October 2009
“Michael, a carp is both a fish and a term for complaining! They’re mocking...”
– Yay, The Office!
Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: International trailer for Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood’s highly-anticipated John Lennon biopic, based on the book Imagine This by Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird.
The film, which stars Aaron Johnson as Lennon and Thomas Sangster as boyhood chum Paul McCartney, will debut tonight at the London Film Festival, with a wide UK release expected on December 26....
“Everything’s gonna hang out. We’re talking full johnson.”
– Levi Johnston’s manager telling TMZ about his upcoming Playgirl photoshoot.
If you want to tackle Wes Anderson from a feminist...
…look no further than the romantic interests. The women are always exotic “others”.
Bottle: Hispanic hotel maid who doesn’t speak English
Rushmore: British-native older teacher AND Asian public school girl
Royal Tenenbaums: Adopted sister
Life Aquatic: British-native pregnant woman
Darjeeling: Indian train stewardess
You're really pushing it with me Wes Anderson
Rushmore is still my favorite movie of all time, but I’m growing significantly less enamored of the director lately.
The Roman Polanski support was bad enough. But this latest stuff is somehow even more asinine:
Over a drink at Le Select, in Paris, Anderson admitted that he was troubled by the reception of Darjeeling, especially in light of the success, the following year, of Danny...
Conservative author: Tina Fey's character on 30... →
Well, this is just about the most incoherent argument I’ve ever heard:
Liberal-leaning feminists, especially comic Tina Fey, the 30 Rock star who portrayed Palin on Saturday Night Live, were jealous of Palin. “Palin’s sudden global fame rankled those feminists whose own path to glory had been difficult. To them, Palin was less a female success story than she was the beneficiary...
“They are reporters, not trivia experts. And the buzzer is complicated....”
– A CNN flack hilariously (and ineptly) tries to defend Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O’Brien’s poor performances on Celebrity Jeopardy.
William & Mary elects first transgender homecoming... →
The only thing surprising about this story is that William & Mary still has homecoming kings and queens.
Billy Mays' son wants people to dress like "Zombie... →
Too soon?
“I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes because of the blood that...”
– Rep. Alan Grayson, aka Captain Cojones, responds to Dick Cheney.
I fucking love this guy.
“Having announced his Afghanistan strategy last March, President Obama now seems...”
– Does anyone know why Dick Cheney is so eager to send American troops to their deaths? It’s like the man gets a hard-on every time one of our soldiers squanders his life.
Luckily, Obama isn’t a chump and won’t let this evil, black-hearted little troll bully him into escalating the...
“Catholics were once the mainstay of the Democratic Party; now the gay activists...”
– Bill Donahue, head of the Catholic League.
I wish someone had aborted him.
(via)
NY Times: New Verizon commercial bashing iPhone... →
No Verizon iPhone in 2010, I guess. It’s a shame — I would have considered switching back to them if they offered it.
After about a month, I’m very happy with my iPhone. The device itself is great. It’s a real game-changer, to the point where I’m pissed at myself for not getting it sooner. I can’t imagine living without it now.
AT&T’s network...
“We’ll trick those racecar loving wideloads into watching your lefty...”
– Thank Christ 30 Rock is back.
BREAKING: Jon and Kate Plus 8 canceled →
It’s Jon’s fault, apparently:
After Jon Gosselin, 32, forbade TLC from filming his and 34-year-old estranged wife Kate’s eight children for their show, the network will try to squeeze out a couple remaining episodes from existing footage before putting the show to rest, according to sources.
Bad move Jon. You just torpedoed your only revenue stream. Douchey Ed Hardy...
Tracy Morgan goes off-script recording his... →
Oddly enough, on certain issues I was more of a...
We watched a Spanish movie where the plot hinges on a male nurse having sex with and impregnating his comatose patient.
The movie was quite good, but I said in class that I thought the director was a little too sympathetic toward the nurse, considering that he was a rapist.
Surprisingly, this prompted a class-wide argument over whether or not having sex with a woman in a coma is rape, with the...
“Every female college student should have at least one super-feminist professor.”
– (via switchblades: katoleary)
Why limit it to just female students? I had at least two staunch feminist professors. One was my theology professor, and the other was a radical Marxist/feminist/filmmaker who taught advanced film production.
I didn’t agree with them 100% of the time but I...
For the record, my Halloween costume will not be a...
But I am seriously considering this Italian-guy-with-his-penis-in-the-spaghetti costume.
It’s funny AND accurate!
Watch“Cat Sitting for Lily’s Mom/Cat Funeral” from last night’s How I Met Your Mother.
I’ll say it again — the best multi-camera sitcom on TV. It’s not doing anything ground-breaking. It’s just clever jokes, creative plotting and likable characters.