Cheat To Win

I’m practically counting down the days until August...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:05 -0400

I’m practically counting down the days until August 11…

You see it’s leaders and there’s followersBut...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:57:16 -0400

You see it’s leaders and there’s followers
But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower

Pulling my hair out waiting for June 18th.

For anyone that picked Team Slaughtermelon.

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:04:10 -0400

For anyone that picked Team Slaughtermelon.

You can’t stop the lights from turning on

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:50 -0400

You can’t stop the lights from turning on

That time when Touré gave me a hat tip on Twitter. I sent him a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:14:24 -0400

That time when Touré gave me a hat tip on Twitter.

I sent him a Deadspin article defending the New Orleans Pelicans and apparently he decided I was amazing.

"None of us is alone. Each of us is dependent on others. Some of us depend on others for life itself."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:01 -0400

““None of us is alone. Each of us is dependent on others. Some of us depend on others for life itself.””

- Toni Morrison, speaking at Vanderbilt’s Commencement, 5/9/2013

Me and @maebirdwing at the banana stand!!! Thank you all for...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:33 -0400

Me and @maebirdwing at the banana stand!!! Thank you all for standing in line for a banana. And I’m sorry for those I missed!!

Judy Greer and Mae Whitman handing out Bluth’s Frozen Bananas in Culver City, CA.

The Oscars are often blasted for their lily-white lineups, but...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:16 -0400

The Oscars are often blasted for their lily-white lineups, but the presence of these three films — plus a wild card coming in the Steve McQueen–directed, Chiwetel Ejiofor–starring Twelve Years a Slave — could make this year’s Best Actor category rather unprecedented. It is obviously very early to be handicapping, and Weinstein demurred a bit when I asked him about that angle… Still, it’s an encouraging trend, even if all four of the aforementioned movies are biopics. If history is made in the Best Actor category this year, let’s hope it’ll eventually encourage Hollywood to cast black leads in roles that don’t even require them.

Fingers crossed (though my money is on Michael B. Jordan and Fruitvale Station).

I’m a brute, shooting from the hipStraight into your...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:48 -0400

I’m a brute, shooting from the hip
Straight into your heart

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Summer is coming.

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:12 -0400

Summer is coming.

There is something effortless about Easy A that defies...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:30:00 -0400

There is something effortless about Easy A that defies description; Emma Stone’s nuanced performance as Olive Penderghast raises this script to the upper echelon of teen comedies. She’s surrounded by some of the best comedic talents of the past few generations, made only funnier when one imbibes whilst watching.

One must drink from beverage when:

- Rhiannon curses
- Olive’s clothing is referenced in dialogue
- Woodchucks make an appearance
- Olive claims to be nebbish or pathologically unpopular
- Literature outside of Scarlet Letter is discussed
- Todd is dressed in costume
- 80s movies are referenced

Optional Shit-faced Rule: You have to drink every time you see an orange.

Remember that time I met James Ponsoldt and Michael Weber at a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:30:25 -0400

Remember that time I met James Ponsoldt and Michael Weber at a screening for The Spectacular Now and they thought I was great and suddenly all of my childhood bullshit was resolved?

I’ve been watching a lot of Top of the Lake lately and I...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:41:41 -0400

I’ve been watching a lot of Top of the Lake lately and I wanna spend a few weeks/months/years living in a cabin in New Zealand.

But you stood by my side night after nightNight after nightYou...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:31:00 -0400

But you stood by my side night after night
Night after night
You loved me back to life

Romney may have received a paltry 27 percent of the Latino...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:02:44 -0400

Romney may have received a paltry 27 percent of the Latino vote, but that was an incipient landslide next to his 6 percent of the black vote. Six percent is the exact percentage of blacks who voted for the GOP in the 1964 presidential election, when its standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater, kick-started the metamorphosis of the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Strom Thurmond by defying most of his own Republican senatorial colleagues to oppose that year’s landmark Civil Rights Act. You’d think the persistence of the GOP’s near-total estrangement from black America almost a half-century later would merit the most drastic corrective action in its new outreach effort. But you would be wrong. The party still believes it can spin its racial history and, when required, literally and figuratively whitewash it.

I may be a little too obsessed with race and 20th century politics, since I was all set to write my PhD. thesis on it, but this article from Frank Rich in New York Magazine is devastating in the best possible way.

The only graduates that matter this spring.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:00:58 -0400

The only graduates that matter this spring.

I want this in my life soon.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:59 -0400

I want this in my life soon.

Ana Gasteyer may be the most underrated comedy star on Twitter.

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:32 -0400

Ana Gasteyer may be the most underrated comedy star on Twitter.

Her response? “Slow clap.”

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:42 -0400

Her response? “Slow clap.”

Her off beat dance makes me fantasize

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:45 -0400

Her off beat dance makes me fantasize