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Nov
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I dont know how long Jon has been working on his Glenn Beck impression, but however long it’s been, it was absolutely worth it. He knocks it out of the park here.

Nov
5th
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Yeah, and I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I’m glad I’m married, and I love my wife. But there’s never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness. Even when I was in a different country last year, I lived in Germany, I missed things about America, but the fact that I was there by myself wasn’t an issue. I’m good at being by myself. I guess if you’re a writer you get used to that.

Chuck Klosterman

Oh Chuck, I really wish you would stop stealing my thoughts and feelings and then articulating them far better than I ever could. I mean although this quote could have come straight from my head, I guess its not a totally uncommon sentiment. But the fact that in your latest book you wrote about Chris Gaines/Sasha Fierce and how they relate to the idea of authenticity, an idea which I myself had been working on writing about for some time, is pretty damn freaky.

Nov
3rd
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I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought or processed.

Lloyd Dobler

20 years on, still a good life plan

Oct
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18th
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This being tumblr and all, you can be sure I have some thoughts on seeing Where The Wild Things Are this weekend. They’re here if you care to read them. But I think the thing that really struck me were all the trailers for kids’ movies beforehand. This one in particular.

There are just so many questions I have.
-Why would you cast someone who barely speaks English as the lead in a comedy?
-Since when are Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus, and George Lopez big enough stars to headline a movie?
-When did Uma Thurman change her name to Amber Valletta?
But most importantly: If you went back to 1994, the year Dookie was released, would anyone believe you if you told them that one day Green Day music would be used to advertise family friendly comedies?

How did we get to this place?

Oct
16th
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Oct
15th
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Q: Hey Andy can you give us an example of what you think of when you hear the phrase “comedy at its finest”?

A: Why, of course. I’d be glad to.

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Whats Up With B?

I’ve always noticed that it takes me about five minutes to scroll through the B section of my iTunes, but I never realized until today just how many artists I love start with such a seemingly random letter. I would understand if we were talking about S or T or even M, but B seems like such a unlikely letter to be so wildly popular. By my count I have 118 artists in my iTunes whose names start with the letter B. Hell, there are 13 artists alone who start with the word “black”. S may technically outnumber B (129 to 118) but the number of heavy hitters in B is just staggering. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Beck, The Band, The Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen and of course Bone Thugs and Harmony are all some of the biggest names in the last half century of popular music. And if you want to go back further than that there’s Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. I don’t know why B is so popular, but maybe it provides some explanation as to why when I was three years old I insisted on going as the letter B for Halloween.

Oct
14th
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boringoldraphael:

In case you forgot how many people live in New York.
Very Small Array is a blog full of great beautiful charts and graphs.

boringoldraphael:

In case you forgot how many people live in New York.

Very Small Array is a blog full of great beautiful charts and graphs.

Oct
9th
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purns:john:whitneymcn:(via soupsoup)




Nicely handled.

purns:john:whitneymcn:(via soupsoup)

Nicely handled.

Oct
7th
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  • Me: Hey look, Whoopi Goldberg is narrating the new show at the Hayden Planetarium.
  • Kacy: Did she just agree to do that because space is black?
Oct
2nd
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Its strange to me that Zombieland and Michael Jackson’s This Is It are both being released in the same month. You would think the studios would want to space their zombie movies out a little more.

Sep
30th
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patrickcassels:

“Dr. Spacemean Medical Moments,” 30 Rock’s most underused character gets the 3-minute montage he deserves. Spacemean continues a great tradition of hilariously unqualified doctors, in the footsteps of Dr. Nick Riviera.

Thank you Jesus (or in this case Hulu) for this. Dr. Spaceman is by FAR my favorite thing about 30 Rock, and not just because I think it would be a perfect role for Sam Reich. Its high time Chris Parnell got the recognition he so richly deserves.

Sep
24th
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A thought from last night

“Im having too much fun to be cool”