April 2010
25 posts
My Special Thoughts About the Movie "Chloe"
Yesterday I asked my boss (me) for the afternoon off and she said yes (she’s a genius with staff morale) and rode over to the Brooklyn Heights Cinema to see the guilty-pleasure thriller “Chloe” by myself (literally: I was the only one in the theater.) Anyway, if you plan to see Chloe (and it’s ridiculous but pretty guilty-pleasurey), don’t read this because...
“Writing whole books is like hauling flour sacks around under the thumb of an evil tyrant who keeps wanting the sacks stacked in new and different arrangements. You just have to remember the tyrant really does have a vision, and he will settle on it if you give him enough time, but it is important to tell him to fuck off and that you need to go lie down whenever you want, too.”
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Buy this: Are We Winning? By Will Leitch
Are We Winning? by Will Leitch did the impossible: it kind of made me care about baseball just a little bit. But it’s not really a book about baseball (or really, a sports book) - as corny as this premise sounds, Will has absolutely pulled off a love letter to his dad and family in book form (but with lots of drinking! And the “f” word!). I read the galley in one rainy...
Go Emily!
doree:
Oh I really enjoyed this interview in New York Magazine of Meghan Daum and Emily by Curtis Sittenfeld, but particularly this wise thing that Emily had to say. Emily says many wise things, which is partly why I enjoy being friends with her, but it’s nice to see it in print where it will be disseminated to other people so they can appreciate her wisdom as well:
When women are honest about...
Things I Ate That I Love: Fuck the New Niceness,... →
Here are some easy ways to demonstrate that you’re a decent human being online. I wasn’t born knowing this stuff so I don’t expect anyone else to have been, either.
1) Comment under your real name. “But I can’t, I’d get fired from my job for posting such inflammatory/mean/personal blog comments.”…
Amen to all of this, to which I’d add: commenting under your own name (or, in the...
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Gigantic Assholes
(Here is something serious-ish, and even ranty, for a change!):
(Update: I can’t even believe I have to say this, and I could have definitely been more clear this morning when I was absolutely incensed, but of course free speech is a good thing that should be fought for. Duh. This post is about attitude. If you’re going to put a bunch of people’s lives in danger, the least you...
“You could put a long blonde wig on a ferret and it would look like Jessica Simpson.” - Liz Lemon, 30 Rock Season 1.
I think of this line every time I go to Los Angeles. And this week: Ke$ha.
Things I Ate That I Love: Things not to read while... →
This morning I spent some time on the phone with an automated Time Warner Cable robot, and then after that I was on hold, and then after that I was on the phone with a human who sounded an awful lot like the robot. The outcome: someone will have to come out and look at my modem and probably…
This was really funny, but you should probably also not think of the name of the blog while...
What Do You Do When Your Mad Men Fansite Goes...
If you’re the Lipp Sisters of New Jersey, who run the Mad Men fansite Basket of Kisses, you file a missing persons report on the guy who runs your server. Now that is badass.
(Very glad BoK is back. It’s been a long 3 weeks.)
I’ve been getting the Cracker Barrel hostess to announce “Donner, Party of Six” at family Sunday dinners since I was eleven years old and I’m not going to stop now just because it turns out they didn’t eat people.
(I certainly didn’t stop when I found out everyone else in the universe was already actively making that joke.)
“They’re playing ‘Hey Soul Sister’ at the gym again and I can hear it over Jim Gaffigan on my Nerdist podcast and it’s going to go through my head and my entire day is ruined!”
- A White Whine I had earlier.
Jay Smooth and I consider Justin Bieber on NPR. →
maura:
This morning the first installment of a new, pop-oriented segment featuring Jay Smooth and me debuted on NPR’s Morning Edition. It’s called Pop Off and in our inaugural installment we talked about the No. 1 story in pop right now — the mop-topped Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
Yay Maura!
Just Got An Email Meant For...Snooki?
To: Lindsay Robertson
Subject: Dear Snooki I read you only made $2200 last year. You need someone like me: I made more than 5 times that amount as a college instructor. Want to put our pens and notebooks together? I also see you were born 1/23/88. Your Sun is about 2 degrees Aquarius—meshing into my Leo lair at 2 degrees Leo. Hear me roar? Also, your Venus in Pisces...
Watchalexblagg:
Happy Fucking Birthday to Videogum!
(This is amazing.)
Videogum Forever.
Spiersblr: Alien Baby →
I wrote an essay for Glamour a few years ago about my adoption and what DNA testing told me (and didn’t) about my biological mother. Glamour killed it** so I gave it to Lilit for TheGloss. That it was written for Glamour explains both its length and earnestness, and it’s probably the only…
This is so, so good.
