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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.    2012.02.03
The 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
Gotye makes his American tv debut. Goah-tea-yay!    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
Top Susan G. Komen official resigned over Planned Parenthood cave-in. That woman just got overed 70 brazillion jobs. Awesome.    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
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, forecasting 6 more weeks of above average, non-winter winter weather. Kay.    2012.02.02
Clearly what the MPAA calls piracy is bankrupting the film industry.    2012.02.01
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
The Susan G. Komen foundation begins damage control. Keeping my snotty comments to myself.    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
This just in: your birth control pills may be trying to help knock you up. Oops, indeed.    2012.02.01
Well-known brand impressions from a five year old. Baby toys!    2012.01.31
Bowing to anti-abortion politics, The Susan G. Komen Foundation cuts funds for screenings at Planned Parenthood. Fuuuuck that! Outrage ensuing on the internet. This won't end well    2012.01.31
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
The 20 unhappiest kinds of people you meet in the comments.    2012.01.31
This is totally gonna be me when I'm old! Coolest gramma ever.    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
Brilliant Senator employs the classic 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' A thousand times yes.    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
Don't have a grandson with a dog collar.    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
Why don't you get a new desktop wallpaper to brighten your February?    2012.01.31
To my old master. This letter from a freed slave to his former master is a small masterpiece.    2012.01.31
Sushi etiquette.    2012.01.30
Proof the world is *actually* ending in 2012: the Spice Girls may reunite for the Queen's party. Lololol.    2012.01.30
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
US bars entry for two people cracking jokes on twitter. Dear god.    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
Jack White solo album, 'Blunderbuss,' out in April. Fangirlswoon!    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
A tour of some of the places you've never seen in the Metrodome.    2012.01.28
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!?!    2012.01.27
A 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
Hi-def earth.    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
Adorable Super Bowl snack. D'awww.    2012.01.27
'These last two are gonna be real turds,' George R.R. Martin assures fans.    2012.01.27
Bridge.    2012.01.26
Our own debt crisis.    2012.01.26
A third 'Hangover' movie is imminent. Ugh, just STOP!    2012.01.26
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
Skyrim with My Little Pony mod. DEATH PONY!    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
Vertical snowboarding. Mommy!    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
Profiles of Zooey Deschanel's seven dwarves.    2012.01.23
Apple and a squeezed middle class. A tough (mandatory) read. Great reporting.    2012.01.22
Yosemite.    2012.01.21
A letter to Brad Bird on his font choice in 'Mission Impossible 4.' He's right, you know.    2012.01.20
Seamlessly blending into backgrounds. Had to do a double-take.    2012.01.20
Hollywood audition for a black cat, 1961.    2012.01.20
SOPA's sponsor withdraws bill. Let's be clear: for now.    2012.01.20
Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works. Gross. Shit be outta control.    2012.01.20
Howler gets the NY Times treatment. And a positive one!    2012.01.20
5 plane picnics to make everyone around you jealous.    2012.01.20
Duffy's Loppet poster. I live in the greatest city on the planet. Have I mentioned this?    2012.01.20
Some of the insane loot seized from the Megaupload operators. GOD.    2012.01.20
Stuff I'm listening to: Cate Le Bon's CYRK and The Big Pink's 'Future This'.    2012.01.19
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
High schoolers freak over wikipedia blackout. smdh    2012.01.19
Adorbz pop culture prints. Too cute!    2012.01.19
Santigold's video for 'Big Mouth'. Already on my best-of-2012 list.    2012.01.19
The Mildred.    2012.01.19