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2009

June 105
May 123
April 121
March 122
February 103
January 134

2008

December 128
November 117
October 147
September 139
August 127
July 115
June 91
May 88
April 62
March 42
February
January
American Airlines Now Charging Fees To...
Dec 2nd
Warch Watch
“The Pen Is Mightier,” a wonderfully inventive three-minute short that stays clever...
Dec 2nd
Fleet Foxes on Nigel Godrich's show
Dec 2nd

Identity crisis

In lieu of posting items of actual interest right now, Crumbler is playing around with some themes....
Dec 2nd
Thursday is Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To...
Nov 29th
Lunching on my front porch
Nov 29th
The lovely Chemex 6-cup coffee maker, from Megan...
Nov 29th
Black Friday music deal
Nov 28th
Give 'em hell, Axl
Nov 27th
This week’s gorgeous New York magazine cover. The...
Nov 27th
Student Writes to Steve Jobs, Gets Free Final...
Nov 26th
Warch Watch
A Thanksgiving present from Matt Pond PA: A free download of his new EP. This video is presumably...
Nov 26th
“The best live-action mainstream American movie that I have...”
— A.O. Scott
Nov 26th
Warch Watch
livejamie: Jamie Foxx sings the theme to “The Brady Bunch” I hate Jamie Foxx and have always...
Nov 26th
Last Call is a new iPhone app that calculates your BAC based...
Nov 26th
DJ Earworm's latest
Nov 26th
“I don’t understand why more people don’t wear...”
— The Killers’ Brandon...
Nov 26th
P4K finally reviews the Gaslight Anthem
Nov 26th
Warch Watch
David Letterman to James Franco: “I mean, do you really want to be good at kissing a...
Nov 26th

Press Release of the Day

From NBC Entertainment: ‘TWILIGHT’ STAR ROBERT PATTINSON SINKS HIS FANGS INTO ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW...
Nov 26th
More like Dr. Fraud!
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
The Boys in the Band, William Friedkin’s ultra-campy groundbreaking gay film from 1970, is...
Nov 25th
Crumbler joins Twitter!
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
The New York Times records kids’ faces while they play video games. Half look like serial...
Nov 25th
Woman Profoundly Moved By Lyrics Artist Put...
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
Crumbler holiday favorite Home Alone, recut as the trailer to a horror movie. Wonderful. And there...
Nov 25th
Get the Shins' Oh, Inverted World for $3.99
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
Vampire Weekend performs “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” on Conan. (via)
Nov 25th
Download a new Springsteen track for free
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
The trailer for “They’re Coming To Your Town,” a documentary about what happens...
Nov 25th
Stream the new Killers
Nov 22nd
Warch Watch
Every once in a while, Crumbler likes to show you the worst video of all time. Today’s...
Nov 22nd
New Order recalls reiusses over sound quality
Nov 22nd
Listen Listen
“Last Tango In Brooklyn,” Frightened Rabbit. A new track compiled on a disc from an...
Nov 21st
The Shins Movie!
Nov 21st
“He’s very popular with the men.”
— Monsignor Steven Rohlfs,...
Nov 20th
White Denim OMFZG!@!!!1!
Nov 20th
(via)
Nov 20th
Esquire posts its seven best stories ever
Nov 20th
mollyknight: annehubert: via jenrobinson
Nov 20th
Books That Make You Dumb
Nov 20th
Warch Watch
Kid navigates a real-life Guitar Hero course on his bike. I don’t know what this is virally...
Nov 20th
Stream Chinese Democracy
Nov 20th
“It’s a twisty, fantastical story about a woman named...”
— Decemberists frontman Colin...
Nov 20th
eHarmony to Grant Matches to Gays
Nov 20th
“Sometimes it seems like Axl believes every single Guns...”
— Chuck Klosterman, reviewing...
Nov 19th
Get the Wrens' Meadowlands for $1.99
Nov 19th
“Most important concept of all — THE CONCEPT OF LOVE....”
— The absurd innovative...
Nov 19th
Chromeo remixes Vampire Weekend
Nov 19th
Listen Listen
DJ Earworm, my second-favorite mashup artist after Girl Talk, unleashes this great, twitchy take on...
Nov 19th
Warch Watch
Blitzen Trapper perform their gorgeous “Furr” on Conan, adding some nice harmonies....
Nov 19th

Pass the Plate

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gave $200,000 to the Yes on Prop 8 effort in California,...
Nov 19th

My 89-Year-Old Grandmother, On the...

Grandma: Coming from the West side, and Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica, I feel so much more...
Nov 18th
P4K interviews Fleet Foxes
Nov 18th
“God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and...”
— The unimpeachably heterosexual...
Nov 18th
(via)
Nov 18th
“David requested a menu, which the hostess handed him, and...”
— Susan Dominus, in the most...
Nov 18th
“I’m still often flummoxed by what to order in fancy...”
— Brian Williams. So much for...
Nov 17th
mollyknight: ckck: The Reservoir.
Nov 17th
“I realize that my place and position in history is that I...”
— Kanye West, in an interview...
Nov 17th
New Beatles track to completely suck
Nov 17th

Working for the Man, Every Night and Day

See enough indie-rock shows and you’ll find yourself unprepared to watch an actual...
Nov 15th
For those who missed it, this post about a dog named Burton...
Nov 15th
Okkervil River's singing interviews
Nov 15th
“When the government recently published its “Plum...”
— Timothy Noah. More disturbing:...
Nov 14th
Shepard (don’t laugh) Fairey, who designed that iconic...
Nov 14th
“Anyway Jarvis is pretty sure the way to ‘save...”
— Gawker, brilliantly, on the...
Nov 14th
Listen Listen
“Water Runs Dry,” Jens Lekman. YENS performs the Boyz II Men classic, investing it with...
Nov 14th
5 Reasons I Hope Classmates.com Gets Sued...
Nov 14th
Warch Watch
about-today: OK, I swear I’m going to lay off the Okkervil River posts after this, but let’s face...
Nov 14th

I Am Probably Overreacting

Effective today, the A.P. is changing its house style on references to presidents. From now on, the...
Nov 13th
“It seems to me that we’re just pouring money into the...”
— Megan McArdle, of the...
Nov 13th
(via)
Nov 13th
“When I was a younger man, my best friends would occasionally...”
— Ross Flournoy, lead singer of...
Nov 13th
New (kinda) official (kinda) Okkervil River...
Nov 13th
Warch Watch
Kevin discovers a Bon Iver session on Transmissions. I love this abbreviated take on “For...
Nov 12th
Rolling Stone hearts Chinese Democracy
Nov 12th
Warch Watch
about-today: Fleet Foxes, Sun Giant/Blue Ridge Mountains (on La Blogoteque’s Take-Away Shows)
Nov 12th
“If California’s electorate had been the same as it was...”
— Nate Silver, debunking the...
Nov 12th
Warch Watch
about-today: Okkervil River, Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) Live in Norwich, 11.05.08 The...
Nov 12th
Direct your own Radiohead show
Nov 12th
Warch Watch
Olbermann (I know, but …) on Prop 8: “You want to honor your God and the universal love...
Nov 11th
Crumbler meetup! Kiehl (left) and Casey (right), seen...
Nov 11th
A band devoted to writing rock-opera TV...
Nov 11th

The 10 Most Annoying Phrases

According to Oxford researchers: 1. At the end of the day 2. Fairly unique 3. I personally 4. At...
Nov 11th
(buy the T-shirt) (via)
Nov 11th
Scandal of the day
Nov 11th

Oh, NOW you're against that.

alexbalk: “The Mormon Church is in damage limitation mode. ‘No one on either side of the question...
Nov 9th
sazerac: Crumbler + sazerac attack, wedding edition
Nov 9th
The best story you will read this week
Nov 7th

Posting will be light over the weekend...

… As your Crumbler co-bloggers meet up for the first time since launching the blog, and Casey...
Nov 7th
cvxn:
Nov 7th
“So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a...”
— Barack Obama, in...
Nov 6th
“It’s almost like it’s obligatory these days to have a...”
— The Rev. Joel Hunter, an...
Nov 6th
(buy)
Nov 6th
Excellent cover news
Nov 6th
In accordance with his wishes, he will be...
Nov 6th
Flying-car project finally getting off the...
Nov 5th
By Patrick Moberg (hi-res). (via)
Nov 5th
Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
Nov 5th
(via)
Nov 5th
P4K's top 500 songs ever
Nov 5th
(via)
Nov 5th

The View From My Election

With apologies to Andrew Sullivan readers. I’m always the first person at my polling place. I...
Nov 5th
“And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon...”
— President-elect Barack Obama
Nov 5th
‘This is our moment. This is our time.’
Nov 5th
Listen Listen
alexbalk: Sing it, Ray.
Nov 4th
Listen Listen
sazerac: The National — Mr. November
Nov 4th
Listen Listen
That said, I thought we might profitably ease into Tuesday with Cold War Kids’ live take on...
Nov 4th

Worth Noting

The overwhelming focus on who wins Tuesday’s election has largely obscured the question of...
Nov 4th
(via)
Nov 4th
Stream Justin Timberlake's "Magic"
Nov 4th

FiveThirtyEight says it best

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns...
Nov 4th
“The juror who was dismissed from the criminal trial of Sen....”
— Roll Call
Nov 3rd
Warch Watch
Nov 3rd
The lyrics to "Wilco the Song"
Nov 2nd

If only this had happened

David Foster “Wallace’s literary agent .. dropped a tantalizing bit of news when she...
Nov 2nd
On some Halloweens, no one understands your costume. But...
Nov 1st