January 2010
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[[Blank] of the Day] of the Week: Le Smoking
I’ve known about these blogs for a while, but that’s no reason not to share.
Le Smoking
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Learning about Katy Perry's Vagina
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More fireworks from Katy Perry’s twitter last night. And two apologies to her mother.
Apparently the genius pop music producer Dr. Luke is to blame. Perry took her computer back and responded “@thedoctorluke …um you mean RECURRENT? Idiot. THIS IS WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” A brilliant deflection. Later, “Katy Perry’s vagina” would trump...
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WatchNew Yeah Yeah Yeahs video for “Skeletons.” At the very least a fresh reason to listen to the underrated B-sider of the album again.
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NY Mag's latest sex diary →
This is good, but wait until you read the forthcoming ## Sex Diary.
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[BLANK] of the Day: Hashtag of the Day
Here at The ##, we love hashtags. Today’s best hashtag of all time is probably #thatssobieber. It references the tweenster pop-phenom Justin Bieber, he of Usher-endorsed insta-fame, the baby-faced non-talent that your little sister is currently, um, fainting over. Anyway, #thatssobieber is currently trending on Twitter. Let’s allow the Twitterati to chime in:
@_D_e_e_D_e_e_: In...
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“I very well remember at the beginning of the war being with Picasso on the...”
– Gertrude Stein, from her word portrait Picasso (1938)
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Diesel wants you to be stupid
Is your personal brand too ‘intellectual’? Well Diesel has the just the jeans for you!
Aesthetically there’s a lot of gorgeous young, heart-pumping sex here. Lot of voyeurism, exhibitionism, romance and sexting(?). #alotgoingonhere. A page from Levi’s book for sure, but perhaps a slightly different hipster target here. More Cassady/Kerouac, less Whitman/Ginsberg.
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The Spread of a # →
Some fancy, visually displayed research on the spread of #hashtag. (thanks to @williamspc).
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The NF3
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Because every man should have a drink named after him and then tumbl the recipe.
4.5 oz gin
Splash of vodka
Sweet n Sour Triple Sec
Shake
Splash of Coke
Splash of Sprite
Please enjoy responsibly.
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Gaping Hole in the proposed NYTimes Pay Wall
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Apparently the NYTimes will be erecting some sort of “metered” pay wall for some of its online content. It’s supposedly coming in Jan 2011, which is like 120 blog years from now and we’ll all have iSlates or whatever Steve Jobs will call his latest toy.
Of interest here is the Times’ lack of understanding of how users navigate to their site for the 17 monthly...
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New Lil Wayne Mix Tape: Space Jam Martian
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Download here. (Thanks @saymayday)
I’d would go to hell as well if I said you didn’t smell like Victoria’s Secret when you pass.
Alternate link here.
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Gawker's Best of the Jersey Shore [Video] →
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#letsbehonest
#letsbehonest is a popular topic on Twitter right now.
People are finding a way to say what they mean.
Slur it.
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“I just love The Grizzly Bear. That project was great. It sounds like these...”
– -Jay Z, in an interview with The Village Voice. (Note: Grizzly Bear will hereafter be referred to only as The Grizzly Bear.)
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We're with You, Contra
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Who didn’t think Vampire Weekend was going to be a one-album wonder of the Pitchfork Era circa 2k8? Columbia grads? Neavue-prep? Or just destined for a sophomoric fail? The Vineyard Vines shorts and oxford (comma?) shirts were as catchy as the songs, but when 75% of Brooklyn is putting out music at any given time, the deluge can drown even the prettiest catamarans in the indie-rock...
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More Ways to engage in political protest/Leak...
On Tuesday M.I.A. tweeted a link to a twitvid and the phrase “THERES SPACE FOR OL DAT I SEE”
Today, P4k was all surprised about it:
And guess what? It is a brand new M.I.A. song called “Space Odyssey” that’s to be included on her forthcoming album due out this summer, according to her label, Interscope.
(Props to P4k for the word “Interscope”...
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Things That Are About What They Are About: Head...
On May 27th 2009, the underdog-turned-alt MC of Late Night, Jimmy Fallon, aired a segment called “Head Swap.” The only reason I was watching the show back then was for his house band, The Roots, and because I was already “working” for the summer. Clearly the show was still finding its footing, and despite a decent stand as Weekend Update anchor, Fallon himself seemed...
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Get Ordained! →
We just became ministers via our iPhones. It’s free! A simple form and two business days.
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This snippet isn’t from Blake Lively’s Esquire (!) cover story, but what the fuck, right?
BL: Can I have the turkey club, please?
WAITRESS: Mayo on it?
BL: Yes, please. And I want fries. And can I have a side of ketchup and mayonnaise, please?
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Betty Draper Is An Innovator!
From The Shorty Interview with Betty Draper:
Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now? If you mean which words do I wish were more popular, it’s “please” and “thank you” and “would you like a light?”
Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used? I invented a hash recipe using baloney, ketchup and mashed potatoes. Everyone says...
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How much productivity is being lost to Jersey...
Someone else uses meta-enabling to describe the Internet’s/media’s analysis of The Jersey Shore. Sick. #googlealerts.
Reblogged below:
breezybythebay:
I’m trying to calculate how much time I’ve spent discussing Jersey Shore, explaining it to people who haven’t seen it yet (I think New Year’s took care of that), making up nick names, working the phrases “the situation” and “the...
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Pierce Brosnan is even more Pierce Brosnan in...
Hey, the trailer for Roman Polanski’s latest movie is out. It’s dubbed in German.
The movie is called the The Ghost Writer… Ewan McGregor plays the ghost writer of former British PM as played by Brosnan. Sure, sounds cool. We’re definitely in to the whole ghost writer zeitgeist.
But what tickles us more is the Vulture’s short (p)review the movie solely based on...
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen →
“Poetry is not an occupation, it is a verdict.”
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Fool's Gold Makes Me Dance
Damn, don’t wanna just have a good time with these fools? Fool’s Gold, L.A. semi-latest, looks like they have a good time. Nothing makes me dance like those Afro-beat guitars. Maybe I should be thanking Vampire Weekend for bringing that African sound in to indie rock.
If you want to be slightly more “authentic,” check out Fela Kuti:
Fela, now on Broadway.
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Selena Gomez: The Next Disney Grad to "Make it"
Selena Gomez and the Scene - “Naturally” (via Vevo. sick!)
First there was Uffie, then Miley then Ke$sha, now there’s Selena. (And not Selena Lopez.) Selena Gomez: born in July of 1992, ex-Barney and Friends, Disney Channel graduate (The Wizards of Waverly Place). Armed with a barely-legal baby face and a single lace glove (via Madonna) she’s sure to be rocking her way...
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Wandering Restaurant Reviews: Joe Allen's
After the show we walked one block west to a humble green awning. Apparently actors and other theater types are known to come here, especially after their shows. It didn’t look like many out-of-towners were here at such an hour—we could tell by how most of the patrons were only concerned with their own parties. We were the only outsiders, secretly looking out for someone who was or at least looked...
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[Blank] of the day: Picture of January Jones of...
(via iluvskinnybitches)
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Am Appy Skin for Google Chrome →
No nudies though. (via @kripy, subvia @perezhilton)
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[[Blank]] of the week] of the day: Party Pic of...
Here at ##, we have a feature entitled “[[BLANK] of the Day] of the Week,” where we examine a Blank of the Day blog post every week. This week’s edition of “[[BLANK] of the Day] of the Week” will explore the party pictures of Sorry I Missed Your Party. (via Say Mayday).
Every few days Sorry I Miss your Party posts pictures from flickr of parties. That we’re all glad we missed.
This...
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Hypem 2009 Zeitgeist arrives
Hype machine, our favorite music blog aggregator, has just announced the release of its 2009 Zeitgeist. The Zeitgeist is comprised of three lists: the top 50 artists, top 50 albums and top songs of the year, as compiled by hundreds of bloggers. Looks like the 50-40s have been released today with ten more coming out every day this week. If nothing else the original art they commissioned for the top...
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Pete Campbell was on to something
Pete Campbell, a character on AMC’s Mad Men, had the idea of marketing Admiral televisions to the African-American population. Don and Sterling were confused and dismissed it as either racist or not profitable enough. Obviously history has shown us, more or less, who was right here.
Hollywood has been tapping into marketing by race for a while, starting with the Blaxploitation films in the...
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Meta-Interaction? [Jumping the Shark]
(via kotaku.com.au)
Yesterday (i.e. three blog months ago) The NYTimes published an article about people who use “simple technology, including video chatting services like Skype” to watch TV show together. Sad, but according to media companies ranging from Verizon to Microsoft, on the right track.
People like Ms. McCulloch and Ms. Cheek are a full step ahead of media companies, who...
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Kurt Vonnegut Toasts →
A toast to George Plimpton (via The Paris Review).
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Robin Hood: A Lazy Cinematic History
Russell Crowe, dir. Ridley Scott (2010)
Looks pretty badass… more so than any of the older ones (see below). Perhaps today’s audiences can handle a more violent, more morally ambiguous Robin Hood. An effect of the recession?
Previous trailers, chronologically:
Men in Tights, (1993)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Disney, motherfucker. (1973)
The Adventures...
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"Glamour" Model's Recommended Resolutions
Not many got through moderate safe search. (via flickr)
British model Vikki Blows graces the cover of Front Magazine this month with the enthralling tagline: “Vikki Blows kicks off the decade (and her pants).” Between shoots she talked about new yeears’ resolutions. Surprisingly sound for advice demonstrated topless [NSFW]. Unclear whether all these have an implied “while...
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HRO (and Bebe, sort of) In NYTimes →
They’re all psyched on the genre shirt I guess. Didn’t use Bebe’s pic though :(
Apparently there are too many genres in the blogosphere for Sisario. Probably true, but it’s still funny that Carles had to put one of his many “ideas” on a physical T-shirt to land in print.
Still cool to see NYTimes “catching on.” Kinda like seeing the old, out of...
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So they get on the lift and then...
Here at The ## we have already explained why you shouldn’t actually ski on skiing trips. Aside from the fact that you minimize meeting cougars, shit like this could happen.
Getting stuck on a chairlift is something that has terrified me since my family forced me to go on skiing trips in my childhood before I understood the concept of the “lodge” and “not...
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options in journalism
So fucked:
So our advice, for those of you who are still in a position to take it: Don’t go into journalism for five years. By that time, the concept of a “journalism job” may not be (as much of) a punchline…
The scariest part is the quotes. Happy New Year.
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It's 6 am. Do you know where you are?
Latest video from the coolest motherfucker in the world right now. Flaming basketballs/die, whipping cables, a bleeding hammer, milk and walls of sticky notes.
Related: How do you judge your nights in NYC?
The Jay-Z checklist:
Up at Brooklyn
Down in Tribeca
Cop in Harlem
560 State Street
Get caught in the Kitchen
Cruise down 8th street (off-white Lexus)
Up at Bed-Stuy
Trip a referee
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