Category Archives: Other People’s Stuff

by | August 30, 2010 · 2:03 pm

Family Circus Just Got Jersey-fied

The funny people over at Jersey Circus have brought together two cultural icons to form one, outrageously hilarious, (hopefully) future cultural icon.

Pictures from the classic comic strip Family Circus are paired with Jersey Shore quotes to create something I could seriously read all day. This is my new favorite thing ever, and I know I say that like, five times a day, but this could definitely stick for at least 24 hours.

Those Jersey Shore quotes are funny on their own, where Family Circus is usually sweet and endearing. Both, however, always include some kind of life lesson, like go to Church on Sunday, or don’t smush with grenades when your ex-girlfriend is sleeping in the next room. Stuff you need to know.

“We strive to reconcile our guilty delight in Jersey Shore, a bastion of trash, with our eye-rolling fondness for the Family Circus,” reads Jersey Circus’ mission statement. “We do this by juxtaposing the two in a very literal sense. We think you’ll agree that something important is being done here.”

I agree. I really do.

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by | August 27, 2010 · 8:29 pm

Lil Wayne’s Thoughts on Tennis, From Jail

Remember that episode of The Office where they find out that one of the employees from the newly-merged Stamford branch is an ex-con? And Michael get’s all offended because he thinks the employee is making jail sound better than Dunder-Mifflin? So he creates “Prison Mike” to let them know that prison is nothing but dropping the soap and eating gruel? Well, “Prison Mike” was wrong, because Lil Wayne is making jail seem like the life I want to have.

When Weezy isn’t making new music (which I can’t even do from my apartment, go figure), he’s apparently blogging about everything that is sport. So Sports Illustrated decided to send him some sheets of their letterhead and asked him to write about the U.S. Open. “The U.S. Open, 100 words, go!” And trust me, giving things to people in jail is not easy. I tried to give my business card to a murderer once and they had to test it for a day to make sure it wasn’t laced with drugs. This is a completely true story.

Wayne “simply adores” Maria Sharapova, but is giving the edge to Kim Clijsters on the women’s side. And obviously, he’s backing Rafa for the men. It’s things like this that make it good to wake up in the morning. Respectfully, Kelly.

Read Lil Wayne’s entire letter here.

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by | August 16, 2010 · 12:27 pm

I Still Aspire to be Joey Potter

Editor’s Note: Just an easy read from New York magazine while I get myself organized from vacation. I’ll be back to blissful blogging shortly, I promise!

What Are You Looking At?
Amid a perpetual storm of attention, Katie Holmes stays almost preternaturally calm
By Amy Larocca

Katie Holmes has not lived the typical Hollywood story. She’s a Catholic schoolgirl from Toledo, Ohio, who went to L.A. for the first time when she was 16; she arrived on a Sunday and was cast in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm the very next day. Dawson’s Creek came a year after that, and then there was Batman Begins, and then there was perhaps the world’s most famous courtship, and then there was the birth of the world’s most famous baby, and then, three years ago, her marriage to Tom Cruise, arguably one of the world’s most famous men.

And so for a number of years now, she’s been right at the center of our culture, the subject of an endless swirl of discussion and fantasy: What’s the deal with her marriage, does she really believe in Scientology, did Tom replace her innards with some kind of computer chip? And then there’s Suri! Piercing blue eyes, princess dresses, and a perfect combination of her parents’ very good looks, Holmes’s daughter is 4-year-old tabloid candy. She still travels with a blanket, but already she can’t move around the city without the company of someone very large and very well trained in the protective arts.

Read the article at nymag.com.

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