December 2009
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blonde-for-hire:
Jude Law - Poker Face.mp3
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“Listen, uh, what kind of beer do you got? …On second thought, what am I...”
– James ‘Droz’ Andrews, Jeremy Piven’s character in PCU (1994.)
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“‘Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to...”
– W.C. Fields
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Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus
(via)
I have wanted to watch this movie for an eternity. There is nothing I love more than B grade monster movies (see Frankenfish), and let me tell you Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus does not disappoint. The two super monsters are trapped in the ice of the arctic, frozen for millions of years waiting to be freed to continue their epic battle - and who is stuck in the middle - us.
one of the...
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Update: JFK Pic a Hoax
Unfortunately TMZ has now retracted their previous claim earlier today that they had broke a photo of JFK on a boat with at least four naked women in the mid-’50s. The mistake was uncovered by The Smoking Gun.
Well it was fun while it lasted (roughly 2 blog weeks). Now that we can’t trust TMZ, who’s left to turn to?
PS. Here’s the original:
(via Gawker)
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Will "Valentine's Day" be the new "Love Actually"?
Totally didn’t notice when MTV reported back in July that Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner were spotted on the set of Valentine’s Day. Confused as to why they’re not in the original trailer:
We do however get a quick shot of their prom-king-and-queen kiss in this profile, set to T Swift’s “Today was a Fairytale”:
It seems like producers can get any...
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Top 12 Late Night TV Performances of '09 →
Never was a huge fan of music performances on late night TV, but here are a few apparently good ones. I guess 2009 did see the Roots team up with Fallon.
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The Avatar That Almost Was →
(via @williamspc)
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JFK just got more awesome
(TMZ, via Gawker) High res available
The ##’s favorite President is at it again! Reportedly, this is a photo of JFK “entertaining” some fine (and naked) ladies on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea in August 1956 (a Senator at the time).
TMZ concerns itself with the authenticity of “the photo that could have changed the history,” as well they should, considering they...
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Up in the Air (with Anna Kendrick)
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Up in the Air is a movie about attachments and relationships. Ryan Bingham (Clooney) flies around firing people he doesn’t know… yadda yadda yadda just watch the trailer.
The script is beautifully written, revolving around Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. God, Anna Kendrick! (You may know her from the Twilight Saga.)
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Pattinson licking his Twilight co-star...
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Femininity, the recession and fashion →
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Avatar Remake
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I had seen the original Avatar no less than 16 times before 1993, which is when I decided to adopt Keiko the orca because another emotional environmental movie, Free Willy, had come out in theaters. When I saw the previews for James Cameron’s remake of my childhood classic, I got chills. Also, at the time, I didn’t realize how much Cameron would stick to the original...
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Why Invictus Sucked
I would write a really elaborate post actually describing the reasons, but I would rather list them so that I don’t actually have to craft paragraphs.
It’s not “Remember the Titans.” All sports movies should either be like Denzel’s masterpiece or like “Air Bud.” They don’t focus enough on the disparity between blacks and whites to really get you...
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The Situation Meta-enables
The REAL Situation (Feat. MTV Jersey Shore’s The Situation, Snooki, and Pauly D) - watch more funny videos
As Gawker posits, this video shows a new level of self-realization (a la Jurassic Park/Jeff Goldblum) in what we once thought were just guidos. Mike “The Situation” is riffing on “the situation” and how one speaks “situationally” when he first...
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The ## Hits the Slopes
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Hello again gang, here at The ## we’ve been up to our knees in powder for a few days (snow this time, we swear)! The traditional ski trip dates back to the Viking warriors of old, when the Norse took some time off from conquering and pillaging to exercise their sweetness in ski chalets. With winter upon the greater part of the glorious North American continent, we figured that some valuable...
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Finding yourself? Yeah, there's an app for that
(By Something Intellectual)
Distant Shore, a new iPhone app, let’s users wander an endless beach in search of messages in bottles from other users.
The romance of finding a message in a bottle and perhaps replying— hoping to defy the incalculable odds of the sender receiving your reply— is undeniable. Is this a bastardization/capitalization ($0.99) of that rite? Sure; but...
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Shit to get for Christmas: Sorels
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Does it snow where you live? Do you still have boots from LL Bean? Velcro? You need Sorel boots. Sorels. Basic model runs $110. You’ll leave them to your favorite son in your will.
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Wandering Restaurant Reviews: Bellavitae
We were seated in the back of the restaurant, away from the swirling snow and funneled city wind, the hostess leading us past more empty tables than occupied. I think most of the walls were brick. Once we were seated, to my right was a sort of bar area, but rather than mixing drinks a young girl toasted bread and fired pizzas and other Italian goodness in a brick oven, the mouth of which was a...
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NYMag Gossip of the day
Rihanna changed in the kitchen at the Juliet Supperclub for her album-release party, much to the dishwashers’ delight.
(Gossipmonger - NYMag 12/14, accompanied by a perfect B&W cartoon)
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Blizzard '09: Snow in the City
Greenwich Village, 8 pm (By us, The ##)
In case you hadn’t heard, it’s snowing hard here in the Northeast. Are there snow days in blogging land/the blogging lair? Probably not. Bought some extra water for the lair’s fridge just in case.
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Painfully Obvious Set of Instructions of the Day
Some sets of instructions are so painfully obvious it’s sickening.
Exhibit A:
(via www.darrenbarefoot.com)
Top right: Thanks, Chief. Wait, what’s that? Don’t perform drive by shootings with your Airsoft gun? Then what the fuck did I buy this thing for?
Center: Don’t shoot yourself in the face with your Airsoft gun!
Middle right: Don’t gun down unsuspecting...
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Snooki punch sends gym teacher in to existential...
(via warmingglow.uproxx.com)
As the Huffington Post reports, the jerk that punched Snooki is “none other than” Brad Ferro, a NYC public school gym teacher. Obviously such plain evidence of abuse merits an investigation, but for Ferro to get “fired” may take longer than you might think.
Again from HuffPo: “Ferro has since been transferred to one of New York...
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Never Fall in Love at the Jersey Shore
(By MTV)
I stopped watching MTV when “Parental Control” first aired. Correction, I stopped watching MTV when I realized I had been tricked into watching a scripted dating show. I hate you MTV. Every now and then I flip through the channels and watch what “kids these days” are watching, and then I assess “the situation” (pun) and realize I am way too old to watch “True Life: I can’t...
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Stephen Colbert sings Empire State of Mind
(via Today’s Big Thing.)
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The Not-so-easy process of publishing a magazine... →
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Unnecessary Quotes →
“Furthering” our “study” of what “quotes” “mean.”
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“‘My pair of boat shoes fell apart on the last tour, and I’ve been...”
– via NYLON MAG’s piece on Vampire Weekend (January issue). Also check out the relevant pitchfork interview.
Contra cover (via lastgasstation.wordpress.com)
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War? Yeah, There's an app for That →
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How to Get Girls Lesson 2: The D-Floor Hookup
(via nydailynews.com)
Kid Sister’s second lesson on getting girls.
You are drunk. You walk into the bar - your nose is immediately filled with the smell of cheap vodka and your eyes sting from the smoke. The time is right. You approach the dance floor and the ladies are looking hot, or at least drunk/desperate. Time to get your swerve on. You start grinding on some chick and you like it....
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Bitch about Stolen photos, get [blgg]famous
(via Village Voice, [subvia Hipster Runoff?])
Two Village Voice blog posts (one and two) cover the recent feud between photographer Kyle Dreinford and scene-blgger Carles over some misused photos. Apparently Carles posted some of Kyle’s without “permission.”
You can read the posts if you want, but if you know Carles, you’ll only need to read his response to...
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Karen O Pursues EGOT →
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Maybe she can write a musical about her K.O. jacket.
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Lil Wayne joins the dark side?
LaCoste single-button, bitches (via SPIN)
The third track from Weezy’s anticipated rock album Rebirth, a collab with Eminem called “Drop the World,” leaked early Tuesday morning (Nah Right, via SPIN). Not really sure if I’m feeling the “hatin’” or what SPIN calls nu-metal guitars.
Also, all of Weezy’s “rebirth” talk just reminds me of...
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Ron Artest's Open Letter to Tiger →
Web 3.0er that he is, Artest even managed to tag his open letter. You know, for SEO and all that:
Sounds about right.
katiebakes:
hifiny:
“I have known my wife for 16 years– since I was 14 years old. … She was my first.”
This is tremendous.
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Gifts That Will Get You Laid - Esquire →
##’s Kid Sister here. Finally away from all the boys at the ##! I have spent the morning watching girl movies and eating chocolate - and apparently reading Esquire. Christmas is just around the corner - so you are going to need to find something to get that “special” lady. Esquire has provided a list of great options if you have no idea what to get her. Not even kidding, buy me...
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[Blank] of the day: Dream Job of the day
(via TheAwl)
Thanks to The Awl for pointing out this undeniably romantic occupation: love letter writer. Working a recent Brooklyn craft fair, Chris Sullivan, “a scruffy and enthusiastic 22,” sold love letters for a penny.
The idea came from an independent film he’d made this summer featuring a young girl selling love letters. Since he had the sign left over, he figured he’d try his...
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Experienced Escort = Qualified Advisor?
(via fisherwy.blogspot.com)
A blog century ago a former escort of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s named Ashley Dupre appeared on the cover of the New York Post. Now this self-proclaimed “poster child for redemption” is penning an advice column for the trade rag (as well as appearing in some similarly-revealing but decidedly more positive photos).
(nypost)
This of course on the heels...
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[Blank of the Day]: Hybrid Sport of the Day: Chess... →
Unrelated but related association:“Gentlemen, imagine the perfect mixture of athletics, spectacle and speed. Jai Alai.”
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Chivalry isn't dead!
Here at The ##… ugh, more Simon.
(via imstars.aufeminin.com and 8notes.com)
So psyched to see Taylor defending Taylor’s honor on SNL! @Peoplemag called him a “knight in shining armor.” So awesome! I was worried it wasn’t “cool” to be chivalrous anymore— that girls just wanted to be negged.
Neither Lautner (17) or Swift (recently 20) could have...
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[[Blank] of the Day] of the Week: Absurd Rap Lyric...
“No room service just snacks and shit.”
The boys over at snacksandshit.com have been hard at work culling the most nonsensical rap lyrics they can find. Check it out.
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BRUCE WILLIS IS AMERICA.... LOIS LANE [NOT SO...
(via zippyfish.files.wordpress.com)
Welcome Blogosphere!
I hope you all are well today! I am splendid, perhaps you are drinking! Well, I have two pieces of news that might help you as an AMERICAN. 1 : John McClain is America. He gets kicked in the face by China, fights Germans, skullfucks anyone who doesn’t love freedom. Suck up your thong-line, you’re about to get fucked....
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Is Avatar really that good?
Despite predictions of a flop from both Slate and Gawker, James Cameron’s Avatar is getting rave review. The Daily Beast’s Kim Masters says it will change this year’s Oscar race—and the way movies are made forever. As The Awl reported a few blog month ago, reviewers are freaking out.
Bummer. I was just getting in to seeing real humans onscreen.
For us humans only having watched the...
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Song analysis: Body language - "Oh she's so...
We know Kid Sis already blgged about this girl-slaying tune, and despite her advice for us males not to listen to the lyrics… well gosh darn it if it’s not stuck in all of our heads after listening to it on repeat for hours on end.
McCartney makes the connection between the female form and auditory input in his very first lyric.
Ooo, that body’s like music to my ear Ooo,...
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[BLANK] OF THE DAY: #thisishowtheworldends sign of... →
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(via phillyburbs.com)
Here at The ## we love...