May 2009
“I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign...”
– Pres. Obama, explaining why he was in my neighborhood today.
Of course, the increasingly clownish and embarrassing GOP preemptively attacked him for it.
Because HOW DARE HE leave the White House to go see the country that he’s currently in charge of?
Obama is eating right by my house
He’s at Blue Hill right now.
The whole street is blocked off, and there’s about 300 cops and Secret Service guys hanging around.
Hollywood is out of ideas (part 1,091 in a...
Daily Variety drops the bomb:
Twentieth Century Fox and Lakeshore Entertainment are mounting a remake of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” the 1985 teen comedy that starred Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.
The comedy will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Miley Cyrus.
[emphasis mine]
SJP won’t go anywhere near this stinker.
But ten bucks says they get Helen...
MTV News: "Anchorman" sequel may be in the works →
Dear God please yes.
Nate Silver debunks the latest wingnut conspiracy... →
The right wing loonies are in an uproar because about 90% of the auto dealers getting closed are GOP donors.
Nate Silver crunches the numbers and finds that about 90% of ALL auto dealers are GOP donors.
I saw the new Terminator movie last night
Pros: Great action scenes, a ludicrous amount of explosions, a fun cameo that I won’t ruin for you, stunning special effects from ILM
Cons: Distractingly bad acting from everyone but Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, ridiculous plot holes throughout the film, laughable dialogue, some instances of choppy editing (I think maybe a result of cutting out blood and violence to get it down to...
“They say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800-pound gorilla in the Republican party. ...”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger on CNN zings el Rushbo.
“NO matter what is happening in the rest of the world, people are still shopping...”
– From a Times review of the new Tommy Hilfiger boutique.
I live just around the corner, and she’s right. On a nice Saturday or Sunday afternoon, it’s next to impossible to walk on the sidewalk on the stretch of Bleecker between 7th Avenue and Abingdon Square.
So. Many. Tourists.
...
“I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.”
– Karl Rove, questioning the intelligence of Sonia Sotomayor.
Rove is right — I know of at least one REALLY stupid person who went to TWO Ivy League schools.
“A diehard Yankees fan, she’s credited as the judge who saved baseball,...”
– Click here for more interesting factoids about Sonia Sotomayor.
My phone battery crapped out Saturday afternoon...
… and I forgot to bring my charger out to Fire Island.
So if anyone has been trying to get in touch with me, I promise I wasn’t ignoring you.
Vermont teen stole corpse's head to make bong →
(via brooklynmutt: mthrfknluis: delawareareyou)
I’m nominating this guy for Stoner of the Year.
Notre Dame considers game at Yankee Stadium →
It’s three years out, but still, this is exciting.
Where do we tailgate, though?
WatchConsumer Reports tests the Snuggie.
Basically they found out that it falls apart after only 10 washes.
Also, the focus group complained that it doesn’t cover your butt.
(via Consumerist - hat tip to E.K.)
Our summer share house has names for all the...
They are:
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Arctic
Indian
Captain’s Quarters
Kat and I are in the Arctic.
That’s not a good omen for me getting any extra-curricular activity this weekend.
“IMAGINE IF YOU WILL A DOLPHIN
WEARING A TINY COWBOY HAT
THEN THAT SAME DOLPHIN...”
– Will Ferrell was supposed to sing this song last night on the American Idol finale, but the producers cut it.
Read the full lyrics here.
(via Videogum)
“One executive,” O’Brien recalled, “particularly despised Andy...”
– Conan O’Brien, talking about the struggle of the early years of his show.
(NY Times via Gawker)
Does anyone else think it's ridiculous for Cheney...
This is the guy who systematically tried to destroy the career of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
I actually want Cheney to stay alive
The longer we have him, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh as the face of the GOP, the bigger Obama’s landslide is going to be in 2012.
Is it wrong to hope that Cheney's evil, black,...
“You know what you are? You’re God’s answer to Job, y’know? You...”
– Manhattan (1979)
Written and Directed by Woody Allen
“If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex. Trust me....”
– Bristol Palin
jgh: I wonder what Tripp Palin will think of all this when he’s old enough to read.
Sarah Palin wants to be President? It seems like she raised the dumbest fucking girl alive. I don’t think we want to let her do to America what she did to her family.
WatchAwesome video — students invent robot that plays Guitar Hero.
NY Post: Greenwich Village leads all Manhattan... →
Violent crime in my hood is up 43%, the most in the city.
We’re number one!
Michael Steele: The Republican Party turns a... →
The increasingly buffoonish RNC chair smells a comeback!
Will this guy ever stop embarrassing himself?
My dermatologist has inexplicably hot assistants...
I’ve never seen so much talent gathered in a single medical office.
Mole removal has never been hotter.
“After knocking him unconscious, Gainsbourg bores a hole in Dafoe’s leg...”
– After reading this, I think I’m going to be walking funny for a few hours.
Or days.
(via Brian Van)
More violence near my apartment. Neat! →
(via katoleary)
That would explain all the cops that were around when I got home yesterday at about noon. They had a huge area police-taped off. They guy must have run around and bled everywhere.
“If it’s 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney,...”
– GOP strategist John Weaver, for years a close adviser to Sen. John McCain, currently advising Utah governor John Huntsman, who will be the new US ambassador to China.