July 18, 2008
Wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking.
Bathing beauty!
Bathing beauty!
July 17, 2008
The Wire = ROBBED!
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toomuchawesome: I was feeling ambitious last night and I picked up Absalom, Absalom! up again. This will be the third time I try to take on this novel which, in theory, is my favorite book. Once again, Tyler iz in mah head. I love love love this book. Love. My favorite passage, which I’ve written more than one essay about: They lead beautiful lives, women. Lives not only divorced from, but irrevocably excommunicated from, all reality. That’s why their deaths … are of no importance to them since they have a courage and fortitude in the face of pain and annihilations which would make the most spartan man resemble a puling boy, yet to them their funerals and graves, the little puny affirmations of spurious immortality set above their slumber are of incalculable importance.

toomuchawesome:

I was feeling ambitious last night and I picked up Absalom, Absalom! up again. This will be the third time I try to take on this novel which, in theory, is my favorite book.

Once again, Tyler iz in mah head.

I love love love this book. Love. My favorite passage, which I’ve written more than one essay about:

They lead beautiful lives, women. Lives not only divorced from, but irrevocably excommunicated from, all reality. That’s why their deaths … are of no importance to them since they have a courage and fortitude in the face of pain and annihilations which would make the most spartan man resemble a puling boy, yet to them their funerals and graves, the little puny affirmations of spurious immortality set above their slumber are of incalculable importance.
July 16, 2008
“ The performance is the first in his career that perfectly taps into Eckhart’s weird mix of handsomeness and creepiness.
Aaron Eckhart, the forgotten great performance of Dark Knight.
The Olympics on YouTube: The Best of Barcelona 1992
I was nine years old then, which must be the sweet spot for Olympic retention because I vividly remember almost every item on this list. I also remember pleading for McDonalds (it was A-OK to eat McDonalds back then, and as a young girl I would disgustingly order a 20 piece Nuggets!) just so I could obtain the latest USA Dream Team commemorative soda cups that featured the likes of John Stockton and Chris Mullin. The latter didn’t age well.

Blog the Vote

hitsong:

I was listening to Gwen Ifill’s interview with Obama on last night’s Lehrer News Hour as I drifted off to sleep and I heard him say blogosphere. I thought it was a dream, but the transcript says it happened. Would McCain say “blogosphere”? I doubt it. [Not a tacit endorsement of Obama; I’m still mourning Bill Bradley in 2000.]

I highly doubt it, although I would like to point out that for the past year+ McCain has taken pains to reach out to bloggers. (Recently, though, he seems to have flipflopped on the issue.)

(So, do I get any street cred for linking to someone who has guest-blogged for InstaPundit? MEGAN MCARDLE DID IT TOO!)

“ A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, ‘I was expecting the farmer’s daughter.’ Barack Obama replies, ‘She’s not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American dream.’

I’m currently in the love cycle of my ongoing love-hate with MoDo. Today she asks: May We Mock, Barack?

The column includes some gems from an interview she did with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a few years ago:

“It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of than these guys,” I said.

“Are you kidding me?” Stewart scoffed.

Then he and Colbert both said at the same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!”

When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.

Colbert: Wow, that’s a very street way of putting it. ‘A little blow.’

Stewart: A little bit of the white rabbit.

Colbert: ‘Yeah, I packed a cocktail straw of cocaine and had a prostitute blow it in my ear, but that is all I did. High-fivin.’ ’

I knew my friends were really just celebrating me all those times.
I knew my friends were really just celebrating me all those times.

Kate: Can we have Blankfein gazing into the distance here and chomping thoughtfully on a cigar? WSJ Editor: No.

I wish the Daily Intelligencer were bylined sometimes! This is pretty funny and true. How DOES Kate Kelly find out these verbatim musings?

Best (and for now, only) comment: “I bet Fuld totally called Schwartz first and then three-way dialed Blankfein but didn’t say Schwartz was listening to the conversation.”

I call bullshit. Some naive and unsuspecting person will try to “tackle the bigger stuff” and you will then harrass them for it.
“ By the way, do you think Mariah Carey looks at Whitney Houston now the same way Tom Hanks looks at Michael Keaton, like Whitney may have won the first few battles, but Mariah won the war? Me, too.
The confluence of this Steve Guttenberg profile and this Dark Knight review made me think of the above Bill Simmons musing.
July 15, 2008

Doree makes a smart point about the Jezebel post I linked to earlier: that Jessica, who wrote it, was not involved in the recent “Jezebellian contretemps.” (Doesn’t her phrasing make it sound almost glamorous?)

I actually did consider noting this in the original post (as I do very much enjoy Jessica’s writing and I know she was not part of the Thinking and Drinking flap) but clumsily opted not to get into that level of detail and explanation.

To clarify, though, I wasn’t referring specifically to Jessica OR to the recent Winstead Affair but rather to what I think has been the valid (and broadly general) critique on Jezebel’s “I am woman, hear me whore, and if you disagree then lalala I can’t hear you lalala girl-on-girl crimes” brand of feminism. (See Karion, who is way more succinct than I’ll ever be.)

Is this a fair assessment of the entire site? Of course not! I tend to ignore the posts that I think are going to rile me up, and that still leaves the bulk of Jezebel to enjoy. And (can of worms) I’m genuinely still not sure, when it comes to bylined blogs, where one should draw the line between the individual writers and the overall tone of their site.

But I will say this: the truly egregious examples of “people writing first-person essays about bad behavior and expecting that the mere act of writing about it absolves them of any responsibility and places them above censure” on Jez are few and far between. But they are there, and they’ve been there since long before last week.

Is it too easy to title this post Free Willy?

Speaking of scathing satire, someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me that THIS is all some sort of sick joke.

(I know that it has to be, but still! I can never go to Sea World again.)

“ Shooting Old Yeller represents Travis’s metaphorical entrance into manhood. This means that before any boy can become a man he must shoot his dog in the face.

The 26 Most Disturbing Kid Movies Ever: Family films that will scar your children for life.

(via loggedminutes)

Ha! This is great. My favorite is:

“Watership Down: I don’t want to talk about this any further.”