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Shows I would like to/would not mind seeing this summer, in no particular order
- Jersey Boys, as everyone says it’s the best
- The Book of Mormon, as it probably is the best
- H2$, b/c I love this show! Funnaaaay!
- Anything Goes, b/c Sutton Foster has wings and a halo
- The House of Blue Leaves, as it looks pretty good and Jennifer Jason Leigh
- The Motherfucker with the Hat, for Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale and the excellent title
- The Normal Heart, for I’ve heard good things and great cast
- Arcadia…Billy fucking Crudup!!
- The Importance of Being Earnest, as it is my favorite play
- Hair, because it was fantastic
- Through a Glass Darkly, because it looks a little awesome
Weird things Scottish people eat
1. Scotch eggs
2. Pickled eggs
3. Deep fried hamburgers
4. King ribs (still don’t know what they are, nor could i find a picture)
5. Brown sauce in two different varieties/my favorite thing to eat or drink in the world
6. More ham than any human being should rightfully consume
What would you add to the list? What are weird things that Americans eat?
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Why I don’t like Twitter
**Before anyone says anything, I have indeed tried Twitter, so I can do the knocking of the thing as the trying did occur. I was on it in early 2008 (roughly January-March, actively) and deleted it in early 2009.
1) I’m way subversive
2) There is really, literally, no one that cares to know everything that you do at the exact time you do it. If someone like that exists, they are called a “stalker” or “Paris Hilton’s New BFF”.
3) If you have such deeply profound thoughts that you need a platform on which to publish them as they come to you, and this occurs >10 times a day, your thoughts aren’t so profound. They probably aren’t funny, either. There are very few people with consistently funny and/or thought-provoking twitter accounts. People that are only occasionally entertaining substantially lower their goodness quotient by tweeting (ugh, tweeting) lots of insipid posts for every good post. You might be thinking, “what to do now? I have so many thoughts and nothing to do with them!” Game plan: suck it up, tell it to a friend, write it in a notebook, or get a fucking Tumblr and social network like a real man (WHATTTUUUUUUP TUMBLR BUDDAAAAYS?)
4) Saying “@DoucheyGrrl5000 yeah lollllll that was so funny” is not interesting to anyone except you and DoucheyGrrl, although it probably isn’t that interesting to her, either. Why are you publishing that to the entire world? You don’t need to pollute the internetz, your reputation, and the collective intelligence of mankind with this type of communication. What you are essentially saying is “LOOK, EVERYBODY!! I HAVE A REAL LIVE FRIEND AND I AM RESPONDING TO SOMETHING THEY SAID TO ME FIRST AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! I AM WANTED AND I AM LOVED!!!!” Wouldn’t it just be easier and more intimate to just call/e-mail/text/wait until you see the person who you are @-ing and share this morsel with them more privately?
5) I know that RT means retweet and I know that I frequently use reblogging as a form of content on my own…blogthing, but when you only have 120 characters or whatever it is, I really don’t understand the necessity of using so many of them to retweet something. Send the person a goddamn e-mail in reference to what they are saying. Do you think that you are clever because you have the ability to spot out someone else’s tweet as being funny or an interesting topic of conversation? You are not.
I would carry on with this, but instead I will close with my take-home points:
- Twitter promotes the deterioration of intelligent thought
- Twitter encourages people to flaunt their social connections in order to feel valued
- Twitter is a very, very, very bad man
- Twitter is just fucking shitty shitty shitty crap and if you have a Twitter, get a therapist instead
- I hate Twitter
11 Most Disappointing Movies of the 2000s →
He is, once again, so fucking on point! Particularly about Wedding Crashers and Little Miss Sunshine. My favorite line:
“So much hype and so little payoff. I’m still not sure why people liked this. Was it because people told you you were supposed to?”
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Eleven Things You Could Do Instead Of Reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Book About Not Eating Meat - Jonathan Safran Foer - Gawker →
1. Eat a cheeseburger.
2. Eat some pork buns.
3. Eat some steak.
4. Eat some Gray’s Papaya.
5. Eat some wings.
6. Eat some tacos. Pork tacos.
7. Eat some bacon (but don’t be obnoxious about it).
8. Eat a bacon cheeseburger.
9. Eat some turkey. Some jive turkey.
10. Just be a vegetarian, and understand that most meat-eaters do respect your views, but that they’re not as complicated and complex as you’d like to think they are, and that most people are actually, yes, quite aware of the arguments you’d like to “respectfully” make, what they’re doing, the various reasons why it’s uncool, and that we should eat more vegetables, and that we don’t need to be guilted about it, and if we did, we’d read Michael Pollan’s book instead, or at the very worst, Elizabeth Kolbert’s New Yorker review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, which is both (A) quite great and (B) will save you $15 or $20 and save us from hearing you opine on what you read by the guy that wrote Everything is Illuminated talking down to all of us about eating our vegetables.
11. STFU.
Source: Gawker
Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?: 21+ guest stars who stretched the meaning of "as himself" | Film | The A.V. Club →
This, too, is so fucking funny. Wayne Brady on Chapelle truly WAS classic!
Source: The A.V. Club
