Missives From Troy
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“Star Trek: Into Darkness” Is Fine, But It’s Still No “Galaxy Quest”
Recently Kumail Nanjiani tweeted that the best Star Trek...
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“Keep in mind that the Republicans’ most serious charge revolves around the creation of misleading talking points. Stop and think about that for a...”
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Don't Use Your Phone in a Theater, Ever
This is incredible. Read Kevin Williamson’s first hand account or Gothamist’s write up.
Shouts & Murmurs: The works of Homer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac get rejected: http://nyr.kr/VAENdF
Dear Mr. Homer,
Thank you for coming into the office last week and performing your epic poem. Unfortunately, we do not buy books based on pitches. We think your story is very interes—no, actually we don’t…
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“I repeat: there’s no need to panic. Or to look out of the window…”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_madxpvfwVs1qaj7muo1_r4_500.png)
Click here to watch Stephen Colbert react to Michelle Obama’s “warm, soul-restoring bullshit.”
Full Episode from Tampa: Clint Eastwood, Mitt Romney, and minority outreach at the RNC. http://on.cc.com/RzNJi6
The winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, honoring the worst opening sentence to a work of fiction, has been announced:
As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting. — Cathy Bryant, Manchester, England
View all the category winners and runners-up here.
Yes, you want to watch Alan Rickman make tea in slow motion set to the ‘Inception’ soundtrack. | io9
