December 2008
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WatchThis clip from Howard The Duck is one of the most profoundly weird love scenes ever committed to celluloid. Also, mid-eighties Lea Thompson? Total Boner Party, even while she’s seducing a duck (especially when she’s seducing a duck?).
Sweathoggian
According to Google, I am the first person in the history of the Internet to ever use the term “Sweathoggian.” As you might expect, it refers to a voice of someone who sounds distinctly like they graduated Summa Cum Kotter. You can find this glorious piece of linguistic inventiveness in this post I wrote about the new John Travolta movie over at Vulture. You’re welcome, Internet!
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Detroit Victim of Its Own Success →
Detroit has become everyone’s favorite whipping boy these days, but in The New Republic, Jon Cohn notes, “for all of Detroit’s mistakes, it is also a victim of something it did right: ensuring a middle-class lifestyle for blue-collar workers.” “In a more enlightened society, after all,” Cohn writes, “government would have made those promises and extended them to all workers, thereby...
UAW busting, Southern style →
Glad someone else sees what the Republicans are up to. Of all the shitty things that the Bush Administration has done over the last eight years, the way they’ve let the Big Three (and, by extension, the entire manufacturing industry) twist in the wind for their sick enjoyment is, perhaps, the most damning evidence of their lack of souls. Because honestly, other than ducking shoes, what has...
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“Let Φ (a physical possibility structure) be a set of distinct but intersecting...”
– An excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s unpublished undergraduate honors thesis, “Richard Taylor’s ‘Fatalism’ and the Semantics of Physical Modality” [via NYT via Flavorwire]
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Those Who Stay Will Be Champions
Smell ya later, McGuffie.
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I'm pretty sure Tumblr makes you stupid.
thegurglingcod:
I never entirely bought into the idea of blog years, but I’m not sure what else explains the nostalgia I feel for the pre-Tumblr era. At the risk of sounding as if I am pining for some discursive never-never land, like I was some Frankfurt School refugee who wound up beached on a Great Lake, the internets were smarter before Tumblr:
1) Reblogging — The ease of reblogging creates...
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Oasis leader shares views on playing Detroit,... →
Remember those Selected Excerpts from The Grizz’s Interview with Noel Gallagher? Well, here’s the final product!
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Horrible Scumbag Steals Puppies from Little Girls →
TMZ’s headline writers are ALWAYS classic. Horrible Scumbag!
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More Selected Excerpts from The Grizz's Interview...
Grizz: How much of the new record are you playing live?
Noel: 6 songs.
Grizz: Are the set lists pretty regimented?
Noel: Very regimented.
Grizz: Are they the same every night?
Noel: Yeah, almost to the point of the fascism.
Grizz: Same order, everything?
Noel: There must be discipline.
Grizz: What is the set list, what’s it like?
Noel: It’s an 8X4 piece of paper, and it has Oasis song titles on it.
Grizz: Mm-hmm?
Noel: Yep. And we start at the top, finish at the bottom.
Grizz: And the ones in the middle you play in the middle?
Noel: The ones on the middle, yep, they get played in the middle. It’s got 6 songs from the new album, 8 from the two famous albums, and about another 6, odds and bits and bobs and B-sides and album tracks and that kind of thing from all the rest.
Grizz: Anything from "Be Here Now" in there?
Noel: There was, initially.
Grizz: What was?
Noel: "My Big Mouth" was there, initially, but we got rid of that because we felt the set was one song too long.
Grizz: And that’s the one that had to go?
Noel: It didn’t have to go, it was just kind of well, if we’re gonna drop one song, you can’t… I’m looking at the list and I’m going, can’t drop "Supersonic", d’ya know what I mean. It’s obvious. If you take a straw poll of the people in the room and say would you rather hear "My Big Mouth" or XYZ -- and I don’t mean the fucking Coldplay album -- what would you rather hear? So I’m just assuming people would rather hear "Cigarettes and Alcohol." I don’t know, I could be wrong.
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Selected Excerpts from The Grizz's Interview with...
Grizz: So what was recovery like? Did you have bruised ribs?
Noel: Three broken, and I had five bruised ribs. I was just laid up in the house for five weeks.
Grizz: Boring.
Noel: Well, you should see my house, it's hardly boring. It's fucking awesome.
Grizz: Did you stay in bed, or did you tool around the house?
Noel: I've got a 1 year old son who requires a lot of attention, and it was kind of a bit weird not being able to play with him, kind of thing. I kind of sat, lying on the couch, watching TV, eatin foods that was bad for me and not getting any exercise, all that kind of shit.
Grizz: What'd you watch on TV, anything good?
Noel: Constant football. Football and, you know, the Discovery Channel. Shit about sharks, stuff like that.
Grizz: You don't have a computer at all?
Noel: Are you drinking while you're speaking to me?
Grizz: No, I'm not.
Noel: You know, my fucking girlfriend does that and it's really fucking annoying.
Grizz: No, I'm not drinking.
Noel: You are, you took a sip of a drink just then.
Grizz: I did not take a sip of a drink.
Noel: Well you swallowed really fucking loudly.
Grizz: I did, yeah.
Noel: Right then, so don't swallow loudly on the phone. If I don't swallow loudly, you shouldn't. Carry on.
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