September 2011
I enjoy that Mohney and Bakes are juxtaposed on the media poaching list.
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New Disney Show: DOG WITH A BLOG →
flavorpill:
Absolutely not. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Oh I disagree, color me INTERESTED. It’s the new “Snakes on a Plane!” He’s a dog! He’s got a blog! What else do you need to know?
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Guest: This place is almost perfect. Almost.
Owner: I’ll bite, what would make it perfect?
Guest: A flat-screen television.
Owner: Oh.
Guest: Behind the bar.
Owner: I see.
Guest: With America’s favorite game.
Owner: War?
Guest: No, the N.F.L.
Owner: Oh, war substitute.
Guest: Imagine great food, great wine, and Tom Brady. What a trifecta!
Owner: You must be a gambler.
Guest: Wanna...
"I'm curious about the theoretical tax situations... →
So feel free to bitch about coffee runs, and lunch runs, and taking out the trash, and photocopying a whole book one-page-at-a-time if you want, but it was the single most valuable experience I’ve had in entertainment because it was the first stepping stone in getting me to where I am today.
(via spytap)
I suppose I should also feel free to bitch about the time in grade school at a...
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_________ can read?
nickdouglas:
“The most eyecatching detail to emerge recently is the claim that, in a five-month period shortly after the service launched, Spotify users enjoyed more than 1m plays of Lady Gaga’s song Poker Face – which earned Her Gaganess the sum of $167.”
Who makes money out of Spotify? | Sam Leith | Music | The Guardian
We should be outraged! Unless, of course, the rate at which artists earn...
Here's another piece of regrettable local writing...
The air is redolent of ideological disorganization mixed with the unmistakable smell of unwashed humans.
That’s beyond Grynbaum territory and firmly into Vogon poetry territory. Well done!
The one thing I legitimately feel bad about today for SAWX fans is that every sportswriter in America - most of them with excessive self-regard, and the same ones who wrote almost universal predictions that this year’s Red Sox team was a lock for the AL East crown, a likely WS winner, “perhaps better than the 1927 Yankees” - will now spend the day writing these hand-wringing...
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Is anyone else having problems loading Grantland? It’s working just fine for me!
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I’m proposing a new citywide all-media-encompassing editorial board, a mid-sized committee made up of educated citizens (and a few freelance journalism pros), to review news reports from the major outlets and critique them for their strengths and shortcomings. These would be published daily on a blog for public review.
Examples of easily-found criticisms:
“Article filled with...
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I used to be a big fan of __________, but then I...
I used to be a big fan of __________, but then I followed him on Twitter and gradually discovered that he’s a pompous, whiny little cunt and now I kinda wanna punch him in the face. True story.
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Police Department to Examine Pepper-Spray Episode
BALONEY PEPPER’D!
The battle royale brewing between New York and Silicon Valley to be the nation’s dominant epicenter for tech innovation and hot start-ups wages on.
This is like a lacrosse game between two prep schools being staged next to 100 acres of shanty towns. Only a few rich and upper middle class people are worried about sizing up NY vs SV. The vast majority of people - including tech workers - are...
cakeandviolence:
what-is-this-i-dont-even:
Fucking Cyclists
Seriously. If there is a bike lane or a sidewalk, GET OUT OF THE FUCKING ROAD.
Cyclists are legally required to use the road, or use the bike lane that’s in the middle of the road, and share the road with motor vehicles. Did you read your driver’s manual at all? You are not an intelligent person.
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You know what would be ironic? Or not at all ironic but amusingly juvenile and annoying? If we mailed _______ ________ a ________ sandwich every day until whenever he was found guilty of ______ ________. Because he’s full of _______. Fuck that guy.
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By the way, here is why Grynbaum’s writing is totally ridiculous. He writes 18 paragraphs generally slanting (and philosophically ruminating) about how the installation of underground mobile reception towers near six subterranean NYC Subway stations will cause incredible changes in behavior and etiquette. Paragraph 19:
Mr. Russianoff noted that nearly 200 stations are above ground. “I’ve...
After this round of financing, Tumblr has to generate $85 million in post-tax profit just to make their investors whole (zero return on investment) - possibly more than that, if there are any investors left from the last round. Remember that they have few discernible sources of income (the ones that are known do not seem to compare in scale to the size of the investment rounds) and have not had a...
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Classic Grynbaum:
Most of all, the trial could lay bare the deep ambivalence of iPhone-addicted urbanites who lament their digital tethers, and yet guzzle so much smartphone data that the city’s cell networks often slow to a crawl.
This is a winning Scrabble game. A sentence, not quite.
I think the NYTimes is just rage-baiting me today! Not biting it! Nope!
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6h057 replied to your post: Amateur TV Reviews
I’m gonna keep complaining about Whitney until people are interested enough to watch Whitney
I was tempted to see that, but I was also tempted to see “The Human Centipede” and my better senses prevailed on that one too
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Amateur TV Reviews
“The New Girl” isn’t going to be winning any Emmys, but if you’re looking for an appropriately anodyne half hour of comedy television, why not? How much can you complain after “Outsourced”? But there needs to be a remote control that knows to auto-mute the sound whenever Zooey starts singing. What started out as charming in Elf… I have just had about...
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What if I just unfollowed _______ right now?
This would be a good time for Brooklyn hipster stand-up comics out there to start bugging their agents about TV work.
You are six years late to THAT train.
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So funny I forgot to laugh
Amram’s Tweets showcase her signature twisted, dark humor: “I’ve got some terrible news: FOX.” “I think one of my dads might be gay.” “Girls go to college to get more knowledge. Boys go to Jupiter because they’re in control of NASA, science, and their emotions.”
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there is no room for learning (or hugging) in this...
there is no room for learning (or hugging) in this gig
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Do you live in NYC? Then fucking read this now and don’t forget about it in an hour. (via The New York Times)
A [police] union official was captured on a wiretap telling a union colleague who was under scrutiny in the case that he had received a call from someone in the [NYPD] Internal Affairs Bureau, and that the caller had warned him that the investigators were on the way, the source...
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on facebook, privacy, and the hindered development...
maura:
I feel like so many of the innovations involving technology and persona being put forth right now are being fashioned by people with myopic “everything is great right now and will be that way forever” outlooks, and that they don’t really have any sense of what life beyond their VC-funded Silicon Valley privileged existences might be like.
Porch'ED! →
Where are we going to have Feld’s birthday NOW? Lame-o-rama.
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He mentioned the surprise he felt when, after the... →
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Good night America and see you tomorrow, when we decide which randomly targeted potentially innocent convict is next to get executed by the state as a surprise to the public, as if we never heard of this happening before. Enjoy your pills and I’ll see you in the morning!
