sad that features a sprinting hug from Gisele Bundchen followed by a grief-induced Katy Perry neg [yahoo!]; Sascha Frere-Jones defending...
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“I have been in meetings where people look down and notice my socks, and there is...”
– Hunter Walk, YouTube gangbanger. In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech Entrepreneur - NYTimes.com