November 2010
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WatchNo, what the fuck did you just watch? [thanks, b]
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“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“Maybe we should put her on an ice floe.”
– My sister, with regard to our mother’s menopausal hot flashes.
Sometimes when I’m experiencing intimacy issues with someone I’ll have this recurring dream where we get a hotel room together … and watch You’ve Got Mail on AMC like we’re in some fricking Bernardo Bertolucci movie.
[Something that combines the grandiosity of NPD with the intimacy of OCD.]
It’s pretty simple. People who make time for each other are friends. People who never have time for each other are not. The rest is salad dressing.
Janet Leigh
When everyone’s so drunk that someone claims Debbie Reynolds is Jamie Lee Curtis’ mom and you correct them that it’s Tippi Hedren, that’s a Freudian Slip ’n Slide.
“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
– Maya Angelou
If we’ve never been friends between the hours of midnight and four, then we haven’t fully been friends.
I don’t know about you guys but I’m finding the sheer unrelenting omnipresence of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway’s new movie, The Unbearable Sexiness of Being Naked, simply exhausting.
“I don’t have a toilet at the moment. My house is just a wooden box. I...”
– Vincent Kartheiser. (Note to self: Never live next door to Vincent Kartheiser.)
Videocracy
On May 18, 2010 ABC announced that America’s Funniest Home Videos had been renewed for a 21st season, which premiered on October 3, 2010; beginning with the 21st season premiere, the series began broadcasting in high definition.
Ow, my (eye)balls.
“There are people we treat wrong, and later, we’re prepared to treat other people...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
“…it looks like Blanche Devereaux’s house, if that means anything to you.”
– This is how my friends lure me to restaurants before noon.
Susan Boyle Reveals the Best ʻGiftʼ She Ever... →
OH GOD PLEASE DON’T BE ABOUT ORAL SEX OH GOD PLEASE DON’T BE ABOUT ORAL SEX OH GOD PLEASE DON’T BE ABOUT ORAL SEX.
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Dos Equis didn’t like my spec commercial wherein The Most Interesting Man in the World™ runs out of toilet paper aboard the International Space Station and invents a new use for aluminum foil.
“It’s not a slam at you when people are rude—it’s a slam at the people they’ve...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
I had a nightmare that I got locked out of my phone because I entered the passcode incorrectly too many times. Yes, this is the kind of stuff I have nightmares about. Oh, and naked dreams, of course—only, I’m usually not the one who’s naked; other people are and I wish they weren’t.
I was worried Rachel McAdams hooks up with Harrison Ford in Morning Glory but judging from the trailer he just sits in a corner smoking a joint while she bones Patrick Wilson.
“Things got even livelier the next day when the limo took us down to the Flatiron...”
– I’m not entirely certain but I think this sentence contains about eighty puns.
Someone said something very wise to me recently: The act of apologizing isn’t so much about assigning blame as it is about acknowledging another person’s dignity.
Toujours
I’ll be your one note.
NBC Lands Hairdresser Comedy From ‘Sex And The... →
…reads the least surprising headline of the day.
Thomas Newman, John Powell, Gustavo Santaolalla
Good composers. Good company during all-nighters. Who are yours?
VBored already.
At a dinner party where one of the couples brought their three-year-old. So far I’ve accidrunkenly dropped the F-bomb once in front of the kid. So far.
Hunting controversy →
The Make-A-Wish Foundation ceased granting hunting trips in 1999, amid criticisms from animal rights groups. The Foundation explained that the decision was based on the danger of having a child in a weakened state handling firearms. In response, two other similar organizations were formed: Hunt of a Lifetime, which arranged hunting trips for terminally ill children, and Catch-a-Dream, which was...