January 2009
56 posts
Reading this and this, I kind of feel like Clive Owen when he sees the pregnant girl in Children of Men
Head to Hoof →
kurtsoller:
A Butcher’s Tale: Inside the New Carnivore Movement
Watchsteller:
Obama’s Pre-Election Jonas Brothers Bet With Malia (VIDEO)
Ask me sometime about further Malia-Jonas Bros. incredibleness
Q&A with Jeff Jarvis, author of "What Would Google... →
Watchlawrenzo:
The PETA Superbowl ad you won’t be seeing. Here is the behind the scenes video…(because you were dying to figure out how that pumpkin looked so good.)
PETA is going to win.
“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils...”
– John Updike would not have liked Twitter
The Opposite of an Ad Campaign →
“Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United...”
– Gov. Rod Blagojevich (via Ben)
“The other week I got sick and watched Friday Night Lights for like two days...”
– Ryan
Andrew Romano and his tympanic membrane attend the... →
'Correction, Jesus'
Not to be all real-publications-do-reporting-and-blogs-make-things-up or anything, but what is the point of reading Gawker?
Watchmarkcoatney:
Nwk’s Oscar Roundtabe is actually pretty great
Just asking.
alexbalk:
Ya know what’s weird? The Post hasn’t put Sean Delonas’ cartoon of Sunday, January 18th online, even though the cartoons that proceeded it and all three subsequent cartoons are available. Maybe it’s just a simple oversight, right? I mean, I’m sure it’s got nothing to do with how incredibly offensive the panel—a flock of Canadian geese deliberate flying into a jet engine while yelling...
Obama Re-Takes the Oath
From tonight’s pool report:
From: WAllison@sptimes.com To: Burton, William A.; wh.vietor@gmail.com Sent: Wed Jan 21 19:57:03 2009 Subject: Pool rpt 7 - urgent
At 735 pm, Roberts administred the oath of office again to obama in the map room. Robert gibbs said the wh counsel, greg craig, believes the oath was fine Tuesday, but one word was out of sequence so they did this out...
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Fake, then: Helvetica Bold Oblique Sweeps Fontys
Real, now: Top 10 Fonts of 2008
(via Coatney)
Spirit Airlines Tries To Charge Cancellation Fees... →
doree:
I learned long ago not to catch the Spirit, but this is another lovely reminder.
WatchRelevant again: this August ‘05 rant from Jon Stewart about using the word “miracle” to describe the safe evacuation of passengers from a plane crash.
Yes, yes, it’s awesome that everyone got out, and exuberance is called for. But don’t forget that in addion to Sully & the crew, today’s outcome owes a lot to the faceless bureaucrats and engineers who do...
Drifting off to sleep last night, I found myself in nightmare territory: the music from Microsoft’s SongSmith ad was looping in my head.
I’ve started posting here and there on N’Gai Croal’s “American Geek” blog at newsweek.com.
Sports Guy: Simmons gets Friday Night Lights... →
doree:
alexblagg:
Season 3 of Friday Night Lights debuts on NBC this Friday night. For those who haven’t already seen it on DirecTV or the Internet, I’m jealous of you because I wish I could watch it for the first time all over again. You and your TiVos should do the right thing and tune in, because it’s the best thing on TV right now.
davidcho:
The interesting bits are as follows:
Peter...
“Season 2 was kind of written off for me,” he says. “I’m reading it going,...”
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Taylor Kitsch of ‘Friday Night Lights’ Moves to the Big Screen — New York Magazine
(via doree)
Excellent news about three-three.
Evan Thomas and I are on WNYC at noon, hawking the... →
Free will is an illusion →
A friend who just broke up with his girlfriend sent me this link, under the subject line “Whoa”
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Ovechkin.
Story from some random Buffalo Sabres blog about Alex Ovechkin:
Our supervisor, Betty, is like, in her mid 70’s. She’s pretty awesome, and she’s got a son in his late 40’s/early 50’s, who has real bad MS. What I didn’t know is that her son is a hockey fanatic. I guess he used to play hockey when he was younger, and was friends with Danny Gare and some of the...
“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology...”
– RNC Chair Mike Duncan, on courting younger voters
(via Chris)
Good early review of the Newsweek book on Shelf... →
Overheard at Media Company
Me: Hey, do we get copies of the New York Observer?
Co-Worker: Yeah, but it only comes like once a week!
