November 2010
100 posts
“The Kardashians have quit backing a debit card targeted at teens and blasted by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who warned over its “outrageous” fees. Blumenthal complained to University National Bank, which issues the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, and said he’s launching an investigation into the card, which features an image of Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and costs $99.95 for 12 months plus $7.95 a month thereafter. “I am deeply disturbed by this card’s high fees combined with its appeal to financially unsophisticated young adults,” Blumenthal wrote. “In reality, no family can ‘keep up with the Kardashians’ using this card.” Last night the Kardashians issued a termination notice returning their fee and demanding their names and images no longer be used to market the card.”
—did anyone really ever think that a Kardashian credit card was a good thing? come on. (via meredithbklyn)
“I got an e-mail outlining the project. The first thing I read was ‘AMC.’ I went, ‘Great! I’ve been waiting for an AMC opportunity!’ Then it said ‘The Walking Dead.’ Terrific title. Then the names. ‘Frank Darabont.’ ‘Gale Anne Hurd.’ Great. And then it said ‘Zombie survival horror.’ I think I actually did a literal double take. I was like, ‘Really?!’”
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Andrew Lincoln re: ‘The Walking Dead’: to EW in this week’s cover story. (via popculturebrain)
Honestly, we don’t think we’d need to read beyond ‘AMC.’
“Kinect … automatically identifies who you are and pauses when you leave its vicinity, so it isn’t hard to imagine this ingenuity controlling all kinds of devices, like a PC, smartphone or tablet.”
—Mossberg on Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect. Don’t know why he’s so impressed; Orwell thought this up in the 1940’s.
“I’d say that Carolina is the worst team in football, but they’re hardly an NFL team anymore.”
—Drew Magary’s Top and Bottom of the NFL: Week 11
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It’s the finale tonight, and your three finalists vying for the elite title of Dancingest Star are Jennifer Grey, Kyle Massey (who?), and the immortal Bristol Palin, who has proven that teen motherhood should never be a roadblock to winning a reality show while your mom uses a very small portion of her massive book earnings to spring for daycare.
Who will take it? Who will win America’s heart? I think it’s obvious, don’t you? After all, the general public is voting for this thing. “700 Club” viewers will be jamming up the lines, stumbling over their walkers to vote for young Palin. It’s in the bag, people. Bet everything you have, even your political credibility. Oh, and Christina Aguilera pops up to sing a song. Because she has a movie to bother you with. ANTICIPATION: PALINMANIA!
” —Drew Magary cannot contain his excitement for tonight’s DWTS.
“I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.”
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Sarah Palin on journalism, why she won’t ‘waste time’ on ‘biased’ Couric (via today)
Proof: This embedded video of Palin as newscaster in which she talks about Alaskan Iditarod-type races. Actual title of the segment (at the 14-second mark): “LOTS OF DOGS.”
The 100-Deliveryperson Poll →
nymag.com
NYC deliverymen are mostly Mexican, in their 20s, and see a lot of naked people during their shifts.
I can’t stop giggling at this:
Strangest thing you’ve seen on a delivery?
“Stoned guy knocking on his own door and asking me to let him in.”
Something to add to our winter to-do list: “I delivered in a snowstorm and the people let me warm up inside and then tipped extra. Made me believe in the human spirit.”
“We should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17… The marriage age for boys has reached 26 and for girls to 24, and there is no reason for this.”
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to reports by the state-owned Jam-e Jam daily.
To review: Iran has a state-owned Jammy Jam.
“That’s the characteristic anecdote of “Decision Points”: the President always gets the last, serenely self-assured word, leaving others quietly impressed or looking like fools. Scenes end with him saying, “Get to work,” “Let’s go,” or “We’re going to stay confident and patient, cool and steady.”
—The Presidential memoirs of George W. Bush, review : The New Yorker
“Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the U.S. Embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was “crazy bad.”
—Associated Press (Via CoolerThanThat)
“The promo’s shard of truth is that “The World According to Soros” was indeed published in The New Yorker. Its author was Connie Bruck. (“Bruc” is a Fox flub, not a Fox fib.) The quotes from it, though accurately transcribed, are made to function as lies by being placed in an utterly mendacious context. Bruck’s article is the “source” of these smears only in the sense that the brooks of the Catskills are the “source” of New York City’s sewage.”
—The New Yorker, which is not thrilled to be cited by Glenn Beck in his series of attacks against George Soros.
