January 2011
38 posts
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Julie Strauss-Gabel has been named V.P. and publisher of Dutton Children’s Books, effective immediately. She was previously Associate Publisher.
Dutton will become a “boutique middle grade and young adult imprint with a focus on titles of exceptional literary quality and strong commercial appeal,” according to a statement from Penguin. The imprint will now publish 10-15 titles per year.
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peterwknox:
Kevin Smith’s Red State Premiered at Sundance, and Vulture Was There — Vulture
As he explained, the movie took 25 days and cost $4 million to make. If he sold it for $6 million, it would still take $20 million to market. But since that $26 million doesn’t go back to the movie team or the studio or the distributor, you have to make $50 million just to get to the profit line. ...
after scrolling HBO's afternoon lineup only to get...
…but to admit it.
I like “Shallow Hal”.
YEP.
Thinking of starting a blog called "Shenanigans"
adeandabet:
Where I reblog everything that I don’t believe is real. This includes most pictures of hot, shirtless men with ripped abs, and impossibly skinny women coquettishly covering their breasts with one arm. I’ll need to see their social security numbers and birth certificates to make sure they’re not robots and/or Photoshop generated pixel-people before they’re removed from Shenanigans.
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I did it. →
I worked a “BA-DUM CHING” into a post. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
enter at the mountain goats
I have Stacey and her Sad Bastard Mixtape to thank for introducing me to the music of The Mountain Goats — it was always one of those bands I’d heard of, but never actually heard.
So now I have heard it, and I want to hear more, but there are like 236,911 albums to choose from, and TOTAL PARALYSIS.
Is there some kind of Get Friendly With The Mountain Goats album-listening procedure...
On the blog: Milking the sads for laughs. →
bones
Can someone catch me up on the immense appeal of this show? I feel like I’m missing something.
Need catladies to come over and watch me pass out...
hugparty:
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE MY NAME CEASE AND RESIST
Partypants, Attorney at Lol
Oh damn, my bad. I guess lawyers were inevitable.
Need catladies to come over and watch me pass out...
hugparty:
I have a list of “people I don’t know but reeeeeally want to party with.” Alice is on it.
Anonymous asked: Tips for us ladies in NYC seeking love as handsome as yours (and I hope nice, but you don't say much about your husband). GIVE UP?!
Spiersblr: Re: Jared Loughner's family →
spiers:
Reading the comments on this Gawker thread about Jared Loughner’s family, a few thoughts:
It is far harder than you probably think to get an adult with paranoid schizophrenia help—professional treatment or otherwise.
…When they say they don’t know how this happened, I don’t think they necessarily mean that literally. I think they mean it in the way that anyone who’s had a child...
writingaces asked: Ahem.
AHEM.
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How were your holidays?
AHEM.
!.
How were your holidays?
spicysammich asked: Herp derp?
nobody ever asks me questions.
Ahem. AHEM.
Anonymous asked: I'm surprised that you haven't yet commented on the bowdlerization of Huck Finn. What are your thoughts?
doppelganging
Fun fact: when I wake up in the morning, I look just like Rich Tong.
this is not how you don't do drama
Over the weekend, I got a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in more than six months. I had thought we were in the midst of a mutually-agreeable-but-not-officially-announced fadeout, aware that the friendship had run its course, and letting it die like adults.
Oh, if only.
Turns out, he’d been nursing a half-year grudge over the fact that I’d been “mean” to...
