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“You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation,...”
— Roger Sterling. (I’m...

Aug 1st

“Eric Schmidt [Google CEO] surprised many at an Ad Age...”
— Ad Age. Yeah, and whose fault...

Jul 31st

“When other swimmers, battling fatigue, begin to lapse...”
— Mark Levine, in NYT...

Jul 31st

The Bands Casey is Seeing At...

Friday: Jeff Tweedy, Gogol Bordello, Duffy, the Black Keys, the Raconteurs, Bloc Party, Malkmuks and...

Jul 31st

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Watch in amazement as an elephant paints a picture of an elephant. Now that’s what I’m...

Jul 31st

Finally, some good news about the economy

Jul 31st

sazerac: Again, screw you.

Jul 31st

Old Navy begins selling "Anti-Establishment"...

Jul 31st

channelalex: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape...

Jul 30th

Update: Mainstream Media follows up on...

Jul 29th

Earthquake!

So there was just a nice little 5.8 tremblor here in the Southland. As I am here on vacation, I...

Jul 29th

'The Internet is a series of tubes' senator...

Jul 29th

Why Don't Our Interviews Ever Go Like...

AV Club: How old were your kids when you started doing Batman? Adam West: I’ve got kids of...

Jul 29th

Crumbler now has one fewer reason to live

Jul 29th

“You could (and will) say the Harpers had it coming, but...”
— Hank Stuever on the...

Jul 29th

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I think that’s a 21-and-over alcohol wristband that Ezra is wearing. Awww.

Jul 29th

Oh crap, I just posted a LOLcat. Did Crumbler just nuke the...

Jul 29th

Northwestern once again fails to make top...

Jul 29th

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MoveOn.org is trying to raise $150,000 to run this ad on MTV and Comedy Central. Apparently, it won...

Jul 28th

“Lexical aside: ‘Tool’ is perhaps...”
— A brief history of the...

Jul 28th

Vanity Fair launches gay car blog

Jul 27th

Attention Casey:

mollyknight: It’s already 90 in Phoenix and it’s not even 8 am yet. Living here must be listed in...

Jul 27th

“This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant [expletive]...”
— Steve Jobs, in a call to The...

Jul 26th

“Like that tinny ‘oonce oonce’ music that...”
— Mike Albo, taking on the...

Jul 26th

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The Hold Steady perform “Stay Positive” at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Stay Positive...

Jul 26th

sazerac: A member of sazerac attack’s board of directors...

Jul 26th

“Textpectation.”
— The anticipation one feels...

Jul 25th

Hasbro gets a triple go-fuck-yourself score

Jul 25th

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A complete version of Gnarls Barkley’s take on Radiohead’s “Reckoner.” Thank...

Jul 25th

Crumbler: Now With Comments

After some people told me they wanted to share their own thoughts on the blog, I decided give Disqus...

Jul 24th

Stream the new Conor Oberst

Jul 24th

“As one of the New Gays confidently told me, it is a scene...”
— New gays vs. old gays vs. new...

Jul 24th

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The Matrix, ruined. (From Kottke’s great list of movies given inappropriate soundtracks.)

Jul 24th

That S.C. dad didn't really try to 'beat the...

Jul 24th

Stream a new Cold War Kids track

Jul 23rd

Vanity Fair has fun with that New Yorker cover.

Jul 23rd

BREAKING NEWS: Estelle Getty was still alive

Jul 23rd

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Things that make me cry.

Jul 23rd

Things That Made Me Laugh

The nametag on the Pakistani man behind the counter in my neighborhood Subway: “Hello, my name...

Jul 23rd

Racism in the U.K.

Jul 22nd

“Asked why Baton Rouge had so many locations closed for a...”
— Chad Calder, a reporter for...

Jul 22nd

“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to...”
— Chris Hedges, who covered war...

Jul 22nd

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Groverfield. (via)

Jul 22nd

“To be honest, we always thought that we’d sort of have a bit...”
— Cut Copy, on the reaction to...

Jul 22nd

This is what the Internet is for

Jul 22nd

The gradually decreasing popularity of...

Jul 22nd

Man Given Points For Trying Increases Total...

Jul 22nd

Not even close: Images of the day, courtesy of The Stranger.

Jul 22nd

“It is safe to say that Ms. Streep gives the worst...”
— A.O. Scott, reviewing...

Jul 22nd

Casey alert:

mollyknight: MGMT is playing the Dodge on my birthday. They’re also playing Lollapalooza,...

Jul 21st

Fascinating '60 Minutes' piece on the science...

Jul 21st

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Unnecessary bleeping makes the Count sound like a sex fiend. Glorious. See also: the unnecessary...

Jul 20th

“Seventy-five percent of Americans in a new Washington...”
— From the Washington Post....

Jul 19th

Camille Paglia has the world's most boring...

Jul 19th

What are the 10 best Radiohead songs of all...

Jul 19th

From a list of the top 10 misspelled tattoos. (via)

Jul 19th

“During the assault, the teen’s 49-year-old father...”
— From a story about a South...

Jul 19th

The latest dance craze to sweep France

Jul 19th

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sazerac gets as excited about Frightened Rabbit as we are: I’m thoroughly addicted to Frightened...

Jul 19th

The idiocy of internet polls

You may have heard the story about the New Yorker who ordered a triple shot of espresso over ice at...

Jul 18th

Listen

On my most recent podcast, I waxed ecstatic about “Fatalist Palmistry,” a track by Why?...

Jul 17th

“As near to nature as the discerning traveler cares to...”
— The ridiculous and yet...

Jul 16th

Up shit creek

Jul 16th

“When I did so, I realized that, like many first impressions,...”
— The novelist Joshua Ferris, on...

Jul 16th

It's got chocolate, cookie dough and fresh...

Jul 16th

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A video mash-up of Girl Talk’s brilliant “Still Here,” a highlight from Feed the...

Jul 16th

Barack Obama Is My New Workout Partner

A Politico reporter dutifully took notes when Barack Obama turned up at his gym one morning: ...

Jul 16th

Is this man Banksy?

Jul 15th

An interview with Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes

Jul 15th

“A state employee has resigned and officials have disavowed...”
— Oh, please. South Carolina...

Jul 15th

Blogfight!

Linkblogs like Crumbler: either, like, so totally over or NOT EVEN over. (I’m with Rex:...

Jul 13th

Balloon graffiti. How great is this?

Jul 13th

The Federal Highway Administration lists its...

Jul 13th

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The Hold Steady perform “Constructive Summer” off their new one, Stay Positive. (via)

Jul 13th

Snack foods that sound like sex acts

Jul 11th

If only this had been my bedroom in 1988. (via)

Jul 11th

Coming soon to a Logo docudrama near you

L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he’d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former...

Jul 10th

We're Investing So Much In Alternative Fuels,...

Jul 10th

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Full House re-cast as the trailer to Donnie Darko. (via)

Jul 10th

Favorite new Tumblr of the day

Jul 10th

“I could not imagine how a man his size, six feet tall and...”
— Tom Wolfe showing off (and,...

Jul 10th

The National + Barack Obama = Hipster Love

Jul 9th

T.G.I. Friday's Chef Recommends...

Jul 9th

“And if you’re just playing in a pick-up band at a...”
— The single greatest new...

Jul 9th

Everything must go! Image captured by my old history...

Jul 8th

“But what about the hearings on North Korea in which he made...”
— Christopher Hitchens on Jesse...

Jul 8th

Some good news for the day

Jul 8th

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Bloc Party’s new single, “Mercury,” complete with stupid video. (The song’s...

Jul 8th

Scrabble’s answer to Scrabulous, six months in the...

Jul 7th

'My Name Is Earl' going gay?

Jul 7th

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This is great: Gnarls Barkley perform my favorite song of last year, Radiohead’s...

Jul 7th

Stream the Black Kids' debut full-length

Jul 7th

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You know, Crumbler isn’t here to make friends, either. (more awesomeness from Rich Four Four)

Jul 7th

“Compare any 10 minutes of the movie with 10 minutes of any...”
— Frank Rich, on the...

Jul 7th

sazerac: Hammer Time at the gym. And we still don’t care. ...

Jul 6th

New Podcase: the Mid-Year Review

Jul 6th

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‘Our songs were just a thing we did with melodies and chords.’ I came across a live...

Jul 5th

Airhen's Fresh Prince find

Jul 4th

Gay icon Jesse Helms dead at 86

Jul 4th

“I’d make a special squirrel farm and no skateboarders...”
— Nikita, a Kerry Blue terrier,...

Jul 4th

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Just because: two minutes of Fresh Prince cousin Carlton dancing to “It’s Not...

Jul 4th

Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded

Jul 3rd

“Measured purely by number of readers in all formats, many...”
— Timothy Egan, with cause for...

Jul 3rd

philleif: Tag that ass.

Jul 3rd

Rock music in legal opinions

Jul 2nd

Department of Second Thoughts

“The two people who described the statement said [Leona] Helmsley signed it in 2003 to...

Jul 2nd

Disney screenwriters, you may start your...

From time to time, Crumbler likes to point out real-life events that will inevitably, through sheer...

Jul 2nd

This crab terrifies me.

Jul 2nd

“Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love...”
— What happens when the...

Jul 2nd

At last: Just in time for Halloween, you too can look like a...

Jul 2nd

“In each episode, the homeowners must be cajoled into letting...”
— Hank Stuever, in a story on a...

Jul 1st