Posts tagged “The Simpsons”

• If I ever got name-checked on The Simpsons, I think I would spontaneously combust. – via @sepinwall
• How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time – via @theatlantic
• For about a year and a half I was really into intermittent fasting. I used a great app called Simple that helped me track my daily water consumption and weight, and also handled reminding me when my fasting windows were, let me log what I was eating and when, etc. The app was so good, I even gladly paid for an annual subscription to unlock bonus features. And then — for reasons I cannot imagine — the developers rolled out a “new” version loaded to the gills with whiz-bang AI features that made the app completely useless and incomprehensibly frustrating. I tried for a few months to get used to the new system, but eventually abandoned it, canceled my subscription, and still haven’t found a decent replacement. I abhor the continued enshittification of everything.
• Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods. [Ed. note: But can they make Sunday morning chocolate chip pancakes?]
• It’s really a shame that Russell Brand has gone crazy, because Forgetting Sarah Marshall is easily one of the all-time best comedies.
• Strong Lloyd Dobler vibes in this essay, and I am here for it: “[P]eople do want to work, just not for the paltry wages they were making before the pandemic.”
• “If you spell your name backwards and place an umlaut over one of the vowels, that’s your IKEA name.” [Ed. note: Mine is Engäg and I’m a kitchen drawer divider.] – via @drewtalbert
• Regular exercisers drink more, a new study confirms, but are less likely to be problem drinkers. – via @outsidemagazine
• Black Friday / Holiday Sales:
  • The world’s comfiest t-shirts and coziest sweatpants are crazy expensive, but this weekend almost everything is on sale at Aviator Nation.
  • Everything at ’47 Brand is 30% off this weekend. Get all the best sports gear gifts here.
  • Need some everyday walking shoes? Everything is 50% off at Allbirds this weekend.
  • I have an AirPods Pro case and a wallet from Saddleback Leather Co. and they’re both exquisite. Not everything is on sale, but they do have some pretty good deals this weekend on a few things. (Their motto is, “They’ll fight over it when you’re dead.”)
  • Use promo code BLACKFRIDAY to get 30% off (and free shipping) on everything at J. Peterman this weekend.
• Fun Fact: Jon Gries, the actor who portrayed Lazlo Hollyfeld in Real Genius (TriStar Pictures, 1985), went on to play Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite (Searchlight Pictures, 2004) and the love interest of Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus (HBO, 2021).

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• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premieres December 3^rd on Disney+ Wow. The trailer looks amazing.
• If you know anyone with an iPhone — and, duh, of course you do — one of these MagSafe power bricks is a great gift idea.
• Superman Is Still America’s Greatest Superhero: We need Christopher Reeve now more than ever.
• How Selling $160 Sweatpants Turned a SoCal Surfer into One of America’s Richest Women – via @forbes
• Forget Matt Gaetz. Merrick Garland Is America’s Worst Attorney General. – via @usnews
• I would rather watch three straight hours of Progressive commercials than another Avatar movie.
• Pamela Hayden, the voice behind Milhouse Van Houten, will retire from The Simpsons after 35 years. – via @dailycosmicmarvel
• It’s always been somewhat puzzling that Donald Duck chooses to use an airplane to fly and a boat when he’s in the water. I don’t have a problem with his insistence on eschewing pants. But I find it deeply, deeply disturbing that he carves a Thanksgiving turkey for his family. – via me
• Here’s everything you need to know about the new 12-team college football playoff format.

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• One thing this country has always enjoyed is a good drink. Whether it was rum on the Atlantic, bourbon at the races or that Bloody Mary at Sunday Brunch, alcohol is the American Drink.
• Boom! Dexter returns at the end of September. (Don’t watch the trailer if you didn’t see season 4 yet!)
• Don’t Eff With Fudgie the Whale, Lindsay!
• I cannot wait to see Bad Universe (featuring BadAstronomy).
• Mister Gunther makes horoscopes fun!
• Betty Goes Reno: A visit to the glamorous divorce ranches of the Mad Men era.
• He hasn’t taken a single snap in a real game yet, but Tim Tebow is already leading the league in jersey sales. (Nike has some cool Tebow sneakers, too.)
• Do you think you can identify who voices each character on The Simpsons?
• I didn’t know that there are ATMs in Antarctica.
• Being President of the United States is probably the loneliest job in the world.

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#FridayFive: Simpsons Characters

View the Friday Five from June 18th, 2010

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Daily David

A collection of links

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• It’s still early, but I think I’ve found a winner for Best Site of 2010:
  Nelson HaHa.
• Without a Single Throw, Tebow Rules the Combine
• Unrelated Captions are what you get when the pictures have nothing to do with their captions.
• Put your flight jacket on one of these really cool airplane hangers.
• “Inspection showed multiple lacerations and puncture wounds all over the body which could not have been caused by any other attacker than a bottle-nosed dolphin.”
• Matthew David Lopez, 18, was taken to jail on charges of wearing a mask or hood on a public road after the age of 16 years old and resisting arrest without violence.
• The Boneyard
• Apple has a new great section on their site that teaches people how to switch from PC to Mac.
• “Jenny McCarthy is back in Time magazine this week to warn more parents about vaccines and blaming medicine for giving her son autism, even though there’s no scientific evidence of any kind to support those statements, and mountains of data proving she is 100 percent wrong. … [D]octors must shake their head and think, ‘I can’t believe I’m arguing with a chick who is only here because she sold pictures of her vagina to a magazine.'”

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