April 2010
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Il fumetto che nessuno ha chiesto. →
A qualcuno bisogna chiederlo, feat. Matteo Stefanelli.
“My sister was once given a replica of the Heart of the Ocean from...”
– Comment win, via.
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“A culture-wide tidal wave ensued in 2006 when Scott Stapp was busted while...”
– Nathan Rabin, via.
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“Carl Jung, in a letter to AA founder Bill Wilson, wrote of a chronic alcoholic...”
– Juliana Hatfield was on Stereogum a few months ago. She blogs here.
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“Gabourey Sidibe is considered an actor, right? She was nominated for awards for...”
– Videogum vs Gabourey Sidibe @ SNL (via kekkoz)
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“Flying Southwest or dousing himself in his character’s favorite cologne...”
– Amelie Gillette, via
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“Judaism is like The Fast and the Furious, while Christianity is more like 2 Fast...”
– Joe Mande, who also did this.
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“No, perché poi, se analizzi la situazione mettendo a confronto il prima e il...”
– Dolores Point Five vs. Alta Tensione
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The Geek Beat: Only The Lonely →
Elisabeth Rappe on Kick-Ass, via.
(her opinion is fairly cool-headed, the comment section isn’t.)
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“As an Italian American who grew up in a New York suburb just north of the Bronx,...”
– Mark Lisanti’s essay on Jersey Shore, via.
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“My wife is French. I like to say she’s French ‘cause it sounds nicer...”
– Wanda Sykes, I’ma Be Me.
Good Morning: And Happy (Er, Sad) Equal Pay Day
feathers:
crumbles:puscic:newsweek:equalitymyth:
Today, April 20, is Equal Pay Day—a yearly marker of how long women must work into the current year (at 77 cents per every male dollar) to earn what men earned in the year past. We’ll be updating throughout the day, but here are a few figures to get your morning started:
8 months of groceries The amount a woman could buy for a family of...
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Left behind: the top 10 most abandoned books in... →
Being abandoned in a hotel room brought me a charming, careful “surprise!” reader in 2009. I’m very much taken by the concept alone.
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“As a lower-to-middle-middle-class white person myself, I LOVE relating to stuff....”
– I would love Videogum’s Gabe Delahaye to support offscreen narration for my life on a daily basis.
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“Alina non ha medico di famiglia, e non può sperare nella compassione di...”
– Abortire in Vaticano (via dottorcarlo)
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Songs From Treme - dot tumblr dot com →
byronic:
Instant follow.
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“I’m not sure that we even need to discuss the whole lesbian-going-straight...”
– Videogum’s Gabe Delahaye drives the point home, re: Chasing Amy.
(and no, we shall not leave bygones be bygones.
it’s cool if you want to amuse yourself with “I bet I could turn her straight” fantasies, and you keep it private, cause that’s what fantasies are about...
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“Billie Jeanne, in her rawness and realness, was the best televised...”
– An excerpt from Neil Pollack’s essay, re: this collection.
(and Mark Lisanti’s in there too. show him some love.)
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Eternia & MoSS ft. Joell Ortiz -...
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“I really loved that the bumbling ghost writer stays a bumbling naive regular guy...”
– Morgenstern on Ghost Writer.
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“Il giorno che il bluesman negro del sud mi diventa relativista il baratro sarà...”
– Coma, ripensando a Black Snake Moan (via) 