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19 Oct 2009 20:25

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Culture: All this quote needs is Balloon Boy to cause a world implosion

  • I kind of have a crush on Jon Gosselin. I think he’s hot!
  • Octet Mom Nadya Suleman • Talking about the massive family that replaced her as the tabloid topic du jour this year. She had advice for Kate too, but who cares? We’re just scared of the idea of this woman procreating with that man. Wonder where one buys a house that holds 22 kids. • source
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19 Oct 2009 09:17

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Culture: Kurt Vonnegut’s unpublished short stories see the light of day

  • I was sitting in a bar one night, talking rather loudly about a person I hated — and a man with a beard sat down beside me, and he said amiably, ‘Why don’t you have him killed?’
  • From an excerpt of “Look at the Birdie” • A previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut short story that’s out this week. The excerpt from “Birdie” features the protagonist in the midst of a colorful bar conversation – you know, the kind of colorful bar conversation we’re often involved in. Vonnegut died in 2007, and “Birdie” is his second posthumous work. • source
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19 Oct 2009 09:05

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Culture: Jan Moir and The Daily Mail have a lot of complaints on their hands

  • one controversial article about the death of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately that blamed his homosexuality source
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18 Oct 2009 21:15

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Culture: Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” killed at the box office

  • $32.5 million in “Wild Things” making hearts sing source
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18 Oct 2009 10:09

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Culture: Tracy Morgan: Not much nice to say about former “SNL” castmates

  • None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That b—- can’t even get arrested.
  • Tracy Morgan • Describing how he largely felt misunderstood by his “Saturday Night Live” castmates. Not Tina Fey, though, who he co-stars with on “30 Rock”: “Tina wasn’t scared to come into my world and find the funny up in there. She’s that kind of cool,” he wrote in his upcoming book, “I Am the New Black,” which sounds like the kind of book Tracy Morgan would write. • source
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17 Oct 2009 18:34

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Culture, Tech: Happy birthday, IMDb: You’re almost old enough to drink

  • 19
    years     the amount of time the movie-data-centric site has been online – it predates the Web, even source
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17 Oct 2009 10:30

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Culture: Today’s a good day to tweet about #beatcancer. Here’s a tweet.

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16 Oct 2009 11:22

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Culture: A perfect example of Twitter activism: Jan Moir’s Boyzone article

The Daily Mail columnist claimed that Boyzone’s Stephen Gately, who died of natural causes, didn’t die of natural causes. It caused a major uproar. source
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15 Oct 2009 22:54

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Culture: Balloon Boy: “We did this for the show.” Wait, what?

  • Did this kid just admit on Larry King that the whole incident was a giant publicity stunt to keep this family in the spotlight? Boy, I think he just did. Kids say the darndest things! And Wolf Blitzer is a terrible journalist, because he didn’t immediately follow up on what Falcon said.source
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15 Oct 2009 22:48

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Culture: Has Maurice Sendak been tilling at critical windmills?

  • Instead of warring with Bettelheim — or the bluenoses who have savaged ‘In the Night Kitchen’ — Sendak should curb the grouching and concede that he owes them a minor debt. There is no cheaper way to market your book than to have it banned or pilloried by the right people.
  • Slate Columnist Jack Shafer • Discussing “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak’s propencity to brink up critics who have slighted the book in the past. Specifically, Sendak has an ax to grind with child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, who said this about the book: “What’s wrong with the book is that the author was obviously captivated by an adult psychological understanding of how to deal with destructive fantasies in the child.” Shafer says that while he might have a stronger claim for the often-banned “In the Night Kitchen,” he thinks he needs to get off his high horse. • source
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