January 2010
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December 2009
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Dec 31st
OkTrends →
watsonwelch: This blog should be required-reading. It’s like fivethirtyeight.com, except for gender politics. Comparing to 538 = instant read.  Well done, sir.  Come over and play Mario Bros.
Dec 30th
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“So, are you ready to see some Basterds?” [Mild applause] “I said,...”
– The Complete Transcript of Quentin Tarantino’s Speech at the Inglourious Basterds Premiere Somehow I missed this when it happened.  And now I really want to watch some Basterds fuck up some Nazis some more.
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“But jesus, christ, an Alan Grayson 2012 primary challenge against Obama? Obama,...”
– Gawker offers a rather nice smackdown of shit-for-brains liberals who think this healthcare bill is somehow bad. (via brianlovesthis) Well, as nice and wonderful as the rest of (old, white, and/or male) America has it with this bill, putting obstacles in front of families and asking people to make...
Dec 22nd
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ListenThe XX - VCR God, I’m loving The XX’s...
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“You can almost count on people misinterpreting things. The film is definitely...”
– James Cameron on Avatar’s perceived anti-American or anti-human leanings.  I’m of the mind that whatever a filmmaker (or author, or musician, etc) intends as the interpretation is irrelevant once it’s out there.  The beauty of art is in individual interpretation. But I nonetheless...
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“But jesus, christ, an Alan Grayson 2012 primary challenge against Obama? Obama,...”
– Gawker offers a rather nice smackdown of shit-for-brains liberals who think this healthcare bill is somehow bad.
Dec 21st
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“But all of these complaints are tiny blips on a radar screen that has been...”
– Videogum’s largely-negative but ultimately-totally-positive review of Avatar.  Exactly why I read Videogum.
Dec 21st
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WatchWatch
Hey look!  It’s Bill O’Reilly being kind of a badass.  I guess that’s what talking to Laura Ingraham will do to even the Worst People. God, this is refreshing.
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Slate's interactive guide to the best movies of... →
And sure to get better is it accrues more lists.  So far, Eternal Sunshine is the top movie of the decade.
Dec 18th
ListenSufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day I popped...
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The Super Mario Seduction →
Probably the best write-up about New Super Mario Bros. Wii I’ve come across yet.  It was insane to see my little cousins jumping and screaming just watching people play it. It really should be impossible to create a platformer that satisfies the lust for challenge endemic to fans of classic platformers yet which also allows a new player to ease in and feel comfortable, yet NMSB Wii does...
Dec 17th
“It’s probably better to think of Modern Warfare 2 as akin to Mario Party—a...”
– Jamin Brophy-Warren, in Slate’s Year End Gaming Club. This, more than anything else I’ve read — and yes, it’s a criticism of the game — makes me intrigued to play Modern Warfare 2.  It sounds like the best summation of the apparently-random plot of the game I’ve...
Dec 16th
OH YEAH
ferrrn: I just remembered: RUDO Y CURSI FOR BEST PICTURE! Really?  I mean, I guess the “I Want You To Want Me” music video secures its immortality forever, true.
Dec 16th
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Gallery 1988 Is Having A LOST Underground Art Show →
Featuring those 16 posters offered for sale online, such as the awesome one above that my friend Jack owns. I am absolutely going this weekend.  It’s in my hood.  And it’s sure to be fucking awesome.  Who’s with me?
Dec 16th
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“In their 2009 report to Congress, the Medicare trustees estimate that the...”
– Weisberg, on the GOP’s health-care hypocrisy. (via newsweek)
Dec 14th
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“Technically, you’re already a cyborg. If you keep your cell phone with you...”
– Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
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IGN AU: Wii Had Best Exclusives In '09 →
And I now own a PS3, so I can celebrate this fact diplomatically.  It’s true, though — while the best of the best weren’t as good as the PS3 exclusives, there were more good exclusives on the Wii than any other system. Madworld House of the Dead: Overkill New Super Mario Bros: Wii Little King’s Story Muramasa Punch Out!! Boom Blox: Bash Party Dead Space:...
Dec 11th
New Yorker's Top Films of the Decade →
This is unbearably pretentious and stupid.  Except for one very obvious outlier.
Dec 11th
44% of Americans would prefer GW Bush to Obama →
Goddddd bless America…….laaaaaand that I looo-[gunshot]
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“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie...”
– Arlington, TN Mayor Russell Wiseman, who seems to think Obama scheduled his Afghanistan speech specifically to block the Christian message of The Charlie Brown Christmas Special.  He wrote this on Facebook.  Whoops.
Dec 4th
This is what the RNC has to say about the...
Yesterday, President Obama hosted a ‘jobs summit’ at the White House in an attempt to convince the media and the American public that his administration is concerned with unemployment. Unfortunately this so-called ‘jobs summit’ was not about creating jobs – it was about creating a distraction to hide the fact that President Obama has managed to create more bureaucracy in Washington than jobs for...
Dec 4th
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Want to download the score from Up for freeeeeee? →
Click here! Type in “latimesdisney” as the code! Enjoy!!  I believe it’s today only.
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