Jim Reedy

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  1:45 am  |   May 1 2012   |  39,388 notes  

Family Business: Great Job, Whites

fambusiness:

This post is not about Grantland, in particular. No shots. Rather, this is about what Grantland represents. More specifically, what its Wire character bracket and YouTube Hall of Fame post represent together.

They represent the never-ending desecration of The Wire.

When The Wire debuted…

Every day brings a new reason to hate Bill Simmons. And a new reason to take pride in eventually realizing what a shallow, myopic, sexist dweeb he is.

  1:34 am  |   March 8 2012   |  9 notes  

Chris Brown is Unacceptable

You know Chris Brown beat the crap out of Rihanna and you probably saw the pictures of what he did to her face.

But let’s all be clear about the extent of the lengthy beating:

Brown took his right hand and shoved Rihanna’s head against the passenger window of the vehicle, causing a one-inch raised circular contusion. She turned to face him and he punched her in the left eye, and continued punching her while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The pummeling caused Rihanna’s mouth to fill with blood, and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the vehicle. Brown then looked Rihanna square in the eye and reportedly said, “I’m going to beat the shit out of you when we get home! You wait and see!”

Rihanna attempted to call her assistant, who did not answer, according to the report. She then pretended to talk to her and told her to have the police ready when she got home. Upon hearing this, Brown looked at her and reportedly screamed, “You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I’m really going to kill you!” He continued striking her on her left arm and hand, causing a contusion to her left triceps two inches in diameter as well as numerous contusions on her left hand. Rihanna went to text her other assistant and Brown snatched her cellphone away and threw it out of the car. She then went for his cellphone and he put her in a headlock while steering the vehicle with his left hand. He bit her left ear and continued to rain punches down on her face and arms. When he began choking her, she started to lose consciousness. With her left hand, she gouged at his eyes in an attempt to free herself. He bit her fingers and continued punching her, all while Rihanna desperately screamed for help.

All of a sudden he stopped, exited the vehicle, and walked away.

So … people make mistakes, right?

Well, I’m not sure this extended, vicious beating can be considered a “mistake,” but even granting that premise, people also usually have to pay the price for their mistakes. Performing *twice* at the Grammys and winning Best R&B Album does not constitute paying the price for beating a vulnerable person until she is bloody and bruised and broken.

Everyone should read Sasha Pasulka, who explains better than me.

  3:19 pm  |   February 15 2012   |  4 notes  

Planet Money: How Money Got Weird

In the 1980s, Satyajit Das worked for a finance company that owned a large stake in an airline. But in the long run, Das says on today’s show, this was part of a much larger shift in the global economy — and that shift turned out to be a disaster. Das got the airline to start making speculative bets on the price of oil. That decision was good for the bottom line: One year, the company made more money from trading than it did from selling tickets on its planes.

  4:03 pm  |   October 4 2011  

Wise Words

  12:33 am  |   August 21 2011  

gotemcoach:

Dr. J
@gotem_coach

gotemcoach:

Dr. J

@gotem_coach

  1:22 pm  |   August 19 2011   |  433 notes  

Style is Substance

If you love movies and you don’t know Matt Zoller Seitz and/or the Museum of the Moving Image, you’re doing it wrong.

  1:02 am  |   August 18 2011  

Sway

When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like the lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me

#internalrhymeFTW

  11:40 pm  |   August 17 2011  

Let’s give my wife some credit for the housework she did this weekend.

Let’s give my wife some credit for the housework she did this weekend.

  3:49 pm  |   August 8 2011  

In the early 90’s in Chicago only two things were clear: We wanted to write and perform comedy, and we knew we would look better in our forties than we did in our twenties. (Amy Poehler)

In the early 90’s in Chicago only two things were clear: We wanted to write and perform comedy, and we knew we would look better in our forties than we did in our twenties. (Amy Poehler)

(via conanofallon)

  11:37 pm  |   August 6 2011   |  5,753 notes  

Feeling sort of jealous of this woman

  11:22 pm  |   August 6 2011  

“In my 30s, I found that I was often coming and going at the same time. Nothing was clear, or clean, or linear. My career was moving forward rapidly and vanishing right before my very eyes. Relationships seemed indispensable — and impossible. Love seemed everywhere — and nowhere. Everything was possible, nothing was within reach. Now when I was little, I always imagined that I would be grown up by the time I was 30. Boy, was I wrong.”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

  11:04 pm  |   August 6 2011  

(Source: kellyoxford)

  12:46 am  |   July 19 2011   |  612 notes  

New job: Day 1

And so begins my slow transformation into Dr. Linus.

“All right, I know I sound like a broken record, but how many times do we have to go over this? If you have the last cup of coffee, you remove the filter and throw it away. Fear not! I will make a fresh pot.”

  2:02 pm  |   July 1 2011  

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Top 9 Quotes

A lovely movie, possibly written by Max Fischer.

In chronological order …

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STEVE: “Oseary, this is, uh, probably my son, Ned. We just met.”

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NED: “What happened to Jacqueline?”
STEVE: “She didn’t really love me.”

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STEVE: “Please don’t make fun of me. I just wanted to flirt with you.”

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NED: “Are those hijackers?”
STEVE: “Well, we call them pirates out here, Ned.”

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STEVE: “Don’t point that gun at him. He’s an unpaid intern.”

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STEVE: “What happened to me? Did I lose my talent? Am I ever going to be good again?”

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NED: “I’m gonna fight you, Steve.”

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KLAUS: “I’ve always thought of you two as my dads. Please don’t let anyone make fun of me for saying so.”

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JANE: “In 12 years, he’ll be 11 and a half.”
STEVE: “That was my favorite age.”

  11:24 pm  |   June 26 2011   |  3 notes  

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