September 2011
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March 2011
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April 2010
3 posts
“He runs rampant across the world, helping and killing and saving and selling,...”
– A doozy of a sentence from a solid story featuring the type of whimsy too often lacking in “mainstream” short fiction.
March 2010
1 post
“[TREY] PARKER: Half of it’s laziness, but half of it is — like Matt was saying —...”
– Via a NYT interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a lesson from “Accomplishing Meaningful Things 101” that I’ll hopefully internalize … soon.
February 2010
8 posts
Watch“Symphonies,” by Dan Black, with Kid Cudi. If you’re a musician, director, editor, film buff or general appreciator of all things artsy and swell, it’s impossible watch and listen to this without shaking your head and thinking, “You bastard.”
WatchJust in time for the big game, our NFL Writers Room finds a new home at Atom.com.
REASONS YOU SHOULD NOT DATE WRITERS (IF YOU ARE A WRITER)
1. Writing is not mysterious to them, so they will not romanticize, mythologize, or idealize what you do.
2. You will not as easily be able to get out of things because you need to write. (And you should be able to. You should be able say “I can’t go to the movie tonight like I said I would, because I got this idea and I have to write it...
January 2010
2 posts
hilarysiegel:
thedailywhat:
Photo Set of the Day: Thirty eight real-life recreations of Calvin & Hobbes snowmen.
Above: Snowman-eating snowman, spotted in Florence, MA.
[nerdcore.]
This is amazing!!
Clicked this because I have long hearted Calvin and Hobbes. BUT ONCE I LOOKED AT IT CLOSELY, I became intrigued by something else: Physics. Namely, how the tentacle can support an...
December 2009
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September 2009
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Say It Ain't So, Joe →
August 2009
6 posts
WatchA few weeks back, I came across information on an installation Italian artist Marco Brambilla had produced for the new Standard Hotel in Manhattan. The commission is a mosaic of seamlessly stitched-together video clips depicting an ascent from Hell to Heaven. As you can see in the aforelinked information, the movie is spellbinding. It’s played on a high-def monitor in each of the...
WatchDriver: [Looking down at radio.] Are you kidding me? More Synergia? Fuck that … [Adjusts radio station.] … ok, some song just ended. Let’s see what’s next … YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. MORE SYNERGIA? Why won’t these hacks just go back to Tel Aviv and let musicians with actual talent get some time on the airwaves. I mean, this is ridiculous. It’s all you...
Because I have unrealistic expectations of life (both my own, and the general idea of it as some awesomeness-providing entity), I’ve often thought about up and moving to some foreign country to immerse myself in an art scene that likely won’t be as robust as the one in which I presently live. And because these unrealistic expectations involve an inexplicably high degree of romanticism,...
“Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command...”
– Could you imagine if you were from 50 years ago and time-travelled into the future to read this sentence, how damn little sense it would make? (via justin)
July 2009
8 posts
It was a sad day in both a world I care nothing about, and one I care deeply about. DeWalt, the makers of fine consumer-grade tools such as THE ORBITAL SANDER POPS STILL HASN’T RETURNED, recently announced that 2009 would be their last year as the sponsor of Roush Fenway NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth. They* attribute their decision to “the significant world-wide economic decline in the...
Watch12angrymascots:
After weeks of speculation and corporate cover-ups, a handful of the infamous LeBron-gets-posterized videos have finally made their way to ye olde Internet. In the one above, we watch as Xavier standout Jordan Crawford drives into the lane and takes to the air with both arms outstretched; triumph is clearly an inevitability. He pays no heed to the icon over whom he is dunking....
Be Our Guest: Julie Alexandria
12angrymascots:
She hosts MetsWeekly on SNY, and now she’ll be hosted at Comix by the Mascots in July, along with Christopher Higgins. There will be so much to talk about, like why the Mets rock, and how come the Mets are so awesome.
Uh, and Major League Gaming. Right, MLG fans?
… MLG fans?
WatchFrom AMCTV.com: “In case you missed it during the Season 2 Finale of Breaking Bad, check out the Season 3 promo for Mad Men here. The premiere is scheduled for August so start planning your summer accordingly!”
Incredibly, I missed it, you exclamatory son of a gun. But the countdown to August 16 begins.
Nice Bros Meets Mascots →
12angrymascots:
For years, 12 Angry Mascots has sat back and watched as a rowdy group of 12-34 year olds known as “College Humor” carved their own niche into the soft spot of the Interwebbing, attracting advertisers to their homepage like sailors on leave to Mary McAllister’s. For years, 12 Angry Mascots simply hurumphed. Today, we high-five as we merge into one…
Thanks Adam!
Lot of...
Evidently the difference between Transformers 2 and The Hurt Locker is the writing.
Why does this article exist?
May 2009
9 posts
WatchDoodler Jorge Colombo iPainted the latest New Yorker cover entirely on his iPhone.
“Zombie fan Web site zombiefriends.com called it “as original, compelling...”
– From a zombie CNN article about Colin, a zombie flick made for zombie $70 that was zombie screened at Cannes. You’re a beautiful zombie thing, zombie long tail.
WatchJohn Munson, a videographer from NJ.com, was granted unfettered backstage access to David Diehl during the giant Giant’s appearance on 12 Angry Mascots last night. The result is practically Kobe Doin’ Work.
“By your 12th show, you’re going to need LeBron and MJ playing one on one...”
– Dan Reilly, talking about how our first three 12 Angry Mascots guests—Deadspin founder and New York scribe Will Leitch, Tampa Bay Ray Fernando Perez and NY Jet Kerry Rhodes—have all been home runs (sports!). For our fourth show, we snagged a pair of sports-celebrity guests: NY Knick (and diminuitive...
Lot of Dave Eggers buzz these days because of his collaboration with Spike Jonze on the forthcoming Where The Wild Things Are, but also theatre-bound is Away We Go, a movie about pregnancy he wrote with his better half, Vendela Vida. I went to BAM for a screening last night and spent much of the evening feeling like an asshat for accepting comp tix to a movie that was, unbeknownest to me, a...
http://www.nozap.be/mercedes.mov →
Words + graphic design + movies + cars = I’m listening.
April 2009
9 posts
During my first week at ESPN, XM gave me a free radio and a trial subscription in the hopes that I’d write about ‘em. I didn’t. But I did use that tasty donation to tune in to baseball on the radio, and it has since been my medium of choice when I went to suffer through a Brewers game. (SEVEN GAMES IS NOT TOO SOON TO LOSE FAITH.)
Colleague-in-comedy Scott has long been a fan of...
Fine, give me three good reasons why a man with a history of sexual harrasment and emotional instability isn’t fit to work at a college.