Miley Cyrus Hosted SNL
She’s game to make fun of herself.
- But not that much.
- She’s not that great an actress, but — but! — she can kinda sorta sing, so she did that.
- The Strokes.
Bridle argues that in a world in which we’ll no longer own books as discrete physical objects, the only really meaningful thing we’ll own will be the reading experience itself.
With Libya in the news, there’s been much discussion about the Qaddafi family, which is large and dysfunctional. This got us thinking about our favorite dysfunctional family of all time: the Bluths of “Arrested Development.” Turns out, there are some striking similarities between members of both clans. So which Qaddafi is which Bluth? For starters, ruthless, eccentric, and unkind describe George Bluth Senior and Muammar Qaddafi, the fathers of both families. The pair also have links to dangerous figures—Bluth to Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi to too many people to name. Take a look at this slideshow for the rest of our matches.
In the upstairs computer room of her house in Riverdale, Traci Ison ponders the metaphorical question that freaky teens and worried parents have been asking for two years, but this time in a very literal way. How do you interpret Lady Gaga?
A preteen reviews Yankee Candles. Pineapple cilantro, vanilla lime. If anyone bullies this kid, we will find the perp & beat him up. This is a valuable service. Yankees are freaking expensive. Someone has to tell us if the Pink Lady Slipper scent is worth it.
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2011: Things In Culture I’m Excited For
The cultural items I’m looking forward to in 2011:
- Blue Valentine. Derek Cianfrance’s moody dissolving romance film starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams has garnered all the right critical accolades, Harvey Weinstein outcry, Grizzly Bear soundtrack, and scandalous initial NC-17 rating to put this atop my Oscar checklist.
- The new Strokes album. After seeing them this year at Austin City Limits (where lead singer Julian Casablancas stumbled out late and drunk), I’ve been spinning their first three albums regularly, and I’m ready for another round of scuzzy guitars and melodic malaise.
- The Killing. AMC has officially made itself a threat with its hit zombie drama The Walking Dead (a show I like fine, but whose dialogue is worse than being consumed by one of its undead), leading way to its first crime drama, adapted from Danish series Forbrydelsen.
- The Daily. Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper venture has media types watching very closely to see if a possible solution to their struggling infrastructure could be in this News Corp.-Apple lovechild. I’m mostly interested in the top-notch staff it’s round up: New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones as culture editor and Salon’s TV critic Heather Havrilesky, as staff critic.
- Slate’s Movie and Music Clubs. If you haven’t read Slate’s annual round-ups of the year in music and film, headed by their respective critics Jody Rosen and Dana Stevens, then check out the archives for some graduate-level discourse between minds far brighter than my own. Their 2010 editions kick-off this week.
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