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Crocs: Now Offensive on Every Level

My girliest blog post since the real-time tampax focus group of 2003.*

* if only I could find the link!

Hint: I'll Take Lebanese Capitals For 2000

Today's guest-posts on the Jane Blog:

• All Aboard the NIGHT TRAIN, or Why I'm Not Drinking This Week* (a must-read for haters!)
• And Links of the Day: Open Your Heart to Love

*except in extreme moderation. (antioxidants!)

keep it like a secret

On NPR's Morning Edition this morning, they interviewed college kids who were mad that Facebook is now open to everyone, and all I could think was "Sweetie, shhhhhhhhh. The grownups don't care. The grownups are trying to work."

Darkness Has a Hunger That's Insatiable

Today's Jane Magazine guest blog post: Unrelated Links: I Drank From the Fountain, Bitches!

Sedaris-tastic!

Today's guest post on the Jane Magazine blog: Monday Links: Girls Are Funny

I Lied About Sweet November.

Today's guest post on the Jane Magazine blog: What's Your Movie Taste Demographic? (Inspired by Cinetrix and an LA Times article, I compared the top ten most Netflixed movies in each NYC borough.) I didn't put this in the post, but I didn't link to the movies, for two reasons:

1. I am very busy today.
2. I think the movie titles, without their contexts, make each list sort of a neat little revealing found poem about each borough. And I love that kind of sh*t.

An Abundance of Katherines!

Today's guest-post on the Jane Magazine blog: my friend John Green's comic novel, An Abundance of Katherines, comes out today, so I celebrate it and offer my theory of John's writing success.

You can buy the book here. And it's really really good! Yay!

heard melodies are SWEEEET!

Today's guest-post on the Jane Magazine blog: 4 Books Worth Reading.

(No obscure gems here, I'm basically just bragging that I've read a lot of books recently. But I do recommend them all.)

nerd (cough) nerd (the cough is separate)

Today's guest post on the Jane blog: I find a reference to The Grapes of Wrath in last night's premiere of How I Met Your Mother.

It just doesn't get any dorkier than that, folks.

not-moby stole my 'get psyched!' mix!

(Josh Radnor in a rare moment of introspection, from the Kenyon alumni mag '04)

Today's guest-post on the Jane Magazine blog:  Suit Up, Dorks! How I Met Your Mother Season 2 premieres tonight!

Also, trivia: my friend John Green totally went to college with Josh Radnor.

yep yep yep

* Today's Jane blog post: Nightmare on Sesame Street (sorry about the unoriginal title.)

* I've never been slandered on the internet so adorably.  (When the archives are fixed, I'll add a category for "New York moments.")

* Gawker finally launches their music blog, Idolator. I think it looks nice (and Maura rules). I hope people keep the hate to a minimum because in the words of the great Patton Oswalt: "There's room for everyone. You can make it your own way."

"this is disgusting"

Today's Jane blog post: Justin Timberlake plays my friend Brian's "lovesounds" game on TRL.

I trust you to kill me

I'll be experiencing internet withdrawal all day today at an off-site meeting, but check out the Jane Magazine blog to see what I have to say about Crocs (I bet you'll never guess!)

Also, come to What's My Line? live tomorrow night at the Parkside Lounge at 8. It was tons of fun last month and I can't wait to be a panelist again. All the info is here.

(This is my first time trying out the "post later" feature, so if I messed up the formatting, OH WELL.)

is there an emoticon for 'quiet desperation'?

* I'm guest-blogging for the Jane Magazine website again! Today's post: what we need today are funny weathermen (Shhh, just trust me!)

* What we also need today is Mandy Stadtmiller as this week's comedian guest blogger on the Comedy Central blog, reminding us of the brilliance of Gilbert Gottfried (Update: link had to be removed from there, but it's still here.)

The Ultimate Red State Summer Camp Dilemma: Jesus, or Fat?

Coming soon to theaters: Jesus Camp:

I attended an extremely Fundamentalist Christian camp every summer for six years, but even it was not like this. The phrase "spiritual warfare" was bandied about, but in the "let's pray really hard" sense, not the "let's train our children for the coming war" sense. Be very, very afraid. There's really nothing funny about this, actually.

The (un)Luckiest Diner on the Lower East Side

Eater has put a deathwatch on LoSide Diner.

"the biggest problem they face is the one-two punch of bad food and zero authenticity."

Nothing against Eater, at all, but I think everyone has misunderstood LoSide Diner. And that misunderstanding has allowed me and my friends many evenings of leisurely dining for hours for very very little money.

Now if you're a rich person, of course you don't like LoSide diner. Of course you think it's unauthentic. Because you can afford to eat anywhere and the concept of BYO means nothing to you. But for the rest of us, LoSide Diner was/is the only place on the LES (that I know of) where a group of friends can meet (right off the subway!), sit in a big booth, bring their own cheap wine (opened, chilled and poured by the friendliest restaurant staff in the entire city), listen to 69 Love Songs and enjoy a decent grilled cheese or veggie burger unbothered by crowds or hurried waitstaff. And two hours later the bill for four people, entrees and appetizers, is less than $40. LoSide diner isn't unauthentic. LoSide diner is the MOST authentic. And if you don't believe me, just check out the art on the walls.

UPDATE NOTE: The reason we could stay that long was because nobody else would be there, and we always tipped like 50%. I understand that the things I like about LoSide are the same things that doom it.

Oh, and they have the best (and most authentic) Southern-style potato salad in New York City. So there. Save LoSide Diner!!

late links

Why do I hate having my photo taken at parties? Because when given the choice of three decent photos and one in which I look like a retard, my blogger friends will always choose retard It's almost like a little inside joke at this point. (But in all seriousness, huge congratulations to Will Leitch, whose success couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.) But you know, whatever, I've had an epiphany about the photo thing: nobody f**king gives a sh*t what I look like, so bring it on.

Corporate Schilling: Video: The Reverend Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps blasts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for being "Godless Sodomites". The Comedy Central blog scooped the world on this one. Go team!

Aww, darn, I guess now we all have to cross Fred Durst off our "lists".

Weatherman vs Cockroach: I got wayyy to much pleasure out of this.

"TV Hot"

Emily interviews Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, over at Bookslut. (I'm not reading it yet because I'm halfway through the book, but I'm sure it's a great interview.)

Be Michael Showalter's Intern OMG!

From the Stella newsletter, Michael Showalter needs an intern:

"ARE YOU AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG MAN/WOMAN LIVING IN NYC? For instance a college student or recent college graduate? Are you interested in being my intern/assistant/lackey for frighteningly little pay several hours a week? If so, please contact me and let me know! I’m looking for just such a person. If you are this person or think you know who this person is you can contact me at Michael(AT)msofficialsite.com"

3.5 years, actually

This weekend's Times article about people finding out they were dumped from their ex's myspace/friendster/facebook profile or whatever is almost too self-parodying to even begin to make fun of, but I'm going to try.

For one, who did not, in the spring of 2003 when Friendster first came out, at some point think to themselves "Someone should do a story about how people in relationships use their Friendster profile to signify to their ex that they've moved on. Maybe I should do it because I really need money right now. Naw, it's too laaame. Give it three whole years and it'll be in Sunday Styles. Hahaha! Get it, me? Because the Times is so behind? Especially, particularly, the Styles section? I'm so funny."

Also, look at all the other parts of the profile. Where's the story on people who found out from a social networking site their friend was a fat Libra with only some college who makes less than 15k per year? Where are they?THEIR STORIES MUST BE TOLD.

Also, just this quote, no comment necessary:

“Seeing that was like a kick in the stomach,” said Micaela Coady, 30, a health researcher from Brooklyn who was so affected by an ex’s status shift that she abandoned her Friendster account (she now blogs instead)."

That is all.

yes, I know the archives and categories are messed up

(Things will continue to be weird around here for a few more days while I continue try to figure out domain mapping with my hosting company.)

throwing myself at the remote

If Mark is in any way responsible for Jared Leto talking about "making love" during the only five seconds of the VMAs I watched last night, we are no longer friends.

secondary virginity

Hysterical: a look at the evolution of Chuck Klosterman's author photos, by Doree Shafrir.

Via Emily: FourFour puts Living Dolls, the shocking and heartbreaking expose of Southern child beauty pageants, up in its entirety.

After six years, my first bio page.

Have a nice weekend! When I come back on Tuesday I'll be guest blogging on Janemag.com again for the month of September (update: moved to Monday 9/11), but there will still be stuff here.

Also, if anyone out there thinks they know a way to help me set up *true* domain mapping between my hosting company and typepad (right now lindsayism.com just points here, messing up all the archive posts. The two sites are not truly mapped.), please let me know.