December 2010
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“Come back to SnooDogg.com at 4:20 PM PST to check out the premiere of Snoop...”
– Snoop Dogg : News : Announcement: Snoop Dogg Dropping A New Song For Prince Williams Bachelor Party
I hope all rappers on Earth take Snoop’s cue and record a song for Prince William for the best mixtape in the history of royal weddings. Snoop wants Kate Middleton WET.
November 2010
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“It’s all about the worms in the wig, the stink on the princess.”
– Filthy, Rich: Kanye West’s Royal Fantasy — Vulture
A super-duper beautifully written review of the new Kanye West. Reading a piece of writing like this is like meeting a gorgeous person who is also intelligent, deep, and expressive.
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“Clubs lose influence when corporations like Red Bull cease being mere sponsors...”
– SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - An Empire with Wings: Red Bull Pumps Energy into the Sporting World - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Instead of traditional sponsorships, Red Bull takes teams in shambles and rebuilds it—from management to stadiums to athlete signings. Being a fan of...
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“On Wednesday, a crew member of a New Zealand tuna fishing ship spotted the small...”
– Brother: Boys went out in search of love, ended up at sea for 50 days - CNN.com
Power of pussy sets things into motion that leave the three teens adrift at sea for 50 days. The first food they requested upon rescue? McDonald’s fries.
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“There are little cues you give the other person, a careful touch in a spot you...”
– What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
An interesting combination: Aspergers plus being able to have an orgasm thinking about having one.
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“Some of the discoveries have been subtle but brilliant. For example, officials...”
– What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com
The metropolis as database. Cities like New York with a 311 service can crowdsource information to prioritize projects or datamine to find surprising cause-effect phenomena. Whereas most media tackle technology from...
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“Whatever the Afghan man’s identity, the talks that unfolded between the...”
– Taliban Leader in Peace Talks Was an Impostor - NYTimes.com
This is some next-level impostor shit. A man pretended to be a Taliban negotiator and took a bunch of money from the allies to show up to peace talks. I’m wondering if this little man could have cost Obama his re-election? Sounds...
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“A spokesman for Lloyds said the cost of the policy depends on the worth of the...”
– Sponsors seeking a Jess effect take out ‘disgrace’ insurance - Advertising, Media - The Independent
Companies take out endorsement insurance against celebrity spokespeople. You might as well roll the dice on disgraced celebrities. In most cases, after the scandal blows over, it’s...
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“One thing they’ve done every year is put a pad of cheesecloth over the turkey...”
– My Wife’s Mad at Me, and Other Issues - NYTimes.com
(Presented without commentary because this is just so fucking awesome.)
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“By 7.30 a.m, a half hour before the store opened, the line stretched about 50...”
– Waiting in Line at Four & Twenty Blackbirds - NYTimes.com
You guys, if you have time to get to a pie shop, however great it is, and wait over 30 minutes, you can make a pie and get bragging rights. If you have a food processor, pie crust is a cinch to make. If you’re judicious about...
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Kanye West: Project Runaway →
It’s a long weekend. Take some time to read this Complex feature on the recording of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy if the record is rocking your world like it is mine.
Reading this made me miss working in music. I never worked on a huge, important project like this and I did PR/marketing so my role started later in the process; but I loved the flow of how a record came together. It...
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“I’m getting a lot of questions about the new security regime, including some...”
– Tougher Airport Screening Prompts Calls for Day of Protest - NYTimes.com
TSA: Once you grope, you don’t stop.
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“Jay said: “He is a f****** nuisance. I was seated next to him on a flight...”
– Jay Kay kicks up a stink about ‘smelly’ John Lydon | The Sun |Showbiz|Bizarre
Jamiroquai guy complaining about Sex Pistols/PiL guy as if we still care. Well, I guess PiL did say “Anger is an energy”:
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“Christopherson was a man ahead of his time. He built electronic equipment and...”
– Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson: 1955-2010 | Music | guardian.co.uk
Oh, Sleazy, why so soon? So much of what I am today is rooted in Throbbing Gristle I can’t stand to see them fall away like this. TG and Coil on repeat tomorrow.
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“Ronni Chasen, a well-known Hollywood publicist, was shot five times before she...”
– EXCLUSIVE: Top Hollywood Publicist Murdered In Beverly Hills Shooting | Radar Online
Should I be happy I was merely pink-slipped from my shitty PR job?
Oh, but to die like Tupac in a hail of bullets from a mysterious assassin!! Only a true publicist’s publicist would want to go out in such...
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“At the age of 28, Mr. Kinnucan was hit by a bus while jogging in Florida,...”
– FBI Visit Sheds Light on Tactics in Insider-Trading Probe - WSJ.com
As far as I’m concerned, pretty much everyone in finance pre-2008 should see the inside of a jail cell. But I can’t help but kinda like this guy who was sipping wine on his porch when the FBI came to visit and tried to...
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Larry vs. Louis: Why You Don’t Need "Jokes" to Be... →
A pseudo-statistical analysis of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie, which feels kind of like high school biology frog dissection. You can’t analyze comedy like this, but it’s curious to see jokes, plots, callbacks, etc. tallied in this manner.
If you haven’t seen Louie, please do. I believe it is available via Netflix streaming now.
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“What are the actual economics of listing your restaurant on OpenTable? First and...”
– Is OpenTable Worth it? | Incanto
OpenTable’s MO reverses the Ticketmaster model of charging the customer and splitting the profit with venues. The venue pays Open Table and the customers enjoy the perks of discounts, loyalty points, etc.
In all the years of dining out, I’ve only used...
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WatchMagnificent headline: “While Screaming Bible Passages, ‘Ugly Betty’ Actor Kills Mother With Samurai Sword”
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“Barney spotted our neighbor’s lawn, where he promptly took care of his business....”
– George W. Bush’s Memoir ‘Decision Points’ - Review - NYTimes.com
Closer to Bush 43’s book. In some ways, I miss this idiot saying idiot things in that cocky idiot way. “Misunderestimate” has made itself at home in my vocabulary.
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“The author compares the mating habits of human beings to other rapid—and...”
– Bering in Mind: Not so fast … What’s so premature about premature ejaculation?
In case you wear out the “I don’t know, this never happens…” excuse, here’s one grounded in science.
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“Biologists expect that deleterious mutations will pile up in asexual species in...”
– Guest Blog: We all need (a little bit of) sex
FUCK!! Literally.
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“In one of Mourning Diary’s first entries, Barthes describes a friend...”
– Roland Barthes’s Mourning Diary. - By Meghan O’Rourke - Slate Magazine
Roland Barthes: one of my absolute favorite thinkers and writers. I completely vibe on this notion of mourning versus outside curiosity. This makes it difficult for me to come up with anything meaningful or useful...
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“What I’m trying to say is that it creeps me out that everyone I know is...”
– An Open Letter to Tavi Gevinson and Jane Pratt | The Hairpin
When I read about the Gevinson-Pratt collab, I thought about sending in writing samples, but then I felt like that’s “begging” or “stooping.” This Emily Gould piece articulates the annoyance, though I’m...
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WatchI love Jesse Eisenberg, the person. I remember his first interview on Conan after Squid and the Whale came out; he was absolutely so completely different from his character you instantly knew he was a fantastic actor. He’s hilarious in the clip here talking about his cat fostering guilt cycle.
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Cost Per Tweet of Notable Twitter Users Partnered... →
Michael Ian Black gets $5882.50 per sponsored tweet. Daaamn.
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F/M/K: Hugh Laurie, Rahm Emanuel, Anthony Bourdain... →
I feel this, but isn’t the point of this game making the choices difficult not because everyone is hot, but because everyone is repulsive in some way? Because with these three, my answer would have to be FFF.
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WatchFucking dolphins. Literally. Presented by Isabella Rosselini. NSFW, I guess? It’s dolphin dolls fucking.
Remember dolphinsex.org? It was one of the older Interwebs memes.
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“She said, “Well, we’re very new to this job …” and I...”
– Penn & Teller | ROAD PENN
Fuck yeah common law! This whole post by Penn Gilette on going through airport security is worth a read. I am so stealing “freedom is kind of a hobby with me” next time my rights are impinged upon.
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“Silvio Berlusconi’s enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery is well documented,...”
– New penis for statue in Silvio Berlusconi’s office | World news | The Guardian
The facetious tone of “it was not previously known to exted to either genitalia or classical sculpture” really brings it, doesn’t it?
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“Now 51, he hasn’t made a feature film since “Evan Almighty” in 2007. He sold a...”
– Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times
Bigtime Hollywood producer and director Tom Shadyac gave away most of his money and possessions, moving into a trailer park. His last feature was Evan Almighty, which is unfortunate and makes you...
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WatchA politician drinks a few cans of Four Loko at a doctor’s office, gets his vitals checked, pukes off-screen. Somehow this is supposed to convince us that Four Loko and similar beverages should be banned by a nanny state.
I might be sympathetic if they got a seasoned drinker after a decent meal to take this challenge or had some other fair way of testing rather than feeding the drinks to a...
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“An editorial on Friday about the Supreme Court’s review of a California law...”
– Corrections - NYTimes.com
Thinking about the Venn diagram of the set “repellent acts” and “rape.” The NY Times thinks they do not intersect.
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“At the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, a favorite of...”
– Marketers Target Users of Foursquare With Discounts, Perks - WSJ.com
This article is about the Four Square providing marketing infrastructure to businesses, but what caught my attention is the “mayor” of Four Seasons, where the cheapest entree is $29 at lunch. The power lunchers...
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“The state Department of Corrections on Tuesday will lock down all eight state...”
– Budget woes lead to prison lockdowns
How is this not a violation of the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution? Lockdowns are for riots and other disturbances. If the state and the prison system cannot balance its budget, should prisoners’ rights be curtailed? Sure, they are criminals but if...
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WatchDrop everything and spend the best 5 minutes of your day with this video. My mind was blown over and over. And yes, it’s great when something blows something of yours over and over on a regular basis.
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“Almost immediately after seats went on sale, the 75,000 simultaneous visitors to...”
– Everyone Hates Ticketmaster — But No One Can Take It Down | Magazine
Depending on perspective, business rushing to your site is, in effect, a denial of service attack. This Wired piece proposes that Ticketmaster’s monopoly was not only built on screwing over the concert goer with ridiculous...
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