March 2010
64 posts
Gabourey Sidibe to Host Saturday Night Live! →
!!!!!!
The Entryway →
I couldn’t finish reading this because it made me SO ANGRY. Two white girls move into an immigrant’s home in Los Angeles to learn Spanish and spend every single page talking about themselves and how they feel about the “infested” house and judging the family for daring to own television and wanting to be entertained but being frugal about other things. There is virtually...
more pills
My back was killing me last night, so I took an Ultram. It kept me up till 4:30, floaty and heart racing. In the midst of this freak out/high I sent a text I shouldn’t have, to someone I shouldn’t have. He didn’t respond. I was thinking about a night we had, and a meal we had, and sometimes I delude myself into thinking that maybe he’ll see me sharing those things as a sign...
Ricky Martin: 'I am a fortunate homosexual man' -... →
FINALLY!
Books by Nicholas Sparks
wellofcromulence:
A Walk to Have Cancer
The Lucky One (Dies of Consumption)
Dear John, I Have Cancer
Three Weeks With My Brother, Who Has Cancer
Cancer in Rodanthe
The Notebook of the Tragic Alzheimer’s Patient, Who Also Has Cancer
Message in a Cancer Cell
The Wedding (Was Cancelled Because of Cancer)
At First Sight of Cancer
The Cancer Choice
Cancer
The Hottest State: A Novel: Ethan Hawke: Books →
I can always count on skybarn to break it down.
skybarn:
How soon we forget the horror that is Ethan Hawke, novelist.
I bought some health insurance.
Thought I was covered by the school plan, but I am not. Since all they can do at the student clinic is give me a pregnancy/STD test, I bought some insurance. It was 300 dollars for three months. I don’t have any chronic health problems, so I’m sure that’s why it cost what it did. Anyway, I’m not questioning. Here are some of the exclusions of the plan:
1. Anything they...
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coming soon on media elites..
Recaps of The Hills very special and FINAL season!
Who will be watching with me?
James Franco Fiction - Just Before the Black by... →
Been trying to describe what “creative writing class” fiction reads like and this is an excellent example.
NOT SAYING I’M ANY BETTER, IN FACT I’M MUCH WORSE.
When I was 20, and had just moved to San...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Little Black... →
Yay!
skybarn:
Here’s my first post for Mediaelites.com. Hope you enjoy!
on liz lemon
Re: this Tiger Beatdown piece.
I used to love Liz Lemon, which you know, of course I do, as a genuinely odd-looking, chubby, awkward, junk food loving girl who can not get it together with dudes, but I find her increasingly problematic as the series goes on because she’s become a complete caricature, which makes sense, since everyone on 30 rock is a caricature. The inconsistency of...
“1:31 a.m. An officer on patrol observed an igloo erected at the southeast corner...”
– Review Security Notebook :: March 05, 2010 the Oberlin Review
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South By Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell →
You can always tell who the jokers are by the ones who are always talking about “process” or “being inspired.” The only way you’ll get there is to start.
skybarn:
Screenwriters sure as fuck talk about screenwriting a lot.
My Kelly Bensimon Is A Centerfold: Real Housewives... →
In case you haven’t read it, I’m recapping RHONYC for Media Elites! Here’s last week’s installment.
to walk along the lonely street of dreams
I am deeply unhappy here. I don’t like to complain because I am lucky, in every sense of the word, despite the fact that many things go wrong for me, many things go right, and while I love to snark, I don’t like complaining. 2009 taught me to be grateful, and that I am, in spades. But, yet, I am unhappy and restless. It’s hard to be completely and utterly alone, in every sense of...
counterforce:
The Replacements “Can’t Hardly...
Creepy-looking guy who made cameos at all the...
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Steve Jobs on Organ Transplant Lists: "I Almost... →
I worked at a transplant center for three years; it is NOT possible to ‘buy’ a liver. That doesn’t exist in the US. What you can do, as skybarn says, is be listed at multiple centers, which will up your chances to get called. Some regions are better than others. But to do this, you have to have really good insurance which allows to get evaluated and listed at two centers (the...
“Your real problem is that you think you have a problem. You’re not experiencing...”
– Dear Coke Talk
This is what I’ve been figuring out in the last few years.
Also, Coke Talk is brilliant and I want her to be my life coach.
On selfish screamers.
Mm-hmm.
dearcoketalk:
I’m a screamer, and nothing is more infuriating than being told my passion is “too loud” and being tossed something to bite on. What do you suggest I do or say the next time he tells me to keep it down?
How about you try being considerate of those around you and just shut the fuck up? You’re waking up the neighbors, bitch. Nobody wants to hear you cum.
sxsw notes
flew here on tiny-ass delta flights, each segment had a healthy amount of OMG SPRING BREAK-goers. ate really bad BBQ in memphis airport. read all of beowulf so i’m now ahead of the reading. finished editing a piece of writing. met some nice people at the omni bar who took me drinking with them, where i talked to two guys after eavesdropping on their conversation about hearing news about a...
topherchris:
If only Lady Gaga was photographed by Terry Richardson while announcing a new Apple product at SXSW.
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Can I say the word Pitchfork if it's in my tumblr...
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it's easy to hate on those of us going to sxsw bc...
but I CAN’T WAIT AND I WISH I HAD BOOKED MY FLIGHT FOR TONIGHT.
“We celebrate “The Hurt Locker”, which is a film about war that remains...”
– Women Directors React to the Bigelow Win | Women &
Yes, let’s make those movies, let’s tell our stories, but let’s be GOOD at it. Watch a Nancy Meyers movie and then watch The Hurt Locker. They are not at the same level, and I’m not even talking about the story or...
hey ladies! →
the writer of the story in the NYT conveniently ignored this line in the abstract for the study: ” Body weight was self-reportedon baseline and 8 annual follow-up questionnaires.”
meaverly:
Drunkorexia: it totally works!
Then you will not want that (fattening!) frittata and have plenty of energy for sex. New York Times, you have solved all my problems!
OK except for that “dying...
the tentative, mild, passive speech patterns of...
i know i do it too, but at least it’s making me aware that i need to work on that. but, seriously, the every statement as question? and the slowwwww drawl is driving me bananas.
Oscar.com - Video →
One more and then I promise to get back to work. The moment when Bigelow looks at the three actors and they give each other this OMG!!!! look is just killing me. You have to click through to watch it, because this stupid website won’t let me embed it.
Also, Mark Boal is an Oberlin grad!
You are cordially invited! « Counterforce →
Sparks made me a fake imaginary playlist for a faux imaginary wedding. It’s magical.
“I think in some ways the Internet and its vast anonymity feeds into a culture...”
– Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
Elegance Is Learned: Real Housewives Of New York... →
It’s great that Steve broke a bunch of news last night about the Pentagon shooter, but I felt it was time to bring MediaElites to my level… my reality television level.
“It’s amazing how quickly you embrace becoming an old. I’m only 27 and I am...”
– Kia Matthews
This is how I feel every waking hour here.
