March 2012
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Neil Gaiman: It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap... →
neil-gaiman:
Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner.
It’s been four years since many authors had a good dinner. We are waiting. Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off…
@DefacedWrittenWord: Soooo…dinner tonight? My treat?
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alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com →
Amazing.
Snowe’s retirement will have many lamenting the endangered moderate and...
– Ezra Klein • Arguing that the problem with congress isn’t partisanship, or ideological polarization, but rather that the institutions and procedures codified in our political system aren’t well-equipped to handle a polarized congress. Klein’s prime example is the filibuster, which as we’ve seen the...
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DOB & DOI Release Findings in Fatal Elevator...
nycbuildings:
Department of Buildings and Department of Investigation have released the findings of their joint investigation into the fatal elevator accident at 285 Madison Avenue on December 14, 2011. Click here to read more.
Not surprising…
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Support the LowLine on Kickstarter! →
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Women's Health Experts Speak Out →
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Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph present the Oscar...
KRISTEN: Six beautiful -- some say handsome, women invited by the Academy not only to present three awards, but also to shatter the common belief that size does not matter. I hate to tell you guys this, but it kinda does.
MAYA: Yes, but not length. (Beat.) As my grandma used to say: it can be short and still make your toes curl. And I believe, in my heart, my grandma wasn't referring to wieners, but to short films.
KRISTEN: See, I'd rather have a short film with some heft that's nice to me rather than a long film that just lies there and makes you do all the work.
MAYA: Yeah, but sometimes a film can be too long.
KRISTEN: Not for me.
MAYA: What?
I love RD, Jr. and everything, but that was…ugh…
Yay! Christopher Guest bit!
“Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock.” That makes my brain hurt…
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Jennifer Lopez will be co-presenting the Best...
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I have watched so much pre-show that I will probably pass out a half hour into the actual show…
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Also, is it just me (and my white guilt), or do the comments about Viola Davis “wearing her hair natural” make you cringe just a little?
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When the “fashion police” comment on how a dress “really gives (a larger lady) a waist,” I feel like they really want to say, “Look! That fat girl found a dress that doesn’t make her look so fatty fat fat.”
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Just heard a guy describing Quantum Leap to someone on the phone. I am a nerd for knowing he was describing Quantum Leap…
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