Sometimes the Internet gets my blood up. From Choire:
In answer to your question: Nope! I really don’t care if I have to march with misguided Libertarians and Trustafarians and other poorly-clad people who insanely think the World Bank is going to issue a new pan-North American coin or that Ayn Rand was right or [...]
Speaking of acts of congress, “Watchmen” features this year’s hands-down winner of the bad movie sex award, superhero division: a moment of bliss that takes place on board Nite Owl’s nifty little airship, accompanied by Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” (By the way, can we please have a moratorium on the use of this song in movies? [...]
Specifically: So the masses could see the best parts of a terrible Hong Kong action movie called Gen Y Cops, without having to purchase it or sit through the more boring parts.
Gen Y Cops stars a bleached-blonde Paul Rudd, who is clearly just paying the rent with this trash. I’m not sure which is funnier: [...]
This was the week when The Internet won. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the internet.
“ i remember going to the mtv video music awards with anthony michael hall and david lee roth, driving down fifth avenue in a convertible studebaker. david was wearing white gloves and tails. i was like, ‘dude, is it ever going to get more modern than this?”
Robert Downey Jr. (via)
Here are pickshures from the internet that I [...]
Its been a rough week, no?
Dear Internet / Lover (could go either way these days),
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because –
because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, [...]
Oh man. This week has been the ultimate fuck-a-monkey shit show of media collapse. I am even related to a laid-off media refugee (authenticity secured!)! MY DAD! In the cases of Radar and LA Weekly you have investors who acquire an alternative publication because of its brand appeal. Then they discard the people who built [...]
I feel like a bystander to some of act violence. Radar was my favorite corner of the internet. It made me so fucking proud to write for them. I printed this out in case the internet ever tried to take it away from me. I could go on. And on.
Here’s your dose of pretty:
Put the scorn aside today kids and enjoy the best part of the internet: the pictures! (runner up: the absurd amount of young girls with digital cameras and no sense of boundaries! obvs) We read the whole internet a couple times this week and here are some of the visual highlights. But first! Read this, [...]
Happy Indigenous People’s day y’all!!! We’re taking a very unwarranted day off. In the mean time you should the read the shit out of my feature piece on Radar about the Seth MacFarlane backlash.
… [I]t wasn’t ever thus. Indeed, there was a time where I, and a whole legion of zealous college students, [...]