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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    Tweedy fashion + family of misfits + Kinks-y soundtrack + daddy issues + Angelica Huston + liberal captioning + elaborate set pieces + reverence for childish innocence + primacy of accoutrements + one jarring scene of violence = Wes Anderson film #wesanderson
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
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    10/15/09

    @britneyspearstears: this whole blog post appears to have been written in an obsolete vernacular...
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    10/15/09

    cookieness or kookiness?
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    What's the one element that has kept Wes Anderson's more recent movies from being great?

    Owen Wilson as a principle writer.

    He's more than a pretty-ish face and a fucked up nose. He is apparently the key to making WA movies more than a sum of its quirks. I think he brings an ease, a sense of humor, and the heart that mitigate the jarring nature of WA quirky film-making. Movies like Rushmore and Tenenbaums and Shanghai Noon are great because Owen Wilson has contributed to the script.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    OK... the guy has made the same movie a few too many times now. Here's hoping he breaks out of it and finds a new direction to go. Maybe this film is even it. But I don't really understand the absolute hatred going on with this post. I mean... is he really the worst problem with American cinema these days?

    Unearned gravitas? What kind of bullshit first day of NYC film school garbage is this? Is music no longer an acceptable part of a film? Was a tear inducing score in The Bicycle Thief a cheap trick to cultivate unearned gravitas. Or is it only cheap when you use Nico? I'm confused about the logistics here... The guy makes nostalgia laced comedies. Gasp! Is there a problem with this? I know he surely has kool aid drinking fans that know nothing about great films from decades past, but it's not his fault. So he's a stylist and not a heavy filmmaker. You know what... I have room for that once every few years. If nothing else it's a change of pace from the typical four releases we get every week.

    Granted, I'll watch fucking Nic Cage crap just as happily as I'll watch Haneke or PT Anderson or whoever we're deciding is good now. At least until we decide they are crap a couple years from now and disregard any love we had of their previous work.

    Or was this just an opportunity to say hoodie? Funny how it has a different meaning on deadspin.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    Life Aquatic was hardly a flop. It's in the Criterion Collection so apparently there are at least some people out there who can recognize it for the master piece it is. Hating on The Life Aquatic is just one of those convenient go to opinions people have without really thinking about, everyone else does it, so why actually give the film a fair shake when it's cool to shit on it.
    See also Ralph Nader and M. Night Shymalan.
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    10/14/09

    @Beatcamel: I sort of like Aquatic too, but it should be noted Anderson had a deal for that film to be released in Criterion before it was even made.
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    10/14/09

    @Beatcamel: I loved Life Aquatic. Can't say I'm a big fan of Ralph Nader's directing, though.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    Goodbye, Gawker. I'm surprised but only mildly so that this was my last straw.
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    10/14/09

    @PrincessKashmir: What did we do now? Why are you leaving us?
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    10/14/09

    @PrincessKashmir:

    i haven't visited this site much since Gawker took over. i should have stuck to that program
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    10/14/09

    @Al_Pastor: What do you mean "since Gawker took over"? Were you ever laboring under the impression that Defamer was NOT a site owned by Gawker Media's Nick Denton?
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    10/14/09

    @snugbug: Not you, bug. It's just the sad, mean, pointless tone here. It used to be fun and constructively critical, right?

    Maybe it's just me, and I'm that horrible old person who hates everything about the next generation. I accept that might be part of it, and I'm as annoyed as anyone by that hypocrisy. But picking on Wes Anderson -- and not the stuff he may have deserved it for -- makes my black little heart hurt. (Dude earns a lifetime pass for Rushmore, Bottle Rocket and Tenenbaums.)

    That and I miss the WN/FN/SNFF, I miss Ian, I miss Emily, I miss the Commies, I miss the camaraderie of us commenters.
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    10/14/09

    @PrincessKashmir: Dear PrincessKashmir, I completely sympathize with your qualms, but all the same beseech you not to leave. I agree that Gawker of yore seemed to attract a somewhat more enlightened quality of commenters. These days, I often find myself being Miss Contrarian on most threads. I don't even mean to, but it's as if I know too much, or something. If you and your ilk leave us, the quality of the site will further devolve. I only defend this because, like you, I got a taste of intellectual camaraderie here, and I relish it. It's fun. So, again: Please don't leave.
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    10/14/09

    @snugbug:

    i guess i should have said "since they fired all the cool people and replaced them with sucky ones".

    all i know is ever since the website says defamer.gawker it has sucked my balls
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    10/14/09

    @PrincessKashmir: I'd understand this if you hadn't lumped "Emily" and "constructively critical" into the same comment.

    Please tell me how the following was constructive, or even vaguely sophisticated:
    [gawker.com]
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    10/15/09

    @PrincessKashmir: Hearted, but you're being overly sentimental. There are plenty of us old gawkers still here. And he does get a pass for RUSHMORE certainly and I actually look forward to seeing this. I think he's a more interesting match for Roald Dahl than someone more obvious like Tim Burton. I'd love to see a Jan Svankmajer version, though.
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    10/15/09

    @Balsa Wood: It's true that Emily has acid-trip forearms and a sense of self-entitlement the size of the Con Edison Building, but on the other hand I can't recall her ever making four major typos in a single post. #wesanderson
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    10/15/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: Point taken. On the other hand, Rushfield never goes after Wes Anderson's looks... #wesanderson
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    If being quirky is wrong, I don't wanna be right. Anderson is extremely talented and there's nothing wrong with having a "style" of filmmaking-- it must be annoying if you don't like that style, but I personally love his movies.
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    10/14/09

    @lafleur: Me too! I adore the fact that he's a filmmaker that cobbles together his stories from surface/style details, but somehow still manages to achieve emotional depth. I'm a little disappointed that he seems to have been making the same movie over and over again since "Rushmore," but maybe "Mr. Fox" will break that spell. Also, Anderson gets all his suits custom-made by an old-school NYC tailor. It's VERY HARD not to love a man who does that.
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    10/14/09

    @snugbug: I was always a bit of a groupie: I passed him on the street in Paris a few years ago and nearly had a stroke. His uber perfect trenchcoat was straight out of a dream.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Wes Anderson and Mr. Fox Face the Critics
    I loved Rushmore and Bottle Rocket too. I think that WA is a great stylist, but his films seem just seem lean too heavily on great costume design and british invasion music for any trace of emotion. He's obviously talented, but without a good script, what's it all for?
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    10/14/09

    @disinterested 3rd party: I can't believe how much we think alike. "Stylist" is a brilliantly descriptive qualifier for Wes Anderson. He and Sofia Coppola are like two peas in a pod. I adore their work, but I do not confuse it with substance. I am convinced they have no "stories" per se to tell, they're just collectors of wonderful artifacts that they want to share with the world. And making movies is a vehicle to do so. Luckily, they have good taste.

    Here's "Making Time" from the Creation, from "Rushmore"..
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    10/14/09

    @snugbug: I've posted a similar "rant" about him here before. I've actually run out of steam on this subject. I'm only posting again because of Princess Kashmir's defection. I think she doesn't realizes that she's the personification of what the post is explicating. Somehow Wes is untouchable because his appropriation of other people's skills is unimpeachable? He's a great pop cultural editor, not unlike Tarantino or even Paul Thomas Anderson. But those guys have something to say. Wes doesn't seem to. His earliest films are his best in my opinion because they were personal, not exercises in style. Everybody has that great story in them about themselves, growing up. The truly great ones are the people that can move on from that and tell another story and tell it well. I understand he knows where to put the camera. I love where he puts the camera, but being a Kubrick devotee isn't enough.
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