March 2009
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Your Generation of Hypocrisy begat My Apathetic...
My generation (sometimes “Y”, sometimes “Millennial”) has been getting a bad rap. Just look at the Adbusters article that has 4039 comments (adbusters) and declares the hipster movement the “end of Western civilization,” or the Thomas Friedman article in the New York times that dubs us “Generation Q,” for quiet (nytimes). These articles (15 thousand Google hits on...
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Thanks Omair!
One of Funny and Interesting’s readers, Omair, sent me this link to GapMinder . I’ve used the site for a couple of my blog posts but I forgot to share it. So go forth and find out who has the most oil, the best teeth, the fewest children, and the most money! He also directed me to the TED talk given by Hans Rosling. And no matter what you’re interested in there’s a TED...
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Interview New York
I haven’t been posting as often as usual because I’ve been busy starting up an interactive web art project. We won’t be launching until this summer but you can follow our progress here: http://interviewnewyork.blogspot.com/ Type rest of the post here RSS feed
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Observation: Pandas
Do you ever notice that Pandas look like men in Panda suits? RSS feed
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MOVIE TAGLINES
Last night I saw two previews on TV. One for Watchman, “They watch over us…but who watches them?” and one for TWILIGHT, “When you can live forever what do you live for?” These inspiring taglines led me to write a prediction list of upcoming films. Feel free to add more predictions in the comments. “Movies were his inspiration. Women were his passion. ...
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RIP John Updike
For some reason Updike gets a bad rap. My feminist English professor lumps him in with Philip Roth (what?!) and then dismisses his work as “male perspective,” and my peers refuse to read the Rabbit novels thinking that they’re about middle-aged sex. But for me Updike’s talent and value often lies less in his plots and themes and more in the individual sentences, words, and...
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Andrew Elliott Part 2
The man who brought you Index of the Ordinary (http://indexoftheordinary.com/) launches another website with an extensive portfolio of his work (http://www.andrew-elliott.com/). See more polished funny and interesting images like these: RSS feed