Gray bunny
I'm Kelly and I'm not in LA anymore, which is exciting. But probably only for me and the husband, because now I don't really have much craziness to talk about. I'm still checking up on you all from time to time though.
Just one more: I can’t recommend enough the This American Life segment mentioned below.
“Looks good. By the way it has Julian Koenig’s fingerprints all over it.”
Don delivers this backhanded compliment to the painfully hip young pitchmen (the kid with the greaser hair and the Austrian twink) in Season 2. Koenig was a ‘legendary’ ad man of the sixties. He came up with the ‘Lemon’ campaign for Volkswagen — the ad which Don and co. enviously snark on— and the indelible/catchy Timex’s slogan (‘Takes a licking keeps on ticking’). Koenig has been in a year 40 year pissing match with his former creative partner George Lois, the creative mind behind Esquire’s most iconic covers (Incidentally, Esquire is still dry humping Louis’ ideas.)
Above is another Keonig ad . And this is a clip of a This American Life segment did on the Koenig and Lois rivalry. It’s called ‘Mad Man’ and it is dope.
In the way casinos still encourage their cocktail waitresses to flirt and seduce in order to glue the clientele to carpet, the airlines were once in the same racket:
“In 1979 I flew to Sweden in SAS, and I still can remember the blondes in the pretty uniforms, their eyes, and their smiles. Which means I noticed (maybe too much, given my passion for the Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—although I blame Lego for that one). Those affable, efficient women hosted the Golden Age of aeronautics, being professional, attentive, sympathetic, and yes, absolutely sexy.”Here is a solid photo-gallery of all their gloriously kicky outfits.
And for some scathingly brilliant commentary on the ad above click here.
We will always be fans of the “What did you bring me, Daddy?” slogan. Ah, the airlines. Soaring air-buses fueled by our Freudian complexes.
What a fun new tumblr!
I actually like John Hughes movies
… and they meant a lot more to me than the crappy excuses for teen movies we got in the 90s (Clueless excepted, since it’s the best movie of all time). Empire Records and Can’t Hardly Wait!? Are you kidding!? Those movies don’t even have their own personailities, they’re studio-tested-into-blandness bullshit. I log back into tumblr for the first time in two weeks and this is what everybody’s doing— shitting on a guy who died before his time and was the voice of a generation? He may not have spent the last 15-20 years doing great work, but people will still be watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when the movies above are long de-accessioned from film archives for having no cultural or technical relevance (like they were ever there in the first place, heh). Go read this and feel bad about yourselves. And then tell me off the top of your head who wrote and directed the ridiculous movies you’re championing. Yeah, you don’t know, because those people don’t matter. Just because the generation he portrayed wasn’t yours doesn’t mean that he didn’t mean anything.
(whoa, sidenote: I just looked at the creative force behind Can’t Hardly Wait and that is the crappiest body of work imaginable. Wow, that’s sad. I’ll give the writer of Empire Records props for writing Center Stage, a hilariously bad yet still awesome movie, but I think most of its awesomeness comes in the execution, by a too-talented director who makes terrible choices and a cast of amazingly awkward non-actors, rather than from the script)
Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Christina Applegate, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mary-Louise Parker and Jane Krakowski—got together for an Emmy round table.
Helena Bonham Carter, please... just stop
We get it, you’re weird and revel in it since apparently that’s the only film role you can do now.
She’s not acting. If she wasn’t already Crazy before, Tim Burton has made her so. They are the scariest famous people I’ve ever seen in person.
And to think, “Room with a View”-era Helena used to be my hero… heroine? You know what I mean.
I don’t know if Jellyfish means anything to any of you, but if they do, then check out members of Rooney, Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and one of our favorites Bleu doing a Jellyfish cover, calling themselves MOGUL. They’re great.
The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default
This is what Facebook has to say about it. They will prompt you to change or accept your new privacy settings— while the recommended setting will be to share a few things more publicly, you will have the option then and there to keep it all private. I personally have crazy privacy settings on FB: different information available to different groups of people, and I still say next to nothing publicly on there because it’s almost more a professional networking spot for me now than anything else. I’ll be interested to see if I can keep my complicated privacy settings while FB is trying to simplify all of it….
Some more Facebook bullshit that proves once again Facebook is their own worst enemy. Now by default status messages, photos and videos, etc… are visible to the public by default unless you change your privacy settings. So lame Facebook, so very lame…
Twitter is what you make it
“For me, the conversation about Twitter closely resembles the tale of the blind men and the elephant. People are so determined to pin down what Twitter is and is not that they are missing the overall point: that Twitter is everything that people describe it to be. Want to share what you had for breakfast? Go for it. Want to keep tabs on a couple of friends? You got it. Professional networking? It’s there, just do it. Build up an online presence cult of personality? Tweet away, oh future internet trend despot. It is the Web 2.0 Mirror of Erised, a magical looking glass upon which a person can gaze at what they wish to see and input their say in their Twitter feed. How can it possibly be any simpler? While it might not be for everyone, with the proper external tools and some internet elbow grease, it can satisfy the most picky user’s expectations.”
(I’m a personal subscriber to keeping tabs on friends and letting them know what’s going on with me, especially now that I’m across the country from most of my twitter people rather than in the same room with them. Throw in some Brits who make me smile, and voila, that’s my twitter- simple as that)
She reads!
I actually finished a book! Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was excellent. I even knew what was going on most of the time. (Kidding) (Okay, not kidding, there were a couple times I totally didn’t know what was going on) (I promise I’m not illiterate)
Anyway, I watched the trailer for the movie and am quite worried about how conventional blah blah it looks, so read the book instead. Which you all have probably already done because you do useful and enriching things with your time like reading, while I lie on the couch watching TCM continuously.
Hey, it’s almost work-related for me.Sort of.
Yeah, not really, since now I just catalog TV shows all the time. But someday someone will ask me if Freddie Bartholomew was in the 40s version of The Secret Garden and I’ll say “No, goddamnit, that was Dean Stockwell! Come on!” See how useful I am?
On a related note, my co-workers and I mused at lunch today about what drinks named after child stars other than Shirley Temple would be made of. Hence, my random spouting above about Freddie vs. Dean. We all got weirded out when contemplating the “Rusty Tamblyn”. I’m stopping.
Yeah, I was with you for about 5 minutes, until I read the list of things I would have to do in order to read this book properly. Aren’t summers for
laziness and cold movie theaters? Come back to
me when I’m arriving and leaving work in the dark this winter, then I might be more
open to homework-like personal enrichment projects.
Let’s do this!
How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just By Looking at it
Now that my Kris is a house-husband and endeavoring to make affordable, tasty dinners for us, we have a renewed interest in cooking and just spent the last 45 minutes looking at this site. Now I just have to talk him into the healthy part! Thanks for the link Jess!
Kris at ‘Cheap, Healthy, Good’ has you covered. Tips include things like:
- DO choose your source wisely
- DO check the number of servings
- DON’T dismiss a long list of ingredients outright
- DON’T rule out all fatty ingredients
Just discovered this resource and I can already tell it’s going to be one of my daily must-reads!
I’m disappointed in the lack of hysteria over this afternoon’s earthquake. I, for one, did not feel it, but I am still getting the heck out of Dodge.
THR - NBC renews 'Chuck'!
Hooray hooray! Fedak just had a baby, so he could definitely use another season of paychecks!
” In the battle of Chuck vs. the Network Suits, the Buy More geek has prevailed. NBC has decided to give Josh Schwartz’s well-liked action-comedy another shot next fall.
The network picked up 13 episodes of the series from Warner Bros., which, in a business-side trend this year, made some budget concessions to secure the show a third season.Fans pushed NBC very hard for a pickup, launching a “Save Chuck” campaign that included buying sandwiches at series sponsor Subway.” (via:thr)
I bought my $5 Footlong from Subway to support ‘Chuck’ and it looks like it worked. NBC made the right decision this time.
In the saddest, scariest moments of this cross-country move, like right now, there’s one thought that calms me down and makes me smile: I’m married to my best friend, and he’s coming with me. Not only that, but he’s excited. I couldn’t ask for more.
Well.
It’d be nice if he’d get out of bed at some point this morning.
