As destiny would have it, Ian received a call from a gentleman inviting him to the 20th anniversary of “A Christmas Story”. Rekindling with cast member and friends from his past, prompted Ian to give Hollywood another shot. With a new spark of inspiration to get his name back in the spot light, Ian could once again re-light a fire that he thought died out a long time ago.

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New Year’s Resolution: Wear this forever

New Year’s Resolution: Wear this forever

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The grown “Randy” gives tours of the house from A Christmas Story.

Acting wasn’t enough for Ian’s creative juices; he wanted to explore more avenues of the entertainment business. He got a small gig as a P.A. on a new puppet show. Ian discovered that he was pretty good with puppets and that begin his career as a puppeteer. This landed him a few gigs on Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and a great opportunity to work on a Jim Henson project.

Today I learned that the kid who played Randy in A Christmas Story has the saddest IMDb biography of all.

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McMullen seemed unfazed, choosing instead to speak as the pickle itself.

— Whitney Phillips, “LOLing at Tragedy”

Steamboat travel becomes part of the mythos from this point.

So many treasures in the Wikipedia entry for Zwarte Piet (“Black Pete”), Santa’s black friend in the Netherlands.

Cole also found: “a child who has been only slightly naughty will not get a present, but a ‘roe’, which is a bundle of birch twigs.”

He says, ”You are now reading this in Dwight Schrute’s voice.”

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rickwebb:

As a major donor to Obama’s last campaign, I get my regularly-scheduled call of them trying to get me to be a bundler. For the last couple months, whenever they call, I tell them that SOPA is a very big deal to me, and I will not donate until he takes a position against it, as written now.

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Cheezburger’s Ben Huh: If GoDaddy Supports SOPA, We’re Taking Our 1000+ Domains Elsewhere | TechCrunch

Just minutes after Ycombinator’s Paul Graham disclosed that SOPA-friendly companies would be blacklisted from the YC Demo Day, Cheezburger (as in I Can Has Cheeseburger, FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, etc.) CEO Ben Huh has announced that they will be moving their array of over 1,000 domains away from GoDaddy unless the registrar recants their support of the act.

And domains are 95% of the Cheezburger budget!

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cameronr:

“I am day drunk get ready to see my dick”

Rafi (played by Jason Mantzoukas) from the League is one of the best characters currently on television.

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Free Christmas tree near Union Square/EV, NYC

We’re going on vacation and we have to ditch our Christmas tree! Who wants a still-good tree?

rachelfershleiser:

It’s possible I have a tights problem.

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rachelfershleiser:

It’s possible I have a tights problem.

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You think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks and you think you love Shrek but really you just love that montage near the end after Shrek and Fiona have their falling out when he’s sitting in his swamp all alone and she’s getting ready for her wedding and Rufus Wainwright’s cover of “Hallelujah” is playing in the background, and you think you’re in love with him but really you’re just in love with the smile that pops onto his face when he spots you in the Think Coffee near Washington Square Park…

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