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andres: Upload a video with the title “Be Serious for 30...

Sat, 26 May 2012 08:56:45 -0400

Upload a video with the title “Be Serious for 30 Seconds” and Fred Armisen will find it and do cool things with it. (by beseriousfor30)

om. the sound of the universe.

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:59:47 -0400

om. the sound of the universe.

funnyhahafunnypeculiar replied to your photo: Does anyone understand these AIDS...

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:55:51 -0400

funnyhahafunnypeculiar replied to your photo: Does anyone understand these AIDS awareness…

It’s actually a call for a boycott of Hershey from the Aids Healthcare Foundation. But it’s not clear at all from the sign- I had to google it. aidshealth.org/archive…

Someone should tell the AIDS Health Foundation that their billboards read like a really bad ad for Hershey’s rather than an ad against…maybe some context would be helpful?

WHEN I DECIDE TO TAKE SIDE STREETS

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:28:20 -0400

wheninla:

And I realize the freeway would have been faster

This is my new life.

bobbymiller replied to your photo: Does anyone understand these AIDS awareness… I was trying...

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:16:31 -0400

bobbymiller replied to your photo: Does anyone understand these AIDS awareness…

I was trying to figure it out…Do they mean that people still think you can get HIV through kissing? And so…Hershey Kisses…and you can’t kiss a…and uh…Wait, I don’t know any more.

Yep, that’s pretty much what these ads do to me, too.

That and the awful fonts and layout, and these ads pretty much make my brain drip through my nose.

On the other hand, @tbwa’s NKLA campaign is gorgeous,...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:54:08 -0400

On the other hand, @tbwa’s NKLA campaign is gorgeous, striking and clear. And also makes me tear up. (Taken with instagram)

Does anyone understand these AIDS awareness billboards from...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:41:55 -0400

Does anyone understand these AIDS awareness billboards from Hershey’s? (Taken with instagram)

If you thought growing up in Florida would make me smart enough...

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:19:00 -0400

If you thought growing up in Florida would make me smart enough to sunblock my boobs, joke’s on you.

(Also no one gets smart from growing up in Florida and you should always give Floridians extra credit for rising above the swamp in any way possible, no matter how small.)

(Also I am not really from Florida, I just had the misfortune of having to live there for middle and high school.)

C.F. Lederer

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:02:31 -0400

thenotes:

Cecilia wrote a screenplay that’s better than anything I’ve done. Not that what I’ve done is any good. Some people don’t read what I write and have the tactlessness to start a conversation about why and when and where they didn’t read it—though for some reason even this banality is colored by positive assumptions and great excitement about what remains to be read in some anticipated future. How I’ve made such a favorable impression of talent without the opportunity for engagement remains mysterious.

When her peers, for lack of a more damning term, want to talk to Cecilia about her work, the same glowing potentialities do not apply. There is, as appalling baseline, the question of whether it’s “something for women, or something that anyone can relate to,” as if a funny woman would naturally wish to purge men from her audience. There is, once the subject matter comes out, the question of whether it’s “stupid, or doing something smart with something stupid,” as if women would and should resort to hackery right out of the gate. Finally, when assured that the screenplay is dark, multilayered and satirical, a crypto-misogynist, even while mentally burnishing his feminist bona fides, will ask: “Oh, so you take after your man?”

Her man being the author of a novel that, even before it has been opened, is so transparently important, impressive and worthwhile.

You may never see Cecilia’s first name in the credits of a movie she’s written. That’s because having a woman’s name on a script, and read by strangers, is to invite a prejudice that need not be overt to influence the odds of her success. It’ll be better, she says, to use her initials and sidestep gender entirely. There is a long tradition of this sort of thing.

Eclipse. (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:02:06 -0400

Eclipse. (Taken with instagram)

wilwheaton: hulu: You guys, last night was Kristen Wiig’s last...

Sun, 20 May 2012 19:48:09 -0400

wilwheaton:

hulu:

You guys, last night was Kristen Wiig’s last night on SNL, and they gave her an emotional sendoff, which you can see here. Good luck, Kristen! Thanks for making us laugh and we can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next!

“How did they send you off from your job?”

“Oh, you know, just a bit of dancing with Mick Jagger before he sang Ruby Tuesday for me. No big deal.”

“Who was there?”

“All my coworkers. Oh, and also Steve Martin. And John Hamm. Oh, and Arcade Fire. And Foo Fighters.”

My goal is to be so good at my job that when I eventually move on, Mick Jagger sings ‘Ruby Tuesday’ for me, and also Jon Hamm.

This challah is covered in cinnamon sugar and is hanging out...

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:00:23 -0400

This challah is covered in cinnamon sugar and is hanging out with a chocolate chip scone and your breakfast’s argument is invalid. (Taken with instagram)

Have you had your self-hate today?

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:50:42 -0400

Have you had your self-hate today?

Tom Waits narrates this quick doc on John Baldessari. h/t to...

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:33:36 -0400

Tom Waits narrates this quick doc on John Baldessari. h/t to @the_bg

Warby Barker. (h/t to Kathleen)

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:24:00 -0400

Warby Barker. (h/t to Kathleen)

thechuckster: GPOY: Hey everyone, check out this awesome video...

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:12:11 -0400

thechuckster:

GPOY: Hey everyone, check out this awesome video I got to be in with Justin, Erik, Daisy, Rebecca, Marissa & Michael!

Brooklyn West for-the-win!

The Knockerbocker a la Monsieur: marissa won the game with her...

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:52 -0400

The Knockerbocker a la Monsieur: marissa won the game with her weekly cocktail last night. (Taken with instagram)

heidisaman: Oh the lighting…The Conversation (1974, Francis...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:19 -0400

heidisaman:

Oh the lighting…The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) Cinematographer: Bill Butler

Scent hound + gopher-riddled park = a serious challenge to...

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:49:00 -0400

Scent hound + gopher-riddled park = a serious challenge to walking this cute little asshole.

To clarify, his entire snout is shoved about 6” deep into a gopher hole. Freud, irony, 6th grade humor, etc etc etc.

Rejected Cookbook Text

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:29:44 -0400

wcfoodies:

Just got the first edit of the Working Class Foodies cookbook manuscript from my editor. Her edits are full of great advice and savvy cuts. There are a few things I wrote that don’t need to be in the book, but that I think are good advice (or whatever?) anyway. This is one:

Remember, all that matters is that you think the dish tastes good. This book starts out as mine, but I want you to make it yours. Make it make sense for you and make food taste how you like it. Start with the best, freshest ingredients that have been fucked around with as little as possible prior to you getting your hands on them. Then, tasting often, go to town on them. Give them the time of their lives. Risk burning your tongue as you taste things; it’s worth it. These dishes are all designed to be adapted, changed and perfected to your tastes.

What do you guys think?