what?

Pretty sure “extra physical energy” is a euphemism...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:11:24 -0500

Pretty sure “extra physical energy” is a euphemism for “blog ass.”

"Songs that are sturdy on record were flimsy, empty shells of ’50s slow-dance-inspired numbers..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:05:53 -0500

“Songs that are sturdy on record were flimsy, empty shells of ’50s slow-dance-inspired numbers that George McFly would have been embarrassed to hear at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.”

- David Malitz has my favorite bit of snippiness of today.

(And yes, it helps that I think the band is terrible.)

"You need failure to have success. I’m not afraid what people think. I’m not precious. Yes, I am..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:54:51 -0500

““You need failure to have success. I’m not afraid what people think. I’m not precious. Yes, I am getting all this ‘who does he think he is running a record label?’, but screw them. Kanye West comes to my parties, not theirs.””

- Perez’s latest retort to me (via the Irish Times) makes him seem even more pathetically famewhorish than usual. Well done, dude.

My Halloween magnum opus.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:04:11 -0500

My Halloween magnum opus. :

Thanks to everyone who participated (Natasha, Ally, Alex, Mike D!)! I’m totally going as Slutty Danzig next year.

ohrohin: via overpowered: Siobhán Donaghy - “Ghosts” A...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:37 -0400

ohrohin:

via overpowered:

Siobhán Donaghy - “Ghosts”

A masterpiece.

Seriously.

Thank you for starting my day off with this!

Ted Casablancas confuses a "How I Met Your Mother" plotline with a blind item.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:05:00 -0400

Ted Casablancas confuses a "How I Met Your Mother" plotline with a blind item.:

This is about Jason Segel. AND IS TOTALLY “THE NAKED GUY.”

Oh my God… do you think that episode was based on actual events??

Good to know Jennifer Lopez still wants to be THE WORST PERSON EVER.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:31:28 -0400

Good to know Jennifer Lopez still wants to be THE WORST PERSON EVER.

Gossip Cop, once again, rips off my steez.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:47:00 -0400

Gossip Cop, once again, rips off my steez.:

Always the innovator, that guy.

cureforbedbugs: How about...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:08:37 -0400

cureforbedbugs:

How about Awerrible?

“incredterrible” and “awfulsome” are my two favorites. HT to Jon Solomon.

"Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr.), a former Marine who wants to follow in Jack Bauer’s footsteps, runs..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:59:11 -0400

“Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr.), a former Marine who wants to follow in Jack Bauer’s footsteps, runs the division’s Field Operations.”

- WHAT?

Oh New York Post. Between this cover and you wearing out the...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:52:00 -0400

Oh New York Post. Between this cover and you wearing out the “fat” page in your thesaurus while coming up with puns about that ex-ESPN employee, you’ve really been hitting it out of the park this week with your constant pandering to the sorts of people who made me hate living on Long Island.

(Side note on that Deadspin link: Wow have commenting standards gone down at GM or what? I could feel the mouth-breathing emanating from my monitor.)

alexanderbasek: “(And I’d always wondered what it would look like if stylish music videos were set...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:54:22 -0400

alexanderbasek:

“(And I’d always wondered what it would look like if stylish music videos were set to classic poetry. Now I know. I eagerly anticipate the MTV poem-video awards.”

—

Slate on Levi’s commercials/ninth grade English classes

Somebody find Maggie Estep and we can have MTV Unplugged: Spoken Word II!

(Sorry, I had to cut the Kanye joke. And I would have if I was Stevenson’s editor, too — it’s sort of a tired trope at this point!)

Today’s spam that should be a song’s opening lyric.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:07:04 -0400

Today’s spam that should be a song’s opening lyric.

Everybody on the Internet owes "Weird Al" a happy birthday.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:30:25 -0400

Everybody on the Internet owes "Weird Al" a happy birthday.:

Dude set the table for a lot. I’m just saying!

"Plus, she says, awkward situations, such a manager learning an employee was drunk at work, could arise."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:14:47 -0400

"Plus, she says, awkward situations, such a manager learning an employee was drunk at work, could arise."

benjamin bratt returning to 'law & order'!!!! ok just for one episode but still

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:39:00 -0400

benjamin bratt returning to 'law & order'!!!! ok just for one episode but still:

Bratt, who vacated the mothership a decade ago, will shoot his one-episode comeback next month. I’m told the actor will figure heavily in a story involving S. Epatha Merkerson’s Van Buren.

(hey michael ausiello, her first name’s ANITA. if i was still copyediting you i’d have fixed that.)

"Jeff Dunham is an afterthought compared to the dangerous legitimacy that the cable network is..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:12 -0400

“Jeff Dunham is an afterthought compared to the dangerous legitimacy that the cable network is providing for his ideas, or the suggestion that what he’s doing is even comedy in the first place. Because it’s not. Just like spraying people with firehoses before setting attack dogs on them is not treating them as equals.”

- The Jeff Dunham Show Is The Worst Thing In The Entire World - Hate-Watching - Videogum (via perpetua)

My favorite quote from the linked piece. But it’s all great.

Between this and “Secret Girlfriend”… well, I know Idiocracy jokes are a bit cliched at this point, but once again, I have to bring up the point about powerful media types booking for the middle out of fear/snooty attitudes toward people who aren’t them/hopes that they can bring in the biggest amount of low-common-denominator-seeking eyeballs.

Rohin's first piece for Idolator!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:09:40 -0400

Rohin's first piece for Idolator!

Melody Dog - Tomorrow’s World (from IPU Vol. XXIII, later...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:14:00 -0400

Melody Dog - Tomorrow’s World (from IPU Vol. XXIII, later collected on International Hip Swing)

I’m in a pretty foul mood this morning, and I’m ashamed to admit that a disproportionate amount of it is coming from the “Her???” reaction to Steve Phillips’ mistress that’s emanating from the Internet, particularly from certain people who you (or at least I) think would know better about what it’s like to be unfairly judged by others. SO to combat that “when pageviews became the metric of judging Internet ‘success’ because then everyone had to run for the hot-chicks-and-fart-jokes-filled meaty part of the curve, the world became instantly doomed” feeling of dread, here is one of the most joyous songs I know. It is 18 years old and from Scotland.

ninety9: Oh, and hey, it looks like Gawker really is written by homeless people on the night shift...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:48:00 -0400

ninety9:

Oh, and hey, it looks like Gawker really is written by homeless people on the night shift now.

BUT CAN THEY USE COMMAS