August 2009
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Celebrity BFFs →
AV Club writers select which celebrities they most want to be friends with. Can mine be Dan Drieberg or does that not count?
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Sunnyside
Leland whistled halfway back to Crescent City, interviewing himself as he drove. “Did you know, on that day, how bright your future was ahead of you?” “I did.” Then he reconsidered. “No, of course not…” But this line of thought led him to furrow his brow and consider the road, so he instead went toward the lighthearted, the personal checklists. “Your...
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The Goonies II - Hideout Theme
Adam Sandler stops by Emmanuel College →
Adam Sandler played basketball at my alma mater on Friday with his friends. How are you going to top this Lesley?
New Pornographers - Jackie Dressed in Cobras
In Defense of Pete Campbell →
I cracked up laughing when I opened up last week’s issue and saw that picture of him. Jess and I started rooting for him sometime in the middle of the first season (I think it was the scene of him, sitting alone at home, holding the gun while Trudy yelled at him off-camera that did it. Or maybe it was the time he was eating Fig Newtons in bed) and the article really nails how you feel about...
The Pynchon Hoax →
Two weeks ago, Andrew Essex, a former New Yorker staffer, wrote in to say that, thirteen years earlier, both he and The New Yorker had fallen victim to a prank. In “Godzilla Meets Indie Rockers,” a Talk of the Town story from June 24, 1996, Essex reported that Thomas Pynchon, a notorious hermit, had become a groupie of the nineties New York rock band Lotion.
The band members told Essex that...
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Jen Turrell - Okay
...And You Will Know Michael Cera by the Trail of...
The A.V. Club’s review of Paper Heart:
This isn’t a movie. It’s a MySpace page.
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How Cool is Jon Hamm?
From Lyz’s favorite magazine:
I really like my generation of novelists—Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, and Jonathan Franzen—and the way they can tell a story and make it interesting, make it deep, make it funny and yet incredibly touching.
He picks Wonder Boys as one of his five favorite books.
Mad Men, Abridged →
New York Magazine recaps the first two seasons of Mad Men in a neat slideshow so you can catch up before the Season Three premiere on August 16th. (Warning: every sentence is a HUGE spoiler so if you’re watching the DVDs—as Jess and I are—don’t read ahead!)
“A lot of people recommend books to me. It’s odd because no one goes around...”
– Lyz
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