February 2012
Pass it to Bulis: We need to make a bigger deal of... →
They’re right, you know.
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The Telegraph: CCTV police officer 'chased... →
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Metallica Announce Orion Music Festival →
ryanmcnutt:
Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Gaslight Anthem, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Liturgy…
A nakedly transparent grab for relevance, sure. But this festival is already the least embarrassing thing Metallica have done since The Black Album.
…Black Angels, Rock Erickson, and the Sword too.
Not to shabby.
ryanmcnutt:
“Danger Zone.” “Just What I Needed.” “Hey Jealousy.” “Modern Love.” “Flagpole Sitta.” “Ignition.” “Panama.”
I love that this year’s AV Uncovered lineup is pretty much my personal karaoke list.
“Del Rey’s hazy, fake-nostalgic pastiche of Tumblr favourites and time-worn...”
– the backlash to the Lana Del Ray backlash. In sum, “cool kids don’t like rich kids.” (via cosmopolitanism)
What about the Strokes?
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Conservatives just refused to let party leader @ElizabethMay rise to pay tribute to Vaclav Havel. He was a champion of free speech. #irony
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@justinpjtrudeau) February 6, 2012
The Tories should have just let her speak, but being vindictive with parliamentary procedure isn’t an infringement on free speech, Justin. Which means it’s not ironic, it’s just like...
“Instead, in the few bars Madonna was kind enough to grant her during the biggest...”
– Why the fuck is Ryan Schreiber so mad about MIA flipping the bird on TV for 3-seconds?
Dresses, Drinks and Misogyny →
spencerian:
I didn’t really think I was capable of being shocked anymore. I must be really naive.
Talk Small: New York Notes 2: run-on sentences and... →
aaronleaf:
My sister works in a fancy restaurant so for her birthday we went to another restaurant owned by the same people. This apparently made us VIPs, an acronym I’ve only ever been on the opposite side of. It meant complementary house champagne as we sat down, like, a big glass, not something you would…
Is it weird that I know what restaurant it is by the menu description?
12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Movie... →
rumours:
Made my morning.
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MacLean's: Boisvenu on convicted murderers: give... →
Nycole Turmel: Mr. Speaker, that is not good enough. What Senator Boisvenu did is against the law: we cannot call on people to kill themselves.
So, this opens up an interesting debate. Namely, which is worse: that a sitting senator thinks we should re-consider capital punishment or that a sitting MP thinks that expressing such a view is and apparently should be illegal?
Three cheers for...
So, you know stories like that one that’s been circulating on Facebook recently about the racist airline passenger or that one about Obama and his wife in the diner?
What the hell compels people to make those up? Like, honestly, what sort of personal validation do you get out of that? It’s not like they’re really pranks per se, so it’s not even the same as that.
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Serious Eats: The Food Lab: The Ultimate... →
Before he started his month of veganism, Kenji from Serious Eats wrote this wonderfully timed (for the Super Bowl) article.
January 2012
"The federal minimum wage for tipped workers is...
HOLY SHIT, AMERICA. (source)
