Juliet Is Romeo’s Fangirl, and Other LOL Things We Learned From Sarah Schmelling
Sarah Schmelling turned a short but brilliant McSweeney’s article called “Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)” into her new book, Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float. From a full news feed...
View ArticleWhat’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we liked everything, including iconic 20th century photography, better once it’s been reimagined with Legos. We rooted for Das Racist in their cartoon battle with the New Yorker....
View ArticleDesign Porn: Party in the U.S.A.
Labor Day weekend has us feeling patriotic, so today Design Porn is road trippin’ through the United States, stopping along the way to gawk at meat cut into the shapes of the states, Missed Connection...
View ArticleThe Five-Pronged Ben Affleck Likability Index
Save for the Britney Spears meltdowns and Tom Cruise couch-jumping fiascoes of the world, public opinion on any given celebrity is usually a pretty static thing. Everyone likes Will Smith. People have...
View ArticleFlickr Found Photo Fridays: The Myth of Funemployment
This installment of Found Photo Fridays comes bearing the bad news that our nation’s unemployment rate has reached 9.7 percent, up from 9.4 percent in July. While daytime TV has its charms, we find...
View ArticleOf Film Buffs and Font Geekery: A Q&A with the Creator of the Movie Title...
Christian Annyas is the designer mastermind behind the Movie Title Stills Collection, the online destination for screencaps of classic film titles. Based in a small village in Amsterdam, Annyas...
View ArticleGot It Bad, Got It Bad: Glee’s Mr. Schuester and 9 More Teachers We Love
Once upon a pilot season, the diabolical geniuses at FOX pinpointed a rare, under served demographic — grown-up High School Musical fans — and voila! Glee was born. Skeptics be damned, the weekly...
View Article5 Tidbits From Scott Hicks, Director of The Boys Are Back
The Boys Are Back, an indie film which opens today in New York and L.A., features a Clive Owen we haven’t seen lately: he plays a sensitive type, a sportswriter whose wife dies, leaving him to raise...
View ArticleLast Night’s Mad Men Joins the Canon of Icky TV Hook Ups
TV characters, you’re grossing us out with your fictional hook-ups. Usually we manage to be pretty zen about the whole thing, accepting of the plain fact that on any television show with a...
View ArticleTV Couplings That Should Never Happen — Or Should They?
It’s a predicament of being a TV watcher in a post-Grey’s Anatomy age that now, every time one character on any show casts a sidelong glance at another, our mind jumps right to, “hmm, are they going to...
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