May 2011
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Look, I’m no huge Lady Gaga fan or anything but why is it that I’ve read a bunch of recent pieces (by dudes) complaining that she’s not pretty. Like this piece in last month’s Esquire by Stephen Marche, who I find intolerable but other people seem to enjoy:
For example: How has she become a sex symbol when she has no tits and no ass?
Then this tweet from a very nice...
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'L'Amour Fou' ignores the couture →
From the Daily News, Fri., May 27.
Shorter review: This doc was mad boring.
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Ellen Gray: 25 things that just won't be the same... →
Here are the ones I contributed:
2. There’ll no longer be a good excuse to cry in the middle of the afternoon. 7. Celebrities will have to write full memoirs to reveal traumatic childhood moments. 10. E!’s “The Soup” will lose one of its best clip sources.
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“Manxiety. The corollary to the trend above is, for some reason, a spate of...”
– I really like the term Manxiety.
Where is Susan Faludi when you need her?!
Although, I gotta say the best quote about the male focal points of the new TV season came from Daily News TV critic Ellen Gray when we were making fun of how awful all the ABC upfront previews looked. She said, “It...
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“And call me old-fashioned, but when I think of love, the first words that leap...”
– I hate on Mary Elizabeth Williams sometimes because she tends to be shake-your-fist-angry at things that don’t really deserve anger, but this takedown of flash mobs and the desire to find fame via viral marketing is incredible.
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“Fast forward a few minutes. “We were sitting by a pool bar, and they asked...”
– Local weatherman John Bolaris, who is famous in that local weatherman sort of way, was drugged and scammed out of $43,000 by two Estonian women in Miami.
As DMac pointed out, the comments are particularly vile for Philly.com, but to Eastern Europeans this time, rather than the usual target: black...
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The Natural: Late-bloomer actor Harry Philibosian... →
From the Daily News, Wed., May 17.
This is one of my favorite stories of my decidedly short career. It’s about this guy, Harry Philibosian, who was a dry cleaner until he was 57 and became a professional actor. I loved doing this story. He’s a truly fantastic guy.
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Namib-Naukluft Park Picture – Travel Wallpaper –... →
This is a photograph. Mind. Blown.
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“Hollywood hates labor, and hates shows about labor worse than any other thing....”
– Roseanne Barr, from New York mag’s insanely good TV issue.
Part of the reason I like this piece is that she’s still so bitter. The lead paragraphs are a misnomer. This was a good piece, but it would have been a great piece if she had actually dissected what part of the fame monster...
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Alice Bast wants to teach you all about celiac... →
From the Daily News, Tue., May 17
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Where are the Willy Wonka kids now? →
Charlie Bucket looks like a child molester now, y/y? It makes more sense when you think about his all-too-close relationship with a man in skintight, striped pants.
I play this game where I like to see how many dishes I can fit in my dishwasher before the soap can’t reach the ones at the bottom. Conversely, I play another game where I see how long I can last without dishes. I am always winning.
I'm not just the president, I'm also a member
Those Bosley hair transplant commercials would be more accurate if the pictures were labeled “Pre-” and “Post-midlife crisis.”
Also, here’s a letter I found from Kenny Rogers on the Bosley site … because this is what I do when I have writer’s block. Comments, mine.
Dear Dr. Bosley, Just thought I’d drop you a line and let you know how it’s going. It’s ...
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Tattle: Ashton Kutcher picks up Sheen's day job →
From the Daily News, Sat., May 14.
Bold names: Ashton Kutcher, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, Osama Bin Laden, Matthew Perry, Pete Dexter, Lee Daniels
They definitely took out my use of the term ‘spank bank.’
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“Pornography was found in a raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan...”
– I would be much more worried if the PORNOGRAPHY wasn’t sexually explicit, CNN.
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Crafts are the star of this bazaar →
From the Daily News, Fri., May 13
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‘Cracks’: Things fall apart →
From the Daily News, Fri., May 13
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"Hesher" review and interview
Review: A grieving family, a misfit living in the garage
Interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt: For Gordon-Levitt role in ‘Hesher,’ nothing altered character like a filthy wig
From the Daily News, Fri., May 13
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“The Daily News outperforms the Inquirer online consistently.”
– From What Philly.com should be: a comprehensive, collaborative and open source for all news in Philadelphia
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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36 arts groups win $$$ from Knight Foundation →
From the Daily News, Tue., May 10.
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Fake out: Twitter group writes the book on its... →
Ok, two best/worst parts about this story. First, this parenthetical:
(Lowery recently tweeted that he was sending out royalty checks for the Chiefs. Each was for a whopping $1.09.)
That was definitely a joke from “The Jerk” and not real. I suggested the correction end with “Reporter Molly Eichel feels like an idiot.” (See.)
Also, comments:
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Here is a picture of a tattooed pig, who let’s all hope is either a devout Catholic or a high-ranking member of a Latino gang.
Thanks @flossymatt!!
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Tattle: Maybe I'm amazed, but Sir Paul is engaged →
From the Daily News, Sat., May 7.
The Bold Names: Paul McCartney, Emma Bunton, Byran Adams, Scooter Braun, Eddie Cibrian, Nicolas Cage.
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“Johnny Depp’s eccentricities extend beyond a propensity to show up at British...”
– Johnny Depp can’t see 3-D either!
It’s not just me.
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“The sincerity and intelligence onscreen were astonishing. So was the slowness....”
– From a great piece about appreciating Mr. Rogers as someone who didn’t grow up watching him.
This quote above reminds of the trippy-ass kids’ artist Gustafer Yellowgold who I simply love (I wrote a piece about him) even though I have no children.
Also, if you haven’t seen this...
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“This movie is not distinctively bad, it is axiomatically bad.
And that is...”
– I really like it when A.O. Scott is mean. And he is really mean to “Thor.”
Here’s are some other choice quotes:
“Ms. Portman’s cute-nerd sidekick is Kat Dennings, and their nerd mentor is Stellan Skarsgard, who at this point must be a leading candidate for the Nobel...
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3-D impairment: Focusing on how eyes handle that... →
From the Daily News, Fri., May 6.
On why my life is terrible because I can’t see 3-D.
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Everything's Coming Up Milhouse →
Why I was I not aware of this website until today? My life just got 40,000 times better.
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Mind blowing Book of Art
I saw this in the current issue of Esquire (the one with Jeff Bridges on the cover) and couldn’t stop staring at it. This guy, Isaac G. Salazar, makes this crazy book art by folding down the pages in his free time. By day, he’s a goddamned accountant.
He has an Etsy shop, but everything has been sold out for awhile. His Facebook page says e-mail ikeroni@hotmail.com to get on the...
NPR, you goddamned sons of bitches
I’m writing a story about people who can’t see 3D movies (i.e. me) because of an astigmatism and the like. My editor told me she heard this NPR story about surgery that would allow people to see 3D movies without the glasses. So I went on the search for this story, thinking it would make the perfect kicker for me piece.
I found it.
It was definitely an April Fool’s joke.
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Sports Dad: Author Strauss' new book describes... →
For the Daily News, Mon., May 2, 2011
It was funny reporting this story about the bond a man forms with his daugthers through sports because I saw it from a different perspective: the relationship formed between my dad and my sister.
I told my dad he should write a memoir like this, over how he bonded with his two very different daughters. With Jodie, it would be about sports. With me it would...
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They Ate What?: 'Swallow ...' tells story of a doc... →
My story about Mary Cappello’s book Swallow, Daily News, April 30, 2011.
Swallow is about the Foreign Objects Collection, a catalogue for items gethered by Dr. Chevalier Jackson of things people swallowed — from buttons to safety pins to a tiny pair of binoculars.
