July 2010
31 posts
William Shatner's New Interview Show Might Be...
On Monday night, the Biography Channel (that’s channel 143 for New Yorkers with Time Warner*) premieres “Aftermath with William Shatner,” a show where Shatner interviews people who were briefly famous and briefly in the news and then receded, like Private Jessica Lynch and the DC Sniper (the DC Sniper!) While it appears most or all interviews will be on the phone, there’s...
Kitty Genovese: Cellphone Video Edition
The most disturbing thing about this video of a young woman recently jumping on the subway tracks and staying there on purpose during a fight with her friends isn’t even that that happened. That woman is simply deranged. It’s the part where at least two bystanders, who may not even know each other, are getting cellphone video of it and saying “I’ve got it I’ve got it...
All These Years I've Liked "Happiness" For the...
From an interview with Todd Solondz in the La Times:
“When I first screened ‘Happiness’ at Telluride years ago, this college kid came up to me afterwards,” Solondz recalls. “He was a little drunk, and he said, ‘Awesome. I loved the movie. That was great. And when that kid was raped — that was hilarious!’ ”
Solondz winces before going on to...
Cohen Vs Skurnick, Round Two
Oooh, now this is a slow-new-summer internet fight I can really get into. I don’t even need to specify my team.
I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds
I heard people die while they’re trying to find them.
Yay NVC! 'Mad Men Unbuttoned' is out today. →
(via alexbalk)
Yay! Order here for the Mad Men obsessive in your life (probably you.)
Please Don't Let There Be A Blackout On Mad Men.
From the Mad Men syco-fan site I love to love to hate to love:
“It is possible that season 4 will cover the northeast blackout, which occurred on November 9, 1965. Given that the blackout occurred a little after 5 PM, it is quite possible that some characters may be stuck in an elevator.
Who would like to see stuck in an elevator together? It could be characters with a past history,...
Hit Me Rabies One More Time
If you were like me and obsessed with rabies as a kid, or if you’re on the fence as to whether I am an actual real-life crazy person, you will like this post on The Awl that I wrote: Down the Rabbit Hole: A Guide to Rabies Videos.
(Never touch a bat, kids!)
Rise If You Must: Are My Drinking Habits Ethnic? →
agallagher:
At the bar, Irishmen (but not Irishwomen) have their own etiquette about paying for drinks. When a man buys the first drink, he leaves the change, a stack of bills, on the bar, and when a friend comes by, he asks, “What will you have?” The bartender takes the money from the bar, returns the…
My dad, also Irish, taught me this method, too. He and his friends picked it up from the...
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness,...”
– From “Tweet” by Oyl Miller (via cajunboy)
Wow, just wow. The 2010 version of Howl. Best.
(via whatevs)
I’m of the mind that there is nothing more unimaginative or amateur or cliche than a Howl spoof. But I haven’t had coffee yet, maybe that’s why. It has, though, been done to...
“A great deal is already known about how the virus works. In almost all cases, it is downloaded onto a victim’s computer from a trojan Website such as 1800flowers.com or zales.com.”
- “Retraction: There is In Fact Such a Thing as a Virus That Puts Porn on Your Computer” by Eric Hague on McSweeney’s.
A Modest Proposal That Is Not Satirical At All
Wait, why don’t men just freeze up a bunch of their sperm and then get vasectomies so women don’t have to take crazymaking hormonal birth control anymore? Do people already do this? Has nobody ever thought of this?? This!
According to the Wikipedia vasectomy page which features many photographs of balls, men are advised to freeze some sperm before the procedure, but what I’m...
"Scream for me!"
“As this young girl with “Telephone”-esque soda cans in her hair gushed over the sound system, she actually said, “Thank you for letting me be what I want to be!” My stomach turned. I felt like finding that girl, shaking her and commanding her to conform.”
Rich Juzwiak went to see Lady GaGa last night, and and wrote it up genius: “The Populist...
“Alleged victim Bridget Hardy claims White punched her in one of her breast implants while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway last month.”
- From TMZ’s report on Urkel’s legal trouble.
Only in LA is “the breast implant” considered a normal part of the human body.
Lightbulb!
“It sure seems like he was chosen to be as offensive and ridiculous as possible.”
- A Jezebel reader responds to AJ Daulerio’s site takeover today. (And this was before his “bring back the handjob” manifesto.)
I Respect Dane Cook Now? What?
The interview with Dane Cook on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast this week was amazing. Cook’s style of comedy still isn’t for me, and I find his fans unsavory, but after hearing this I no longer think he stole jokes (the argument was always pretty flimsy anyway.) I also have to say that I kind of respect the guy now. It’s a totally compelling interview (though if you’re not...
