December 2011
The 15 Most Delightful Internet Films of 2011 →
spiegelman:
I want you all to know I take my year-end list duties very seriously, that it is actually a year-long effort involving a Google Doc with a title that’s search-optimized so I can always find it. But I do this [BLAH BLAH BLAH SOME NICE STUFF ABOUT CHOIRE AND CARRIE AND OUR CONTRIBUTORS. ANYWAY, CLICK THAT LINK, IT’S GOOD STUFF.]
You know what I'm talking about.
If we had been warned in advance that the price to pay for the pornification of American society would be a bunch of dorm room level intellectualizing about basic biological compulsions we probably all would have said “No thanks, keep your pubes on,” right?
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And that's when I clicked "close ears."
“That shit is slam.”
“What?”
“SLAM. Swag like a motherfucker.”
—Soon every word will mean the same thing as every other word and we will be forced to communicate our intentions through a series of nods and grunts, much like our caveman ancestors.
He's not kidding, he really wants all this. →
Books of the Year
Fiction: A Book About Baseball For People Who Think They Are Too Smart To Follow Baseball Plus I Jammed Some Gay Stuff In There
Nonfiction: Bad Thing Happens To Rich Lady
Poetry: Was there one that was just, like, rhymes? Nothing too arty, just a/b/a/b? If so, that one.
And that's when I knew I was old.
“Justin, the guy behind the Anti-Gravity Bunny blog, unveils his top drone recordings of 2011. The list looks quite good, but without anything by Bitchin Bajas (Cooper Crane of the Chicago band Cave), it cannot be considered definitive, in my highly biased view.”
Wow. →
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emmagarman:
What with the sex scandals, the fondness for classical allusions, and the irrepressible wisecracking, Mayor Bloomberg’s London counterpart is what you might politely call a politico in the European tradition—so naturally it’s time for him to take his rightful place alongside Jordan et al in my Awl guide to the most important UK celebs.
Our Top 15 (16!) Longreads of 2011 →
theawl:
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