February 2010
62 posts
The 2010 Grammy’s →
Apparently the Grammy’s were tonight. Did anyone watch? Does anyone care? If you watched were you forced to?
Why is that the Grammy’s seem like the least relevant awards type of…
Hamm and Buble →
It’s nice when the musical guest can knock a skit out of the park. And much like the surprisingly funny Josh Grobin, here Michael Buble shows an exasperated deftness when it…
China Opening Military Bases? →
It’s funny to think of another country opening a military base on foreign soil, because the concept seems so American (not historically, obviously, just there are few countries with military bases…
Jesus2000 →
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The Son of God gets a makeover. FTW. [via]
Wizard of Penetration →
Based upon everything else Peter Biskind has written about Hollywood (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; Down and Dirty Pictures), his biography of Warren Beatty is high on my list of on deck…
St. Vincent covers “Mistaken for Strangers” →
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I’m not a huge fan of The National, some of their songs are top notch, including “Mistaken for Strangers”, but most of their work is just flat, monotonous…
The Man Behind that Wu-Tang Clan-Beatles Mashup →
Tom Caruana is a 28-year-old music teacher in Brighton, England and aural scientist behind the “Enter the Magical Mystery Chamber” — that Wu-Tang Clan and Beatles mashup we told you about two…
January 2010
143 posts
100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes →
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It’s funny just how many of these are from Star Wars and Batman and Robin. Not surprising, mind you, just funny.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Trailer →
It’s difficult to imagine that Oliver Stone was once considered one of Hollywood’s best directors and its agent provocetuer. Now? Well, through the fog, I can’t even…
Tumblers Made from Beer Bottles →
“While many of us recycle (Yay! Go us!), more than a billion bottles still end up in California landfills every year. That represents both a problem and an opportunity for artist and…
Scott Roeder found Guilty →
Great news! From the Washington Post: “Jury finds confessed killer Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder in shooting death of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.” The deliberations…
Mixtape by Luke Snellin →
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Yup, Luke Snellin pretty much nails my childhood, which, I’m gonna guess was also his childhood of making mixtapes and sitting in front of dual deck…
Miramax is Kaput →
Well this is sad, but anyone half-following the develops of Miramax and Harvey Weinstein after the company was bought by Disney and Weinstein left to form a company in his name could have…
NYCTaper and New York’s Taping History →
The Village Voice sits down with Dan Lynch, the 46-year-old attorney behind the fabulous live music site NYCTaper.com. The discussion with Lynch kicks off an informal history of bootlegging…
How to Report the News →
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Charlie Booker demonstrated how you can report the news on television without actually reporting anything. This is fairly accurate. [via here/the entire…
Larry the Cable Guy Gets a History Channel Show →
Like a regular Charles fucking Kurault: “In Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy (it’s a working title, so don’t fall in love with it just yet), Larry explores the country,…
Weird Things in Coffee →
One man’s quest to go beyond the usual cream-and-sugar routine for that morning fix of caffeine.
For example: “The long tradition of putting egg in coffee caught my attention. John…
Lost Character Connections →
Someone was kind enough to map out all of the character relations pre-island for Lost. It’s a great chart and a nice way to familiarize yourself ahead of the 2.2 Season 6 premiere. [
Apple’s A4 CPU Chip →
CNET has a closer look at Apple’s first branded CPU chip, the “A4″, and the magic that truly powers the new iPad.
Richard Doherty, director of technology consulting firm Envisioneering Group,
RIP: J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010 →
Death has claimed his first major victory (second if you count Howard Zinn) of 2010, with the passing of novelist and hermit J.D. Salinger from natural causes at his home in Cornish,…
Parenthetical Girls – “Evelyn McHale” →
Portland’s Parenthetical Girls are releasing five limited-edition EPs, which will eventually be packaged together as the follow-up to the superbly under-appreciated LP Entanglements. Lead Girl,…
Chris Matthews forgets Obama is Black →
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Confirming what we’ve long suspected, yeah, Matthews is kinda of like your bumbling moron family member who you forget often enough is actually…
Why Kenyans are Better Marathoners →
I’ve written about this before, but modern sneaker technology, aka Nike, is actually doing more harm than good when it comes to protecting your feet on long runs. But a new study backs…
John Woo Directed a Lost in Space Pilot →
The entire pilot is on Youtube (embedding disabled) and like a lot of television pilots it’s mostly boring — especially because there are no pigeons and double gun shootouts in space. Sigh. Isn’t…
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 →
Historians lost a great one today when, Boston University professor and author of A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn passed away at 87.
Apple’s iPad →
It’s pretty much all anyone talked about today, and for good reason. There’s plenty else to read about the tablet, but I will put out a few things about the iPad — here are the …
The State of the Union →
You’ve got to admit that the President gives good speeches. All in all another impressive performance, another reminder of why he was elected in the first place. Now if he can just go…
School Lunch for a Year →
School lunch is the dregs, luckily, for most of my life I had a mother who brown bagged it for me. Though throughout high school I got school lunch because that’s what everybody else did….
DC Judge Stalked by Ex →
I smell a Law & Order: SVU episode coming on really soon: “Days after D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Janet Albert broke up with her girlfriend, the judge found her former companion…
The Loose Threads of Tonight’s State of the Union →
I’m having a difficult time mentally tying several loose threads together, ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, but in my head they all somehow seem related to one…
Sci-fi Scenes Performed by Typography →
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Interesting. “Some awesome video artists have been using kinetic typography—which simply means moving text—to re-create these and other classic sci-fi,…
The Light Bulb Goes Digital →
From Brainstorm Tech:
By the end of the decade, analysts predict, LEDs will be the dominant source for commercial and residential lighting.
LEDs, which are based on a technology similar to…
Is Indie Dead? →
Contemplate: “There’s this old parable, the tale of the blind men and the elephant. The men are asked to describe the enormous creature based on how it feels; the one who touches its trunk says…
Pac-Man Shelf →
The only thing that would make this sweet, sweet Pac-Man shelf worth buying would either be the ghost wall lamps or if you could create something on your wall so it looks like Pac-Man…
It’s Apple Tablet Day! →
Are you ready for your world to change? Because even though Apple hasn’t said anything about their big event being held today, everyone pretty much assumes they are going to announce a tablet computing device
Syphon Coffee at Intelligentsia Coffee →
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If I lived in Venice, Calif. I would probably go to Intelligentisia quite a bit. As such, I’ll just have to settle for Stumptown up here in PDX, which I…
Repo Chick Trailer →
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Wow. Just. What. I mean. Alex Cox would have been better off giving some Hollywood executive a Dirty Sanchez, or a donkey punch. I just. I DON’T GET…
The Paywall Experiment →
Ouch!: The Observer wonders, “how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?” three months after the media company installed a paywall,…
New Additions to Awesome Tarantino Poster Set →
Ibraheem Youssef has just added posters for “Inglourious Basterds”, “Death Proof” and “Jackie Brown”; I think you’ll agree these new additions to Mr. Youssef’s stupendous “Quentin…
Sanctity of the US Military Budget →
Glen Greenwald tackles something few politicos in DC would dare — the sacred cow known as the bloated U.S. military budget.
The facts about America’s bloated, excessive, always-increasing…
The Search for Andrew Irvine →
Although finding Irvine without his camera (or finding a camera that is too badly damaged to produce pictures) would shed little light on whether he and Mallory succeeded, “we have good reason to…
The Walking Dead Script Review →
One would assume that a Frank Darabont scripted/directed television show, based upon Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead zombie comic, would be can’t miss. Especially because AMC is…
Listen to the new Midlake album “The Courage of... →
Denton, TX’s Midlake made quite the splash with their debut album, The Trials of Van Ocupanther, though it had it’s moments and seemed to launch a great new talent, the accolades the…
Charlie Brown TIE Fighter →
Behold the Charlie Brown TIE Fighter by Tom Torrey. The power of the grief side is too strong.
The photo’s caption reads as follows:
“This is a kit bash sculpture I did with an old…
2009 Feltron Report is Released →
Easily one of the scariest, most interesting and OCD-y things anyone does, Nicholas Feltron has released his annual report, which tracks everything he does in a given year. He’s been…
The XX – VCR →
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I just picked up this record a few days ago, and have been giving it the once over. I like it, certainly worthy off all the accolades.
A Clock Made for a Furbush →
How badly do I want this? How badly do I wish I wasn’t late for just about everything? [via]
Movie Made by Chimps to Air on BBC →
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This is not from The Onion. I repeat not from The Onion, but rather, it’s from BBC News:
The world’s first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be…
New Radiohead – “Lotus Flower” →
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During the second encore of Sunday’s Radiohead concert for Haiti, Thom Yorke debuted “Lotus Flower,” a brand-new track presumably one that will end up on…
Todd Margaret Gets a Full Season →
Remember that David Cross, Will Arnett, Spike Jonze sitcom on the BBC, that looked pretty funny, but no one was sure it would get a full season order?
Well, it’s been picked up for…
