September 2010
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“The internet is like a series of spiderwebs that connects us to each other....”
– Laurie (Cougar Town)
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“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Wiesel (b. 30 September 1928)
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Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge - Pew Research... →
I’m so tired of hearing about poll results, especially since I doubt that many of them include findings from cellphone-only households. As this story from May says, households with no landlines tend to skew slightly more liberal/Democratic.
Weighted estimates from the landline sample tend to slightly underestimate support for Democratic candidates when compared with estimates from dual...
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“Well Anderson, basically, if you’ve been involved in political campaigns before,...”
– Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, defending to CNN’s Anderson Cooper his one-man blogging campaign against the student body president of the University of Michigan. (via officialssay)
See also: Jezebel: Michigan’s Gay-Bashing Assistant Attorney General...
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“Men aren’t actively resisting apologizing because they think it will make them...”
– Study Reveals Why Women Apologize More Than Men | LiveScience (via ayse)
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Twitter / nprmonkeysee: It's safe to say I just... →
oh yeah, The Good Wife went there. And I was cracking up.
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More thoughts on this perhaps being the last...
dextrose replied to your quote:Also having a tough night: Chuck, which notched a…
Seems to me that “Chuck” has been running out of story ideas. Also in this article, I’m glad to see that “Castle” is doing well considering it’s really pretty new.
I don’t think they’re running out of story ideas. but I do think they’re getting closer to something of a stopping place....
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Josh Charles on The Good Wife’s Second Season --... →
exactly why this show is easy to love:
somewhere in the middle of last season I started to really feel like it was really good, when we could take a little bit of the procedural element out, and really start to get into the characters. This show’s trying to do this hybrid thing, where it has procedural elements, but there’s a darkness that they’re reaching for, a not shying away from ambiguity,...
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“Also having a tough night: Chuck, which notched a 1.9 demo rating and now seems...”
– Your TV Ratings Explained: Hopes Fade for Lone Star — Vulture. You know, if this is the case, and the creators get to end it the way they want, I am okay with this being the last season.
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"Glee": Musical suckage so powerful, it can even... →
via maura:
Seriously this fucking show just needs to STEP OFF.
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Drug Use Common in Unit Tied to Civilian Deaths,... →
another one to read later …
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Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of... →
read later…
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BREAKING: Shooter Reported at UT - Austinist →
This story is still unfolding (although my editor has taken over updating the post).
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
Mates of State (22)
Fitz and The Tantrums (18)
Mavis Staples (18)
Band of Horses (14)
ABBA (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“soooo listennnn i ate
yr plums that ya left
on da counter
b4 ya went 2 work i...”
– “Sayin’” by Allie Jane Compton — Straight Outta My Headzone
Here is how I think William Carlos WIlliams would’ve written “This Is Just to Say” had he knew about how siq Internet-speak is.
(via interweber)
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WatchThe Rachel Maddow Show - Victorious Major Margaret Witt on TRMS
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As L.S.S.I. Takes Over Libraries, Patrons Can’t... →
Privatizing city libraries? Boooooo.
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“I think that two things were going to be polarizing about the show: One is the...”
– Lone Star Creator Kyle Killen on the Show’s Uncertain Future and Mel Gibson’s ‘Arresting’ Beaver Performance — Vulture
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“But it’s not just annoying lines of dialogue that are driven by irony....”
– TV Review: ABCs My Generation - HitFix.com
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Thursday Premieres
I wrote a short post on Austinist about My Generation (it’s filmed/based in Austin), but I’m not planning on watching the series. It sounds fairly awful, even though I love the idea of a TV show being based in Austin. Ok, I may try to watch the first 30 minutes of the pilot to see how many familiar landmarks I can spot.
After that, I’ll be watching the season premiere of 30...
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Vulture Watches You've Got Mail With Mindy Kaling... →
Now I wish I liked The Office, because this interview makes me really like Mindy Kaling.
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“I’ll point you in the direction of NBC’s “Outsourced”...”
– TV Review: NBCs Outsourced - HitFix.com. PASS.
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Wednesday Premieres (and more)
One of the few shows I’ve been looking forward to all summer is back tonight! Modern Family is on at 8pm … and I’ll likely watch Cougar Town right afterwards.
I’m not venturing into any of the new shows that are starting tonight. I was intrigued by the idea of Undercovers, but the clips I’ve seen are rather dull. So I’m choosing to go out for gelato during...
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Watch[hoodinternet - The Hood Internet - We’re Already Taken (Trey Songz x Stars) - SoundCloud] Mashup using Stars’ “We Don’t Want Your Body” + “Already Taken” by Trey Songz. I’ve never heard of him, but this mix is excellent.
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From Bad Dads to Mystery Boxes: The Ten Hallmarks... →
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The Smart Set: The "Freedom" World - September 22,... →
It appears that everyone in the world is being stalked by Jonathan Franzen right now.I pretty much agree with every point made in this essay. I also refuse to read “Freedom” on principle… just because everyone says it’s the bees knees doesn’t make it so!
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“The ones who tell me they would watch television if it weren’t so...”
– The Week ‘There’s Nothing Good On’ Died: Premiere Week, September 2010 : Monkey See : NPR. I agree with her point in this essay. I tried watching Lone Star and gave up after 30 minutes, but it’s still sad that there wasn’t a larger audience for it. Even if...
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savingpaper-deactivated20101213 asked: Pardon the length of this. Your recent posts about TV premiere week have me thinking about quality television and how television’s episodic structure works in the era of DVDs and Netflix Instant Play, and I’m curious what your opinions are on the matter.
Television pilots are tricky. Pilots often strike me as less like cinema and more like the first chapter of a novel;...
Television pilots are tricky. Pilots often strike me as less like cinema and more like the first chapter of a novel;...
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Note the difference:
via savingpaper:
When a liberal votes against a defense appropriations bill, he hates the troops.
When a conservative votes against a defense appropriations bill, he’s protecting the troops.
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“Miso has multiple motives, according to CEO Somrat Niyogi, who was interviewed...”
– Miso Wants To Provide More Accurate TV Ratings 