January 2011
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It was obviously written.
– Our solace to Snooki in this time of critical evisceration: This, and 45 other not-untrue, possibly positive comments about her book on Amazon.
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Armisen as Mubarak: we laughed.
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Jersey Shore will have more seasons than Arrested Development. Hope you’re proud...
– Gizmodo’s Jason Chen.
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Quiz: White House Pool Report or Don DeLillo’s...
Today’s White House pool report, about Obama’s visit to a General Electric plant, is—not to oversell it—a work of heart-wrenching and haunting postmodern genius. See if you can tell the difference between today’s report, by Kathleen Moore of the Daily Gazette, and lines from Don DeLillo’s National Book Award–winning novel, White Noise. A. “A great echoing din, as of the extinction of a species of...
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Every time I hear about an award or a nomination [for The Social Network], it...
– Jesse Eisenberg.
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In the AT&T and Verizon rivalry, “the gloves are... →
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You’re the closest to heaven that I’ve ever been.
– The inscription inside Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s wedding ring; her husband, Mark Kelly, is an astronaut. (via washingtonpoststyle)
I remember when Tiger was just starting out. Let me set the scene for you. It...
– “Sympathy for Tiger Woods on the Loss of His Golf Digest Column” by Jim Windolf
"The Man Who Spilled the Secrets" by Sarah Ellison
In late August, [Julian] Assange fell out with one of his key employees, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who had been known outside the organization as the WikiLeaks spokesman “Daniel Schmitt.” Like others at WikiLeaks, Domscheit-Berg resisted Assange’s single-minded focus on military and diplomatic issues—and feared that Assange was becoming a lightning rod. At press time Domscheit-Berg was working on...
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For those of us who take comfort in looking at Congress as the nation’s great...
– Gail Collins, welcoming 112. [NYT]
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Mark Coatney: In Which We Welcome Vanity Fair →
markcoatney:
I have a friend who maintains that a Tumblr’s theme provides a vital clue as to whether that particular blog is worth a follow. His reasoning is that if someone has taken the time to choose a nice theme, or tweak a theme to match their own needs, that’s a good indication that their Tumblr…
In which Coatney judges us by our cover, and we’re flattered. Thanks for the warm...
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Shriek!, as they say.