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liezlwashere:

Largo | The Paul F. Tompkins Show | 08.20.11

I was there! Second row, dead center!

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piratekitten:

I need to know.

I don’t remember the last time I laughed out loud, alone, while reading Tumblr before this post. Fucking hysterical. 

buzzfeed:

[20 Words & Phrases That Need To Die]

I was bummed “Nuff said” wasn’t on there. I haaaaaate that phrase. Only written though. Hearing it doesn’t bother me as much. 

akamoeberg:

At 1:13 AM on July 25th, Twitter user and opera aficionado @dario_moreno asked fellow Twitter user and international superstar @AlecBaldwin to name his favorite opera.

Two minutes later, Baldwin replied “MB”, and, in the process, set off a furious two day long “What’s your favorite…” tweet session with curious fans.

Because I am a dope, I went through Baldwin’s feed with a fine tooth internet comb and listed everything I learned below. Feel free to use this information to strike up a conversation with the man if you ever run into him.

ALEC BALDWIN’S FAVORITE…

Aimee Mann song: Wise Up

Al Pacino film: Panic in Needle Park

Alfred Hitchcock film: Strangers on a Train

Audrey Hepburn film: Wait Until Dark

Bar in New York: Hurley’s (now closed)

Barbra Striesand film: The Mirror Has Two Faces; Prince of Tides; Funny Girl

Beard: Santa Claus; Scott Chaskey

Billy Joel song: Summer, Highland Falls

Boxer: Muhammad Ali; Roberto Duran; Teofilo Stevenson

Burt Reynolds film: Sharky’s Machine

Cantinflas film: Around the World in 80 Days

Cary Grant film: Notorious

City in Maine: Portland

City in Vermont: Middlebury

Clark Gable film: The Misfits

Clint Eastwood film: The Outlaw Josey Wales

Cohn Brothers film: Miller’s Crossing; Barton Fink

Comedy: The Fortune Cookie

Daniel-Day Lewis film: Last of the Mohicans

Denzel Washington film: Malcolm X

Drug: Turkish Taffy

Dustin Hoffman film: Midnight Cowboy

Favorite Cigar: Upmann Churchill

Film title sequence: To Kill a Mockingbird

French word: L’esprit

French-Canadian: Guy LaFleur

Gene Hackman film: Unforgiven; The French Connection; The Royal Tenenbaums

Humphrey Bogart film: Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Jack Nicholson film: Ironweed

James Bond film: Thunderball (for the Tom Jones theme song)

James Dean film: East of Eden

Jimmy Stewart film: Anatomy of a Murder

John Cassavetes film: Husbands

John Wayne film: Red River

Johnny Depp film: Sweeney Todd

Kate Winslet film: “All of them.”

Leonardo Dicaprio film: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Line from Miami Blues: “Everything’s turning all orange and silver….”

Male co-star: Robert Osbourne

Marlon Brando film: Waterfront

Martin Scorcese film: The Age of Innocence

Member of Wu Tang Clan: Ghostface Killa, Old Dirty Bastard

Meryl Streep film: Out of Africa

Michael Caine film: Hannah and her Sisters

Michael Douglas film: The Game

Movie villain: Jack Palance in “Shane”

Music: “Whatever the New York Philharmonic is playing.”

Mustache: Boris Badenov style

On-screen kiss with a co-star: Susanna Thompson

On-set momento: photo from Miami Blues

Opera: Madama Butterfly

Paul Newman film: The Verdict

Pizza in New York: Brothers, Fresh Meadows, Queens

Place in London: Sautter’s Tobacconist, Mayfair

Place to smoke a cigar: Mount Street Garden

Professional Wrestler: Nacho Libre

Reality Show: Hoarders

Republican: Abraham Lincoln; Teddy Roosevelt

Restaurant, London: La Port Des Indes

Restaurant, Long Island - Nick and Toni’s; American Hotel; Sen; Robert’s in Watermill; the Palm; Citta Nuova

Robert Altman film: Short Cuts

Robert Deniro film: Awakenings

Robert Redford film: Three Days of the Condor

Sarah Silverman body part: parietal cortex

Science Fiction film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Sexual Position: “The Hallway”

Sissy Spacek film: Affliction; The River; Coal Miner’s Daughter

Stanley Kubrick film: Paths of Glory; Barry Lyndon

Star Trek film: The Wrath of Khan

Star Wars film: The Empire Strikes Back

Steve McQueen film: Papillion

Steven Spielberg film: Munich

Television show: 60 Minutes

Thing about Canada: Canadians; skiing

Thing about Syracuse: Wegman’s

Tom Hanks film: Cast Away

Vacation: Figure Eight Island, Wilmington, NC

William Holden film: Stalag 17

walpaper:

ohnoitsthecops:

washingtonpoststyle:

Here’s a way to peacefully combat seat-recliners on airplanes.

Print. Copy. Keep a couple in your carry-on, just in case.

Via Gene Weingarten

My aunt used to work for the FAA. One of the many times we’ve flown to Florida, she told the gentleman in front of her that he was required to return his seat to the upright position during takeoff. She explained to him that if there was difficulty with us getting in the air, she didn’t want to get injured on his reclined seat. I thought I couldn’t have been more mortified but 30 minutes later she loudly discussed joining the solo mile high club.

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Or everyone could recline. Man, what the hell is the matter with this world?

Here’s two options:

Everyone could be ultra uncomfortable with their seat up OR everyone could be a bit less uncomfortable with their seats reclined

And this publicity whore chooses to sit straight up for 3 fucking hours?

What’s a good way to peacefully combat idiots?

Everyone, just lean back and relax.

I’m with Brandon. What a load of shit. There are a lot of things to bitch about on planes. Someone reclining in the seat in front of you is not one of them. First off, it’s not unpleasant. It might be for the half second you didn’t see it coming down—it startles you, that’s about it. After that, you adapt to the 1/4 inch of space that’s been compromised and move on. 

The reclining seat has been an accepted part of air travel for as long as I can remember. This is not an adjustment made by airlines in new planes to squeeze a few extra bucks out of us. Why are people bitching about it now? If you cannot acclimate to the loss of personal space (or to the crying babies, or to the line for the bathroom, or to the slow pace of the drink cart, or to the overweight person next to you) either put up the money to fly first class or drive instead.  Because I am going to stay in my reclined seat for the rest of the flight no matter how cute and civil you think your little card is.

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sanslegumes:

Fuck you, Zune. I know what I’m doing tonight!

I was going to say why the hell didn’t you just borrow mine, but then it hit me—I don’t want to loan it out and you really should own it. Well done. 

sanslegumes:

smokeandacoke:

Paris renders the NY/LA rivalry moot. Fact.

People always think I’m whistling Dixie when I say PARIS IS THE GREATEST CITY IN THE FUCKING WORLD.

Maybe there’s a reference here I don’t understand—and I certainly can’t argue the point being made because my experience with Paris is limited to that time Clark made Rusty wear the beret—but surely there is another picture of Paris you took that could better represent its awesomeness. Even the one you posted right before this would have done the trick. If the street wasn’t so long I’d swear you were fooling all of us and just kickin’ it at The Americana or something.