December 2011
4 posts
Fassbender on Strombo →
How big is this guy gonna be? And no, I’m not talking about THAT, ladies. Put your tongues back in your collective mouths.
Tommy Tiernan on Don Cherry →
“I wouldn’t shoot him in the head. I’d shoot him in the suit.”
November 2011
1 post
“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”
– Homer Simpson
October 2011
8 posts
WatchHere’s a strong video essay on a demanding and unforgiving film.
(W)Aki Kaurismäki’s Top 10 →
I guess the metric system allows you to liberally interpret the concept of “ten.” A fine list, despite (or perhaps because of) the quirks.
WatchThe rules of rugby, for those who struggle to understand some of the game’s nuances.
September 2011
30 posts
Watch“It’s more common than you think”
Banned Match.com Commercials: “Really Like You” - watch more funny videos
The HBO Recycling Program →
It looks like The Wire are the best recyclers. Green is good.
A machine that lets you taste words →
Next up: a gizmo that allows you to smell ideas
Louis CK walks us through the second season of... →
A four part series. The first two parts have been published. Excellent stuff.
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The Shame of College Sports →
An outstanding expose in The Atlantic Magazine of the farce that is the NCAA
That Wacky Cut-Up Marcel Proust
“I was genuinely in love with Mme de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been that he should send down on her every imaginable calamity, and that ruined, despised, stripped of all the privileges that separated her from me, having no longer any home of her own or people who would condescend to speak to her, she would then come to me for asylum.”
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L'equip Petit: →
“When we’re old, we’ll score a goal.”
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Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best →
Bringing light to the poor, one bottle at a time.
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The Onion: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation... →
Kill Your Idols: the Foreward →
An interesting premise, and there are definitely some worthy titles on this list, but there’s also clearly a whole lotta pissing going on here. I mean, does anyone REALLY think that McCartney’s Ram is a seminal piece of work, or that the best of Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd deserves to be thought of in the same breath as best work of The Beatles or the Stones? But Blood...
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Invisibility
At some point we all reach the point of invisibility. Not in the sense that we die and disintegrate into dust, both literally (in physical form) and metaphorically (in people’s memories), but rather in the sense that we continue to exist, but for various and sundry reasons people are no longer interested in seeing us. We see it all the time. The homeless person we pretend not to see, or the...
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August 2011
40 posts
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“Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still...”
– Rick Perry, comparing homosexuality to alcoholism in a 2008 book (via currenteye)
So apparently homosexuality is a disease. “Plus, it’s better when you’re drunk.” (A. Kober)