August 2008
“Palin will almost certainly woo away all of Hillary Clinton supporters who are...”
– John Hodgman
“We’ve never seen anything like this - none of us have - and i can just imagine...”
– Andrea Mitchell just brought tears to my eyes. (via katiebakes)
That Barton Fink Feeling
The Coen Brothers’ best and most underrated film.
mollylambert:
Nicky Silver, actual neurotic New York playwright
Barton Fink, fictional neurotic New York playwright
WatchBarry Obama: a little one-on-one.
NYT CityRoom: Markowitz Is Proud of His 774... →
The current Brooklyn Borough President, and our next Hizzoner, Mayor Marty Markowitz.
“I’m not one of these fair weather fans. You go to Wrigley Field, you have...”
– Barack Obama, on a possible all-Chicago World Series
WatchAppel comes through with the best news of the day.
“Welcome to the OC, bitch.”
erockappel:
Season 1 of “The OC” is now on Hulu! If you didn’t watch this show when it was on, you should start now.
Choices, choices
Great night of television in quite a while tonight where it’s been pretty much only Mad Men and Olympics all summer.
There’s the first nights of both the U.S. Open and the Democratic National Convention, new episodes of WWE Monday Night Raw, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, and Weeds. I also understand there’s new eps of The Hills, and The Closer, shows that all you...
FYMTQ: Zach Linder →
(via youngmanhattanite)
So nice they blogged it twice.
Wow, my very own FYMTQ. Thanks a lot, jerks.
youngmanhattanite:
If you thought YM was just interested in trolling for [adverb] [adjective] 23 year old women with no sense of grammar, you’d be right. To temporarily throw our scent off, we cross a river of Vibrio cholerae and get intimate with Zach Linder, Fucking Jew.
On today's broadcast...
Gary Cohen announced he took five years of Yiddish classes when he was younger.
Sheket bavakasha.
NYT: Excerpts From the Spanish Diary by Woody... →
JAN. 2
Have no idea for Barcelona unless the story of the two Hackensack Jews who start a mail-order embalming firm could be switched
JUNE 5
Shooting got off to a shaky start. Rebecca Hall, though young and in her first major role, is a bit more temperamental than I thought and had me barred from the set. I explained the director must be present to direct the film. Try as I may, I could not...
The B.S. Report with Bill Simmons w/ guest "Mad... →
The Sports Guy has Chris Russo as a guest on the podcast to discuss the recent split of Mike & The Mad Dog.
Excellent job here by Simmons. Say something funny, Billy!
UCBW: Kicking Ass & Taking Suggestions →
ucbw:
At the UCBW Arena’s Del Close Marathon improv festival two weeks ago, all of your favorite MegaStars put aside their differences (for the most part), and performed a series of improvised comedic scenes. Foes struggled mightily not to throw punches, but one-liners instead. The yes-anding didn’t last long, however, as the MegaStars found their true game all along: COMEDY WRASSLIN’!
Check...
Dorothy Hot Chocolate
billy hot chocolate: i think there's something weird about giving yr daughter the same name as a girl you know or have history with
me: do you have history with this girl?
billy hot chocolate: we were best friends, i sorta had a thing for her. nothing ever happened, but it's still strange.
billy hot chocolate: like there was this girl dorothy i used to wanna mess around with.
billy hot chocolate: and i've often though of that name too.
billy hot chocolate: but will i ever mention to little DP that before there was mom, there almost was another Dorothy Hot Chocolate with a great set of knockers.
me: can i blog this
“He also has a great beard and we hope America gets the chance to experience that...”
– Anthony King, on Bobby Moynihan’s hire as an SNL cast member in The Huffington Post
A Brooklyn Life: Old Video Store Sure Looks Like... →
Does anybody know what the old video store at 389 Court is going to become? It sure looks like it could be a bar …
Commenters say:
actually i do - i spoke to the owner of the building and he told me that it was going to be a “cafe” with wine and cheese -quote unquote.
I asked the painters about two weeks ago and they said “wine bar”
Awesome! Two new places...
“Some new BBQ coming to Cobble Hill: “My darling wife told me that the...”
– Eater.com
One of my all-time favorite songs. Thanks for...