Who would have thought the star of one of the best out-of-body movies EVAR, Ellen Barkin, would be one of the funniest mofos to ever grace Twitter?
Daily Archives: November 18, 2011
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In the air, on the air, Southwest is everywhere. Six years after their A&E show Airline ended, Southwest Airlines has joined forces with TLC for a new series that will showcase what happens behind the scenes of modern air travel. Take that, Pan Am.
The A&E Series featured gate agents and passengers in Chicago’s Midway International Airport, Baltimore-Washington International (BWI), Houston Hobby and Los Angeles (LAX). Not to miss out on one of the busiest weeks of travel of the year, crews will begin filming at BWI and Denver International Airport this weekend.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt never had this problem. Bradley Cooper needs a hug, guys. Soderbergh gets the short end of the Tatumpole. Sharon Stone signs on for porn, kinda. Peter Dinklage talks fantasies — and for television — time stands still.
This week’s Hollywood dish is up in arms!
Yesterday Achilles and I spent the day following Occupy Wall Street. At the end of the day, we ran into this guy. This is Jeffery Marx from Brooklyn, New York. He was part of the OWS group that had been staying in Zuccotti Park. We caught him in front of the Brooklyn Bridge talking about Mayor Mike Bloomberg and why he is participating in OWS. He is a an articulate guy and says some really smart things, but we actually just like him because after a long day of serious political discussion and conflict with the police, he was funny and snarky. Here are his comments on OWS.
What? Did you think that I was just going to quit on you after a year of these? Never! If anything, I’ve got my work cut out for me after taking a week off to do the anniversary post. Keeping that in mind, we’ll keep the narrative to a minimum this week and get right to it.
Writing a book is probably not something you think about doing 140 characters at a time. But that’s exactly what Dan Sinker did with “The F*cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel.” He might not intended for his parody of Rahm Emanuel’s 5 month long mayoral campaign to become a book, but that’s what happened.
I originally read the @MayorEmanuel twitter feed in real time. It was one of the reasons I finally ended my boycott of twitter. The feed was hilarious then and it translated well as a book. The annotations in the book provided additional background of the characters featured in the twitter feed – both fictional and non fictional. Most tweets on their own are comedic gold, but read again in book form you can see the whole story come together. Continue reading
I recently was asked by my friend to pick up the mantle of the Super Squats column here at Crasstalk and I humbly accepted, of course. Why else would I be writing this? So anyway, I’ve been a self-proclaimed “gym rat” for many years now and with that has come a lot of knowledge about what challenges people face when they’re trying to lose some weight or get back to the gym or just improve their life. Continue reading
I’m flying Southwest, and I hope I get a singing flight attendant. Continue reading