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'Slate' Has a Funny Video About Kittens
With the possible exceptions of various sarcastic asides by John Dickerson and Jack Shafer, online journal of contrarianism Slate has run like one intentionally funny piece in its 100 year history—this examination of Chuck Klosterman jacket photos by Doree—so we're not entirely sure why they keep trying. Humor is not really your bag, Slate! Today we received an ominous email from Slate's indefatigable flack: "Slate V Spoofs Lolcats: Polcats—What if Barack and Hillary Wuz Kittehs?" It might go... a little something... like this: More »
crime
Big Black Car: Prince of Darkness Mows Down Pedestrian In DC Mêlée
Robert Novak—respected conservative journalist/commentator and grim spectre of soulless walking death—ran over a guy in his black Corvette this morning. Hilariously, a Politico reporter got the story by walking by. Novak hit the guy and then continued merrily speeding along until a bicyclist stopped him and said "you hit someone." Novak allegedly threw his head back and cackled for a moment before shooting him. There are no details about the pedestrian's condition. Look, we need to share more details about this with you. Just click. More »
criticism
Sasha Frere-Jones Sings!
Would you like to hear New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones sing the hits of Kelly Clarkson? Sure, we all would! Thankfully, The New Yorker has us covered. Sasha wrote an entertaining piece on auto-tune (the software that corrects pitch problems and can also be used to make wacky robot vocals), and then went to Hoboken with a sound crew to get auto-tuned himself. Attached, a clip of Sasha singing "Since U Been Gone." Click through to the whole piece to hear him get all T-Pained out. [New Yorker]
twitterati
Inanimate Bridge Mocking You
Twitter is, uh... a microblogging thing, where you tell everyone what you're doing at any given moment. It's basically a colossal waste of time. But if you subscribe to ONLY ONE FEED let it be this one: the Twitter account of London's Tower Bridge. It makes all other Twitter feeds utterly redundant.
drugs
How Not To Advocate Responsible Drug Use on FOX
Former Jezebel intern and attempted Paris Hilton free-er David Seaman was on Fox's Morning Show With Mike and Juliet today to talk about Salvia, the hot new (legal!) drug that's taking America's colleges by storm. "They told me I'd be on to talk about why I'm in favor of keeping certain drugs legal," Seaman said in an email to friends and colleagues, "and why many college students agree that some decriminalization for soft drugs makes sense." He had a little argument worked out and everything! But he was on The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet so they actually just sat him next to some mook who posts clips of kids having bad trips on YouTube and interviewed a doctor who says all the drugs will cause deadly car crashes. Then they introduced a girl whose brother killed himself on the Salvia! Seaman's entertaining email describing his ordeal is after the jump. A brief clip is attached. More »
lol internet
White People Over-Analyze Like This
Did you hear about that hot new internet blog, "Stuff White People Like"? Did someone email or GChat you a link to it? Or did many people? Chances are you either had a knowing chuckle or got all huffy about it, as those seem to be most people's responses. We've gone through the criticisms both whiny—I'm white and I'm nothing like this!—and smart—boy their definition of "white people" is offensively narrow and classist—and now we're sick of those too, even though we sort of agree with them but also are all "lay off, it's a stupid blog." There's the fucking rub: we dislike the site and are sick of everyone disliking the site. Which is why we were so excited to see that they got ten zillion dollars to turn it into a book! A book about hockey, and Miracle Whip! Except not really, because only like middle American White People like those things, see, and there's that class argument we didn't want to get into. No, this book is actually about Juno or some such bullshit. More »
superdelegates
Embarrassing Facebook Photos of the Nerds Who Will Decide the Presidency
Barack Obama won another caucus last weekend. Did you even notice? He holds a pledged delegate lead over Hillary Clinton, and it is looking increasingly unlikely that that lead will shrink as we approach the Democratic National Convention. Nor does it seem likely that either candidate will surge ahead in the upcoming primaries enough to clinch the nomination with pledged delegates alone. Which means that it comes down to Superdelegates, the party bigwigs named by the DNC to make sure we don't end up without another Jimmy Carter. They are beholden to no one, they may align themselves with whomever they wish. And while we know many of them as our elected representatives, some of them, like members of the College Democrats and the Young Democrats of America, are just some drunks on Facebook. A Gawker operative compiled this charming gallery of the youngest Superdelegates (we're reasonably assured of their accuracy) demonstrating their superiority over you, the lowly voter, in this grand democratic experiment. Also they are singing karaoke and smiling happily before the grave of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More »
the whites
Stuff White People Like Is Making All Other White People Blogs Obsolete
If there is one thing white people like, it's mocking themselves. That's why Stuff White People Like is such an internet sensation. As Homer Simpson once said, "It's true. We're so lame." (And when is the Simpsons going to be on Stuff White People Like?) Now the cultural tastemakers at Men's Health are saying "Stuff a Specific Variety of Upper-Middle Class Liberal Arts Graduates Like" is the new Corporate-Casual. Aren't the editors of Men's Health being a little white-centric? (Another thing white people like.) Stuff White People Like just makes fun of white people; Corporate-Casual's misanthropy knows no racial bounds. [via Corporate-Casual]
Can't Hardly Wait
"'Heroes' star Hayden Panettiere has signed on to topline 'Daydream Nation,' a teenage comedy from writer Michael Goldbach, who is making his directorial debut. Kieran Culkin is in negotiations to star as well. ... The producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an intellectual comedy a la 'Juno' and 'Election.'" [Hollywood Reporter via Pitchfork via YM]
"'Heroes' star Hayden Panettiere has signed on to topline 'Daydream Nation,' a teenage comedy from writer Michael Goldbach, who is making his directorial debut. Kieran Culkin is in negotiations to star as well. ... The producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an intellectual comedy a la 'Juno' and 'Election.'" [Hollywood Reporter via Pitchfork via YM]
super tuesday
Nation Of Fools Attempts to Vote
SUPER TUESDAY UPDATE: Voting machines in Hoboken don't work, Drudge claims no one in LA has any voting machines at all, and dozens of Wisconsinites showed up to the polls to vote early this morning despite the fact that Wisconsin's primary is not until February 19th.
FLASHBACK
Matt Drudge would like to remind you that GOP Presidential Frontrunner John "Maveirck" McCain hates gooks. He will link to an 8-year-old story, if necessary. That is all. [DRUDGE]
Matt Drudge would like to remind you that GOP Presidential Frontrunner John "Maveirck" McCain hates gooks. He will link to an 8-year-old story, if necessary. That is all. [DRUDGE]
the riches
Wouldn't It Suck If You Were Rich?
Jonathan Clements says wealth is overrated and rich people are all contemptible morons and that money will not make you happy! Also he's the Wall Street Journal personal-finance columnist. So don't go around making so much money, guys! You'll end up empty and depressed, because every time you eat dinner at the nicest restaurant in the world, you'll be forced to confront the sad knowledge that there is no nicer restaurant. Then you'll climb into your waiting helicopter and go back to your sad mansion, where, tragically, you've grown used to your servants. Yes, in the end, what truly matters is assuming the attitudes and outward trappings of the upper-middle class regardless of your actual worth and not being all gauche and show-offy about it.
You're Not Super Rich? You Lucked Out. [WSJ]
fight this generation
Who Will Crush My Generation's Dreams Already?
Troubling out-of-context statistics and worrying isolated anecdotes suggest that members of "Generation Y"—loosely defined as all the people younger and stupider and more annoying than you and your peers—are lazy, unrealistic freeloaders, still living off their poor parents well into adulthood. Employment agency Manpower released a study last year that found that two-thirds of under-30 Americans (and Canadians!) would rather "pursue their dreams" than "make lots of money." What the hell is wrong with those people?More »
When Blog Memes Collide
Lolsecretz is PostSecret, the blog where people send in their deepest darkest feelings on postcards, crossed with Lolcat, where people ascribe poorly spelled human emotions to animals. You're welcome.
Lolsecretz is PostSecret, the blog where people send in their deepest darkest feelings on postcards, crossed with Lolcat, where people ascribe poorly spelled human emotions to animals. You're welcome.
lindsay lol-han
Lindsay Lohan Still Loves James Frey
A scene from the literary life of Lindsay Lohan:'The only other signing I've come to in New York is actually James Frey. I cried. I went in the back, and I was just bawling. He's amazing. He was big help to me when I was going through stuff.' In fact, Frey wrote Lohan a note when the Smoking Gun website published that letter written to her by Morgan Creek's James Robinson, castigating her for her behavior. Lohan still wants to star in the movie version of Frey's now-debunked addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces, should it ever get made. 'He was really cool. He's a good person,' Lohan says.Well, it's good to know that Lindsay's enthusiasm for Frey's work hasn't been dampened by finding out that, you know, he's a total lying faker. Why should any actions have any consequences, anyway? More »
