December 2011
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In 1783, John Jacob Astor set out for the United States with $25 and five...
– Learn the flute.
Scott Weiland released a Christmas album. Also, Slipknot is opening a day camp for epileptic kids.
North Korea is a society that thrives on its opaqueness. The only thing we know...
– from The NYT’s In Kim’s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure
Things I Won't Miss Hearing When I Skip Going Home...
“Are you still doing those skits?”
“New York (sigh) I don’t know how you do it!”
“We gotta get him outta office!”
“Your hair/your beard is so long!”
“I like that Burn Notice! You should try and get on that!”
Movie idea #476
oldkingcrow:
Dragon with the Girl Tattoo
The last American soldiers left Iraq today. I like... →
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iamachilles:
Bootlegged Dark Knight Rises trailer.
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IT’S BATMAN
Speaking of Batman, I randomly played Batman in our Harold tonight at New Team Harold. Also, the Flash was a hipster who made Kombucha in a bathtub in the Keystone City version of Williamsburg and Martian Manhunter was a big Detroit Lions fan. Annnnnd scene.
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Steve, Billy, Bruce, Steve →
Steve Winwood, Billy Joel, Bruce Hornsby, Steve Perry on Spotify
I always hate that moment in documentaries about social movements where somebody...
– From the A.V. Club’s excellent retrospective - Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads....
– Jeff Hammerbacher, Harvard graduate, former Facebook research scientist, and all around general smarty-pants.
The end of the year has brought an abundance of “required reading” lists. Here are a few (longer) articles I’ve been enjoying over the last two days.
Paul Haggis vs. Scientology - An fascinating look at the personal life and career of writer/director Paul Haggis set against the history and rise of the Church of Scientology.
All the Single Ladies and The End of Man - Two...
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself
– Author Unknown
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A Conversation with the Overnight Housekeeping Guy
Richard: Do you know anyone with cancer?
Me: Um...no.
Richard: Bummer, if you did, I would steal their Oxycontin and sell it.
Me: (blank stare)
Richard: I gotta go vacuum the chandeliers.
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SNL Season 25 - Census Taker with Christopher Walken and Tim Meadows
yup. The best.
Love this sketch forever.
Auto Census Taker Sketch Reblog.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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I love stuff like this. Completely fantastical insanity, couched in a familiar context.
Movies and literature and music have never changed less over a 20-year period....
– Which is exactly why Jay-Z and Wilco need to get on that collab.