October 2010
29 posts
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If something happens to me in the next hour and
they go to my email and
the last email sent to me was me
sending “Demi Moore picture”
to myself
(You know the one)
I just want the world to know
I sent it to myself so
I could make it the incoming call photo for one of my friends
on my phone
as a joke
(Have not chosen which friend yet)
(There’s a formula.)
“she was weird-looking because I drew her face too quickly, and then her leg fell off, and then something happened with her balance and she spent her twilight years lying on the floor on her face.”
If you aren’t reading everything that goes up on The Hairpin you are really missing out.
While we're on the subject of things that annoy me
(Because we are.) Don’t you hate when bloggers (none of whom would possibly be reading this - this annoyance is from my very unfortunate ALMOST OVER I SWEAR I’M DOWN TO THREE habit of hate-reading of certain Carrie Bradshaw-type blogs that you would literally never guess in a million years, for real) write about compliments other people give them? It’s like the main content of...
Idea For Halloween Party I Get Every Year When...
Everyone must wear a costume that they bought no earlier than 1 hour before the party started at a chain drugstore from the picked-over leftovers. Best/funniest costume wins.
Maybe next year.
Celebrities Who Were In My Dream Last Night and...
1. Robin Williams: ski resort owner and annoyance.
2. Whitney Port: bald eagle defense activist.
3. Lauren Conrad: girl in sauna reading magazine.
4. Jessica Pressler: other girl in sauna who told me to go up and talk to…
5. James Franco: love interest.
The Daily Beast Calls Me "Stephen Colbert of New... →
alexblagg:
bajillionhits:
Earlier this week I did a real nice presser with Tina Brown’s must-read media influencer cultural buzz cheat-sheet The Daily Beast, and their profile of me finally went live today. I feel pretty good about it. They called me the “Stephen Colbert of New Media”, which I thought was sort…
I would really like this to be the stickiest, ickiest, noisiest, buzziest story...
“I would always imagine the Statue of Liberty as a gigantic babysitter.” - From an awesome new interview with Jenny Slate in death and taxes mag. (Great pics, too!)
The best thing about Jezebel’s “Grossest Story in the World” competition is the fact that it’s educated hundreds of thousands of people about MRSA. (I could not personally stand to watch much of the video at that link.) You would not even BELIEVE how many otherwise intelligent people have no idea what MRSA is. MRSA (“Mersa”) is flesh-eating drug resistant staph...
Sometimes I wonder if what I think of as my pretty decided sexual preference is based solely on having never yet been in the same room with Samantha Ronson.
New party/drinking game: "OJ Trial"
A few weeks ago I was hanging out with some friends and this game occurred completely organically: go around the room and each person has to name a figure who became famous from the OJ trial. I don’t know how on earth it came up in conversation and so quickly became a game, but it was pretty fun. There are so many! You know the game is over when someone tries “…the...
Watch“How Do I Know You?”: This is a full sketch from next week’s Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time. I love this sketch. (Also, Bob Odenkirk guest stars next week. Also: gay robot!)
(It also reminds me a little of a scene I love from the Britcom Pulling, but aside from one conceit they’re completely different, so I’m not saying anything by mentioning that. They’re...
I think I might remember the day this happened.
“In the douchebag, the hipster had found its other.”
(Via Emily)
You can learn so much about your fellow humans...
Like from my new carbon monoxide detector (caps theirs):
“The test/silence button is the only way to test your detector. NEVER USE VEHICLE EXHAUST!”
“NEVER PAINT OVER YOUR CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR!”
You just get the feeling they have to be based on so many true stories of idiocy. (And in the case of the vehicle exhaust warning, possibly boredom.)
A Probably Wrong But Hopeful Timeline
Everything until the ’90s: Exclusivity
The ’90s: Fake Inclusivity
The ’00s: The Illusion of Exclusivity
2010 on: Inclusivity!
Let’s do it, World!
Errol Morris's Publicist Swindled By AT&T
A scary story from indie film publicist Reid Rosefelt (who gave me my first job in New York a decade ago, Hi Reid!), who was charged over $1700 in data charges when he went to the Toronto Film Fest to promote Errol Morris’s new movie, Tabloid, even though he researched everything ahead of time and did everything right. After 20 days of daily phone calls:
“On Friday I received a text...
How I Found Out I Was Old
“When you talk to people afterward, it was as if they were seeing two different films,” said Scott Rudin, one of the producers. “The older audiences see Zuckerberg as a tragic figure who comes out of the film with less of himself than when he went in, while young people see him as completely enhanced, a rock star, who did what he needed to do to protect the thing that he had created.”
- Oh...
Yes. Let's hope it's for casting.
Re: new Wes Anderson movie:
“Nothing is yet known about the plot, but The Playlist was able to find out that the director has been looking for a twelve-year-old of each gender, presumably for casting.”
