January 2011
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"This film does to the postal system what Jaws did...
You could always read his profile in GQ if you wanted to learn more about AJ Daulerio. But I think the Top 10 Movies of 2010 delivers more of a straight shot into his soul.
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“Dudes, the stomach thing was a really big deal and actually a key part of...”
– Your Care Bears-related rant of the day.
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"I read the whole thing and wasn't sure it was a... →
ANN ALTHOUSE LINKS TO THE AWL AND THE SUBSEQUENT COMMENTS MAKE RAMBLE ON ROSE’S WORLD ESSSSSPLODE.
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“Seriously, if you don’t have a lot of WASPs in your family, you shouldn’t write...”
– Nick Flynn gives Sari Botton some important writing advice.
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We will all work for Ollie Kottke one day.
After I tweeted about the camera, a number of people asked what setup we were using. We had an old Powershot SD450 laying around, so we gave him that instead of buying a kids camera. Ollie’s three and a half now and pretty conscientious; he doesn’t throw stuff around or smash things so we figured we could trust him with an actual camera. And for the most part, he’s been really...
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“Ms. Portman can now claim what appears to be a unique distinction: She may be...”
– HEY-O, AO!
(Related: “I follow people on Twitter who write funnier lines than most of the ones in this script.”)
"(Mr. Gawande's article on health care costs was... →
Your most “huh. interesting!” parenthetical aside of the day.
Buzz Bissinger > Frank Deford. →
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Interesting Perspective on Knicks' Disappointing... →
realkingfish:
Harvey Araton of the Times analyzes the Knicks malaise through the lens of John Starks’ love of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I haven’t even been able to let myself click on this yet because there’s no way this isn’t just some robot-written blog post that uses a mad-libs style algorithm to cater headline bait specifically to my interests.
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“unless his twitter photo is a gag, mr. rafer seems to like sitting with his...”
– well well, wouldn’t you know that max abelson’s super groovy music video spectacular has gotten itself embroiled in the most important internet feud of 2011. it’s a net benefit to us all, though, when the burns are this crisp.
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"(And this sassy behavior after Schefter shared an... →
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Save the date! →
February 3. Be there!
"They might have missed the stick to the nether... →
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"I want this across the whole site. Thanks." →
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I've read a lot of "holiday miracle" stories over... →
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A new twist on the "giant vat of pasta" method.
Headed to Salt Lake this weekend. Something about the opening entry of the itinerary email from our dear hostess makes me think this won’t be a run of the mill ski trip.
Friday Night:
I will be picking you all up at the airport.
Dinner will be a West African buffet (jallof rice w/shrimp, chicken wings in red gravy, cassava (yuca), plantains, and collard greens), available as you arrive to...
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“Doothy isn’t just my nickname now. I guess if you really knew me, you’d...”
– Dorothy on Doothy.
"Tuesday, you settle down a bit and read every... →
Schizophrenia.
Wanted to point out two posts regarding Jared Loughner.
1. Brendan Koerner:
My line of work has brought me in contact with more than a few schizophrenics over the years, both as story subjects and as correspondents. I’ve become quite familiar with the seemingly impenetrable logic by which such people try to make sense of the world, and how their off-tangent worldviews occasionally lead to the...
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“However, Gondry found one element of Cage’s portrayal of the villain too...”
– The REAL reason Nicolas Cage isn’t in Green Hornet | Blastr (via rrrrred)
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"So should we subsidize or tax research into time... →
…there is some chance that the old science fiction movies are correct and that by time-traveling you alter the course of history, thereby obliterating the universe we used to have. I’ll count that as a net negative, while noting there is some chance we end up with a better universe.
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"She said they do the curly one using a straw." →
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Unsolved mysteries.
You know, with all the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Facebook — the Social Network reviews, the hand-wringing over Person of the Year, the quantitative quibbling over valuation, the entire existence of Millennials Magazine — no one has yet managed, to my knowledge, to satisfactorily crack The Case of the Down Arrow, which remains only the most important...
Have you become a new fan of hockey thanks to the...
If so, the blog Down Goes Brown offers a few handy tips.
First things first: Are there other NHL teams besides the Penguins and Capitals? Nope! Wait, really? OK, sure, in the strictest technical sense there are other teams in the league. In addition to the Penguins and Capitals, there are also the Flyers, Rangers, Red Wings, Blackhawks and… um… the Lakers. Look, it really doesn’t matter....
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