January 2010
Does anyone have a good NYC-based mover to recommend?
THR: ABC to Air 'Bachelor' Mesnick's Wedding →
Listen, there’s no sense in pretending I will watch this. If anyone wants to join me and drink a shitload of wine, please let me know.
more friendship
Leila: EXCUSE ME
Leila: EXCUSE ME
Leila: ROBERT REICH HAS A TUMBLR
Elsa: FOLLOWED
Leila: YEP
Leila: ELSA IF HE FOLLOWS BACK I WILL DIE
Leila: I WILL JUST DIE
“Mary Jane. Listen. Please,” Eloise said, sobbing. “You remember our freshman...”
– -J.D. Salinger, “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” (Nine Stories)
I’m not a huge Catcher in the Rye person, but the Glass family books are some of my very favorite of all time. “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” is a near-perfect short story. Rest in peace.
Dumbing You Down: January 28, 2010
katespencer:
It’s my job to read a lot of celebrity gossip through out the course of the day. Here are the stupidest, dullest and dumbest headlines I’ve come across this morning.
Exclusive! Oops - Jessica Simpson Farts During Business Meeting - Us Weekly
Ashley Tisdale Works Out With BlackBerry In Hand - People
Elin Woods, Ringless, Takes Son To Mall - Us Weekly
Which Celeb Forgot Her Pants?...
NYT: Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87 →
Rest in peace, sir. Oh, this makes me sad. And also, want to sit down and reread A People’s History of the United States.
Voracious: Papa John's Takes a Hit →
If you write a food news blog for three years, you learn some lessons. When a major fast food chain announces some insane discount, it will become a shitshow (see: the Oprah giveaway of free KFC chicken, which caused actual riots). Menu items that seem creative once will, two years later, be so ubiquitous you want to shoot yourself in the head every time you read about them (lobster mac and...
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Seriously? How is it still January?
Harsh Deks
From this AdAge interview with Jennie Garth:
Jennie Garth, a familiar face on TV of the past 20 years from her roles on “90210” and “What I Like About You,” is quickly becoming a regular presence on an even smaller screen — the web.
Intel: The Poet Dating His Much-Younger Former... →
Okay, even by Sex Diary standards, this is super weird. “I send porn to 20-Year-Old and we both masturbate while texting. It is cartoon porn about maids banging nurses with strap-ons in fifties London.” Is that a legitimate fetish?
Gawker: John Edwards Has a Sex Tape →
Oh this is just gross. Ugh, I voted for him in 2004!
This Headline →
What It Said: Celebrating Half a Century of Loud, Soothing Pops
What I Read: Celebrating Half a Century of Loud, Soothing Poops
(Previously)
A memory right before sleep last night
elsam:
When I was in 9th grade, I was in a Massachusetts PSA about teenage drivers. The details are hazy: for all I know now, it could have been about drunk driving, seatbelts, or the change in age limit for getting licensed. This would have been before driving while talking on a cellphone was an issue. In 1999, cellphones only existed on businessmen, or in the movie Clueless.
For filming, we...
WatchWHOAMG, you guys!!!!!!! Faerie Tale Theatre’s “The Dancing Princesses”, a video I rented every. single. week. as a kindergartner, is on Hulu.
Related: why didn’t my parents just buy the damn video?
“Writers fight a myriad of internal battles that are difficult to translate to...”
– Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake
I don’t really care for these sorts of “writers are such special snowflakes!” quotes, but damn. Those last three segments could be titled “the ways in which Leila is a total pain in the ass.”
(via marywachsmann: spiro-pun:...
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Don't Blame Me, I Would Have Voted for Khazei
As a former Massachusetts voter/resident, I’ll tell you what the outcome of yesterday’s election means. It’s not about Republicanism, it’s about the fact that no one likes Martha Coakley. She won the primary because she spent the most money, but she was never the right candidate.
EW: Glee and Neil Patrick Harris to Make Beautiful... →
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Extremely Important Updates About Laguna Beach's...
She started her own lip gloss named “Kiss By Casey”, marketed on her website, in 2007. She is in the process of expanding her cosmetic line.
As of 2009, Reinhardt has confirmed that she will join the MTV series, The Hills, with former Laguna Beach rival, Kristin Cavallari.
True or False?
At some future point, Laguna Beach’s Jessica will appear on The Bachelor.
Other LB Bachelor possibilities: Morgan, Alex M., Alex H. and, of course, Casey.
EDIT: My deep apologies for forgetting the last initial of the delightful Alex H!
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“The stars really aligned for me last night. Jupiter was in my TV house.”
– The Sam Arvel
Weight Watchers for Food Snobs →
By “popular” (read: Senait’s) request, I’ve brought back my old blog Weight Watchers for Food Snobs, this time in Tumblr form. Follow if you want to hear me bitch about the crazy things people say in meetings and rave about goat cheese. If you want to be a member, let me know!
January 15, 2010
leilamakesjokes:
Oscar Mayer’s new ad campaign is the first in the brand’s history to focus on the entire Oscar Mayer line of meats. Somehow, though, “Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weinerbolognabaconslicedpackagedmeatsandpremadesandwiches” doesn’t have the right ring to it.
So, if I make myself giggle for five minutes, that’s a successful joke, right? RIGHT?
MERCYCAT - Haiti Earthquake Relief Benefit →
purns:
The UCB Theatre is doing its part to help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th, 2010.
Every dollar raised at this show will go directly to Mercy Corps and will be used to help those in Haiti affected by the destruction.
This show will feature performers from “Saturday Night Live”, “The Colbert Report”, “30 Rock”, and more!
More cast info coming...
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GUYS, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE BACHELOR
How awesome does this season look? SO AWESOME.
