March 2011
Dolph Lundgren Update
Yesterday it was this and today it is this.
You did not forget that he played He-Man to Frank Langella’s Skeletor, right?
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This is exactly how I like my poor children… never showing their faces so that I don’t have to look at them.
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Memo to a certain new TV show: if you were hoping to have my support, you might have a bit of a problem, because I don’t give a fuck who killed Rosie Larsen.
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Via @lindseyweber, List of television series considered the worst
Good lord, “Heil Honey I’m Home!” I mean… I mean…
Don’t forget this too!
'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Asked to Cut 37...
chrismohney:
A source close to the AMC negotiations said this was to make up for slow stretches from past seasons of Mad Men and for the entirety of Rubicon
This would have obliterated Weiner’s desire to have a Draper dream sequence where he has a six-hour uncut conversation with Ms. Blankenship, a phone operator extra from the first season, and Johnny Sack.
Jokes I'd make if I were a loose snake on Twitter
“Need a bigger place! How about Kate Gosselin?”
“I really look up to Sheldon Silver. I hear I’ve voted for him!”
“I once bit a sleeping chick at Penn Station at 5am on a Saturday. Had to get my stomach pumped, never again!”
“I can’t see myself buying anything but Apple computers and products.”
“I’m in the dumpster behind...
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Shouldn’t the title of this story read, “Gawker writers helplessly chained to their desk like a sad formica life raft”?
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ericmortensen:
NYC cyclists treat pedestrians the way NYC drivers treat cyclists.
I actively support bicycle culture, but I regularly have to surpress the urge to punch an overtly assholic cyclist right in the face as s/he’s riding by. Supporting cyclists is the right thing to do, but NYC riders are very hard to love. I agree with the sentiments Jay expresses here, but it’s important to...
Just Quit The Internet Already →
In which Scott Adams seems to suggest that a man talking to a woman about “men’s rights” brings up too difficult a situation to bear (enough to discourage anyone from trying, thus altering society’s discourse)… and The Mary Sue posts such a shrill response that no one can ever imagine bringing up the topic again. So, despite whatever awkward point that Scott Adams was...
In summation
derasso:
As an ironic bookend to the previous Triangle Factory Fire post, I just noticed that two reblogs took one of the most tragic losses of life in New York City — one which indelibly altered the way we look at labor rights, the immigrant experience, women in the workforce, and the working class — and transmogrified it into their own fucking philippics about personal misfortunes.
Answering...
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derasso:
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - WNYC
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire. They commemorate it every year down the block from my office, but this year it’s quite heavily attended. So right now, there’s a huge procession going down Broadway, a very solemn one.
And naturally, there are a bunch of fucking cabdrivers and delivery guys honking at...
Kurve space will be craft beer restaurant from... →
Sounds like an epic win for everyone except East Village residents who enjoy sci-fi decor paired with mediocre food. To those folks we humbly suggest… psychological help. And some pierogies from Veselka.
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How steady is your Vangelizing hand?
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“The Valley mantra now is that price doesn’t matter as long as you can put the...”
– VC in 2011: The Haves and the Have Nots « Sand Hell Road (via pk)
See also: Index Ventures
(via caterpillarcowboy)
See also Sequoia: http://twitter.com/sequoia
I find no reason they should not be doing this if they have so much money to risk. BUT it is going to gunk up the works for years....
foreignspell:
brianvan replied to your post: DO I EVER NEED TO [I Heard it Through the…
Related: Macy’s is now using “How You Like Me Now?” in a commercial, which is only the 3,000th time I’ve heard it in the past year. It’s not Motown (musically similar) but it also makes one wonder if Mad. Ave has run out of songs to beat to death
And I liked “How You Like Me Now” when I first heard it in...
baxterp2:
““Oh, Jane Russell and Liz Taylor — I’m next.””
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
I didn’t realize stars took the whole “celebrity deaths in threes” seriously. Ugh, poor thing. “Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the shock of Elizabeth Taylor’s death made Gabor fear she was next and sent her to the hospital with high blood pressure.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor is to death...
nickdouglas:
“A startup called Color has gotten $41 million in investment money—pre-launch. It has seven founders! It’s a social photography iPhone app! They paid $350,000 for the url “color dot com”! (Which is just a “click-here for the app store!) And it is now live.”
Color: Is This the World’s Most Innovative Hook-Up App? | The Awl
I sadistically enjoy watching the tech media embrace...
“An extended NFL lockout would be devastating to the chicken wing industry, which...”
– NFL Lockout Could Destroy Chicken Wing Industry (via heyitsnoah)
The day was worth it after all! →
Contest:
$10 (Delivered via PayPal) to the reblog of this post containing a link/picture to the best / most convincing Princess Maker rendering of a prostitute. No Photoshops! Deadline 5pm EST Thursday (3/24/2011).
GO!
Candidly
I was supposed to quickly follow up on SXSWi contacts when I got back home. But the arrest interfered with that in a couple of ways:
Until this week I was terribly behind on sleep and behind on work, and I lost a whole day of productivity last Wednesday as a result.
The cops made it a point to shuffle around everything in my personal belongings so that all context relating to proximity (example:...
Interesting Facts About Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor had a secret ninth marriage with Tom Green.
She once cold-cocked someone on the street who mistakenly referred to her as Shirley Temple.
Cleopatra was the movie playing on TV when Ian Curtis committed suicide.
Taylor’s second marriage was the result of a proposition bet between Joe DiMaggio and Michael Wilding that DiMaggio lost (and thus married Marilyn Monroe instead).
She sued...
Those Central Park Bike Speeding Tickets Are Being...
iaminlikewithmybike:
The NYPD, having made a mistake, is being classy about it… According to the NYCC forums and Gothamist (and now The New York Times), police officers have paid a home visit to each of those who were ticketed and have personally apologized, letting them know that the tickets are void and no one has to go to court.
It is unclear who ordered the 15-mph speed trap, but it is now...
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AN OPEN LINE EDIT TO FOSTER
…An AdWeek hit piece about me - penned by the “talented” young turk who used his boss for sans-attribution slams on my new editor [WE ALL KNOW THAT] in a series of previous pieces likely commissioned by that same boss over a longstanding personal grudge [WE ALL KNEW THAT TOO]- is now, actually forthcoming. [YOUR ARTICLE ENDS HERE] explained someone to me who was contacted to speak for the piece.
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In the rare event that anyone is reading this for...
The police in Central Park are now ticketing morning riders on the park drive for exceeding 15mph, and they’re using radar enforcement according to some reports.
In case you’re wondering, the official posted limit for all vehicles is 25mph. These tickets can be dismissed in court, but each “violator” has to appear personally on their assigned date or risk a default...
