December 2010
43 posts
Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Mashup of the Day: Leandro “Copperfield” Braga of “Tarantino vs Coen Brothers” and “Kubrick vs Scorsese” fame spent 11 days re-watching all 11 Pixar feature films released to date in order to piece together this rather stellar mashup of over 500 hand-selected scenes.
Braga says:
Pixar’s films have always been very important in my life. I was 6 years old when I watched Toy...
Anglophile snowday!
In the past 24 hours we’ve watched Sherlock, Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, and now we’re starting Jekyll.
If we finish that, Withnail and I is queued up.
Whoot!
Watchthedailywhat:
Christmas Miracle of the Day: From The New York Times comes the heartwarming tale of a charming couple from Chelsea who mistakenly received hundreds of letters addressed to Santa and decided to try and fulfill them.
[h/t: inothernews.]
So I think I figured out why my cookies failed the...
Apparently there are two sticks of butter in a cup, not one.
Whoops.
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How to make Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Recipe by Alton Brown with modifications by The Key Lime
1) Look at this recipe. Decide that it is totally within your capabilities as a baker and that you will attempt to make it for your job’s cookie contest.
2) Notice that the first step is actually a recipe for sugar cookies that is at the bottom of the recipe you want to make. Start making sugar cookies.
3) As you’re adding the...
“In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Ricky Gervais wrote a 1,600-word essay on...”
– Ricky Gervais Explains Why He’s an Atheist — Vulture (via jiffysquid)
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The time has come for me and Mr. Lemon to rewatch season six of Lost.
I wonder what’s going to happen!
Watchnewsweek:
So you want to be a journalist…
Do you want to live in your parents’ basement and work for the local weekly on a contract basis without benefits?
How about covering the financial services industry for a website, until it is bought by another website and they move all their other jobs to India, and then you get fired?
#soundsaboutright
Watchmywhitelights:
Once a bamf, always a bamf.
The actress notes in her speech from The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast that filmmakers continue “to worship at the altar of the 18 to 25-year-old male and his penis.”
Dame Helen Mirren - You are the best.
Mad World →
prophetnoise:
http://soundcloud.com/prophetnoise/mad-world
Polly Ammo and I collab’ed to remake Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.”
She’s on VX. I produced. (free DL on soundcloud too.)
http://pollyammo.tumblr.com/
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Yesterday's (totally awesome!) interaction with...
Part of my job is managing an information booth.
Most days, the booth is staffed by volunteers, but every now and then, if someone calls out sick or just doesn’t show, I have to go and sit there.
Yesterday was one of those days.
About halfway through, a very attractive couple came to the counter. They were not native English speakers but they had great command of the language, making...
Watchthedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Conan O’Brien makes good on his promise, attempts to recite his monologue while wearing jeggings (the blasphemous progeny of jeans and leggings).
[tbs.]
Conan O’Brien in acid wash jeggings.
For a minute I thought they may be see-through because I’m pretty sure Conan’s legs are that pale.
Holy crap! I finally read another book!
After several months of not updating, I have finally completed another book and posted a completely useless report of it here.
This one is about The Jungle and how it was not about what I thought it was about (spoiler: there was nary a lion or gorilla to be found).
