Linkspam a go-go.
Ganked from all over the place. I think at least one of these came from FWD/Forward but I've forgotten the rest.
Pop Culture
Larry Hart got the idea to decorate his mansion with spackle squeezed out of cake-frosting tubes from a book on Versailles...
The American aesthetic of bling.
Marlee Matlin had an idea for a reality show that she hoped would bring some insight into the lives and struggles of deaf people and how they cope. But while reality TV has brought us wife swappers, party girls, aging rock stars and dieting divas, apparently no one was ready for something that real.
Marlee Matlin launches her own reality series on YouTube.
While winning the role may have been serendipitous for R.J., what he is making out of the opportunity is quite deliberate. It has allowed him to discover himself -- not only as an actor but also as an activist for the rights of people with disabilities in the entertainment industry.
A profile of R.J. Mitte.
This Is Possibly Kind of About Fandom
a lot of people look at the critical impulse, and the work that it sometimes produces, as some kind of attempt to kill their buzz
Snobbery, projection, resentment.
If you can't unsay something you just realized is horribly wrong, the next best thing is to claim you never said it.
World's Saddest Internet Argument Techniques, 2010 edition. I think I've gotten every fucking one of these.
Also:
You're welcome.
Pop Culture
Larry Hart got the idea to decorate his mansion with spackle squeezed out of cake-frosting tubes from a book on Versailles...
The American aesthetic of bling.
Marlee Matlin had an idea for a reality show that she hoped would bring some insight into the lives and struggles of deaf people and how they cope. But while reality TV has brought us wife swappers, party girls, aging rock stars and dieting divas, apparently no one was ready for something that real.
Marlee Matlin launches her own reality series on YouTube.
While winning the role may have been serendipitous for R.J., what he is making out of the opportunity is quite deliberate. It has allowed him to discover himself -- not only as an actor but also as an activist for the rights of people with disabilities in the entertainment industry.
A profile of R.J. Mitte.
This Is Possibly Kind of About Fandom
a lot of people look at the critical impulse, and the work that it sometimes produces, as some kind of attempt to kill their buzz
Snobbery, projection, resentment.
If you can't unsay something you just realized is horribly wrong, the next best thing is to claim you never said it.
World's Saddest Internet Argument Techniques, 2010 edition. I think I've gotten every fucking one of these.
Also:
Click to viewYou're welcome.