Posts tagged as Ha
Moviefone Defends Its Honor
Here is a rather incredible follow-up story, from AOL's Moviefone, about their request of Techcrunch to make a story more friendly. It's bizarre! (The request from Moviefone went like this: "Let me know if you’re able to take another look at it and make any edits.") READ MORE
Lydia Davis on the "Major Translation Sins"
The reviews are beginning to come in for Lydia Davis' new translation of Madame Bovary; meanwhile she writes of her unknown friends and enemies: all the previous translators ("For a while I liked Joan Charles....")
The Way We Quit Internships Now: With a Bang
The following is a real email sent by an intern to the editor-in-chief of a well-known web publication. READ MORE
Old Spice: The Original Consumers Speak
"If they really want to sell any Old Spice now, they're going to have to do ads like that 'Axle' one." READ MORE
Laurie Anderson Frightens Millennial
Local blog youth disturbed by world's most important performance artist on Letterman, gets thoroughly roasted by commenters.
Anna Chapman, The Spy Who Didn't Love Herself Enough To Be Competent
"Why bother calling yourself 'Anna Chapman' if you're going to speak in a thick Russian accent and make Facebook videos describing your venture firm that is looking for risky investments in Russia-and record the video in Russian? 'She came from Russia, with love' reads the [New York Post] lead about the accused Russian spy whose 'cover' probably related more to New Yorkers' suspecting Russian entrepreneurs of being gangsters rather than agents of Moscow Center, and then feeling xenophobic and correcting themselves. I mean this lady may as well have kept a smoked fish in her Gucci handbag wrapped in a front page of Pravda for cheap snacking on the go!" READ MORE
'Toy Story 3' As 'Lost'
"As set up in the first installment of 'Toy Story,' we understand that Woody is a Man of Science while Buzz is a Man of Faith." Ow, my brain, again.
No Fantasy Sports for Old Men
"At 51, I have decided fantasy should be limited to sex, not football." READ MORE
Marina Abramović's Day-Long Doppelganger at MoMA
"I thought time was flying by. Then time stopped. I lost track of everything. No hunger. No itching. No pain. I couldn't feel my hands." (via)
