Just North of Something Important

It’s…a…caaaake!

Dec 2nd

Ugh, I need to shave, I’m looking way more like...

Dec 2nd

System Overload: How Not To Get Ahead In...

Dec 1st

Frank Black Producing Art Brut's New Album |...

Dec 1st

The Big Chart

erikonymous: Go here: http://homepage.mac.com/clintwynn/thebigchart/thebigchart.html Watch. ...

Dec 1st

“So you are a Marxist then? Not that it is going to matter to...”
— Apparently someone from...

Dec 1st

Will Video Games Save The Music Industry?...

Dec 1st

“I feel like I could adopt a child for this much money.”
— Marcy on What Not To Wear,...

Dec 1st

Fuck yeah lunch

Dec 1st

The New Who? Britney's Comeback Is On The...

Dec 1st

filigree: Happy Hydrogen Bomb, Kuras & MacKenzie ...

Dec 1st

"I made some bad choices"

I just googled “american cheese grits recipe” for work purposes, and that is awesome.

Dec 1st

Obama’s Choice for U.N. Is Advocate of Strong...

Dec 1st

“When gasoline prices peaked in July, says Edmunds, 700,000...”
— The SUV Is Rising from the...

Nov 30th

Fair enough

At Blockbuster. Dad: Hey, here’s a kung fu movie we could watch together. Son: I don’t...

Nov 30th

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So yeah, I dunno, I just feel like this is the kind of thing Family Guy could do with their...

Nov 30th

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drned: macho man randy savage. clearly one of the most under-rated geniuses of the late 20th...

Nov 30th

Annie

As it turns out, it’s hard to do work with Annie playing in the other room.  I haven’t...

Nov 29th

“None of the creators of “The Cleveland Show” thought it was...”
— ‘Family Guy’ Sidekick to Be...

Nov 29th

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after...

Nov 28th

I always kinda thought that the whole mermaid schtick...

Nov 28th

“4. get off my lawn saying refering for someone to get out...”
— Great, but seriously, where...

Nov 28th

This is a few doors down from where my dad spent his early...

Nov 28th

“Nothing seemed to rattle Obama. He had a way of retreating...”
— It turns out there are a lot...

Nov 28th

Liveblogging the Macy's Thanksgiving Day...

catbird: “WTF? There’s a ‘Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends’ float??!??! ——> “WTF? The...

Nov 27th

(via tofuttibreak) In related news, Chinese Democracy is...

Nov 27th

“The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to...”
— Ben Bernake, from the New...

Nov 27th

Live-blogging Thanksgiving

Nov 27th

Awesome rock music montage

The sequence on Top Chef just now when they traveled to Rochester has almost no relation to the...

Nov 27th

Nov 27th

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themattsmith: Smokey Robinson/Sesame Street - U Really Got A Hold On Me I remember being kinda...

Nov 26th

On Relationships

offnotesnotes: mikehudack: unicornology: buyhercandy: frannyandzooey: Can you make it last...

Nov 26th

I'm sorry, guys, I can't get behind any...

(via offnotesnotes) I can’t get behind anything that uses the word “impactful.” ...

Nov 26th

douglaswolk: ArtJournal - New friends and new comics! The...

Nov 25th

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betelnut: A few thoughts: 1) R. Kelly is strangely starting to sound like Pavarotti in his songs....

Nov 25th

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Death Panda!

Nov 25th

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Otto; or, Up With Dead People.

Nov 25th

The Rainbow Connection: Are Music Critics Too...

Nov 25th

The Rainbow Connection: Are Music Critics Too...

Nov 24th

Oh Page Six, you don't know a lot about...

“Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson “are fighting like cats and dogs,” according to our source....

Nov 24th

Listen

tylercoates: Marianne Faithfull - “Down From Dover” (Dolly Parton cover) Oh, so excited about this.

Nov 24th

Worst line in a song this year...

fatmanatee: “Are we human, or are we dancer?” WHAT?!???!??!?!?? a) wrong (pls see...

Nov 24th

Nov 24th

“I AM ASHAMED OF YOU THAT YOU HAD TO ASK ME THAT QUESTION.”
— Larry Kramer, in an e-mail...

Nov 23rd

The Sitcom Digresses

Nov 23rd

“It was as if someone had called to this boom of babies sired...”
— Rick Perlstein, Nixonland.

Nov 22nd

Where are Obama's Progressives?

southpol: Left Out: Not a single, solitary, actual dyed-in-the-wool progressive has, as far as I...

Nov 22nd

Oh hell yes this is still good.

Nov 22nd

Isn't it?

The people who hate it when Puffy samples an extremely well-known song love it when Girl Talk does...

Nov 21st

This is where you lost me, A.O. Scott.

But then, such knowing insidery humor is hardly limited to self-conscious HBO shows like...

Nov 21st

southpol: noraleah: The Mustache of Justice mug // via. ...

Nov 21st

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tesslynch: everybodycares: Dolly Parton - He’s A Go-Getter This is also awesome.  It’s...

Nov 21st

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towerofsleep: Steel guitar talkbox: the world wasn’t ready. This must have blown peoples’ minds....

Nov 21st

“A poll released during the League’s 2008 Annual...”
— Sometimes I’m glad I get...

Nov 21st

josephweisenthal: On Clusterstock,  I weighed in more fully...

Nov 20th

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unsustainable: Cute Overload! Worth going to CO, if only to read the hilarious natto-hating in...

Nov 20th

Michael Weiss on DFW's "E Unibus Pluram"

Nov 20th

Health care for all, says... the...

southpol: Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition The health insurance...

Nov 20th

“Now no one will remember what his work with Joy Division was...”
— Jon Savage in his obituary for...

Nov 20th

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bmichael: th Killers - a Dustland Fairytale I never expected yesterday to be such a weird day,...

Nov 20th

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It seems weird to say that tonight’s South Park was satisfying, but it was.  The goth kids get...

Nov 20th

Random Reflections on the Day's Music...

lastbutnotleast: Is every ambitious idea a triumph? If you start fooling around with a critic’s...

Nov 20th

For the record

lastbutnotleast: I friggin love this story. I mean, this is why they lost. Other than the one...

Nov 19th

Points for effort

Nov 19th

For the record

In public opinion polling, what generally matters is not so much the particular results but how...

Nov 19th

The poptimists discuss my TRL piece.

Nov 18th

“If you had told me, 10 years ago, that I would be unable to...”
— Maura.

Nov 18th

“Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — Jack Rosser’s doctor says taking...”
— Bloomberg.com: Cancer Patients...

Nov 18th

“Barack wants to remove the plasma TV from the famous Lincoln...”
— Barack Obama: What life will...

Nov 18th

hedgieshedgieshedgies: Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning...

Nov 18th

Bye Bye Bye: What We've Learned From Pop's...

Nov 17th

"Those studies showing stocks do better under...

Nov 17th

Oh Matthew Herbert, how do you even get...

Knowing for some time that the world is heading in the wrong direction has meant I’ve felt...

Nov 17th

Mourning Becomes Britney

Nov 17th

Have you ever wanted to see the script for...

Nov 17th

Top 10 Songs of the TRL Era

They’re calling it something else, but let’s be honest here, it was an era and now...

Nov 17th

“In highlighting the absurd ways in which intellectual...”
— What is Art For?, NYT Hyde is...

Nov 16th

Erica explains postmodernism

Erica: So what is postmodern literature?  Is it like Anne Dickinson? Me: Who’s Anne Dickinson?...

Nov 16th

A minor, temporary increase in global...

Nov 15th

Uh, anyway, here’s a pic of a pile of hamster babies.

Nov 14th

"rebranding"

jeffmiller: I really don’t think it’s sour grapes … I had barely a preference between the two...

Nov 14th

obama, the google president

abbyjean: barthel: Initially, I guess, it was that if you think of governance as administration,...

Nov 14th

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway (via...

Nov 14th

obama, the google president

abbyjean: i am a big fan of data and data analysis, as regular readers know…i think this...

Nov 14th

“Mr. Ross, 47, who is the host of a popular television talk...”
— A Bit of a Nasty Giggle Puts...

Nov 13th

mikehudack: jeffmiller: “The Federal Government owns...

Nov 13th

But what do we call Tumblr people?

The previous post applies to Tumblr people (well, maybe not the drugs part, I don’t know...

Nov 13th

Nov 12th

Daily Orange: New semester brings new books,...

Nov 12th

“You don’t live in a country that has for the last eight...”
— This is a great point and a...

Nov 12th

“Germany had a similar program in the 1930’s. Maybe they can...”
— So says sarahchristine. ...

Nov 12th

“It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot...”
— Rahm Emanuel, Barak Obama’s...

Nov 12th

10 Best Bourbons You've Never Heard Of

Nov 11th

Todd Slater.

Nov 11th

Fair use song

Nov 11th

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mollylambert: Lil’ Wayne & Bobby Valentino: Mrs. Officer To make up for making Dave read those...

Nov 11th

Executive orders / forced sterilization

Wooliebear responded to this by posting a FAQ of sorts about executive orders, which is useful.  I...

Nov 11th

Proposed

Paul from After Hours was in a gang when he was younger.  This gang was in The Warriors.  Paul is a...

Nov 11th

Anyway

Rachel’s here now so presumably the grumpiness will recede.

Nov 11th

Sucker.

shorterexcerpts: chrisreinhard: Chalk it up to curiosity; but part of me was really intrigued...

Nov 11th

“The first thing any new president does is to reverse his...”
— Kevin Drum On the surface...

Nov 11th

Your odds

Me: Hey, remember how I said that copyfighters “use over-the-top language”? Well, I...

Nov 10th

The Google-publishers settlement

Nov 10th

Album Cover Gallery: 50,000,000 Elvis Fans

Nov 10th

Man, those Democrats sure do like their...

Nov 10th

Girl Talk Is Not Fair Use

Nov 10th

Newt Wants To End Adolescence

Nov 10th

“There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive...”
— Obama transition chief John...

Nov 10th

Lean times for humbugs

Let me add to Alex’s post about MoDo’s difficulty dealing with Obama by saying that...

Nov 9th

Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People...

Nov 9th

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postpunk: My Bloody Valentine Live in NYC Mute it and just look at the lights. So yes, if...

Nov 9th

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Father MC - “I’ll Do 4 U” I will, regrettably, not be doing this at karaoke...

Nov 8th

“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in...”
— David Foster Wallace.  I...

Nov 8th

Palin

So, in the end, it turns out Palin is like Reese Witherspoon, except in a black comedy where she...

Nov 7th

Things my girlfriend has accused me of...

“Did you buy ham on the internet?”

Nov 7th

A man can only eat cheap for so long

Old Chatham Camembert + 20-month Serrano + fresh bread = had to put my head down on the keyboard for...

Nov 7th

I Wish This Movie Was a Totally...

Stephen Holden: Although “Role Models” pokes fun at the game, Laire is taken seriously enough to...

Nov 7th

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Via teamsassypants.  All worth it for the Rhea Perlman line.  I miss Rhea Perlman.

Nov 7th

Prop. 8 and Obama

doree: I’m sad that Proposition 8 passed in California (though in my home state, Massachusetts, it’s...

Nov 7th

Did you know that there is a food called “pork...

Nov 7th

Syracuse based rock band, Lumination, has released under...

Nov 7th

Fred Savage is directing TV shows now?

Nov 7th

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I was listening to “1999” this morning, as I often do, and thinking about how fantastic...

Nov 6th

The White House Transition Project

Nov 6th

Obama Aides Tamp Down Expectations; Backers’...

Nov 6th

This Newsweek Series Reads Like an Ugly...

An aide approached McAuliffe and said the president wanted to see him. McAuliffe was escorted to...

Nov 6th

This Newsweek Series Reads Like an Ugly...

At one point, Mark McKinnon, a media adviser who had worked for Bush-Cheney ‘04, described the...

Nov 6th

I sorta wish Palin had given her own concession speech.

Nov 6th

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Molly Lambert: I think the reason I like Ben Affleck has something to do with my eternal love of...

Nov 6th

rodtownsend: maura: barthel: adriennes: An extension...

Nov 6th

“Barack Obama is, so far, the first American president who...”
— Ken Layne sums it up.

Nov 5th

bowlingalleylawyer: Nice. This is the guy that told the...

Nov 5th

adriennes: An extension of yesterday’s GET UP AND DO...

Nov 5th

The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

Nov 5th

(via themattsmith) FTW.  The 90s are back!

Nov 5th

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This was my victory song.

Nov 5th

Why?

I’ve been trying to figure out why, exactly, I feel so good about this.  I thought for a...

Nov 5th

Good thing Sarah Palin has practice with...

Nov 5th

Hey, I went to the store.  Did something happen while I was gone? (Yeah, I know.  Best thing I...

Nov 5th

Nope, not watching NBC anymore.

Shawn: It’s funny that you see Rudy Giuliani and you immediately change the channel. Me: Rudy...

Nov 5th

At my polling place, they weren't asking...

jgh: barthel: jgh: I just gave my name and voted. What’s to stop some other chick from...

Nov 4th

At my polling place, they weren't asking...

jgh: I just gave my name and voted. What’s to stop some other chick from walking up to the polls,...

Nov 4th

Waiting on the World to Change No More: Obama...

Nov 4th

Carl Wilson on political fandom

Nov 4th

I think I’ll probably avoid Tumblr for most of the day today, because it’s making me...

Nov 4th

FiveThirtyEight.com: Ten Reasons Why You...

Nov 4th

Listen

Electric Six - Rock ‘n’ Roll Evacuation

Nov 4th

Pitchfork 500: The List

Nov 4th

Cartoon Network Acquires Adventure Time

Nov 4th

Idolator's Guide To Watching The Election On...

Nov 4th

Listen

Dolly and Porter, for a certain someone.  Duet time!

Nov 4th

Freepers say crazy shit about the death of...

Nov 3rd

Blackie Lawless is fucking insane

Nov 3rd

John Murtha: Slayer! Slayer! Slayer! (via)

Nov 3rd

(via animalinsider) Related: Sissy Boy Slap Party.

Nov 3rd

I don't want to say this is going to be the...

Nov 3rd

"Flyover Rock" Is The Future Of Music

Nov 3rd

Working for the Clampdown: A (Sort-of) Brief...

Nov 3rd

Indie Bands Are The New Pets.com

Nov 3rd

YouTube memes I would like to see:

Filming people watching the puppycam for the first time.

Nov 2nd

Nov 2nd

OCTOBER SURPRISE

Only saw one Sarah Palin last night!  I guess everyone got pre-shamed.  Lots of Heaths though.

Nov 1st

Trig in an elephant costume

Nov 1st

Following the Script: Obama, McCain and ‘The...

Nov 1st

Verse, Verse, Chorus, Vote!

Nov 1st