If all white men were like the ones on stage in SC GOP debates lastnight, you wouldn't speak to one white man in the USA!
— Andre Leon Talley (@OfficialALT) January 17, 2012
You know things are weird when André Leon Talley sounds like Bobby Seale. Anyway, I hope he doesn't tell Anna Wintour about this, she might visibly frown.
Whether you all were laughing at him or laughing with him, Antoine Dodson made enough money off Internet viral fame to buy his family a house. It's a "new house" too! Not one of those gross old houses.
For those that bought our 2010 Benefit Calendar, a few things! It looks like they're shipping, so, 1) Here is an explanatory one-pager that you can print yourself, in case you're giving these as gifts and you want it explained what the heck is going on here: It is a PDF file. 2) When the money comes through, which should be just after New Year's, we are going to send Zack a nice chunk of change. Yay! Good job! And 3) Now a few words from Zack! (And also a picture of him on a fake fur rug in a Santa hat, in honor of the season.)
Boom: Mixing and matching the Observer's "media power lists" of single people, the Media Power Coupler provides the world with the most idealized couplings imaginable. Refresh it for more joy.
"During his heyday, rapper Cam'ron dressed like the wife of a Russian oligarch. His lyrics were equally flamboyant: he made up cutesy little words ('that rooty, tooty, fruity, louie, what I usually do'-Crunk Muzik) and broke into french when complimenting his fellow crew-members ('Jim Jones c'est c'est bon, Santana magnifique'-I'm Ready). It didn't take long for rumors to abound that Cam'ron and his Diplomats were a gang of homosexuals…. But what could he do? He could hardly issue heterosexual clarifications after every suspicious statement. Or could he? His eureka moment came in a bubble bath. 'No homo!' he cried triumphantly, drowning out (diagetic) orchestral music. It was so short, [...]
Oh, there'll be more on this tomorrow from the straight man, if he doesn't die from excitement and alcohol poisoning tonight, but meanwhile, let us officially give a big HELL YES to the Saints win tonight at the Bowl That Finally Deserves To Be Called Super. It's sure nice to see New Orleans get a little attention after a few years of deadening quiet! (This, by the way, is what it sounds like inside a New Orleans household. Right???) Still, because this is America, tonight everyone's a winner! (Even losers from Indiana.) Everyone's a winner, that is, except anyone who wants to pay for sex in Miami tonight [...]
Free Williamsburg: What do you think of Williamsburg?
Laurie Anderson: I think it's a pretty cool thing. I mean I'm kind of amazed that so many people are doing paintings again. I love it, I just love paintings, but I thought we were going in a whole other realm of doing stuff on the web or whatever, not just sitting around and making paintings, like the 1950s or something. But, there are some good paintings! Every time you say something about New York, and you think you've got it all figured out and you think you understand it, along comes a painter that goes "Hey, check out [...]
Listen up, Koreans: This is what we're really saying around you. Stuff like: Hey gramps? Your skin is sick. Just don't think we're saying you're "ill." Also, this video contains a really magical exegesis of the word "fuck." I would learn English from this man!
In the wake of our re-realization yesterday that the executive class of Apple is an all-male revue, there are (at least) two interesting woman-related discussions going on up in the Internet. One involves manplaining. The other has to do with how men treat women when they write about things. And they are sooo related. Let us begin with Awl pal and comedian Julie Klausner, who is meeting lots of concern from men about how the people in her book will be represented. Um, Julie asks: what about me?
