January 2012
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“The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a...”
– New Jersey governor Chris Christie, saying he’ll veto any bill the state legislature passes to legalize same-sex marriage, saying it should be passed by voter referendum and using a lousy analogy to do it.
Sure, white Southerners would have happily voted to give black people voting rights in...
thelovehater asked: I wonder though...if the subject of Shame put the voters off based on the fact that it is something that is like present & real. And this movie is just so raw - sex scenes aside - they are not pretty to look at. Personally the opening scene felt very clinical and guarded. He orders sex like a pizza. He's spiraling out of control and his rock bottom. There was a moment when he throws out...
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Having Sex Like a Porn Star on YouPorn: Men's... →
While this piece is entirely anecdotal, it’s notable for three things:
“Where do you want this?” is probably one of the most crass things I can imagine saying in the middle of sex.
I feel odd every time I read about the apparent obsession with ejaculating on a woman instead of inside her, or pushing for anal sex. Dudes (at least the dudes I’m friends with) often talk...
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“I think it goes without saying that Fassbender, playing a tortured, joyless,...”
– Roger Ebert, probably expressing what I was thinking about Michael Fassbender’s snubbing by the Academy — it’s largely stuffy and has to do with outside perceptions of Hollywood being full of perverse, permissive libertines. Shame winning anything would somehow validate this.
They...
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Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters,... →
So if the people who used to be involved in your operation with racist newsletters say you knew about the content, what other explanation can you give? Whether you actually believed the content or not appears to be irrelevant. The latter might be worse because of the depth of cynicism involved.
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
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Cellar Door: Academy gives bullshit excuse for... →
thelovehater:
normanreedus: scifantasy: betterthanurfaves:
” ‘He’s a guy who’s unfamiliar to a lot of people and did a movie that’s really intimate,’ one high-ranking academy voter told the Ministry. ‘That was a super-brave performance but … perhaps it inspired people to fantasize, and not actually vote.’ “
says an Academy voter to the Los Angeles Times _________________________
This is...
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my shock is that the people who cook up karaoke...
So last night I saw “A Girl Like You” and Orange Juice’s “Rip It Up” on the karaoke list at Chopsticks and I feel like I need to do those songs next time.
Of course, it probably should be expected in Portland, where “A Girl Like You” appears to be a strip club mainstay.
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there are really not enough words to express how...
He and Robin van Persie are probably your EPL MVPs, if we define it in the strictest sense of the phrase.
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WatchGreg Dulli covering Leonard Cohen’s “Paper Thin Hotel” for Rolling Stone. Achingly beautiful.
(again, via the Awl)
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9 Years/$214M For Prince Fielder?
jbowesmusic:
That’s either $23.78M a year or $713,333 per pound.
who hits 300 lbs first? Fielder or Miggy Cabrera?
SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive – And a New Bill Joins... →
spidersandgoggles:
dragonsid:
learnwhydemonstray:
Reblog Reblog Reblog!
FUCK NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN.
Of course it’s not dead, they won’t stop until they’ve pushed the public too far and Tyler Durden becomes a real person. It makes me wonder if the public outcry had been expected, and now that everyone feels grand for winning the First Internet War they can slide their new policies right...
in Oscar nomination notes...
I don’t ever think I’ve seen a movie as savaged as Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close critically earn Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor.
Also, I don’t care that Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer could win Oscars in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories — The Help shouldn’t win anything. I’m sick of “magical...
Newt Gingrich talking about judicial review of...
It also hurts my brain.
Romney complaining about 90 rounds of golf by the...
We have four words for you: “Now watch this drive.”
the irony of Rick Santorum talking about the...
I’m gonna go pick my jaw up off the ground.
brevetcaptain replied to your post: a so-called professor of history just advocated covert operations in Cuba to destabilize the Communist government.
Because Cuba is so stable …
No kidding. I guess they also forgot that Fidel Castro isn’t in power anymore and his brother Raul is running things. Not that this is an improvement, but the whole Arab Spring/Cuban Spring comparison is also...
a so-called professor of history just advocated...
Because covert operations in Latin America have gone so fucking well over the past century.
JESUS CHRIST ON A STICK, READ A GODDAMN BOOK THAT ISN’T YOUR OWN, GINGRICH.
(this is one of the few issues where Ron Paul sounded like a blast of sanity)
on American Dream's pizza.
davidroy:
This is a great idea. I think I’ve been to every one of those places at some point, save for Mellow Mushroom. Glad you got American Dream—it’s definitely not the best pizza in PDX, nor my fave style, but it holds a special place in our household. It was my first meal after Hannah was born (some 30 hours after she was born, so I was hella hungry—it’s across the street from Providence...
there are things that should not be tape-delayed...
Sporting events (although with soccer, this happens and is understandable)
Major awards shows
Presidential debates
Apparently tonight’s presidential debate is tape-delayed to the West Coast as part of a “Rock Center with Brian Williams” special — at least here in Portland.
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The whole Leonard Cohen album is streaming at NPR... →
maura:
This is turning out to be a really good Monday.
any day with Leonard Cohen is a good one.