Way. Cool.

Behold the trailer for the movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," directed by the awesome Spike Jonze:



Musical accompaniment to the trailer provided by the inimitable indie lyricists Arcade Fire.

I love stories about little old ladies who kick ass and take names. I personally come from a long line of them (my maternal grandmother, a news junkie of the highest order, believes that the country needs a law enforcement squadron of old ladies called "The Granny Hit Squad" because "no one ever sees a blue-haired lady coming") and look forward to ( Read more... )

• Just in case the out-of-touch media machine has been fooling you, here are the President's latest numbers regarding the stimulus. Mmmhmm, that's right. I must say this has been helped along by the increasingly histrionic bellowing (scroll down to 'hyperbole watch') of Senate Republicans, who are beginning to sound like chicken littles who, while ( Read more... )

• have you ever noticed that people who are beautiful, especially boys, but sometimes girls too, go through a period in their youth when they absolutely have to do something to interrupt all their outward perfection -- like not washing their hair or getting an obnoxious tattoo in a ridiculous place (i.e. check out this grateful dead bear on my ( Read more... )

rachel maddow has a segment on her show in which she reveals a series of "under-reported holy mackerel stories ( Read more... )

there is nothing funnier than an 88 year old, witty (tipsy?), southern woman. nothing.

here is the evidence:

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an old high school mate just opened her own web shop on the (fabulous) etsy.com. it's called wishing tree jewlery. most of the pieces are simple, classic and made out of low-key non-"precious" materials.

here's one of my favorites:

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i love good editing and the good editors who do it.

seriously.

a really fun Q & A with the editor of the oxford english dictionary and ta-nehisi coates about what criterion counts when deciding what is and is not a word.TNC: What fuels the notion that certain words aren't really words?

JS: People feel that there is a certain kind of language that's appropriate and a certain type that isn't appropriate. And ( Read more... )

via andrew sullivan

a bear cub fighting nap time

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