May 2008
25 posts
“Mr. Sandler attempted to ease any discomfort during filming by encouraging his...”
– Dave Itzkoff’s fascinating and thoroughly reported Times piece on the making of the new Sandler movie, which is secretly a comedy about continuing Arab-Israeli tensions.
Horses vs. Trains →
IM Caspian →
Can a Dead Brand Live Again? →
Times Magazine piece on companies that capitalize on the nostalgia for old products—Brim, Salon Selectives, etc.—by re-introducing them to the marketplace. Good news for you, Rap Musk!
IM Speed Racer →
WatchPart 2 of the Daily Show’s coverage of the Pollies. “Let us remember those whose careers were so tragically lost.”
Leak of the Week: Weezer, "The Greatest Man That... →
Black Moth Super Rainbow, “Zodiac...
WatchJay “Tron Guy” Maynard at ROFLcon. I wonder how many times he gets the poop question.
WatchLast night’s Daily Show segment on the Pollies, an awards show recognizing excellence in political advertising. At first I thought John Oliver’s interview with Floyd Brown—creator of the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad—was a classic bit of DS recontextualized “gotcha,” and that there was no way the guy could really be that brazenly evil. Then I watched Brown’s latest...
IM Iron Man →
The Night Marchers, “In Dead Sleep”...
“Hidden underneath/is the sexiest librarian/take off those glasses/and let down...”
– My Morning Jacket’s “Librarian” (2008), the worst-lyricalized song of the band’s career. Actually includes the word “interweb.”
“‘I guess you know who I am,’ I said to her, pronouncing my words...”
– the best out-of-context quote from barbara walters’ memoir