Popjustice: Happy first birthday, 'Bad Romance' →
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National holiday? I THINK SO.
October 2010
30 posts
Longreads: The best long-form stories on the web →
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This + Instapaper promises to be a seriously amazing combination, if somebody wants to create something that automatically rolls them together. But I have to say, it’s utterly unacceptable that a search for “dinosaurs” turns up zero results.
Backpacker Tees →
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My friends Shane and Catlan have started a travel-themed t-shirt website, and it’s pretty great. If you are in the market for some seriously weapons-grade travel puns silkscreened onto clothing, then they have got the website for you. I am pretty sure the “Kremlins” shirt is my favorite… it’s elephantastic.
“On one hand I think it’s hella Niles Crane and a little murderer-y to curate a “look” but on the other, I’m seeing purrrrrrrfect slender micro-patterned ties with gingham shirts, the SICKEST olive M-65 parkas, shawl collared cardigans, chambray, twill, toggles, perfect-length Henley plackets, non-dickhead bowties, epaulets, and even slight club collars (GAH) on dudes who up until turning thirty thought it was maybe OK to wear skate shoes.”
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All Dudes Learned How to Dress and It Sucks – The Hairpin
Not that anyone on Tumblr needs to be told that Mary HK Choi is great, and that any new venture from The Awl that involves Liz Colville is a must-bookmark, but sometimes we as a people need to re-assert even the most basic FACTS to ensure that we’re all on the same cultural page.
Lazyweb
Does anybody know how to use more than one Netflix account on a single PS? I just downloaded the new PS3 app, and it’s great and all, but my roommate would like to use her account as well and we don’t know how to make it work. She requested a disc a while ago, but the discs aren’t personalized, and the PS3 read it as if it was my disc.
Just checking, since Googling has gotten me nowhere.
If Only
I was looking at apartment listings on Craigslist earlier and was pleasantly surprised to see that one of them was listed as being near the “Bear Garden.” I didn’t even know we had one of those, but I definitely want to live near it! It’s not like I have kids to worry about or anything.
“Q: Why does it seem like there are no good mothers on Mad Men?
A: Wow, that’s kind of harsh. The question of Betty Draper’s motherhood is very peculiar to me. Because we were all raised by women like this. And I know it’s easy to hate her and think she seems childish and impulsive. We’re all here because of women like that. We’ll see how those kids turn out. They could end up being TV writers.” —
A: Wow, that’s kind of harsh. The question of Betty Draper’s motherhood is very peculiar to me. Because we were all raised by women like this. And I know it’s easy to hate her and think she seems childish and impulsive. We’re all here because of women like that. We’ll see how those kids turn out. They could end up being TV writers.” —
Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner Explains Last Night’s Finale, Defends Betty Draper — Vulture
I find the way Betty Draper/Francis is written totally fascinating, and I’m not prepared to call her a monster, but, uh, Matthew Weiner, I think you are maybe projecting a bit here? Mistaking the personal for the universal much?
An Incomplete List Of Books Sitting Next To My Bed Waiting To Be Read, Oct. 17th Edition
- Nick Reding, Methland: The Death And Life Of An American Small Town (90 pages in)
- Naoki Urasawa, 20th Century Boys Vol. 2 (I like this, but am not quite sure yet if I really want to spend $130 to read the whole thing… but that’s what reading comics is like when you don’t work in the industry, I guess?)
- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (I’m working on pulp comics, so it seemed appropriate to read the original Victorian pulp novel)
- Los Bros Hernandez, Love & Rockets: New Stories Vol. 3 (yes, still, sigh)
Light The Night Walk →
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Hey everyone — I’ll be walking in honor of my friend Matthew’s father, Damon Perpetua, in tomorrow night’s Light The Night Walk in Queens, benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Last-minute notice, I know, but if you could spare a donation for a really personal cause, it would be greatly appreciated! Either way, think of us tomorrow night.
“In an interview on a Canadian telethon that was hosted by Bob McGrath, [Snuffleupagus’s] performer, Martin P. Robinson, revealed that Snuffy was finally introduced to the main human cast mainly due to a string of high profile and sometimes graphic stories of pedophilia and sexual abuse of children that had been aired on shows such as 60 Minutes and 20/20. The writers felt that by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird despite the fact that he was telling the truth, they were scaring children into thinking that their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused and that they would just be better off remaining silent.”
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kottke.org: Four things about Mr. Snuffleupagus
This is probably the single darkest thing I’ll read all day. Yikes.
Discopop Directory: This blog post about Robyn's new single is distinct from every other blog post about Robyn's new single →
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AAAHHH “INDESTRUCTIBLE” IS HERE
It’s not quite what I was hoping for, but since I was hoping for the second coming of Gay Dinosaur Christ, that is perhaps unfair. It’s still a damn good song. The “four to the floor” bit is great.
(Thank you, Josh)
Last Night's Dream
I’m in a house on a gigantic lake (it could’ve been the ocean, perhaps) somewhere in Canada, along with several other people I don’t know, and we all must do our best to stay silent and motionless to hide from a horde of zombies that only show up at night. After the first night, a gang of vampires shows up to protect us and help us escape, but we don’t know what they will demand in return. They might want to drink our blood, they might want to turn us into vampires. One of them might have been my godfather, and one of them might have been Eric from True Blood, but he didn’t take his clothes off so it’s hard to say.
Music - News - Robyn announces new single details - Digital Spy →
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So from the sound of this link, there might not actually be a Body Talk Pt. 3? Instead we’ll just get the complete Body Talk, with five tracks from each previous installment, plus five new ones. I am a bit confused. But the key point is, the full version of “Indestructible” is coming, and I want it.
Won't someone think of the man-children?!?
I refuse to link to TMZ, so I will second-hand link to Tyler’s post where I learned this troubling bit of info: Courtney Cox and David Arquette are splitting up! Obviously I feel bad for them, but the truly crucial question is: Does this endanger Scream 4 in any way? Because I don’t think I can handle another bit of bad news regarding that movie, which I continue to hold out hope for, because I am an idiot.
Also I hope this doesn’t bring Courtney down too much and negatively affect her performance on Cougar Town, which I am kind of in love with lately. THERE I SAID IT, I WATCH COUGAR TOWN, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF IT. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MISSING, OKAY.
