My little brother joined Facebook the other day, prompting my sister and I to go through all our old vacation photos and tag embarrassing photos of him.
This one, far from embarrassing, was a legitimately nice photo of us from our vacation to Montreal.
if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
Back home in Boston, chillin out and smokin a J with my best friends and just getting introspective as fuck. I miss home so much right now.
Pixar’s Gran Up Torino. Amazing.
I have got to get around to seeing UP. Also the dog as Sue is hilarious.
I fixed some of the Golden Globes nominations.
I don’t think I could have picked better nominations if I tried. Hrabik for Golden Globe Czar!
GPOYW—Haven’t done of these in awhile (edition)
This is me receiving an award in my basement Saturday night.
1) Diggin’ the neon Christmas lights behind the bar
2) My solo cup has that cool black lotto ticket-styled scratch thing so you can put your own name on there
3) I basically never open my eyes in any picture, but I had even better reason for this one because about 70 people were cheering at me as I drunkenly received an award, and I get embarrassed easily.
4) I got a haircut!
I don’t know what they’re sew upset about.
The blame is being pinned on the neglectful parents. “Mom, I needle little help” the boy reportedly said before collapse.
I’d like to reblog this, but I don’t want to start an endless pun thread.
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. I’ve used so many of these arguments to defend my TV habit over the past few year, but never as clearly or as eloquently as Emily Nussbaum makes them. Mostly I just called people retarded for not watching Lost.
Great article. It just reinforces what will most likely happen. Down the road, quality television will still be made, but just like the 60s for music and the 70s for movies, the classics will remain from the 2000s for television.
Also, while reading this, I wondered aloud, when is the golden era of Internet entertainment going to happen? In the 1890s, people would line up down the block to see footage of a train pulling into a station in Lumiere’s L’arrivée du train en gare de La Ciotat. In the 1990s, millions of people viewed an animated gif of a dancing baby.
As much progress as we’ve seen in Internet entertainment—and there has been a lot—it has clearly not reached its full potential yet. As of now, the most successful internet entertainment stars either a) eventually move to TV and/or movies, a la Aziz Ansari, Don Glover, Whitest Kids U Know, or b) attempt to build a successful Internet series with the support of the integrated ad model, like CollegeHumor or FunnyorDie. What possible advancements will we see down the road in Internet entertainment, and when will they happen?
Or, as another tack entirely, will the Internet simply become the technology du jour for all entertainment mediums, making the label “internet-only” obsolete? The music industry has already moved to the powers of the Internet, with record labels fruitlessly trying to keep up with frivolous lawsuits, like the one filed against Vimeo. Television has made a move online as well, not only with sites like Hulu, but with new technology gauging Internet ratings to set ad rates.
Whether Internet entertainment will have its own era of creative breakthrough remains to be seen. However, with the consensus of TV having its golden age now, it seems unlikely the Internet will have its breakthrough for a long time.
