January 2011
“Lost” was a success in over a hundred countries around the world. It spawned a...”
– ‘Lost’ Is Over, and a Show Runner Is Asked, What’s Next - NYTimes.com
Um….no?
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Why Texting Failed... →
Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve... →
Want.
“Once, as we walked in Manhattan, he told me: “Imagine you’re in a game. Think...”
– If Your Life Were a Movie - NYTimes.com
“Of course all my quips and jokes were cut out to make for some pretty vanilla...”
– Selling New York – Our Episode - Here is the (new) House
“Skins is a very simple and, in fact, rather old-fashioned television series....”
– ‘Skins’ Co-Creator Bryan Elsley: “Our Approach Is Not Careless” – Deadline.com
“Apocalypse Moby is “a literary “gene-splice” between two great...”
– The smell of brimstone in the morning - Boing Boing
Oh, you better believe I’ll be reading this.
WatchMy sister’s episode of “Selling New York”
“Quietus Mix 008: Chris & Cosey by The Quietus on Mixcloud”
– The Quietus - Quietus Mix 008: Chris & Cosey | Mixcloud - Re-think radio
WatchUnderworld plays KCRW
“Mr. Elmer, who previously provided documents from his former employer to...”
– Rudolf Elmer, Ex-Swiss Banker, Gives Data to WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Increase... →
music, life, etc.: turnabout: I was now thinking... →
turnabout:
I was now thinking harder about Aaron Sorkin and his female characters. I loved Sports Night and West Wing. I love the characters. And the female characters are smart and capable and rock.
But much of their “drama” centers not around how kickass they are, but how terrible their…
“Write someone who has it all. Or doesn’t have to make that choice.” — except...
“For reading aloud is a dying art. When did you last read something, more than a...”
– The Lingering Loveliness of Long Things
“The virtue of Mr. Gabler’s essay is that it gives energetic and eloquent voice...”
– Neal Gabler Versus the Critical ‘Elite’ - NYTimes.com
RebeccaWigmoreRebeccaWigmoreRebeccaWigmore: The... →
“The math is simple—and bleak. In Obama’s budget, Social Security costs $787.6...”
– Can the Tea Party Really Cut Spending by 40 Percent? - Newsweek
See also: Rand Paul might vote to raise the debt ceiling if there is a 44% cut in every government program
(via apsies)
Uh, and why is cutting defense taken off the table before the conversation starts? It’s the single largest...
“[Fincher] got extraordinary performances out of extraordinary, but young, actors...”
– EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin’s Full Screenplay For ‘The Social Network’ – Plus Q&A – Deadline.com
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“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
I remember many of these. But of course each one happened in its own convenient vacuum. No need for society to turn a critical eye to itself, no siree.
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“Another cofounder, Eric Gradman, sums it up this way: “We’re a...”
– Syyn Labs’s League of Extraordinary Nerds | Fast Company
Emphasis on the glorified!
“Kudos to Stacey Oristano and the writers for making Mindy a compelling character...”
– Televisionary: Coming Undone: The Safety Net on Friday Night Lights
Mindy Collette-Riggins FTMFW!
“Do you have some time to burn and three bucks jingling in your pocket? Have I...”
– Irregular Creatures (Deus Ex Machinatio)
Boughtened.
Han Solo's in Firefly?! →
Oh hells yeah
“I am not horrified by the rhetoric and love of violence on the far right because...”
– The Rhetoric Of The Right - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
“Lost in all of the rhetoric today was the fact that a nine year old girl was...”
– meanmrmustard
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Christina Taylor Green was her name. We should all know that.
(via apsies)
Arizona Sheriff : "Arizona has become the Mecca... →
soupsoup:
Mr. Dupnik called the shooting a “very sad day for Tucson” and a “horrendous, horrendous, senseless, unbelievable crime.” And then he blamed the crime on the rhetoric — presumably political rhetoric — in the country.
“When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government,” he said. “The anger, the...
AT&T Relabels 3G Wireless Network "4G," Actually... →
spytap:
AT&T Inc. flipped a switch and turned on its 4G wireless network Wednesday. The switch, however, was in the company’s marketing department. By relabeling its existing 3G network, the country’s second-largest wireless carrier joined the noisy fray over so-called fourth-generation wireless technology…
God, this is so fucking shady. Why bother doing things like “improving...
“I don’t mean to come off as some starry eyed huckster but, from my vantage...”
– Bryce Roberts : Everything will be reinvented
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Yes. Emphatically, yes.
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Fuck yes. (via spytap)
Here comes the big-ass comet.
“At the same time, Mr. Janollari said: “Obviously, we cannot go as far as the...”
– ‘Skins’ on MTV Will Soon Have Its Debut - NYTimes.com
I wonder what it’s like to live in a country of adults.
Pioneering Cafe Banquette Closes After Eight Years... →
I wrote the bulk of The Good Captain and Spoon River Metblog at Banquette. Sad to see it go.
