Retirees wave to the Newt Bus as it pulls away from their retirement community in Florida. The Newt Bus smiles back.
Linda Davidson / Washington Post
“I have to go now, my planet needs me.”
AMAZING, but I’m just going to use this to talk about my current problems with Parks and Rec. I went into this campaign arc being like, “Okay, you’ve done this work, the writers probably haven’t, it’s a comedy, etc.”. Because this type of local politicking interests me more then anything else, really (i.e, am writing a collection of short stories about it right now! first time ever mentioned in public! aaaaah). And a lot of it they get right! Obviously they cut out the boring parts, but I mean, the phone bank was pretty on point. But but but. My problem, to my surprise, is Leslie. She is a horrible candidate. It’s so weird to me that this person portrayed as an ultra-competent bureaucrat, someone who we have seen willing to do difficult, unpopular things to get ideas seen through, utterly flailing. I discussed this a bit with Noted Tumblr User Pilot last night, and we both agreed that Leslie is almost definitely gonna lose. I mean, obviously it could turn around, but at this point it would take a lot for me to believe that Leslie is not too blinded by her childhood dreams to make a serious run. Maybe this isn’t a problem with Parks & Rec, per se, maybe it’s actually it’s most genius move, attempting to go for the painful out-of-league-ness from UK Office but with someone who actually should get the things they want! But man, that would be a really weird transition for a show that been the Nicest Thing on TV.
(Source: ianbrooks, via douglasmartini)
IRL is coming to THE PIT!
Disappointing Gay Best Friend’s Mikala Bierma and Tyler Coates invite some of their funny friends with various internet personas to get up from behind their keyboards and be hilarious IRL. Things might get weird, but you’ll still LOL.
Featuring these fun and hilarious people!
Eliot Glazer
Ilana Glazer
Halle Kiefer
Mike Lacher
Jack Moore
Louis Peitzman
And don’t worry, we’ll have a few surprises in store, too!
All of this and more for just EIGHT BUCKS! (I know! Wow!)Please come! Who knows what will happen! (Will I faint on stage? Possible!)
Yeah? Let’s go, Internet friends? Eh?
FACT:
I bet Busy Phillipps is a really cool person to smoke weed with.
strippertweets: 1. Chuck Klosterman is essentially one person, a somewhat androgynous... →
1. Chuck Klosterman is essentially one person, a somewhat androgynous American man named Chuck Klosterman. This is his nth column. I get the sense that asexuality is part of his hesher aesthetic, because I just looked at the Chuck Klosterman Wikipedia page and noticed that the wiki writer put a…
(Source: grantland.com)
On January 22, 1944, the Allies began their assault of Anzio, Italy during World War II. Pictured on the Anzio beachhead are members of the 99th Fighter Squadron (aka the Tuskegee Airmen) of the Army Air Forces, an African American unit, which provided crucial air support during the invasion.
