The 20s: Archive

“Prom,” … has two obstacles to overcome: It’s marketed not only toward women, but also teens, so adult women are less likely to see it. And who else won’t be at “Prom”? Adult men. But you’ll see women at “Fast Five” and probably many who don’t want to be there.” —

That’s the Washington Post Express’ Kristen Page-Kirby summing up this weekend’s battle of the sexes, movie-style. She notes interesting theories on why couples end up seeing action films over rom-coms. But let’s not over-think this. The chick flick “Prom” doesn’t stand a chance against “Fast Five.” Why? Because this guy, this guy, and this guy look AUH-mazing without shirts on. Plus, cars will blow up in “Fast Five.” Really, it’s that simple.

- CT

[Washington Post Express]

(via the20washington)

Apr 29, 20111 note

#Cheryl Thompson #film #women #men

A guy in Iowa consumed only beer and water for 46 days of Lent , and he says doing it brought him closer to God. J. Wilson, a home-brewer and Christian, kept a keg of beer at work and one at home and sipped on cups throughout the day. He says he felt tipsy maybe three times over the course of his fast. This beer-only diet was done by Bavarian Monks hundreds of years ago, but seems more of a challenge in a modern, non-cloistered world. Wilson managed to finish, though, and lost 25 pounds during the diet (which he might have gained right back after his first food post-Lent—a bacon smoothie.) While drinking beer to gain spirituality might sound odd—or a big fat lie from somebody who likes beer too much—Wilson said he learned self-control, willpower, and what he truly needs to survive.

-KH

[CNN, @AlexMLeo, the20newyork]

Apr 29, 201111 notes

#Katie Honan #beer #Iowa #alcohol

“Everybody’s network is getting hammered all the time.” —That’s a quote from Jerry Dixon, an internet security expert, in this troubling Reuters article that says major corporations have their data hacked on a regular basis and usually fail to tell their customers about it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go change my Tumblr password to something a little more complex than BREAD.

-DM

[Anthony De Rosa]

Apr 29, 20111 note

#drew magary #scary

If eHarmony and Match.com keep giving you the same losers every week, you might try looking into HowAboutWe, which matches people up solely on what they’re interested in doing right this instant. And given that 90% of any marriage consists of figuring out what to have for dinner, it strikes me as a winning mate-finding strategy.

[the20newyork, Jen Doll]

Apr 29, 20116 notes

#drew magary #romance

Breaking News: ESPN Reacts Toward Criticism Exactly Like You’d Expect ESPN To React Toward Criticism. My colleague at Deadspin, Tommy Craggs, was reportedly on the verge of joining ESPN writer Bill Simmons’ fancy new website, Grantland (awful name), when the offer was rescinded because Craggs wrote a Deadspin post making fun of ESPN, something Craggs and Deadspin have done every week from pretty much the beginning of time. And the whole awkward story just goes to prove that even when ESPN tries to do something new and exciting, it’ll always be ruined in the most ESPN-like way possible.

-DM

[Deadspin]

Apr 29, 20119 notes

#drew magary #espn #bill simmons #dumb #bureaucracy #office politics

Apr 29, 20118 notes

#drew magary #pepsi #but can it find me a girlfriend?

Apr 29, 20115 notes

#Lauren Bertolini #royal wedding

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Apr 28, 20111 note

#Drew Magary

“We have one book, but we’re not Scientologists.” —That’s the sign outside of Ed’s Martian Book, a West Village bookstore that sells only one book, written by the shop’s proprietor, Andrew Kessler. And while it’s kind of a cute gimmick, it’s a bit sad to realize that bookstores now exist as a temporary form of guerilla advertising, and not as a functioning business.

-DM

[Urban Bohemian]

Apr 28, 20111 note

#drew magary #fine literature

Just Don’t Post Everything: As Facebook user Beckha Alderman Drake writes, “I think this is a great idea. However - those of you who are posting personal checks written by someone else, or any personal documentation that has names, phone numbers, addresses listed - it would possibly be easy to locate those people (in the next few weeks), but I would be worried that you would be opening them up to identity theft by posting their checks (with banking account info) on fb.”

(Emphasis mine.)

-JN

[abcnews]

Apr 28, 201113 notes

#John Ness #News #Facebook #weather #tornado

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Apr 28, 20111 note

#drew magary #smoking #public health

Apr 28, 201164 notes

#Katie Honan #Brooklyn #Williamsburg #Hipsters

You Are Now Free To Move About The Practice Field. Our boy Mike Florio is reporting that NFL teams will let players start working out at team facilities tomorrow, provided the owners don’t get a favorable court ruling sometime this afternoon. And you can see why owners are being so hesitant in letting players get back to work, because once they start practicing again, there’s going to be an awful lot of pressure to let them keep doing so.

-DM

[PFT]

Apr 28, 2011

#drew magary #nfl labor crisis 2011

The folks at futurejournalismproject point us to The Daily Beast’s list of the twenty most useless degrees, which leads with “Journalism.” I get it, I get it — no one can find a job, and those of us who do are still broke. THAT BEING SAID, that’s what I signed up for. I didn’t work 40 hours a week at my college paper because I thought it’d set me up for a six figure salary — I did it because I believe in the value of news and the amount of practice it takes to do it right.

I second saduros in asking The Daily Beast to define this “useless” term they speak of.

-LB

[The Daily Beast, futurejournalismproject]

Apr 28, 201116 notes

#Journalism #Lauren Bertolini

“We don’t kiss in public no more.” —

That’s Giussepe “Joey” Gambina at the trial of Vincent Basciano—better known as Vinny Gorgeous. Vinny put the no-made-men-kissing-made-men rule in place after he became paranoid about the FBI “taking pictures.” There is nothing more gangster than the double-cheek peck.

-KH

[NYP, @ThisIsJenDoll, the20newyork]

Apr 28, 20112 notes

#Katie Honan #New York Post #mobsters #news #crime

Apr 28, 20113 notes

#Cheryl Thompson #Royal Wedding

“We’ve all seen advocates who have a lot to say, but when I really drill down with them, I don’t have any kind of clear sense of where their opinions are coming from.” —

Ben Affleck, explaining how his celebrity advocacy is maybe a little bit different from others’. As Laura E. Seay writes, “Glad to see that Affleck is trying to learn directly from the Congolese.”

-JN

[The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Texas In Africa]

Apr 27, 20113 notes

#John Ness #africa #celebrities #news #philanthropy

Apr 27, 2011201 notes

#drew magary #twitter #shouldn't they have more levels or whatever those are?

“And it’s worth dwelling on that $165 price tag for a minute, too. Sifton, who expensed his meals, is unfazed, saying blithely that the price “is either expensive or not, depending on your bank balance, but it is worth the money whatever your answer”. I think he’s wrong about this: if you’re spending north of $200 per person on dinner before having a drop to drink, that’s objectively expensive.” —That’s Felix Salmon of Reuters, weighing in on a nascent foodie feud between Sam Sifton of the New York Times and Joshua David Stein of the NY Press (who was yelled at by the head chef of Chef’s Table in Brooklyn for writing notes in a “small black Moleskine notebook”). And what’s always fun about food critic battles such as this one is that EVERYONE manages to come off like a privileged snob. Meanwhile, I’m eating a hot dog bun for lunch for the third day in a row, so I’m not inclined to support EITHER of you.

-DM

[Felix Salmon]

Apr 27, 20111 note

#drew magary #foodies!

“Instead of [the restaurant owner] getting killed, he’d have to pay a tax. It was basically a penalty.” —

That’s alleged mobster Salvator Volpe, describing the tax one unidentified Staten Island restaurant owner paid the Bonanno crime family in lieu of getting killed. And what did this guy do to deserve this no-death penalty? He impregnated the wife of Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who was then nearly tricked into thinking the baby was his own. Not that Vinny Gorgeous is a real class act—transcripts of his tapped conversations with another mob guy in jail were released last week, and VG was talking about his mistress (and the baby he had with that mistress) like it wasn’t even a thing. But that’s love for you. Nobody gets out alive unless they pay.

-KH

[DN, Village Voice, the20newyork]

Apr 27, 20111 note

#Katie Honan #Jen Doll #crime #news

The 20s

April 2011

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