….where we rip off “the best” of the internet and present it to you as a precious gift-post, topped with a bow we bought pre-tied from CVS and attached with an adhesive strip, ready to go and be consumed with your first coffee/tea/quickie of the day. Voila! Morning magic! On rotation.
- It is over. Hillary drops out in a 2 am email. Sour grapes aisle is to your left.
- And over here in alternative career corner, Eliot Spitzer (post chart success) starts working for his dad.
- In more disturbing news...Stephanie Tanner gives birth!. The title of the story is worth the price of People magazine in itself. What would Bob Saget say?
- Its tough being (the) Shatner!
(actually I just want to use this opportunity to post some Shatner videos. Because I can)
- You know what else would be tough? Imagine if SATs lasted 2 days, covered everything you ever studied and determined you whole future? Welcome to China!
- Also in SLATE: News you can use: How to Win a New Yorker Comic Caption Contest! plus something about killing chickens that looks so gruesome I could not even BEGIN to read it.
- And finally what you and your inner super villain have been waiting for forever, the answer is here: Top 5 Ways to Cause a Man-Made Earthquake. With Pictures.
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Can we, uh, ditch the "quotations" around the phrase "the best"?
Please?
Svetlana, I love that you have Eliot Spitzer, Stephanie Tanner and Chinese school kids in the same post. Something for everyone - well done!
Ok, the Shatner Common People clip is funny and stuff, but seriously, how awesome is Joe Jackson? He should team up with Jarvis.
Yeah, JJ wails on that song.
m, how can you like JJ, but hate elvis costello? their styles are undeniably similar in many songs.
eddie - I did say that JJ wailed on "that song" but made no mention of any other songs (sorry, sarcasm Thursday).
I'm really kind of unfamiliar with most of JJs music as he never really made the indie-hipster-douchebag-mixtape-for-car-trips that seemingly all my car-trip friends had to stick Costello on.
Given time, I'd probably hate JJ too.
I also kind of don't like Tom Waits now as I saw him in Wristcutters, A Love Story last night and dude just can't act, so I'm going to not like him based on the fact that he just couldn't have the following conversation:
"Hey Tom! It's your agent. Got a great movie role for you in an indie flick that's about to begin production."
"Oh agent dude, you know I can't act."
"Oh sure you can, plus your name would lend some great indie credibility."
"No, really dude, I can't act. Haven't you seen my movies? I just can't."
click, goodbye.
"he never really made the indie-hipster-douchebag-mixtape-for-car-trips" LOL
that's fair. go download JJ's 'look sharp' album so that you can start hating him sooner. 'fools in love' kicks ass.
Re: JJ
Don't forget I'm The Man, just as good. And Night & Day after that.
Re: Tom Waits
Michael, what's funny, is Tom Waits did say that to the director repeatedly during filming. He was like "I don't act, I can't act, you sure you want me to do this? I can just be myself I guess." And everyone was like no Tom, you're awesome, seriously. And he was. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, he owned every scene he was in.
"Wristcutters: The Love Story" JUST arrived from Netflix to my house.
That's all.
'Wristcutters" is coming to my house soon too.
I never really crush on celebrities (usually it's just BYT interns), but Shannyn Sossamon is the exception to this rule.
Waits in Down By Law? I loved Lee Baby Sims. And, the only redeeming quality as a preacher in the awful Domino.
Cale - no he didn't.
He sounded like the kid in class who couldn't read aloud and everyone groaned every time the teacher called on him because he read everything in monotone with no inflection and never paused for any punctuation marks like commas or periods and you couldn't tell when something was a question because the voice didn't do that little lilt on the end like when you ask a question and I just wanted him to not be in any more scenes in the entire movie at all period okay
JJ is fun, wish i knew people who wanted to see him at the 9:30 back in April, b/c i didn't, i didn't end up going
Ben Folds, Jarvis called, he wants his look back
j/k, Ben is great, but he did steal the haircut kinda
Ok - fine, you didn't like his performance, but you said you didn't like him because he didn't admit he couldn't act, I think it's interesting that he in fact did exactly that.
I also added that he said goodbye, which means he admitted he couldn't act and then refused to do so.
Which he should have.