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The Finer Points of David Rees (by MotherboardTV)

Another great thing that David Rees has created is urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com

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roundtableguest:

LOLOLOLOL

OMG THANK YOU

(Reblogged from paulscheer)

jessethorn:

Nothing in the entire history of the world is as funny as The Banana Dance.

NOTHING.

EVER.

BANANA.

Now that Eagleheart is back and Get a Life is finally coming out on DVD, all I do anymore is watch Chris Elliott videos on YouTube.

(Reblogged from jessethorn)
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A description of the situation in vigorous Caro-ese might read something like this:

“In the editorial world, William Shawn was a man of immense power. He wielded it quietly, softly, almost in a whisper, but he wielded it nonetheless. Not for nothing did some of his staff members privately call him the Iron Mouse. For writers, Shawn’s long wooden desk was like a shrine, an altar, and in the passing of proofs across that brightly polished surface — pages and pages of proofs, stacks of proofs, sheaves and bundles of proofs, proofs from the fact-checkers, the lawyers, the grammarians, proofs marked with feathery hen-scratch and with bold red-pencilings — they discerned something like magic, the alchemy that renders ordinary, sublunary prose free of impurity and infuses it with an ineffable, entrancing glow, the sheen of true New Yorker style.

“But that style was not for everyone.

“It was not for Robert Caro.”

Robert Caro’s Big Dig

Let’s all write things in Caro-ese!

(Source: The New York Times)

Robert Caro’s Painstaking Process - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

How do I make every part of this slideshow my life?

It’s like Sports Night but with News instead of sports and Sam Waterston instead of Isaac. And Olivia Munn instead of Natalie.

THE NEWSROOM 1st Full-length Trailer (by HotflixMovieReview)

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Q: How often do you prepare your own meals?
A: Never. I’m surrounded by incredible restaurants and a wife.

Jason Jones Is Into Bath Salts and Cheap Hot Dogs — Daily Intel

At a movie screening last month, Jason Jones talked about how this PSA was one of the best things to come out of Canada. It’s long been one of my favorites, and I told him this by shouting over him and correcting him when he forgot that the dad pours on the coffee on the waitress. Because I’m a better Canadian than he is.

Also, about his wife, Samantha Bee’s segment on the boycott at the Park Slope Food Coop on last night’s Daily Show was a thing of beauty.

The eighties garage-collector scene was an incestuous milieu, and Warren soon got to know just about everybody involved. Some became lifelong friends and allies; others became bitter rivals and thorns-in-the-side. Like all obsessive collector subcultures, it had its fair share of weirdos, rip-off merchants, and congential liars.

Winning TV show idea: Storage Wars/Comic Book men show about collectors of super-rare records. What sort of weirdo could we get to play the Dave Hester role?

Quote is from Simon Reynolds excellent book Retromania.

Sexist ads from the ’50s never get old or any less offensive. But that’s sort of their charm, isn’t it? (via Buzzfeed) View high resolution

Sexist ads from the ’50s never get old or any less offensive. But that’s sort of their charm, isn’t it?

(via Buzzfeed)