May 2012
NYC GOV: Manhattanhenge →
nycgov:
Twice every year, the sunset aligns exactly with the east-west streets of the Manhattan grid and produces the phenomenon now commonly known as Manhattanhenge (term coined by Neil deGrasse Tyson). Today and tomorrow evening, during a short period of time, observers standing on grid streets…
“[A] bunch of lying scum.”
– That’s how Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman, described New York Times reporters in a speech at Ohio University Monday night. A senior Fox News executive says he regrets using that language. (via cheatsheet)
Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? →
this is the producer of Community who got sacked. his response is funny and a sad commentary on the business at the same time
danharmon:
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good...
Prosecution Document Dump Includes One Chilling... →
This is seriously heartbreaking
10 Reasons Scandal Season One Finale Rocks (The... →
scandalmoments:
10 Reasons Scandal Season One Finale Rocks (The Gladiators)
whoareyouandwhyshouldicare:
1. Columbus Short: (Harrison Wright) It’s the freaking Season Finale
2. Guillermo Diaz: (Huck) In the first 5 minutes of the show you will witness the gladiators go “Over a cliff” for each other, like never before.
3. Jeff Perry: (Cyrus Beene) The President is very…
NYC Digital: Join Brooklyn Tech Triangle in an... →
nycdigital:
Join Brooklyn Tech Triangle in an informal setting for an announcement of upcoming summer programs, an update on the Brooklyn Tech Triangle initiative, and an opportunity to get to know each other.
Meet other creative and tech professionals and learn more about the economic impact of…
Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, Dies at 63 →
I would sing her songs while driving along Woodward Avenue all the time. At least once a year I still play Bad Girls and the 17 minute version of Love to Love You Baby
Ms. Summer was a five-time Grammy winner who became a superstar in the 1970s with hits like “Last Dance.”
R.I.P. Donna Summer →
<p>Donna Summer lived with a lot of contradictions in her life: She was a disco queen raised on rock, a religious woman who became the reigning sex symbol of late ’70s pop, a dominant singles artist who specialized in expansive concept records, a singe…</p>
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on... →
Who the hell are these clowns………?
A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire, Joe Ricketts, seeking to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era.
Olivia and Fitz {Scandal} 5.10.12 Minisode: "One... →
Background Music : “The Light” by The Album Leaf
Definitely illustrates the mood
TV Show 'Girls' Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing →
The girls of “Girls” are asking, and so is everyone else: What does it mean to be infected with HPV?
In Praise of Single Mothers - The Atlantic →
“This Mother’s Day I confess that I am very proud to be from what some would call a broken home. Not because it was easy watching a young woman struggle to be a mother on her own after ending a violent marriage, but precisely because it was so very hard. And “hard” seems to be a word we now avoid, disparage, and devalue in our insta-everything culture.”
Washington Post →
Mitt Romney — The Cranbook School Years. Of course those spoiled brats would go against someone who is different.
When Obama endorsed same-sex marriage...
whenobamaendorsed:
… I was more Kathie Lee than Hoda.
“President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage Wednesday, telling...”
– Politico
City Room: Streisand to Sing in Brooklyn →
Wonder how many kidneys you have sell for a ticket
The borough’s native songbird is coming back for her first performances in the borough in many decades.
Dewey Know When LeBoeuf Is Cooked? When Associates... →
These are heartless greedy bastards. They get their next gig straight AND their monthly partner draw while junior associates and secretaries are not only getting kicked into the street, but with no severance, no insurance, and no thanks for putting up with these MoFos
Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended... →
And he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.
There, Max leads the creatures in a frenzied rumpus before sailing home, anger spent, to find his supper waiting.
ArtsBeat: How Mad Men Landed The Beatles: All You... →
The use of “Tomorrow Never Knows” in Sunday’s episode of “Mad Men” marks a rare instance in which a song written and recorded by the Beatles has been licensed for a television series, following several years of effort by the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner.
Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia had to agree along with Apple Corps. Bet folks will buy Revolver off this.
Black Women and Fat →
How many middle-aged white women fear their husbands will find them less attractive if their weight drops to less than 200 pounds?
For Law Students, Dewey & LeBoeuf Internships... →
If no one goes to jail for this that will be a effing shame
About 30 students learned that their plum summer jobs at Dewey & LeBoeuf have vanished and are now returning, hat in hand, to ask for jobs they had once rejected.
16 Revelations About Young Barack Obama From His... →
A player struggling to find his way?
