Links :: stuff I like from around the web
Bon Iver turned down playing the Grammy's next Sunday. "Me and Brian [Joseph] and a bunch of our fucking friends and we were given accolades for [the record], and all of a sudden we were being asked to play music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said 'fuck you' a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don't think they wanted us to play."
2012.02.04
Your daily Komen-Planned Parenthood debacle roundup:
Komen reverses its decision and restores PP funding ... sorta. They still need to *apply* for grants, which can *then* be denied.
Komen also quietly halted $12m in stem cell research funding, which of course was realized because
every eye on the planet is on their financials. The icing on the cake? Nothing says support breast cancer awareness like
promoting pink handguns. Somewhere the employees of The Onion are crying a river over having
absolutely no headlines left to make up.
2012.02.03The video for Madonna's new single, featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj. See what she did there? It's a giant Super Bowl publicity stunt. The song would be really good if you just took Madonna out of it.
2012.02.03
Another kind of valentine's day card. Oh baby, the Oatmeal always comes through!
2012.02.02
The 10 best movies of Sundance. Hopefully coming soon to a kickass theater near you.
2012.02.02
Meet the Komen exec behind the Planned Parenthood defunding. There are so many parts of this article that have my jaw on the floor. Dirtbag.
2012.02.02
Komen website hacked amid growing backlash. I almost snorted water all over my keyboard when I read this. Beautiful.
2012.02.02
35 things that could kill Facebook. I'll get the popcorn, this is gonna be fun to watch.
2012.02.02
The most disgusting dress ever sent down a runway. With a headline like that, how can you not click thru?!
2012.02.01
That VW Star Wars commercial is out in the wild. While this is cute, the teaser was better. So was last year's kid.
2012.02.01
The first ever album review on Pitchfork. ".. so terrific, it won't leave my discman for at least three days." Lolol.
2012.02.01
Shelter dogs. Awwww!
2012.02.01
Apple Scotland. I totally laughed.
2012.02.01
Where's the pixel? No cheating! What I learned from this exercise: my work monitor is teh dirty.
2012.02.01
Mena Trott makes predictions about the fashion in season 5 of Mad Men. "Oh, Betty. For years, she has been immaculately dressed and presented as the facade of the perfect 1950s/1960s wife. With her cinched waists and billowing skirts, she's held onto late 1950s and early 1960s fashion the longest. In season four, she's married to the anti-Don, the boring Henry Francis and is getting a little too familiar with the bottle. When you're married to Henry Francis, you just don't care any more. That should be embroidered on a pillow."
2012.01.31
What it's like being a guest at a Top Chef tasting. Oh no!! That last part about Grayson & Chris and the bees didn't make airing. Sad!
2012.01.31
What your frozen dinner really looks like. Eww. Are we really so lazy that buying a cob of corn and steaming it for 5 minutes
is just too hard?
2012.01.31
Jon Stewart breaks down Mitt and Newt's latest round of insults. "By the end of my third term, I will have shaved the sides off Michigan so it looks like it's flipping off aliens!"
2012.01.31
Flickr lays off highest level of customer support. Another reason I won't be renewing my subscription with them. So long... farewell...
2012.01.31
Kristen Bell IS THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVER. Perfect. That's totally how I get in happy/sad moments, too.
2012.01.31
The new Stewart Woodman place is after my heart already. Will I seem too needy if I'm there opening day?
2012.01.31
Beautiful hair editorials. In another life I was born with that hair.
2012.01.31
To my old master. This letter from a freed slave to his former master is a small masterpiece.
2012.01.31
The trick to perfect eggs benedict. Alternately called: the trick to poaching eggs. Haven't had this since going vegetarian and gluten-free. Could be time to make some bread and
let's do this.
2012.01.30
Garbge announce new album & tour. Geez, lots of music news today. I was such a huge Garbage fan in the, uh, '90s (gulp!!).
2012.01.30
David Carr on Kickstarter's film funding at Sundance. 10% of the festival was funded on Kickstarter, with two optioned by HBO.
2012.01.30
Hudson Bay-inspired knit blanket. Geez, I could knit this in the time it takes to watch a couple movies. In fact, make it an Underworld movie marathon and IT'S SO ON.
2012.01.30
Stream the new Sharon Van Etten album. Her last album was so so so fantastic. Really looking forward to hearing this in its entirety.
2012.01.30
M.I.A. has a new (old) track. Lame. It's basically the one off Vicki Leekx (which I like), but gimme something new.
2012.01.30
Ferris Bueller is back! Of course we drive the same car. My dream of marrying Ferris is once again alive!
2012.01.30
Pinterest, now with more sopheava. Bets on how long I'll keep another social thing active?
2012.01.28
"Hey, does anyone know how I can make Papyrus my default font?" I promise for this to be the last time I link to one of these. It's perfect.
2012.01.27
The 10th President of the United States, John Tyler (who was born in 1790), has living grandsons! And one is just the most delightful thing you've ever met. On television: "I can't stand watching television." On the 2012 presidential candidates: "I don't really like any of them."
2012.01.27
All out of long matches?
Why not use...spaghetti!?! 2012.01.27A crustless pie. I need this in my belly RIGHT NOW.
2012.01.27
Predictions of what 2011 might be like from a newspaper in 1911. "Aerial war-ships? Check. Grand opera telephoned to private homes? Yep. Mosquitoes, house-flies, and roaches "practically exterminated?" Who dropped the ball on that one?!"
2012.01.27
Keep calm... HOORAY!
2012.01.27
That there is a tattoo. Confessions: I think beautiful sleeve tattoos are a beautiful thing. I secretly want one but there's no way I could settle on a design!
2012.01.27
'The Art of Eating' cookbook. Because what I clearly need is more books about food in my life.
2012.01.27
Ferris Bueller is back... chick, chicka chicka! 2012.01.27
Pat Sayjak: "I was drunk on Wheel of Fortune so many times." LAWL!! "e had a place called Los Arcos.... They had great margaritas, so Vanna and I would go across and have two or three or six. And then come and do the last shows, and have trouble recognizing the alphabet."
2012.01.26
51 love stories. A lovely, lovely print.
2012.01.26
The face behind the honey badger video. Click at your own risk. Apparently he really DOES talk like that.
2012.01.25
More details emerge in the case of Amy Senser's hit and run. "... Senser believed she had struck a piece of construction equipment." I hope to fuck the right thing happens in this case.
2012.01.24
All things Oscars 2012. Been in such a workin' haze today it feels, like, so 8 hours ago.
2012.01.24
"10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. "That's not an abuse of power, that's democracy. [Dodd] had best get used to it." Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd's claim that SOPA blackout was "an abuse of power."
2012.01.24
RECIPE: artichoke tart with polenta crust. I am such an artichoke slut. This looks amazing.
2012.01.23
Kelly Wearstler's home would eat yours for lunch. Tres lovely... except is anyone creeped out by the man-in-the-moon face headboard thing? CREEPY!
2012.01.23
The secret to peeling hard-boiled egg is... I won't believe it until I can try it.
2012.01.23
Original art for hungry walls. Eventho I already own that hotdish print by Turman, I want lots of other things on this list.
2012.01.23
Beavis and Butthead IRL. Jesus, make it stop!
2012.01.23
Liquid skies. This makes me wanna quit my job and go back to school for motion graphics. And then go work for Syfy when they get a less dopey name.
2012.01.23
The Indiana Jones custom engagement ring. Wow. It's actually sort of lovely, and so well thought out. Props.
2012.01.23
Photographers posing with their famous photographs. Wow, I can't believe a photo I fell in love with 20 odd years ago in a random National Geographic is in here. It's a pic of a Russian Blue with a ballerina. I guess I didn't realize it was famous! *
swoon*
2012.01.23
Apple and a squeezed middle class. A tough (mandatory) read. Great reporting.
2012.01.22
SOPA's sponsor withdraws bill. Let's be clear:
for now.
2012.01.20
Duffy's Loppet poster. I live in the greatest city on the planet. Have I mentioned this?
2012.01.20
Hungry enough to eat a horse. That there is good design.
2012.01.19
Snag yourself a man with these handy tips. Fuckin'-a. This whole time I was just doing it wrong!
2012.01.19
Santigold's video for 'Big Mouth'. Already on my best-of-2012 list.
2012.01.19