January 2012
19 posts
Vanity Fair: How to Sound Like You Know Something... →
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4. Become an instant expert of football’s regulations and arcana. Remember: if a guy touches the ball but doesn’t catch it, it means something either good or bad, depending; field goals have to be 15 or 20 or 25 yards back from the thing; that guy can’t do that; touching the head is illegal;…
I watched the sports event!
“For medium-rare ice, cook the water in your freezer anywhere from, let’s say,...”
– Treats for the Disaffected 20-Something, Part II: Fromage Chaud and Glacé Fraises-Kiwi (via vanityfair)
I shared some more recipes.
The Doree Chronicles: Should Vanity Fair Be a... →
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Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories…
I see we’re getting some really helpful responses
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
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Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not....
“The Mets maintain a “no comment” position about Mr. Met, apparently to maintain...”
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New Year’s Eve in Des Moines: a Party Hot Enough... →
December 2011
14 posts
“We drove home late and I dropped him off at his hotel. Sometimes I get confused...”
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“I can recall a lunch in 1991, when I was editing The New York Observer, and he...”
– Graydon Carter Remembers Christopher Hitchens | Culture | Vanity Fair (via felixsalmon)
“The group liked to play a game in which members came up with the sentence least...”
– NYT
“I did enjoy the chapter where the guy said, “I never subscribed to that… whole...”
– An Oral History of the Time We Read GQ’s “Oral History of Menswear Blogging” (via vanityfair)
Quiz: Grammy-Nominated Artist or Anti-Anxiety... →
November 2011
17 posts
The teenager I was watching with said, “This show... →
This blog is going to one-up our ninth-floor foes... →
Vanity Fair: We Wrote Billy Crystal’s Oscar-Night... →
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J. Edgar! J. Edgar! Who knew working at the F.B.I. would be such a drag? You nabbed Bonnie and Clyde But your own special agent Clyde is on the rag! Sheesh!
Lars von Trier’s got bigger problems than the paparazzi He went to France and sympathized with a Nazi! Melancholia fever swept the…
Vanity Fair: The Ross Douthat Challenge: The... →
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C. “Not that rigid secularity and cloying, politically correct euphemisms like ‘holiday season’ and ‘millennial observance’ are to be applauded, mind you. Far from it.”
D. “In a sense, of course, there’s no better time to be a Christian than the first 25 days of December. But this is also the…
Pop quiz time
“I find Jess’s inability to say “penis” or any of its colorful aforementioned...”
– Zooey Deschanel on New Girl: Adorkable or Tweepulsive? Male and Female Perspectives on Episode Four (via vanityfair)
Is there such a thing as bad ironic taste—and other burning questions—in this week’s recap!
“Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair may have thought she was being “clever” with her Nov....”
– The best
