October 2011
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Someone emailed me about my H.S.T. article...
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Mike - I saw your piece about HST. You are a total asshole. The piece was awful. You seem to be one of those spineless un creative types that fancies yourself as a hip writer that “understands” creative process. Your article presents you as a white bread wussy that didn’t even have the guts to drop a little acid in college. Well what is stopping you from...
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CNN Obsessions: Tripping on Hunter S. Thompson →
In which I discuss my friends’ acid-soaked invention: The Rock n’ Roll Backpack.
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“Because given social media, given the pervasion now of communications...”
– Hillary Clinton
(Via Swampland)
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“One basic characteristic of journalism is this: its content is not bought and...”
– Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan, from his post today “The Shady Marketing Scheme That’s Buying Off Your Favorite Bloggers”
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Club Kid N'er Do Well And Sometimes Actress Who We...
(Via The Superficial)
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Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls, Clever Ice Cream...
(via Jezebel)
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Watchfirstfamily:
The First Lady’s First Tweet
Right before Game One of the 2011 World Series in St Louis, MO, First Lady Michelle Obama becomes the first sitting First Lady of the United States to tweet. Watch the behind-the-scenes video and follow future messages from the First Lady on twitter at http://twitter.com/joiningforces
Hipster Michelle Obama.
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Fashion Icon Muammar Gaddafi Killed By 18-Year-Old...
(Via BuzzFeed)
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Convict Owner Of 48 to 51 Wolves, Grizzlies,...
via Reuters
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Hipster Cop's Secrets Spilled By NYPD Insider →
He’s actually been called “hipster cop” for years—the nickname originated with someone at the mayor’s office who was directing someone to Lee by saying, “Oh you’ll recognize him, he’s the hipster cop.”
Best cop on the force.
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“I believe that within every great reader there are multitudes of people.”
– Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Jackson Books (Soho, NYC)
New York Times: Her Life Is a Real Page-Turner
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“I thought it was the price of a pizza when I first heard it.”
– Jon Huntsman gets after Herman Cain for “999” … because, clearly, he read DC Decoder and realized we thought it sounded a lot like Domino’s “5-5-5” deal. Oh, and let’s not forget he quoted Pokemon in a prior debate too. (via dcdecoder)
Best thing Huntsman has ever said ever.
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Bailout Ball →
In which Will Leitch equates commissioner David Stern and NBA owners to the 1% and NBA players to the…er…99%? Sounds crazy, the analogy it works.
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Hank Williams Jr. Fired By ESPN, Claims He Quit
ESPN.com announced this morning in a statement that following Hank Williams Jr.’s likening President Obama to a certain dictator who tried to wipe out an entire race of people, ESPN and Hank Williams Jr. are no longer in the business of getting people ready for some football.
Williams Jr. sees their parting differently, he posted this on website today:
“After reading hundreds of e-mails,...
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The Village Voice's Is Live Coverage Of... →
Click that link, then keep refreshing if you care.
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Randomly compelled to look up when Mighty Ducks was released. Turns out is was 19-years ago, Sunday. Happy belated 19th Anniversary, Gordon Bombay!
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INTERVIEW: Jeffory Marker, The Guy Who Donated...
Sports fans and HWLBSers (hipsters who love Bethlehem Shoals), The Classical raised the $50 K they needed to launch their new online destination. Actually, they raised $55 K. We all knew it would be successful Kickstarter campaign. One donor distinguished himself in the process, a Jeffory Marker. A man from San Antonio. A gemini who loves basketball and airplanes. A life-long Spurs...
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WatchAs someone who watches New Jersey high school basketball regularly, let me tell you, this documentary is going to be no joke.
HBO Documentary: Prayer For A Perfect Season Trailer (DIME)
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Cheese Snob
I was in a diner by my apartment recently, waiting for a table. A man comes in to place a take-out order. This man had predetermined that he was going to be an irate customer.
The guy orders a grilled cheese sandwich and asks for gruyere cheese, plus some other stuff that I don’t recall. Upon confirming his order he says: “…and gruyere cheese. Not American cheese. I hate...
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