October 2010
79 posts
Fact.
Red Vines > Twizzlers
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That's Enough, Brett →
On Sunday the AMC network planned to air the premiere episode of The Walking Dead, a comic-turned-TV show about a southern police officer and his family who try to survive after zombies take over the world, the formerly-dead dragging what remains of their carcasses across the country, eating the brains of the living and displaying the same kind of dead-eyed stare we haven’t seen since The ...
“Why you’d need a guard dog at the gates of hell is a fucking mystery. No one’s...”
– Russell Brand, on Cerberus
—via THIS New York Magazine interview
Free Refills →
For the past year, it seems like you can’t drop an umlaut or swing a pickled herring without running into someone who is reading one of the oversized books in Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy. The late Swedish author took roughly 1,679 pages and an equal number of unpronounceable proper nouns to tell the tale of surly computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and her part-time boyfriend/full-time...
Depressing Thing of the Day
“It doesn’t matter. The BSUntouchables play Louisiana Tech on Tuesday night, but they’re just cleaning windows on the Titanic now.”
—Rick Reilly, “Boise State Broncos Can’t Buck This Trend”, 10/25/10
“He’d taken to playing thirty-six a day for the last week in hopes of doubling his chances, but it was simply polishing brass on the...
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LeBron, LeNike and Cleveland's Lingering LeDemons →
2,600 pounds. 25,000 square feet of vinyl. 50 gallons of ink. That’s what it took for Cleveland to replace LeBron James. Four months after Nike removed their iconic black and white “We Are All Witnesses” banner, the corner of Huron and Ontario once covered by James’ outstretched arms has been pasted over with a shot of Cleveland’s skyline, courtesy of hometown paint-slingers...
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The Young Evils: “A Just Built...
Hurts: “Wonderful Life”
BBC: Your...
“Is there anyone out there who says ‘I want to die, then have people...”
– Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill, on the perception that the band has sold out
Cinnamon Toast Funk
I had serious doubts that a band of—their words—“consummate musicians” from British Columbia could pull off “funk with a twist of indie pop”.
I was right. They sound like Michael McDonald’s descending colon, but with more piano. Also, I think one of their lyrics is “When you do that sway/You make the sidewalk stank”.
Anyway. They still...
Taking the Cheer out of Cheerleading →
I may be the most uncoordinated person ever, literally stumbling through my life like I’m following the stage directions for a Family Channel kids’ show. I don’t have rhythm, I can’t clap out “agg-re-ssive” without pausing to count the consonants, and cartwheels are still on the list of things I’ve never figured out, along with parallel parking, sentence diagramming and long-term...
Eels: “Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues”
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Gal-a-FANN-i-kuss
I love how the announcers on London’s Absolute Radio pronounce Galifianakis.
I also look forward to the day they have to make their way through the syllables of Castrodale.
Head to Head Combat →
Everyone says baseball is a game of inches, but no sport represents the Imperial system of measurement better than football. The field’s length is measured in yards. The width, in feet. When an offense is just one taped hand from an end zone or a new set of downs, the onscreen graphics describe the remaining distance in inches.
After seven players collected concussions in Week 6, the...
Texas Pain-Saw Massacre →
I’ve never posted a Headline of the Day, but if I did, this would be it. For every day. From now until forever.
Frank Black: “Headache”
This wrinkle...
We'll Call It a Draw.
I can’t decide which is more disturbing: the woman who spent her days sequestered in her trailer fondling venomous snakes OR the mid-show commercials for the Golden Corral Comfort Food Buffet.
“She became increasingly obsessed with rattlesnakes and started secretly housing...”
– Animal Planet’s Fatal Attractions may be the most quotable show on television.
And also one that makes me feel better about my commitment to only collecting things that can’t devour me while I sleep.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-17) →
Fences (30)
The Head And The Heart (25)
Medeski, Martin & Wood (24)
Elvis Costello (19)
Tinie Tempah (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
MORE LIKE NFC WORST, AMIRITE? →
For the past three seasons, Saturday Night Live has had a recurring Lawrence Welk Show sketch, one where the oddly-accented host introduces the singing Meryl Sisters. Three of the girls are an outdated kind of attractive, wearing big backcombed hairstyles and even bigger chiffon dresses.
And then there’s Denise, played by Kristen Wiig, who is made entirely of Unfortunate, with snarled...
“Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll catch this bird...”
– —Quint
