May 2012
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Laugh with the tears in your eyes. →
Third letter down. RIP MCA, you perpetually irreverent inspiration. Today New York City has lost a crucial member of its musical elite.
April 2012
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Instagram, The Nostalgia Of Now And Reckoning The... →
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perpetua:
This is a really good essay by Amanda Petrusich about the ways Instagram lets users “age” their digital camera phone shots with filters that mimic the look of various analog photo printing effects. I totally understand why people would look at this and think “ugh, too easy, cheap nostalgia,” etc. I am not a photographer anymore, but I have a degree in photography from...
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I'm pretty sure Lena Dunham is trolling HBO into...
Being poor. (Nope, never.)
And not having indulgent parents. (Huh-uh.)
And ever worrying about being forced to work at McDonalds. Because actually if she did work there, she’d probably get a good essay for that “meh”-moir of hers.
I’ll give her that she probably does know something about crappy sex with jerk actors. Every woman does. But the other one? The one with the...
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Read This Now. →
Jack White is beyond.
He’s weird, loves vinyl, and lies to reporters. Oh, and most certainly rocks with his cock out.
Read this article right now.
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Tucker Max and Planned Parenthood: 2 Things I...
Wait, so we’re all getting up in arms about Tucker Max donating half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood now?
I mean.
Just because he was a self-proclaimed asshole? Take it where you can get it non-profits. This is BS because people are upset just because it sounds like he’s saying that girls should be able to get abortions when he impregnates them from no condom drunk sex like...
March 2012
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Louis CK and BJs.
Was walking in soho with a friend who had just told me this dude she’d “seen” was now engaged. This guy had re-ignited a flame a few months ago with another girl and he’d just put a ring on it. As we were walking and talking I shouted (according to her, I think I speak at a normal volume), that she should be glad because she “didn’t have to suck that...
February 2012
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Is Pinterest the new Napster? →
When Pinterest launched, there were a couple different opinions on it:
1) Oh, this thing? Just for laydeez planning their dream wedding. I enjoy my MAN BLAHGGING platform, Wordpwess.
2) This is Tumblr without all those hard to understand werds.
I like me some photos, but I’m mostly on the internet for smart people’s writing. In a post earlier this month about Pinterest, Choire at...
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January 2012
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New Life Goal.
Get myself into the In Memoriam section of both my high school and college alumnae magazines with a cause of death listed as Auto-erotic Asphyxiation.
It would accomplish quite a lot:
1) removal from both mailing lists
2) scandalizing/duping classmates I hated
3) sharing lulz with classmates I loved
4) emulating my idol David Carradine in print at least
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Cocaine Blues by Escort.
One of those tracks that just feels right. Ha, I guess like cocaine.
But, really, it’s a jam not just because it has salacious subject matter. It makes you wish for Studio 54 and white pantsuits with nothing on under.
And it was written in 2011.
Hey, DISCO is always.
bmichael asked: I guess the difference for me is that the women are characters in the weeknd songs, but lana del rey is sort of just herself in her songs. she's a character, sure, but she's always herself. the weeknd can never be his characters. i sort of thing ldr is like anything else, where people sort of like it or dont. i listened to video games about fifty times in one day and really enjoyed it....
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Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd: Sex, Drugs and oh...
Another day, another Lana Del Rey leak. This time it’s “National Anthem,” a nicely jaded capitalist ode that praises drinking and driving and excess buying. “Money is the anthem of success,” Lana coos. Perhaps it really is cash-money that gets our girl Lana all hot and bothered since this is the first time I’ve ever heard her not sound narcoleptic.
Part...
December 2011
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“At a lunch in New York, Stemberg and Allison shared their disdain for Section...”
– From the brilliant Bloomberg News story by Max Abelson in which rich assholes in the 1 percent shoot their mouths off. Amazingly they go ON RECORD saying stupid things like the above.
Read all of it here.
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Young Sadult.
The last trailer before Young Adult began was for Titanic in 3D. I raced to cram my fingers in my ears so as to not get the horrific Celine Dion song we all know and hate stuck in my head. Didn’t work. You’ll be happy to hear that the trailer included every single thing you remember oh so fondly from that bad bad film: Kate and Leo flying on the prow, the spin-dance, nude sketching,...
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7. Morning handjob As the girls and I discussed... →
Usual link bait over at Glamour magazine on what to give your manz this holiday season so that you guys have a triple X-mas.
Does it surprise any of the ladies out there that both “blow jobs” and “hand jobs” made it on to this list? Does it surprise any one out there that this guy couldn’t come up with more than 8 items?
First of all, a hand job? Really? I’m...
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Shame.
Couple thoughts on Shame, which I saw last night in at the AMC theatre on 68th street and Broadway. Same place where I saw Avatar and, ugh, multiple Harry Potters. So, mainstream as they come and probably just as filled with bedbugs.
I expected to enter a theatre with solitary audience members spread out with many seats between one another and a damp trench coat over each of their laps. And...
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Sex, Porn and Young Adult Fiction.
“In one of the scenes, which was really important to me, one of the main characters, David, the asshole character—well, he’s a player, he’s gotten around, but eventually he gets to have sex… It’s a disaster, physical sex with a girl, it’s not doing it for him. They’re in the dark, and he’s—his whole sexual life has been built on porn. So just to get off, he needs to imagine...
November 2011
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Eugenides & Barnes.
Both these authors have new novels out: The Marriage Plot and A Sense of an Ending, respectively.
Even though Eugenides is American and Barnes is English, both stories use the old fashioned love triangle to explore the damage individuals wreak on others, even (especially!) the people they love.
Most crucially though both novels feature scenes where a main male character wanks off into a sink.
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Discographies really got it right this time with... →
I mean:
“2% retired mailman scat-singing over a fleet of defective zambonis”
These are words etched of genius.
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Realizations part 1.
Came to the epic conclusion that what I really, truly want more than anything in the world would be to find a nice man for once and settle down somewhere sensible like Connecticut and have a girl and a boy each and a golden retriever named Buddy and then just slowly murder each of us like Madame Bovary.
One can dream!
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Perfect Graphic Representation of European Debt... →
I think the artist is going for “extreme visual clarity.”
According to Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, the euro zone is “the ultimate contagion machine.”
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but I was under the impression that Gwyneth Paltrow was?
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TLC, Meet Your New Head of Programming
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of hitting a surprise birthday brunch and was seated at the end of the table with a hilarious couple. We mirrored one another’s humor and hangovers. While we were trying to slide our faces on front-wise through the application of copious mimosas, two attractive women next to us engaged in a gravely serious conversation about sharks, as in:
Lady A says,...
October 2011
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CMJ 2011 Round-up Round 1 →
It’s that time of year! Which means that SXSW is just around the corner…
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It brings attention to the toilet market, not... →
The fuck?
The New York Times has a toilet reviewer now apparently. One would think that every toilet was practically identic—- Jesus Christ, what am I? Some sort of toilet philistine??
Nearly every line here is a gem. I won’t ruin it for you, but I would love to call out one bit:
“The audio quality was quite good, considering that you are listening to a toilet.”
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September 2011
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“For a play on Spotify, the artist gets paid $0.00029, So… 5000 plays...”
– (via notesladykier)
This is horrific. I understand that consumers have A) long-standing resentment towards record labels for historically charging quite a lot for albums (remember that $18.99 for Boyz II Men from the Coconuts in the mall? Hard won, that was. Hard won.) B) grown used to getting...
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UBS Proclaims: "Last One Hired, First One Fired....
You know, I always think these stories about so-called “rogue traders” are a PR sleight of hand, as in: “WAT?! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME! WE LOST HOW MUCH?” “2 billion.” “WHO DID THIS? TELL ME WHO DID THIS!” “Well, you, for one thing. And your whole team, as well as that entire branch division we set up in our London office was actively...
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On the show, Zooey Deschanel’s Jess, following a... →
Usually I shy away from girl-on-girl crime because when the in-fighting begins your enemy can relax. But this Zooey Deschanel business is too much. New York Magazine describes her as a “paragon of femininity” and “hella adorable.” And her character on her new show watches Dirty Dancing while crying uncontrollably? Who does this endear?
No doubt, she’s...
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New Endeavor!
Gonna start a sex blog with my well-wrought pseudonym: Tina Vanderlips.
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August 2011
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A Big Day, Today Was.
Realized that the only thing I enjoy MORE than a good, hearty chuckle is… a good, hearty fuckle.