October 19th, 2010
Joe Miller’s “private security” team “arrested” a lefty blogger they found annoying at a campaign event.
This is one of those rare instances where some hyper-litigiousness would actually be helpful.
0 commentsThe Age of the Electric Car Is Here!
October 17th, 2010
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Just Asking
October 17th, 2010
How long until people start publicly comparing Valerie Jarrett to Karen Hughes?
1 commentThe Universal Female Character Flowchart
October 13th, 2010
Like the Map of the Internet, this is batshit awesome. Or crazy. Probably both.
Only follow the link when you have 2 minutes to actually read it through.
0 commentsYogi Shows You His “O” Face
October 13th, 2010
This teaser poster for the Yogi Bear live-action movie is disturbing enough just in its spatial presentation of Yogi and Boo-Boo. And their facial expressions.
But the tagline?
“Good things come in bears?”
Oh. Oh no. [shuffles uncomfortably]
0 commentsCulturePulp. Superman. Aykroyd.
October 13th, 2010
Galley Friend Mike Russell is back with another fantastic reported comic–this one about attending a Crystal Skull Vodka signing with Dan Aykroyd. Sheer brilliance.
What’s Aykroyd doing hawking vodka? The informercial below explains. Spoiler warning: This is not parody.
Elsewhere Russell casually mentions his dream casting for the Nolan/Snyder Superman movie: Jon Hamm and Lauren Graham. I can’t get over how ridiculously awesome that would be–a superhero movie where the leads are grownups and we get to join the story already in-progress instead of sitting through origin tedium.
3 commentsDept. of Scale
October 12th, 2010
Galley Friend A.W. points out the most interesting nugget in Ben McGrath’s Nick Denton profile (best part bolded):
The network’s nine sites, in order of over-all domestic readership, are Gizmodo, Gawker, Lifehacker (a sort of Idiot’s Guide to the digital world), Kotaku (video games), Deadspin, Jezebel, io9 (science fiction), Jalopnik (cars), and Fleshbot. Together, they generate more than four hundred and fifty million page views a month, from roughly seventeen million unique visitors, which, as Denton boasted a few weeks ago, is better than the Web sites of the Washington Post and USA Today. Neither paper is in the porn or the science-fiction business, of course, and Gawker itself has an audience about equivalent to that of PBS.org. The “geek” sites, as Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, io9, and Jalopnik are known internally, bring in twice the traffic of the “gossip” sites, suggesting that British-inflected class angst may not be a long-term-growth model.
I’m so out of it I hadn’t realized that Denton sold Wonkette some time ago. I wonder how much it fetched him.
0 commentsThe Excitement Never Stops with Transformers 3
October 12th, 2010
Michael Bay is/was filming in DC for a couple days and it seems that Bumblebee got a little chesty with a DC police cruiser. There’s video.
I kept looking for an American flag waving in slow-mo in the foreground, but I couldn’t see one. Weird.
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