December 2011
34 posts
Watchmerlin:
Hardware Wars (dir. Ernie Fosselius, 1978)
When I was 14, I thought this was about the funniest thing ever.
FLUKE STARBUCKER: Jeepers! What is it, Augie Ben Doggie? Did you feel a great disturbance in The Force? As if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced?!? AUGIE BEN DOGGIE: No. Just a little headache.
Like I say, I was 14.
Anyway.
Ernie Fosselius -...
erina:
Billy Joel - Vienna
I don’t think I’ve...
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The DFW-Eugenides Plot
mcnallyjackson:
Since today is Things Vaguely Related to DFW Day on the McNJ tumblr: Yesterday over on New York’s Vulture blog Willa Paskin posited that Leonard, a character from Jeffrey Eugenides’ forthcoming novel The Marriage Plot, is based on David Foster Wallace. And she’s right! And not just because he has a vague interest in the way time works. And, you know, chew and a bandana.
As...
All I'm saying is that if Storage Wars didn't...
My brother-in-law and I went to a storage unit auction last week! It was EXACTLY LIKE THE SHOW. People with flashlights, people with padlocks, people outbidding each other. The sad part was that once someone won a storage unit, they just put a lock on it and walked away; you never got to see what was inside. Also, Barry wasn’t there.
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“Unbeknownst to most Texans, Gov. Rick Perry officially retired in January so he...”
– Perry’s retirement, pay boost spark charges of hypocrisy - Houston Chronicle (via robot-heart-politics)
The Party Down Movie is (Actually) Happening →
erina:
Also of note, a longer Parks and Rec story on Grantland next month.
As with the Arrested Development movie, I’ll believe there’s a Party Down movie when I’ve bought my ticket and am sitting in the theatre waiting for it to start.
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“A question of who should be allowed access to a safe form of contraception is at...”
– Obama’s woman problem - Salon.com
RARGGHGGHHGGHGHG with the “would you want YOUR daughter to blah blah blah” defense of sexist bullshit.
Obama administration refuses to relax Plan B... →
jessicavalenti:
The Health and Human Services Department has overruled the FDA decision to make Plan B available to anyone regardless of age. Fucking outraged.
Total. Fucking. Bullshit.
“Tebow is a faithful person. He’s full of faith — filled to the top and oozing...”
– Chuck Klosterman wrote a really interesting article about hating or loving Tim Tebow for Grantland (via erina)
That 78.4 figure scares me (though I saw it coming), not because I think Christians are all scary or anything, but because the United States isn’t a particularly easy country to live...
Ingurgitate: The same person who sang "You’re a... →
sarahb:
giddygirlie:
mentalflossr:
His name is Thurl Ravenscroft. He’s grrrreat.
His voice is also in the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion rides at the Disney theme parks. His is the face on the “broken” bust in the graveyard scene that a lot of people think is Walt Disney…
Why have I always thought Boris Karloff sang the Grinch song?
I did, too. But A-HA! He couldn’t...
“Obviously there’s no elaboration on whether he’s also been eschewing electricity...”
– This is what Daniel Day-Lewis looks like as Abraham Lincoln in jeans | Film | Newswire | The A.V. Club
Sean O’Neal is stealing my jokes!
