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Classic Cranky Gabe Rant. A+++, would buy again.
That said, I’m going to see this movie, you’re going to see this movie, we’re all going to see this movie… its like the Avengers, but with books (book books, not comic books… no literary value judgement implied, nerds). Blame your high school english teacher.
I’m betting Harmon lands on his feet over at Happy Endings. TWIST!
Because we’re all really wondering what will happen when THAT gang does a Tarantino homage with multiple timelines and a musical number, right? All signs point to uh-mah-zing.
Oh, and Happy Endings just incorporates the cast of BFF into their storylines, like eating a twin in the womb.
I’m betting Harmon lands on his feet over at Happy Endings. TWIST!
Because we’re all really wondering what will happen when THAT gang does a Tarantino homage with multiple timelines and a musical number, right? All signs point to uh-mah-zing.
We got US Attorney General Eric Holder for law school graduation this year, which isn’t bad…. but I was pushing for Jason Segel in character as Marshall Eriksen from How I Met Your Mother.
The dude went out like a rocket, though– such a fantastic run of late period interviews that let him be his cranky, salty, gay self, culminating in what might have been one of Colbert’s finest moments.
She wrote about losing her virginity on one of the upstart girly-blogs (not meant as a pejorative), so maybe she meant she’s not “doing the sex” at present? It was a weird line.
I mean, Tina Fey and Paul Feig are both on record that they didn’t have sex until 24, so maybe… homage?
Anyone else laugh at the scene of her on opium on front of her folks begging for $$$? As part of the begging parents for $$$ generation, I thought the overdramatic-ness of the situation was played really well.
Also, so much to-do about the sex scene out there on the interwebs, and so much of it misplaced. No, its not supposed to be alluring; yes, its supposed to be kind of gross and unpleasant; and no, we don’t need to wring our hands or wholeheartedly approve of the character’s decisions as some sexual representative of her generation and gender. She’s just a lady with a creep of a guy making kind of gross choices… can’t we all just kind of neutrally accept that as a thing people do?
Nope. Peter Scolari is the small-screen Wayne Szalinski 4 lyfe. That show was totally underrated and maybe the last truly enjoyable thing John Landis has done.
Goddamnit. Why does Mike Seaver get to live when Boner’s life was cut tragically short?
(For real, though. RIP Andrew Koenig, by all accounts you were a pretty cool dude).
Didn’t realize until yesterday that my Geraldo comment from last week had netted a +47, a personal best. By last week’s numbers, it would have made the ball, and I was psyched… until I remembered the Mad Men thread. Alas, it was more than I deserved, given my relatively low volume of activity.
But for personal bests, and for the return of Mans to the realm of the monsters, I shall bring the funk.
A BOX of Skittles? He wasn’t coming from the movies, Geraldo, nor a Blockbuster Video, because those don’t exist anywhere anymore. #GeraldoHatesCandy
She’s also the best for being super cool about contemporary YA superstar John Green saying that she was on his “guilt free three”, and then went on to befriend him on twitter and give high praise for his new book almost immediately after it came out, meaning she bought and read it pretty much ASAP. So yeah, the best.
I just hope Debbie Spenditnow didn’t accept that case of Coke the lady sent her as a thank-you. Pretty good odds someone put pee-pee in it.
Mavis hates it when he does that. Makes him gassy in bed.
Best stick with tacos.
I’d give Jay a pass (that feels weird to even type) were it not for:
“Previously, in 2007 he called Sikhs ‘diaper heads.’ In 2010, he remarked, falsely so, in his monologue that President Obama could not visit Sri Darbar Sahib because of requirements of wearing a turban. Clearly, Jay Leno’s racist comments need to be stopped right here.”
WHOOPS.
Would pants happiness be acceptable?
I don’t think the feminist bookstore people could hack it at SV. They’d point out some small contradiction or difference in opinion asking for clarification and get banned for making bad faith accusations.
Glad we’ve all had this chance to talk about this, gang. Sometimes the weirder corners of the internet just demand commiseration.
OH, and one more, featuring fellow culinary champ Guy Fieri:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/10/quote-of-day_17.html
The gold standard is their ALL IN! post from 2009, in which the new community manifesto was laid down:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/06/posted-by-arkades-deeky-erica-c.html
Before that, there was the Great Expectations post, in which the community was commanded to take an about-face and be nice to Obama as he took office (which they have reversed course on again):
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/11/great-expectations.html
And of course the time they memorialized a Catholic feminist, only to get piled on themselves when it was pointed out she was horrifically transphobic:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/01/rip-mary-daly.html
Fascinating one and all.
IT IS CALLED A CONTENT NOTE NOW THANKYOUVERYMUCH, PLEASE ADJUST ACCORDINGLY.
I am weirdly fascinated by the Shakesville rabbit-hole, not the least of which because they LOVE them some Videogum around there, and at times the snark mimics Gabe-snark to the point that I wondered if there was some big connection I was missing between the two.
But I will always love a good internet commenting trainwreck, and few places have them as often or over things as baffling.
Did anyone else follow the Twitter dustup between Baratunde Thurston and Melissa McEwan of Shakesville on this, after the former called Deen’s diabetes “gastrointestinal justice”? It’s fascinating:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-manifatso.html
(comment thread also contains a commenter being banned for refusing to use the word “fat” in place of their personally preferred term “overweight”. FUN!)
Sadly absent is the less heated back and forth between Thurston and Kate Harding, another leading FA (fat acceptance) proponent, because the entire picture is like a Goofus and Gallant of informing someone that their dumb joke was supremely offensive to you.
The celebrated YA author and vlogger John Green, whose latest, The Fault in Our Stars, drops the same day as the good Mr. Gethard’s
There is actually a very good reason the reporter was not shown on camera:
Gave does not look nearly enough like an angry ferret in a suit to be a DeVos.
ALSO: do you think Owen Wilson’s character from Midnight in Paris will appreciate this movie more than the rest of us, having met Fitzgerald and all? That’s assuming they even show American movies in France, where he lives now….