Look at this face (and these amazing dog sweaters).
Whichever Obama staffer is running this REALLY understands Tumblr. Kudos.
Yes!
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No, [Romney’s] going to lose. He doesn’t resonate, you know? Or he would have won last time, in all fairness to your father! He was scheduled to win last time, and he didn’t because your father outdid him. You understand. I watched [Romney] make a speech, and it was all these little trivial statements.
Donald Trump Interview With Meghan McCain, April 2011
Oops. This exists.
Oscars for Screenwriters Are a Cliffhanger - NYTimes.com:
More Groundlings — Jim Rash and Nat Faxon — are represented in “The Descendants,” also written by the director, Alexander Payne. Jim Burke, a producer of “The Descendants,” asked Mr. Rash and Mr. Faxon to adapt Kaui Hart Hemming’s novel of the same title, whose rights he had bought even before publication, because he liked the Hawaiian setting.
But the book is written in the first person, with interior monologues from the point of view of Matt King (George Clooney). Getting out of that perspective “was certainly a challenge,” Mr. Faxon said, “because you wanted to understand this character, and in the book it was so well described, because he could tell you exactly how he was feeling.”
The solution came from Mr. Payne: an opening voice-over that gives the background. Mr. Payne, the writer-director of “Sideways,” for which he won a screenplay Oscar, schooled Mr. Rash and Mr. Faxon (also an actor in movies like “Zookeeper” and “Bad Teacher”) on how to balance comedy and emotion.
“I think that was something that was very beneficial for us to watch,” said Mr. Rash, who plays the college dean on the TV series “Community.” “Applying his tone, and watching him work, not only in the writing but as a director.”
The dean might get an Oscar!
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The inspiration came from bits and pieces of their own lives. “That was my exact car,” Ms. Mumolo said of Ms. Wiig’s clunker in the film. “I had a maroon Mitsubishi Mirage. But mine had the windows duct-taped on — one was duct-taped and one was just hanging. And I would drive around and go to these fancy parties as each of my friends got engaged, got married.
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The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.
For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com
Lucky bastard…
Wonton Noodle Soup at Talde, ‘Top Chef’ Dale Talde’s New Brooklyn Restaurant | Serious Eats
One of the few dishes we DIDN’T try over the weekend. We’ll have to rectify that next time we go.
It was an amazing meal — I’d say one of the top 3 meals I’ve had in New York.
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Bleecker Bob’s, which will close its store at 118 West Third Street at the end of April, will become a Starbucks, according to a manager, Chris Wiedener.
Two New York Musical Mainstays Are Soon to Tune Out - NYTimes.com
That’s a goddamn disgrace.
