January 2011
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Awk-berg and Cairo
So Jesse Eisenberg hosted SNL this week. This clip of Mark Zuckerberg interrupting his monologue is one of the most awkward things I’ve seen in a while.
Then I watched this interview with Jesse “I’ve seen a photo of a keg, it looks interesting” and I think I’m in love. He’s so nervous and dorky it’s amazing. I’m not a fan of ween or musical...
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So I’m currently pulling apart an old Franzen novel for a project I’m working on, and it’s kind of breathtaking how well it’s holding up to the most brutal of analysis. Even when it’s beaten down to verbs, nouns and adjectives it reads like water out of a tap. It is almost enough to make me want to never write again.
But then I read this article in the Paris...
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I want to go to there
And there.
And of course!
And there. (But I think I will be there, only a year and a half to go now…)
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D'em rains are comin' and caring in Australia
As floods start to make their way down south I am captivated by this. Thank you geeks of the abc.
In un-flood related news, Kill Your Darlings have published an article by one of my favourites, Emily Maguire, about aged care. You might recall that I dug her book Your Skirt is Too Short, quite a lot. This article is about gender and the role of the carer in Australian families.
Care, the...
Just in case you haven't seen this already... →
Women x Salad x Laughing.
p.s This still does not make me want to eat salad.
Oh and Men do it too.
Tesla was the Electric Jesus
My greatest discovery of this year so far (excluding my phenomenal niece, born Jan 1, 2011 at 8.05 am) has been Drunk History - admittedly a good three years behind on this one but it is hilarious.
The premise is basically the creators get historians drunk. And then film them talking about an historical event. That is then re-enacted along to the retelling. It’s brilliant.
Drunk History...
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