Matt Lubchansky is going to be spared.
RIP, Adrianne Wadewitz:
“It is a huge loss for Wikipedia,” said Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation in San Francisco that runs Wikipedia, who has made a priority of getting more women to edit it. “She may have been our single biggest contributor on these topics — female authors, women’s history.
Ms. Wadewitz defied many of the stereotypes of a Wikipedia editor — young, male, tech-obsessed. But she was typical of Wikipedia editors in “being persnickety, fact-obsessed, citation-obsessed,” Ms. Gardner said.
Do you guys watch Kroll Show? I literally lose the ability to breathe when he does his Degrassi parody, Wheels Ontario.
Question: so, Michael Huisman, who plays the more emo, fedora-y Liam on Nashville, also plays the decidedly un-fedora’d Daario Naharis on Game of Thrones, which took me a minute to process, because there are so many rando characters on Game of Thrones that I just assumed he’d been around for ages and was a different dude than the Fabio-had-a-baby-with-Jay-from-Clerks dude he replaced in the role. Oh, this was a question? I don’t know, I think, essentially, the show-runners are just quietly culling all the long-haired men from the show and wondering if we’ll notice. I’m fine with that. Here are some pictures:
(Michael Huisman)
(RIP, Fabio-had-a-baby-with-Jay-from-Clerks)
You may or may not have heard that the ENTIRE British Pathé archives are on YouTube now. The “most popular” videos are mostly footage of deadly disasters, because the internet, but literally everything in the world is here, including this video of a 13 y/o Julie Andrews singing for George VI:
When things work out nicely. I mean, wow, the idea a food-based charity would err on the side of giving food to people who claimed to be hungry without demanding a ton of documentary was appalling. Surely, the UK is full of middle-class opportunists who would start using it as a free supermarket. Benghazi.
Can we talk about Veep? You can’t really spoil Veep. Veep is about the human HEART and also Jonah. I was a Thick of It superfan, and it has not been until the current season that Veep is really starting to hit Thick of It levels of good. To be fair, it took Thick of It a few seasons to hit Thick of It levels of good.
Most of this has been about TV today! But I’m really leaning in to TV right now. You know, my husband and I are both completely obsessed with TV, and as a child, he was a 1970s latchkey kid who came home and watched The Love Boat and seven hours of random leisure-suit-ed programming while drinking TAB unsupervised, or whatever, and I was only allowed to watch Sesame Street and PBS Mystery!, leading me to believe that you can show your kids a bunch of TV or never let your kids watch TV, they’re still going to figure out it’s the best flower of humankind. TV is amazing. I only go to comic book movies now, I have no interest in watching someone try to develop a character over ninety minutes.
