April 2010
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March 2010
I wish parodying these Awl chats wasn't so vogue... →
“The [Pantene ad starring Kelly LeBrock], like most others, engendered hatred of...”
– Evan Wright, Salon.com
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“Anyone dumb enough to go see crap like that deserves to drink piss, that music...”
– You’re entitled to your opinion of NOFX - personally I admire how consistent their output has been over the past twenty years - but expressing it in such a way on TMZ.com is the best way to have that opinion immediately discounted.
Liz Lemonism | Tiger Beatdown →
There’s too much here for me to extract just one passage to replicate, so just fucking read it already.
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While I see many thoughtful, spirited discussions...
nerdshares:
in response to this Natasha VC/Julie Klausner review of Greenberg, I would like to quietly and respectfully say that my particular problem with this is that the “let’s get stoned and Gchat” dialogical format — featuring only vague references to the film’s plotline and replete with varying, kind of cutesy nicknames for the main character (G-berg, Greensie, Greenbro) — is not exactly...
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“Mary felt her body burning, even though the room was properly air-conditioned....”
– Garth Marenghi, horror author.
Nancy Pelosi is my Homegirl →
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“No, most of the meme-creators took Advice Dog, changed the colours and the...”
– Man. I just typed this into a reply on Reddit, and immediately after thought to myself “Damn. Isn’t there something better I can be doing?” I’m a pretty smart guy, surely there is a better use for my talents right now. Contributing to online discussions is important, at least...
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“They may even have had ‘phones’ – not communication devices as we...”
– David Mitchell
“No wonder the people in medieval woodcuts look so miserable, even when they...”
– Charlie Brooker
There's already a celebrity called Katy Brand. →
Nothing Katy Perry does is original. Nothing.
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“Like virtually every other member of my generation, I smoked dope throughout my...”
– Charlie Brooker
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“UGH YOU BOYS AND YOUR JOHN CUSACK IDOL WORSHIP!!!”
– My girl sparkleneelysparkle. It’s not idol worship, I pity the fool who aspires to be a John Cusack character (at least from the 90s, I would like to be him in War, Inc.) It’s more like empathy. He’s our Partner-In-Pathetic, when we’re feeling like shit BECAUSE YOU WHORES...
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“Their idiot shareholders sat there and applauded them for wasting billions of...”
– Joseph Evers, majority shareholder of Encyclopedia Dramatica, commenting on the lawsuit filed against the site by the Australian Human Rights Commission. It’s full of Orwellian doom-talk, but one has to admit that his anger is fueled by reason.
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LazyWeb: Tonight, should I a) go clubbing in the...
I have been debating all week and I am no closer to a conclusion. Help me out, internet.
“Your life seems pretty glamorous”
– It is, bmizzle, but it’s also extremely precarious, and entirely courtesy of my gracious and hard-working mother. My life goal is to achieve financial independence and maintain this lifestyle.
“Destroy them with your powerful typed words, Jake! Destrooooooy!”
– Ally is my favorite skeptical admirer.
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“Most of it is just referring to whatever movie is popular at the time - and they...”
– Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s Wikipedia entry is almost entirely criticism.
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