Monthly Archives: August 2011

Out on the Tiles

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

I don’t know why, but I find this extensive gallery of floors in paintings at The Hairpin to be oddly comforting. Something about an accurately rendered floor seems quite reassuring, like all is well with the world. Click over to … Continue reading →

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Chaos Cinema: the Decline and Fall of Action Filmmaking

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Over at Press Play, LA filmmaker and scholar Matthias Stork has a great video essay on what he calls Chaos Cinema. If you’ve ever felt bludgeoned into submission by a movie (I’m looking at you, third Pirates of the Caribbean … Continue reading →

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Which candidate would you want to have a beer with at age 22?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

A Balloon Juice reader came up with this much improved version of David Limbaugh’s ridiculous and obliviously racist ‘Boys will be boys’ photoshop of Rick Perry and Barack Obama. What’s funniest about the Limbaugh version is that, at 22, Obama … Continue reading →

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When Improv Goes Bad [UPDATED]

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

The Internet has been buzzing about a monologue by an audience member that was part of the Assssscat show at the Del Close Marathon on Sunday, August 14. The Del Close Marathon is the UCB’s annual improv festival in New … Continue reading →

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Lessons Gleaned from The Wire

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Gleaning courtesy of Anderson Tuggle at League of Ordinary Gentlemen. So, for those of us interested in urban policy, the war on drugs, cycles of poverty, public schools, or any other facet of the American city, The Wire has a … Continue reading →

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The Dirty Tush Push, Enthusiastically Illustrated

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

John Douthitt, the man whom rhythm forgot, teaches you Dirty Line Dancing. [Props=Cracked]

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The Funniest Joke in the World

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

According to Edinburgh Fringe, an arts festival: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” – Nick Helm And here are the nine runners up: 2) Tim Vine: “Crime in multi-storey car … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it’s nice to discover that the Internet can still completely skeeve you out

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

The lead letter to this week’s Savage Love: I’m unemployed in Oregon and trying to come up with simple ways to make rent. My dear wife and I would like your opinion on the legality of selling my teenage son’s … Continue reading →

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Portal: No Escape

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Great short film from Dan Trachtenberg based on Portal. A year in the making, it debuted last month at San Diego’s Comic-Con. Trachtenberg is one of the hosts of The Totally Rad Show, available here.

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EEEEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRTTTTTHHHHHQQQQQUUUUUU . . .

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

. . . ake! I was sitting at my desk when the terror struck! The time? Just before two, Eastern Standard! Suddenly, it happened! The floor beneath my feet began to sway gently, so that at first I thought that … Continue reading →

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