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urlesque: mykicks: notveryraven: zwaa:wiredtaste:@kimervin  Maybe that’s why Kanye West is following Justin Bieber because Kanye is Justin’s DAD. my god. Kanye’s first time begat Justin Bieber… Last week, Urlesque writer Emmy Blotnick mocked up a parody of Justin Bieber and Kanye West’s Twitter conversation. Then someone put it on Tumblr, where it got like 6000 notes. Because people thought it was real. When I saw that no one realized this came from Urlesque, I yelled a dirty word and hit a table. – Nick Douglas, Senior Editor

urlesque:

mykicks:

notveryraven:

zwaa:wiredtaste:@kimervin

 Maybe that’s why Kanye West is following Justin Bieber because Kanye is Justin’s DAD.

my god. Kanye’s first time begat Justin Bieber…

Last week, Urlesque writer Emmy Blotnick mocked up a parody of Justin Bieber and Kanye West’s Twitter conversation.

Then someone put it on Tumblr, where it got like 6000 notes. Because people thought it was real.

When I saw that no one realized this came from Urlesque, I yelled a dirty word and hit a table.

– Nick Douglas, Senior Editor

“My dad said he would give me a million dollars if I walked across America. Somewhere in Louisiana I remembered my father didn’t have a million dollars. I became very sad. I almost gave up on the trip, but a man in a pickup stopped and said, “I will give you a million dollars if you let me be your father.” I thought of this man in the pickup hugging me and kissing my forehead. I got scared. I started walking again. The pickup left. I began to cry. I continued walking. I did not stop. I forgave my father for not being a millionaire.”
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Mark Baumer Walks Across USA, Blogs it, Gives Urlesque Epic Interview

I’m just amazed at what this guy told our writer Cole Stryker. He’s like Jack Kerouac plus Tao Lin minus the pukey taste you just got in your mouth.

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topherchris: In honor of Mixcloud’s Celebration of Curation, I made a mixtape on behalf of Tumblr. This playlist is a collection of songs in digital format that you may enjoy. I hope you do. Please enjoy! Halfway through this afternoon jam, I remembered how much I like crossfade.

topherchris:

In honor of Mixcloud’s Celebration of Curation, I made a mixtape on behalf of Tumblr. This playlist is a collection of songs in digital format that you may enjoy. I hope you do.

Please enjoy!

Halfway through this afternoon jam, I remembered how much I like crossfade.

Need publicity? My roommate Stryker is interviewing creative people for a popular blog.

stryker:

Are you, or do you know anyone who is doing interesting things in art or music? I am working on a project for a huge brand and they are looking for young (20s) up-and-coming artists/musicians/filmmakers/photographers/designers/etc.

I have already interviewed a few people from Tumblr and would love to do more. Send me info at stryker.tumblr.com/ask.

UPDATE: This is not a job interview, it’s press. If you are interested, please email me with a short blurb about yourself and what you’re up to, along with a link to your personal site (examples of your work) and your age.

And by golly, an email address, please.

soupsoup: azspot:Rob Rogers Awwww snap

soupsoup:

azspot:Rob Rogers

Awwww snap

“According to a recent poll, one in five Americans believes Barack Obama is a Muslim, even though he isn’t. A quarter of those who believe he’s a Muslim also claimed he talks about his faith too much. Americans aren’t dumb. Clearly these particular Americans have either gone insane or been seriously misled. Where are they getting their information? Sixty per cent said they learned it from the media. Which means it’s time for the media to give up.”
– Charlie Brooker
“Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is “two minutes’ walk and round a corner” from something else isn’t actually “in” the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes’ walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen’s pillow.”
– Charlie Brooker on the “Ground Zero Mosque”
“As I recall, it took me about seven weeks to brainstorm and figure out what the rules were and what I wanted the main characters to be in the story and the flow of the story and how I wanted it all to come out and after I’d figured that out, then I just sat down and wrote it and that took me about three or four days.”
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Danny Rubin on writing Groundhog Day

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Major props to the writer who squeezed this short story into the Onion format.

“Ryan Murphy’s first film, Running with Scissors… Somehow I quite liked it despite some weird faults (also it had a terrible epilogue and was a little too “quirkily” shot), and even though I’m “against” the book.”
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Choire Sicha

I’ll bite, why were you “against” the book? I liked it.

 
“People just aren’t that empathetic or thoughtful or intentional.”
– Choire Sicha on what makes (most) fiction different from real life. Is the main attraction of The Office, the mockumentary, or maybe just of the modern sitcom, the revelation of this dirty secret of fiction? Is that why the genre is starting to feel stale, because it’s no longer bold to say “hey, these characters, even the heroes, will be as petty as actual people”?
stryker: My friend’s dog has a cool attitude.

stryker:

My friend’s dog has a cool attitude.