August 2009
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Aug 31st
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Stuff Hipsters Hate →
“Because it’s cool to be a hater.” Comments
Aug 30th
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Aug 28th
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Jake Gyllenhaal interviews Natalie Portman -...
JAKE: What song best describes your current state?
NATALIE: My current state...I’m trying to think of a song that feels like sleepwalking. [laughs] I don’t know. I’ve mostly been listening to dirty rap lately. That’s sort of my scene.
JAKE: Your affection for dirty rap is something that people really don’t know about you, which I think is fascinating. You do incredible things for the world, and then you listen to just completely obscene hip-hop music.
NATALIE: Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Those are like my two favorite things, so combined...I’ve been listening a lot lately to “Wait (The Whisper Song)” by the Ying Yang Twins, where the lyrics are like, “Wait ’til you see my dick”—which is just amazing because it’s whispered. [whispers] “Wait ’til you see my dick...” [laughs] Crazy. So I just listen to it like I’m a five-year-old, like, “Oh my god! I can’t believe he just said that!”
GYLLENHAAL: It’s interesting that you think the lyric “Wait ’til you see my dick” describes your current state. I think people are learning more about you right now then they ever have in an interview. I’m proud of that.
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Full interview here: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/natalie-portman/
Aug 27th
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Aug 25th
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Can't Find a Job? Best and Worst Job Markets  →
W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, baby, D-C!
Aug 24th
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All the President’s Zombies - Paul Krugman,... →
Thank you, Paul Krugman, for a thoughtful analysis of the current health care crisis via ZOMBIE METAPHOR.
Aug 23rd
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Aug 21st
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Quentin Tarantino: Has one of the most overrated... →
Stop underrating Tarentino. No, seriously. Comments
Aug 20th
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The New American Religion Behind the New American... →
EVERYBODY HATES OBAMA: A THREE-PART SERIES from my favorite men’s magazine, Esquire.
Aug 20th
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Mary Louise Parker Reads Poetry - Online Poetry Reading Video - Esquire Disquieting Bedtime Stories with Mary-Louise Parker. Yes, please. Comments
Aug 19th
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Maddow Battles Dick Armey In “Meet The Press” Debut (VIDEO) Rachel Maddow kicks ass and takes names. Love.
Aug 17th
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The SHOCKING TRUTH about health care reform!!! |... →
Talk to your conservative right wing friends in a language they’ll understand. If facts don’t get through to them, maybe facts delivered via sensationalistic graphics will? Clever site. Proving once again medium > message.
Aug 14th
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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and... →
Struggling art history students: try this online interactive art history textbook. Cheaper than stokstad, smarter than wikipedia. Comments
Aug 13th
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Rahmblr →
The best fucking tumblog devoted to all things Rahm Emmanuel. F#$% yeah!
Aug 10th
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No Longer Empty →
Great new public art project. Abandoned storefronts + art = No Longer Empty. Badass programming via Manon Slome and a host of fantastic artists. Comments
Aug 10th
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Aug 9th
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CUTE CHICAGO BOYS DOT COM →
like Tiger Beat, but local. OMG BOYZ Comments
Aug 4th
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Seeing in a Different Light: A Profile of Ralph... →
better know a curator! Curator Ralph Rugoff on curating group exhibitions: “Like an orgy, [a great group exhibition] brings things together in stimulating and unpredictable combinations. It immerses us in an experience of shifting yet interlinked viewpoints and multiple climaxes.” Wow. Hope this guy needs an intern. Comments
Aug 3rd
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson Break Up | Break Up Album http://www.breakupalbum.com/ Someone wishes they were She and Him. Shameless. Comments
Aug 2nd