Dunham has Hannah’s back. Hannah doesn’t need our motherly concern, our chivalrous evocation of the women’s lib barricades. As we have already learned from the pilot episode, Hannah is smart and perceptive and funny and not (usually) a total doormat—she just hasn’t figured out where she herself would like a sex scene such as this to go.
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The Loves of Lena Dunham by Elaine Blair | The New York Review of Books
The best review of Girls is from a magazine about books.
- Tagged
- Girls
- Lena Dunham
Small Girl Runs Big Company: Meet the Charmingly Bold Bianca Caampued
Where have the Gawker commenters set up their hatethread for this?
Anyone who’s remained stubbornly single through their 20s (or refuses to marry, or legally can’t) knows the financial woes of helping your friends “build a new life together!”: the numerous pre-parties (and required gifts), followed by the wedding (travel, hotel, clothes, and an even nicer gift). Marriage, in Western culture, operates on the model that a new couple needs “one of everything” in order to make a home, and should keep buying until they get it—and all those fancy cupcakes require lots of cooking gear too.
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What Pinterest Taught Me About Marriage as a Capitalist Prison by Academic Coach Taylor
Slacktory: “This article covers how Pinterest fetishizes owning stuff, and how that relates to the Western institution of marriage, and holy crap, this is a genuinely insightful article that starts with an analysis of dumb ol’ Pinterest. Read it.”
The editor of Academic Coach Taylor is writing cultural analysis for Slacktory!
(Source: slacktory)
Theory: Gawker’s new comment system only exists to help Nick Denton pretend Brian Williams will one day defend his daughter somewhere that Quantcast can see.
Apple, Stop Fucking Up Preview
1. When I close Preview, I want to close all the pictures I had open. I don’t need them next time I open Preview. But now I have to close each one manually like an ape. (Same goes for TextEdit.)
2. Make “Don’t Save” hotkeyable. Don’t open the fucking Finder window every time and autofocus on the file name section, so I can’t just hit “D” like I can in any sane program.
3. Stop fucking autosaving when I close after making destructive edits! You fucked my work! You didn’t save a backup! That is the ONE TIME I need you to ask me before you do something! You had ONE JOB and you fucked it! Fuck you!
4. Update day! Oh fuck you very much — you killed the quality scale for saving JPEGs! Now I can only save massive-ass non-web-ready files! Now I have to boot and run fucking Photoshop — not Pixelmator which for some goddamn reason adopted the rest of your idiotic changes as if I paid them money just to have Preview Deluxe — I have to run this goddamn $670 photo-manipulation powerhouse to turn a fucking PNG into a web-optimized JPEG.
5. And of course booting Photoshop takes like 60 fucking seconds, as does every other action on every other app while it runs, because I haven’t upgraded my Mac because you haven’t updated the iMac in over a year, because you don’t give a shit about anything that sits on a desk because desks aren’t cool, and I’d switch to a PC and get five times the power for the price if you didn’t have your clammy fingers wrapped around the shrunken little nutsack holding my little consumer testes — my phone and my music library, though fuck knows why I haven’t gone to Android and Spotify — you company made of cocks.
UPDATE: 6. AND STOP CRASHING EVERY TIME YOU BOOT, PREVIEW, OR I’LL FUCK A NEW HOLE INTO YOUR ACTIVITY MONITOR ENTRY.
This Vimeo video got covered by the depressingly famous Ray William Johnson clip show. Result: YouTube-quality comments in Vimeo. It’s like some jackass tagged the walls of the Taj Mahal.
The Archer Alignment Chart | Slacktory
I made up the axes because everyone on this show is chaotic neutral.
#YOLO
(via pitchfork.)
YOLO is, of course, short for “You Only Lynch Orientals.”
(Source: roxysdrinkingproblem)
S7en: Brad Pitt is a swedish detective.
Full Meta Jacket: A film about a film about a film about a jacket.
Water or Elephants?: A story of love, loss, and a heartbreaking choice.
Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dad: The exact same movie as Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Reddit Thread: Pick a Movie Title, Remove a Letter, Describe the Movie
Slacktory: “There are dozens of these, and they’re all worth reading. Toward the end there’s this weird trend to invent movies about Denzel Washington climbing trees. No, really.”
(via slacktory)
The right’s frame of marriage as being “one man, one woman” is an implicit reminder that they insist gay marriage will lead to six dudes marrying four goats or whatever. It, too, is a smart frame — and a deeply ironic one for Mr. Romney to call on.
— PBump
OH, I’M SORRY, LARRY. I THOUGHT THE POINT OF GETTING A HOTEL WITH DELICIOUS BREAKFAST SERVICE, SOME HOT TUBS AND A NICE LITTLE POOL WAS TO USE THOSE AMENITIES TO INCREASE OUR ENJOYMENT SINCE THEY’RE INCLUDED IN THE RENTAL PRICE. FUN DOESN’T COST EXTRA. I DIDN’T REALIZE CHECKING YOUR EMAIL 200 TIMES WAS YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD VACATION OR I’D HAVE JUST BOOKED US A TABLE AT THE COFFEESHOP BY OUR HOUSE.
I’M SERIOUS. STOP TEXTING AND FROLIC WITH ME BEFORE I STRANGLE YOU.
Deer are only having fun to get their money’s worth.
