December 2011
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‘I wish it was the Sixties, I wish, I wish, I wish something would...
– Wonkette
PORTLANDIA (Next Friday, IFC) Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s heavily hyped...
– I guess The Grey Lady isn’t a fan.
We drove home late and I dropped him off at his hotel. Sometimes I get confused...
– Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in Portlandia: The New Yorker
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ALSO, WHAT IS 'PUNCHBUGGY'?
The Big and Small Moments of 2011 | Philadelphia Weekly
Big moment: Occupy Philly splinters over whether or not to point their sing-song derisive chants away from corporate influence in national policy and instead yell at Mayor Nutter. The newfound Nutter haters vow to live in tents forever, or something, and now also hate Reasonable Solutions, a splinter group that worked with the Mayor to...
Network Awesome: Christmas with the Lettermans →
Over at Network Awesome, something else I “curated” to make everyone’s holidays just that much more joyful.
Oh? And the guests? Pat Boone and Brother Theodore.
Network Awesome: Dave Foley's the True Meaning of... →
A thing I “curated” over at Network Awesome for the holidaytimes. I remember seeing this when it first aired. I was at Laura’s apartment in Michigan, she didn’t have cable and could pull in a kind of snowy signal from CBC Windsor. Couldn’t find anything about it for years. Then, thankfully, someone uploaded it to youtube.
Starring (in alphabetical order) Jann Arden,...
Gingrich: Capitol Police Could Arrest ‘Radical’... →
Lately, I’ve been reading Edmund Morris’ three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt and I’ve just passed the campaign of 1912 and the founding of the Progressive Party. The issue Roosevelt kept thumping, almost obsessively, was that of judicial recall- allowing voters to be able to counter judges and their decisions. The conservative, traditionalist majority of the Republican...
theatlanticvideo:
A 360° Music Video for Alan Wilkis’s ‘Come and Go’
This panoramic music video directed by Alan Wilkis and David Sosnow is actually a full 360º image, shot with Kogeto’s HD Lucy camera. Wilkis’s catchy track features The KickDrums‘ Alex Fitts, and can be downloaded for free here.
MILLION-DOLLAR TWITTER IDEA*
One of those fake auto-response Twitter deals, only around the holidays.
“NickTheBartender”
At any mention of angels, it would respond with- “All right, you two pixies- out you go. Through the door or out the window!”
*Will not actually make any money
I would love yo make more movies. That is a FUCKING HARD JOB though, dude. Just...
– Louis C.K. lays out his dream plan in a Reddit Q&A (via nickdouglas)
‘Mrs. Dash has SICK flavor.’ That’s their new ad campaign. And...
– Physically Unable to Perform: The Sofia Coppola-Andy Reid-Rachel McAdams-Caucasian-Sadness Vehicle | GQ.com