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On Previously.TV: Firefly Theme Remixes. YACHT ROCK.


Saw Captain America 2 last night!

1. I have to work out TWICE AS HARD NOW.

2. Cobie is perfect.


One Game of Thrones spoiler to discuss: Jaime Lannister’s new, butcher hair. How are we feeling about it? I usually really, really like men to have butch hair, but I’m feeling a sense of loss. I suspect I will ultimately come to prefer it in time?

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Oh. Okay, that’s why finding the plane is so difficult.


Turduckens are for pussies:

His recipe calls for a bustard stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a goose stuffed with a pheasant stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck stuffed with a guinea fowl stuffed with a teal stuffed with a woodcock stuffed with a partridge stuffed with a plover stuffed with a lapwing stuffed with a quail stuffed with a thrush stuffed with a lark stuffed with an ortolan bunting stuffed with a garden warbler stuffed with an olive stuffed with an anchovy stuffed with a single caper, with layers of Lucca chestnuts, force meat and bread stuffing between each bird, stewed in a hermetically sealed pot in a bath of onion, clove, carrots, chopped ham, celery, thyme, parsley, mignonette, salted pork fat, salt, pepper, coriander, garlic, and “other spices,” and slowly cooked over a fire for at least 24 hours.


A bunch of screenshots of Yul Brynner:

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a) I love Veep

b) I would do this if any magazine showed any interest whatsoever


AMAZING piece in Grantland by Rembert Browne about television, blackness, and being “non-threatening”:

It’s clear, regardless of how it’s used or who the user is, that this idea of being “nonthreatening” or “safe” has historically been linked to the idea of “how black you are.” Which becomes even more complicated when you consider the relationship between one’s blackness, one’s nonthreatening-ness, and one’s success in television. It’s something that has followed Brady for his entire career, especially as he continues to find roles that keep him on daytime TV. The idea that he’s safe to put out there. That he’s a “safe black,” if you will. Or, to take it a step further, that he’s not black. He’s just Wayne Brady.


A different site had an embarrassing entry in Scratch Magazine’s Who Pays Writers. Check Mallory’s Twitter from yesterday afternoon if you have 40 minutes to laugh about it. Oh, and then donate to us instead. Did you know we will COMMISSION pieces on your behalf?


Maggie Shipstead writes beautifully about the Time Passes portion of To the Lighthouse, which, if you do not like it, THERE’S THE DOOR.


We haven’t talked about the Anita Hill documentary! Here’s a review by Ren Jender, and I’d love to hear your thoughts as well.


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