This glassy dud rises on the site of a little drama that took place in 2005 when workers pulverized a quirky glass stairwell tower in a 1949 building by Morris Lapidus—just as the Landmarks commission was issuing its protective decree. Its successor is utterly generic. (New York mag)
It’s so hard hanging out with architects. There’s no air in the room once someone’s had a conversation about the principles of Form-Z. I’m supposed to talk about a new season of Heroes after that? “You know what Libeskind’s designs remind me of? … That show Fringe.”
And their criticisms- yikes do those sting. How could they not when it’s about something as permanent as a building. It’d be like if smart people in station wagons parked on your lawn and had a lot to say about your forearm tattoo, like that it’s “dull and expedient.”
The two best parts of this promo are not that the “director” is Fred Savage, or that It’s Always Sunny is back with new episodes- it’s that Jeru the Damaja is providing the raps and that anything (ANYTHING!) works if you use this beat. Am I right Devito wearing glasses?
Man suspected of sausage and spice attack set free
12 hours ago
SANGER, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of breaking into the home of two California farmworkers, rubbing spices into the face of one man and smacking another with an 8-inch sausage has been set free.
Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to file criminal charges against 21-year-old Swedish chef Antonio Vasquez. He was released from Fresno County Jail on Tuesday.
Sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack. Vasquez is also accused of stealing $900 from the home.
You felt it. I did too. Summer bye-bye. It happens that fast and in no time flat you go from margaritas outdoors to posing for the cover of the “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album. It’s not even my favorite season but neither was that Season 5 of The Wire. Don’t mean I won’t miss it. As a tribute, pictures of girls at the beach.
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Every third tick of the sun dial Letterman does something just like this, usually to a socialite. It’s why I still tune in on occasion because you never know. He just might get f@#king angry about something, and who wants to be watching Leno interview a duck on the street and miss that?
Hard to tell if it’s the photography or the flash flip-book that sold me but either way you’re not going wrong with this. And yeah, I’ve smoked certain cigars from certain places. Not bragging. (am)
P. Diddy really liked the Palin speech. He apologized to her about something? He wants to play hockey with her. He still is voting Obama. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahwww… I’m so tired really.
Clear some space. I said clear some space! Amateurs. Alright. Have to spin ’round in circle 12 times for this one. 12 times. One arm extended. Heart open. Palm of hand OPEN. Dizzy. Must maintain. Got to take it too all 5 douchebags. One is not enough. One is not enough!! … … SLAP!
Best known for his popular evocations of urban sprawl (SimCity) and suburban Americana (The Sims), Mr. Wright has spent the last eight years trying to figure out how to convey the vast sweep of evolution from a single cell to the exploration of the galaxy as an interactive entertainment experience. His answer, Spore, is being released in stores and online for PCs and Macs in Europe on Friday and in North America this weekend.
Filed bySlapClap Political Deputy Producer Gills Dupree
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (SlapClap) — Historic first (second?) night here on the floor of the G.O.P. National Convention. Fred Thompson kicked things off with a speech, followed by a tribute video to Americans, another speech (this time via satellite), music sang by girl, and a keynote address by Democrat Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman. Reporter Gills Dupree caught up with the senator on the convention floor and filed this interview.
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Okay okay okay. Okay. What do you need to know about The Silver Jews? Lead singer looks like this (above).
Not sold? Fine. Once you’ve finished selling your quota at American Eagle, they make songs like this (below). He “took a hammer to it all.” Can’t wait to lose my sh@# to that particular lyric.
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09/03 La Sala Rossa Montreal, QC,CAN
09/04 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA
09/05 Middle East Boston, MA 09/06 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 09/07 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
09/09 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA
09/10 Black Cat Washington, DC
09/11 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC
09/12 Grey Eagle Asheville, NC
09/13 Variety Atlanta, GA
David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation center for sex addiction, his lawyer, Stanton “Larry” Stein, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Surprises us not a lot. Way too vanilla-as-an-approach to actually be that milquetoast. How many times, in how many downtown Vancouver hotels, has that eerily plaintive voice of his requested some Canuck stripper to “now turn and face her?”
Pile on to that Showtime’s Californiacation kneading his every sexual pressure point and viola! Sex doctor’s beeper goes off. Demonstrations below:
Whenever I tell people that I never want to visit the Hamptons they ask me “Why?” as if I’d just told them I’m getting a vasectomy tomorrow. I don’t want to go to the Hamptons precisely because of “art” openings like this one hosted by a photographer whose claim to fame is knowing Madonna and being kick-ass at Equestrian. They throw the kind of parties I’d like to see the Joker crash. But it makes an interesting theater for social experiment when you subject them to authority. Remove three bottles of wine from a party and suddenly it’s Dog Day Afternoon: People chanting at the police, pools to get-up bail money, whispers of the old colonial “blue laws” enacted by the Dutch a century and a half ago. I can’t think of a group of people I have less in common with save maybe the Janjaweed.
And in the middle of all of it stands “leggy blonde” destined to remarry an Elliman real estate executive. She’s one of these women I see on the MET rooftop always on the arm of a man who looks like Joe Biden but 42. I see her and it’s the only time I use the word “o-face” half-seriously, as in “needs one.”
As it so happens I’m currently in the middle of reading Garth Ennis’s notorious creator-owned comic series Preacher. Or at least I’m at the beginning 1/3 of reading it (just cracked vol. 3). Preacher is about a wayward (yep) preacher in a small Texas town named Jesse Custer who gets possesed by the deity Genisis, spawn of an illicit affair between an angel and demon in heaven. It gives Custer the power of command over any person and compells him, alongside transient Irish vampire Cassidy and ex-girfriend/hitwoman Tulip, to find God and make him answer for abondoning the Kingdom of Heaven once Genisis was born.
The book is a by-the-numbers “slapclap.” It’s one of those books that I tell people I like but not before a thousand caveats. For instance: I don’t like how the thick Texas accents of the characters read on the page, I don’t like the “back when men were men” speechifying by main character Jesse Custer and his vampire buddy Cassidy, and I don’t like the insane grabs for over the top storytelling like having the rogue, one-eyed angel accidently sodomized in an alley in San Francisco.
But I do like the book. Why? It’s big! It’s expansive of imagination and its more juvenile moments are outweighed by its ambition. I’m sold on the trajectory of the story- that ultimately something huge will have to take place, one way or another, for this thing to conclude. And Steve Dillon’s art is very good. It’s too bad it won’t be an HBO show because the series is made for that kind of long serial format. It also distresses me how far HBO has fallen from grace. They can’t get a show going. Where’s F.O.C. by the way? Wait we have to suffer through more Entourage? Slap on you HBO.
I wish I could take a microphone to the Orange Julius she’ll be at this weekend. “My family is stupid. They should be illegal?” That’s a clap friendo. That’s a clap.
Barcelona is a marvelous city. Crowds turn out in the streets to watch us work. Mercifully they realize I’ve no time to give autographs, and so they ask only the cast members. Later I handed out some 8-by-10 photos of myself shaking hands with Spiro Agnew and offered to sign them, but by then the crowd had dispersed.
AUG. 10
Directed Javier in emotional scene today. Had to give him line readings. As long as he imitates me he’s fine. The minute he tries his own acting choices he’s lost. Then he weeps and wonders how he’ll survive when I’m no longer his director. I explained politely but firmly that he must do the best he can without me and to try to remember the tips I’ve given him. I know he was cheered because when I left his trailer, he and his friends were howling with laughter.
AUG. 20
Made love with Scarlett and Penélope simultaneously in an effort to keep them happy. Ménage gave me great idea for the climax of the movie.
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Google me bitch. Now you can do it on your phone … well you can already do it on your phone, but now on a Google phone! … well actually the phone is made by the company HTC: leading makers of mobile phones … in the world!!!
Yay?
And their phones will be powered by Google’s powerful Android software, available in all phones perhaps as early as October … well not all phones. Just those 3 seen above, and only through T-Mobile. Not that exciting really when you think about it. I just did. Think about it. Thought I’d be a little more pumped up about this. That’s the sum of technology though isn’t it? Ultimately deflating. (I should twitter that)
Because who don’t love ‘em? (Michael Vick, the Anti-Christ, Ed McMahon’s assistant, Swiss bankers, Ted Nugent, Robert Smith, hunchback scientists, Perez Musharraf, people who are allergic)
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