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Important Casting Announcement
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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. February, get here nowwwww.
So it’s the proverbial gorilla in the room. The 800lb elephant, if you will. I’ve been away for a while, and I know everyone is wondering…
HOW IS GEMMA? WHEN WILL WE SEE MORE PICTURES OF HER? HAS SHE GOTTEN EVEN MORE CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS?
See for yourself, tumblr pals. (YES)
P.S. I normally don’t condone the dressing-up of dogs but I think you’ll agree she looks quite fetching in her jaunty scarf, and plus which dogs like having warm necks too.
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Mr. Fallingandlaughing sir, I don’t know you, and I admit this is bold, but if you were gay (and I lived in Chicago), I would date you purely just to hang out with your dog. I’m sure you’d grow on me eventually too.
(Welcome back though)
by John McPhee
Should anyone be interested in live lobsters, UPS logistics, or what essay I consider to be my favorite, you’re in luck this covers all three.
(via)
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Sometimes the world is just so bizarrely complex I don’t even know how to feel about it.
I wonder how many people will even think anything is different at all?
Or even notice in the first place?
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The thing I find baffling about this: Why are the labels willing to throw these massive albums onto the Billboard chart with only one day of sales data in the week? Or am I wrong about how the chart weeks run?
But, um, yes, nobody in the wider world will notice or care, guaranteed.
“Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have given every one of the unemployed people $60,000/year jobs - half of the group blowing up balloons, and the other half popping them. That would have gotten us out of a recession faster.” —
My Econ professor, re: the stimulus package (via onemoretimewithfeeling)
-if only. and i just dumped my entire portfolio into broom-making, pin-smithing, and latex-casting industries.
(via superdoofus-stratodrive)
This reminds me of why I had to stay drunk for almost an entire year in order to feel like Obama actually represented a fundamental change.
(via raptoravatar)
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This is only true if you think of a recovery from recession purely in terms of consumer spending, which our economy has become addicted to in a crack-like way. I’d rather have a recovery that increases workforce skills through retraining, and builds out new productive capacity for the future, which was the sort of thing a good stimulus package should do. Was this a good stimulus package? Arguable. But your econ professor is being snide and unhelpful.
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Nick Tosches on Opium Dens | vanityfair.com -
Enjoyed this quite a bit, even though Tosches overwrites pretty badly in a few spots. But go fig.
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We’re curious whether you know that we made cover offers for you before American Idol was even halfway through its run. Apparently, Out was too gay, even for you. There was the issue of what it would do to your record sales, we were told. Imagine! A gay musician on the cover of a gay magazine. What might the parents think! It’s only because this cover is a group shot that includes a straight woman that your team would allow you to be photographed at all — albeit with the caveat that we must avoid making you look “too gay.” (Is that a medical term? Just curious). Luckily, you seemed unaware that a similar caution was issued to our interviewer.
Perhaps we should have had you and Cyndi [Lauper] in a tongue lock. That would be radical. It’s odd, because this magazine has done covers with Pete Wentz and Lady Gaga — getting straight men and women to do Out is easy these days. It gives them cred. Getting gay stars like yourself is another matter. Much easier to stick you in Details, where your homosexuality can be neutralized by having you awkwardly grabbing a woman’s breast and saying, “Women are pretty.” So are kittens, Adam, but it doesn’t mean you have to make out with them.
” —The editor-in-chief of Out magazine puts Adam Lambert on blast for the strictures his “people” set on his appearance on the latest cover.
“Oh. My. God. You. Guyz. Last night was the Twilight: New Moon premiere in Hollywood, California. Is anyone else’s head falling off, or is it just me over here? HELP! MY HEAD! The only thing that I would like almost as much but not as much as going to prom with a mythological vampire who is in a surf battle with the magical werewolves over the entrance to my human vagina would be to stand for hours in a mass of strangers screaming in my ears and holding up homemade signs that read like cries for help. Just kidding! That sounds like a nightmare! I will stick with just dreaming about make-believe swamp thing prom, or whatever. But here are some of the people who don’t think that is a nightmare, and who in fact think it is very fun and something that is worth doing even if you are an adult. We should all be so lucky as to find something in this world that makes us happy, even if it happens to be this thing!” —
The Twilight: New Moon Premiere: Fun Signs, Guys! - Photo - Videogum
I am so glad I read Videogum now.
“Speechless” — Overproduced, oversung. Axe the axe, please. Still a good chorus.
“So Happy I Could Die” — Bridge-and-tunnel techno existentialism. I like how Lon Guyland her voice gets on the title line.
“Telephone” — Beyonce sounds appropriately sashafierce, but doesn’t really get a chance to show off. There are hooks, but none of them go too deep. Nothing to be embarassed about. Would’ve sounded great on BLACKOUT or CIRCUS from a production standpoint, yes, but Britney would’ve criminally undersung it.
“Teeth” — Enjoyably stompy, secretly a Christina Aguilera song if Christina had actually committed to the Gaga crazy instead of her own slightly wishy-washier brand of crazy.
“Monster” — Every gay boy in the world will soon be quoting this on his Manhunt profile.
“Dance In The Dark” — The chorus gets slightly more awesome every time I hear it, and that big synth riff reminds me of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove” which is always welcome.
“Bad Romance” — The best kind of bonkers. RA RA indeed. I think we can all agree that nobody’s written a more LOLy pop verse than “I want your Psycho, your Vertigo stick / Want you in my Rear Window baby you’re sick” this year.
“Alejandro” — She kind of ruined the mix for the album version (the buzzy, less stereotypically RedOne mix that was circulating before the full album leaked is far tighter and more adventurous, in my opinion), but this song is still one of the best she’s ever written. I want her to wear the giant neon sombrero that hangs outside Gonzales Y Gonzales for the video.
Note that you reach surpassing-almost-all-other-modern-popstars levels of awesome right between “Teeth” and “Monster.”
Here’s a picture of a delicious Middle Eastern burrito, because everybody missed it last week, but I am covering my face, because it is a Tuesday, and you do not post pictures of yourself on Tumblr on Tuesday. At least I think those are the rules.
How has nobody made a “hungry hungry hippo” joke yet?
More pictures at dailymail.co.uk
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Hippos are spectacular.
That’s what he had done with Alger Hiss.
I like to beat the rush for lines and do not prefer being late, but Gimlet fellated me instantly the instant she and Big and Mr. Wonderful picked me up in their used milk truck at my new home in Altadena, and I had an orgasm on Highway 210, and it felt very good, so Gimlet made me not mind being late in arriving or paying for the tickets, which were very expensive, even to see a Negro.
(Ooh, that’s a saucy one. But of literary value, for reals.)
“Did you know that if you call New York City’s 311 line because your pet is dead, they will tell you that you can “place the animal in a trash bag clearly marked ‘dead dog’ or ‘dead cat’ out with your garbage on your normal trash pickup day”? Good to know!” —
How To Dispose of Dead Pets in New York City | The Awl
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