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18 Jul 15:43
Royal baby watch
BossclaireshortyI am not trying to spread the tizzy *everyone* is in over this, but this about the queen is fantastic:
"Queen Elizabeth II is among those keen for the new baby to greet the world. On a visit to northern England Wednesday, she was asked by a little girl whether she wants her great-grandchild to be a boy or a girl. The queen replied: 'I don't think I mind. I would very much like it to arrive. I'm going on holiday.'"
Royal watchers eagerly await the arrival of a child that will be heir to the British throne. Here's what you need to know and the latest developments:
18 Jul 15:33
Crocheted Clothes Help Kitten Recover
by Jill Harness
Meet Wasabi-Chan. This little cutie was attacked by a crow and rescued by a passerby who rescued the kitten and brought her to an animal hospital. She was suffering from a broken jaw and a split tongue, which meant she had to be fed via feeding tube.
Unfortunately, Wasabi-Chan is a playful little kitty, so every time a tube was inserted, she'd fidget and move until it came back out. To keep her from ripping out the feeding tube, her rescuer started fitting her with adorable crocheted outfits like this one and started an Instagram to keep the public abreast of her recovery and her adorable outfits.
The kitten is now doing fine, but that doesn't mean she's any less cute—even without her crocheted fashion ensembles.
18 Jul 15:18
Emmy Loves Netflix: Here Are Your 2013 Primetime Emmy Nominees
by Lacey Donohue on Defamer, shared by Leah Beckmann to Gawker
Turns out those Netflix yard signs did the trick. Get ready for a lot of conversations about what this means for television. And maybe some talk about how this could finally be the year Tami Taylor wins.
    
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18 Jul 15:18
Did a massive dragon just wash ashore along England's Jurassic coast?
by George Dvorsky
Beachgoers on a Dorset beach were in for quite a jolt earlier this week as they encountered what appeared to be the remains of a giant dragon. In reality, it's a sculpture put together by Blinkbox to promote the third season of Game of Thrones which is arriving to the service.
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18 Jul 03:08
I’m Kind Of Over Johnny Depp (Gasp!) And It Seems America Agrees
by Monica Bielanko
BossclaireshortyThis lady & I are sympatico on the JD role situation.
I almost hate myself for what I’m about to write. Because, full disclosure, I love Johnny Depp so desperately, always have/always will. He’s even on my freebie list along with Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, (whose name, despite my love for him, I can never type without first googling) Ryan Gosling and Clive Owen. Not only [...]
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17 Jul 17:22
Hubble Snaps Breathtaking New Picture of ISON, “Comet of the Century"
by Robert T. Gonzalez
When Comet ISON's trajectory brings it scorchingly close to the Sun later this year, astronomers believe it could emerge from its close encounter as one of the brightest cometsever seen from Earth. Now, Hubble has captured a stunning image of the approaching ice-ball in flight, against a backdrop bursting with nearby stars and distant galaxies.
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17 Jul 17:07
On May 22nd of 1925, the great Gertrude Stein wrote to fellow author F. Scott Fitzgerald and offered, in her own inimitable style, a brief review of his recently published novel, The Great Gatsby. It can be enjoyed below. Also of note: Fitzgerald's editor's reaction to an early draft of The Great Gatsby, here, and a rejection letter once sent to Stein by Arthur Fifield, here. All are fantastic.
(Source: The Crack-Up; Images via here and here.)
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It is a good book
by Shaun Usher
On May 22nd of 1925, the great Gertrude Stein wrote to fellow author F. Scott Fitzgerald and offered, in her own inimitable style, a brief review of his recently published novel, The Great Gatsby. It can be enjoyed below. Also of note: Fitzgerald's editor's reaction to an early draft of The Great Gatsby, here, and a rejection letter once sent to Stein by Arthur Fifield, here. All are fantastic.
(Source: The Crack-Up; Images via here and here.)
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Belley, le 22 May, 192-
My dear Fitzgerald:
Here we are and have read your book and it is a good book. I like the melody of your dedication and it shows that you have a background of beauty and tenderness and that is a comfort. The next good thing is that you write naturally in sentences and that too is a comfort. You write naturally in sentences and one can read all of them and that among other things is a comfort. You are creating the contemporary world much as Thackeray did his in Pendennis and Vanity Fair and this isn't a bad compliment. You make a modern world and a modern orgy strangely enough it was never done until you did it in This Side of Paradise. My belief in This Side of Paradise was alright. This is as good a book and different and older and that is what one does, one does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. Best of good luck to you always, and thanks so much for the very genuine pleasure you have given me. We are looking forward to seeing you and Mrs. Fitzgerald when we get back in the Fall. Do please remember me to her and to you always
Gtde Stein
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17 Jul 17:03
The Trailer for the Wikileaks Movie Is Here
by Max Read
Here's the trailer for The Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks movie (starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange). "Some call him a visionary... some call him a traitor... some call him an irritating prat."
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17 Jul 16:53
God's Representative on Earth Bestows Additional Rights Unto Humans
by Max Read
BREAKING: Gay marriage becomes legal in Britain as Queen Elizabeth II gives royal approval
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 17, 2013
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17 Jul 02:08
Stevie Wonder Boycotts Florida in Aftermath of Zimmerman Verdict
by Neetzan Zimmerman
While some entertainers have dedicated songs or moments of silence to Trayvon Martin in the aftermath of George Zimmerman's acquittal, living legend Stevie Wonder went a step further — by boycotting the entire state of Florida.
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17 Jul 01:35
An Army of Ryan Gosling Look-alikes Rises In Iceland
by Adrian Chen
If you do not follow Icelandic news closely you may have missed the fact that Ryan Gosling turned the island nation upside down this month. He'd arrived in Iceland on July 10th to work with the Icelandic editor of his directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster, and ended up being mistaken for a not insignificant number of the country's men.
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17 Jul 00:26
Mazzy Star will release Seasons Of Your Day, their first album since 1996's Among My Swan, in Septem
by Rich Juzwiak
Mazzy Star will release Seasons Of Your Day, their first album since 1996's Among My Swan, in September. Its first single is "California." This one goes out to all whose lives continue to be so-called.
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15 Jul 03:17
The Justice Department just announced that federal prosecutors are looking into the Trayvon Martin s
by Gabrielle Bluestone
The Justice Department just announced that federal prosecutors are looking into the Trayvon Martin shooting to see if criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman are appropriate. Although the DOJ opened an investigation into Martin's death last year, the agency stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.
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15 Jul 03:15
Kristen Bell to guest on 'Parks and Recreation'
BossclaireshortyHell yeah.
Kristen Bell to guest on 'Parks and Recreation':
After shooting the Veronica Mars movie, Kristen Bell will guest-star in an episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation as Ingrid, a snooty City Councilwoman from Eagleton. “She’s Leslie’s equivalent, but richer and better dressed,” executive producer Michael Schur tells EW.
15 Jul 01:11
Eddie Redmayne Twelve Times
by JA
BossclaireshortyFor Courtney...
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For some reason I feel like looking at pretty pretty Eddie today. He really has grown on me. See a couple more over here.
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14 Jul 13:37
George R.R. Martin: This is what the Iron Throne REALLY looks like
by Meredith Woerner
Bdeaker, Nathanjohns and one other like this
12 Jul 04:21
Philip Roth and Mia Farrow Watched Sharknado Together
by Taylor Berman
BossclaireshortyWhat the what?
11 Jul 23:12
NASA responds to a seven-year-old's request to go to Mars
by George Dvorsky
A seven-year-old boy recently asked NASA for advice on how to become an astronaut. And because they're cool that way, the space agency responded in kind.
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11 Jul 21:48
World War Z in 175 Words or Less
by JA
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I'm forcing myself to write this review even though I can tell you right now, right here at the outset, that I don't really have anything to say about this movie. (Not that anything I could say would top my tweet about it.) Which in itself is something, I guess. I liked it more than I thought I would, but then I didn't think I would like it at all - the trailer's left me totally cold. But there's some really fine work going on, even if everything feels slightly redundant of the seventeen thousand zombie movies we've seen since 28 Days Later (which it most resembled) - for one, it just glides along, doesn't it? I wasn't ever bored - in fact a lot of the set-pieces hum with palpable tension. I don't think he got much credit when the film first came out and everybody was surprised the movie didn't suck but I lay my goodwill down at Brad Pitt's feet - he makes a raggedy-assed apocalypse go down super smoothly.
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11 Jul 03:53
A New Perspective of the Day: The Iron Throne According to George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin shares a sneak peek of the "real" Iron Throne, as envisioned by none other than himself and painted by Marc Simonetti for the forthcoming nonfiction The World of Ice and Fire: The Official History of Westeros and The World of A Game of Thrones.
Submitted by: Unknown (via LiveJournal)
11 Jul 02:46
19-Foot Python Breaks Into Australian Thrift Store
by Taylor Berman
BossclaireshortyOh my dear Mother Nature.
Police in Australia investigating a presumed burglary at a thrift store thought it was odd that there was a large hole in the store's ceiling and a pile of vomit-like liquid on the ground. As it turns out, though, it wasn't a burglar responsible for the damage but instead a 19-foot python, which an employee found 24-hours later, hiding alongside a wall.
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11 Jul 01:03
Should "Ћ" Be the New "The"?
Twitter has been abuzz this week with talks of "Ћ", a symbol for the word "the" recently proposed by Australian restaurateur Paul Mathis. In an interview with The Age, Mathis said he hopes "Ћ" will replace the word itself, asserting that the most-used word in the English language deserves its own symbol and that it could improve efficiency when texting or tweeting. To jump start his ambitious movement, Mathis says he's invested $38,000 in a mobile app that will hopefully bring the "Ћ" symbol into everyone's hands in the near future.
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10 Jul 20:10
Christopher Walken as Zeus, Nelsan Ellis as Dionysus: Best Movie Ever?
by Charlie Jane Anders
Lots of off-beat choices have been playing Zeus lately. You had Liam Neeson in the Titans films. You have Sean Bean in the Percy Jackson films. But screw that — we want Christopher Fuckin' Walken playing the King of the Gods. And this movie already exists.
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Parkertrow, Russian Sledges and one other like this
10 Jul 04:47
timeoutnewyork: Our latest issue is all about New York City...
Our latest issue is all about New York City parks, so really, who else could we possibly have on the cover? Check out our interview with Amy Poehler, in which she discusses NYC’s comedy scene, her Ask Amy video series, and why Parks and Recreation is sorta like The Wire.