May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
1 post
“I’m not exaggerating in calling this a landmark in the annals of crapitude...”
– WELLS (!!!) on Your Highness.
March 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Reading the Sunday Times So You Don't Have To...
Let’s see if I can remember how to read a bike. With the impending paywall, let’s also see if I was a year too early with this little thing.
THE FRONT PAGE
Allies Open Air Assault on Qaddafi’s Forces - Unless you were deep in an NCAA-induced coma yesterday, you know that Allied Forces began Operation ‘Odyssey Dawn’ in Libya in an attempt to stop Col. Khaddafy from...
February 2011
7 posts
3 tags
“In 1983 or thereabouts I started counting everyone I’d ‘been’ with and came up...”
– WELLS (!!!)
So best!
“I suspected right away that the shadowed woman in the car wasn’t...”
– WELLS!! (on The Daily’s alleged Finke photo)
“Come to Minneapolis on your next book tour, pretty please, Jason. We love you...”
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This is a comment made by minneapolismichael in response to this post in which I touched upon all the cities I’ve visited in support of the book.
(via jasonmulgrew)
I’ve been reading Mulgrew for YEARS, so I’m going to need a minute here.
January 2011
7 posts
“Other parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging...”
– Why Minnesota Mothers Are Doing Pretty Good
“One minute I was savoring a clear blue sky and a morning cappucino with my hot...”
– WELLS (!!!), explaining how he felt when his contemporaries switched their Oscar blogging allegiances from The Social Network to The King’s Speech (via whatevs)
December 2010
8 posts
“Life is a bitch and death is her sister/sleep is the cousin what a fuckin family...”
– Weezy F. Baby
The Best Albums of 2009, according to me →
Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca”
Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest”
Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
Fanfarlo “Reservoir”
P.O.S. “Never Better”
Handsome Furs “Face Control”
Kid Cudi “Man on the Moon: The End of Day”
M. Ward “Hold Time”
Megafaun “Gather, Form and Fly”
White Rabbits “It’s Frightening”
St. Vincent “Actor”
JJ “N° 2”
Putting the finishing touches on my list for 2010,...
“…He understands himself better than most people I’ve encountered,...”
– Chuck Klosterman on Jonathan Franzen, for GQ
: ESPN's Wright Thompson on Scott Raab, Cleveland... →
gq:
Later that night, we head to a downtown bar. There, he begins telling a story. It was the day of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series. The Cleveland Indians were favored to finally end the Curse of Rocky Colavito, to bring a title back to northeast Ohio. Raab’s friend wanted to make sure all the…
During the early part of the decade, when I was in college, I flirted with the idea of...
“This film is a masterwork, a symphony, and 97% of the ticket-buying audience...”
– Wells!!! (via goldenfiddle)
You beat me to it. Isn’t it funny how those of us who are Wells fans love the exact same passage in each of his posts?
November 2010
6 posts
New House Climate Czar | Talking Points Memo →
jeremyywang:
Good to know that climate change policy has already been written… IN THE BIBLE??? Wait, there is nothing good about this. At all. Incorporating church and state? A new Northwest Passage as an economic opportunity? Human-induced climate change is an “arrogant proposal”? A scientific theory is just an “educated guess”? There are so many things wrong with this. If this doesn’t seem...
GQ Guest Blogger Kevin Love Goes Berserk →
gq:
Last night, via ESPN:
MINNEAPOLIS — At one point in the third quarter, Kevin Love, leaned over to Michael Beasley on the bench and whispered in his ear. “I’m going for 30 tonight,” Love said. With Love having only seven points at the time, Beasley looked at him and said, “Thirty what?”…
What a great game to see live; certainly the best I’ve seen since Dwayne Wade dropped a...
3 tags
“Their players, dispersing now toward their families and golf courses and hunting...”
– Roger Angell. If there’s a finer scribe on the beautiful game, I’m not familiar.
“Downey’s character is a little bit like me during my darker, more defensive...”
– Wells (via goldenfiddle)
Vodka (+ ICED TEA) lemonades 4LIFE.
(via whatevs)
October 2010
1 post
“But the programming found (at NPR) isn’t a “liberal” answer to...”
– Abe Sauer on the Juan Williams thing.
September 2010
1 post
WatchWe love Alex Blagg, right? Brilliant satire.
August 2010
6 posts
“Speaking of which The American provides some gratuitous nudity that I would call...”
– WELLS!
“What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Information on...”
– McSweeney’s, some say better at being the Onion than the Onion.
“I don’t like guys who fall into their movie theatre seats like...”
– WELLS!
July 2010
8 posts
“The fun of Twitter and, I suspect, its draw for millions of people, is its...”
– Peggy Orenstein
I’m going to see the most buzz/blog worthy band of 2010 tomorrow night in The Main Room: Built To Spill.
I said as much on The Twitter tonight, but I really don’t know what would’ve happened had I been exposed to Built To Spill in 1994 or 1997 or 1999. Instead of honing my ear on a great/shitty pop hook thanks to the bullshit KKCK was playing from 1994-1999, I could’ve...
A Chris Jones Piece
I’ve been seeing a lot of praise and a lot of you-gotta-read-this’ about Chris Jones’ piece in the August issue of Esquire, “TV’s Crowning Moment of Awesome.” So, naturally, before I sat down to read it today, I was expecting a Chris Jones Piece. Instead of a Chris Jones Piece, I merely got something that was a fine read. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a...
WatchI saw this live and, though it may be hard to believe, it was better than this video. That makes this video only a little less awesome.
