July 2011
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Tattle: A tweet apology from Hef's ex-fiancee →
From the Daily News, July 30, 2011
Bold Names: Crystal Harris, Hugh Hefner, Soulja Boy, Meatloaf, Kurt Cobain and Rupert Murdoch.
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“Google the phrase “Smurfs communist,” and you’ll find dozens of essays, blog...”
– “Sure, they look blue, but are the Smurfs closet Reds?”
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read and I didn’t even write it.
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“By now, you’re probably familiar with Magnitude, the character from Community...”
– Holy crap, that’s awesome.
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Tattle: Judge to Lohan: Get thee to a therapist →
From the Daily News, July 23, 2011
Bold names: Lindsay Lohan, James Franco, Jennifer Lopez
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A festival of music, art & yoga unfurls aboard the... →
From the Daily News, July 25, 2011
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The ’70s chimp who moved people to tears →
From the Daily News, July 22, 2011.
Review of “Project Nim.”
A-!
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“They were all just… Michael Gambon telling filthy jokes and Alan Rickman talking...”
– Matthew Nelson, a/k/a Neville Longbottom.
God, I wish Harry Potter were real.
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Y100 lives on →
From the Daily News, July 20, 2011.
For those not from Philly, Y100 was a radio station that played alternative rock from 1997 until it went off the air in 2005. It’s been through several incarnations since and this is a piece about its most recent form, as an internet radio station.
Sidebars:
Expand your playlist with these 10 bands (Josh T. Landow from Y-Not radio gives his 10 bands you...
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“TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUR HEAD
INSIDE A FREEZER. UPLOAD THIS PHOTO
TO THE...”
– C’mon, people, putting your head in the freezer is a thing now? Apparently.
Much like planking, this is not subversive and it’s not full of whimsy. It’s stupid. Really, really stupid. Do you know why it’s stupid? BECAUSE YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR HEAD IN A MOTHERFUCKING FREEZER.
...
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WatchClear eyes…
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Going to the movies with my sister
(**In today’s episode, the unexpected hotness of Neville Longbottom all-growed up will serve as a metaphor for my evolving relationship with my sister**)
Today, my sister and I saw “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II” at the Rave Motion Pictures University City 6 in West Philly. We saw “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” together 10 years ago...
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“Since I give off an affable “Oh, he’ll pontificate about...”
– “Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room: The Blessed Distraction Of Technology” by Colson Whitehead, who is definitely my AWILF* list.
*Changed Official Title of List I Keep in My Head to W for writer, rather than A for author on second examination.
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Globe-trotting couple's travel pics have a common... →
From the Daily News, July 13, 2011.
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“The critics say it’s a bad show,” Schwartz once told TV Guide about...”
– From James Poniewozik’s excellent obit of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” who died at today at 94.
Schwartz gave a letter to The Hollywood Reporter to be printed upon his death. It’s incredibly sweet and...
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“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
This one is my favorite one.
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“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.”
– E.B. White
This is the single best advice I’ve ever read about writing. This one sentence could teach so many terrible writers the errrors of their ways.
It’s also precisely the reason E.B. White is such a fantastic writer. He takes these complicated concepts about life and death and...
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“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs...”
– From “Charlotte’s Web.”
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“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren...”
– Commence me getting all weepy about E.B. White’s 112 birthday, which is today, as I do most years.
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Tattle: On a roll, Nancy Grace rolls with the... →
From the Daily News, July 9, 2011
Bold names: Nancy Grace, Casey Anthony, Jerry Springer, The Situation, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jay-Z, Kanye West
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Danger After Dark: Movies for after midnight →
From the Daily News, July 8, 2011
The horror movie component to the gay and lesbian film fest that never features gay or lesbian content.
When the Philadelphia Cinema Alliance started pairing the two fests together last year, I came up with one of my favorite covers from my entire tenure at City Paper:
The lady-man on the cover is Willam Belli who was in a movie called “Ticked off...
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QFest film festival is rich with stars & coming of... →
From the Daily News, July 8, 2011
About Philly’s LGBTQ film fest. The thing about the stars is a lie.
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Drexel students' designs join shuttle's last... →
From the Daily News, July 8, 2011
Downside to Spending All Your Free Time Watching...
mccullarmebad:
You stawrt ter tink in a bri’ish accent. Then you stawrt to tawk like that, and before yer knau et, yer only seem to enjoy yerself when spaaking cawckneh.
Paple stawrt to lyke yer less aftah that. Is a fohkin naightmare.
I do this.
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Tattle: Roasting Sheen: Here's a gun, there's the... →
From the Daily News, July 6, 2011
Bold Names: Charlie Sheen, Maria Shriver, Pink, Christie Brinkley, Alex Rodriguez, Angelina Jolie, Sarah Jessica Parker
Wow, Tumblrs exclusively featuring scantily clad ladies really enjoy my story about alternative transportation methods in Philadelphia…
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“In old age, when he was suffering from Alzheimer’s, E.B. White liked to have his...”
– Some Pig…Terrific…Radiant…Humble: Maureen Corrigan reviews a new book about the life of E.B. White and the origins of Charlotte’s Web. (via nprfreshair)
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Tattle: Bachelorette Ashley Hebert being shorted? →
From the Daily News, July 2, 2011.
Bold Names: Ashley Hebert, Prince Albert, Kate Moss, Jamie Hince, Vinny and Pauly D.
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Stake for dinner: For a 3-course meal, you get to... →
From the Daily News, June 30, 2011.
