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Fugs and Pieces, December 21 2012

Dec 21, 2012 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm

PHEW. The world hasn’t ended. In celebration — and because of Christmas and New Years, and ALSO because this is the time of the year when celebs hole up on private islands and don’t leave the house at all — our posting schedule will be light indeed between now and next year. We’ll have some fun special posts popping up, so definitely check back at your leisure, but normal posting will not resume until Wednesday, January 2, 2013. And then it’s awards season, so get ready to roll. Until then, enjoy:

– Romeo Beckham is SO CUTE in his Burberry ad. (Lainey)

– Last week’s Indiana Jones/University of Chicago mystery: SOLVED! (Red Eye Chicago)

- Which Wes Anderson character are you? I am Luke Wilson’s character from The Royal Tenenbaums, which makes sense given that I secretly love Gywneth Paltrow and not-secretly love sweatbands. (Flavorwire)

– This is interesting/pretty graphic. They’ve exhumed the killers from In Cold Blood because DNA evidence may tie them to other crimes. (Time)

– This guy made a gingerbread Downton Abbey. (Grubstreet)

– Vulture made a montage of all the characters and TV shows we lost this year. RIP RINGER!!!! Also, I enjoy that they used my favorite part of the One Tree Hill credits. (Vulture)

–This headline is spectacular: “Justin Bieber blasted by CA Hamster Association for giving pet to fan.” (Celebitchy)

– The Cut tracked down a variety of original Playboy bunnies to see what they’re up to now. Most of them are doing damn well for themselves. (The Cut)

– Grantland reviews the best of the year in sports — in highlight videos and gifs. Some of these gifs are gold, Jerry, GOLD! Also includes the Clipper’s Chris Paul’s son making fun of Blake Griffin, which is possibly my favorite thing of the year because THAT KID IS SO CUTE. (Grantland)

AND FINALLY, in a treasured GFY tradition, BEHOLD:

WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH EVERYONE’S HAIR?

Fugs and Pieces, December 14 2012

Dec 14, 2012 By Jessica AT 2:00 pm

Maybe one of these will provide fluffy distraction today:

– Don’t you hate it when you accidentally demolish a house you were supposed to renovate? All joking aside, the thought of that chateau being destroyed makes me kind of sick. (Time)

– Gawker ranks the fruits and blueberry is number one?! YOU ARE INSANE, GAWKER. There is NO WAY a BLUEBERRY is a better than the noble nectarine. (Gawker)

– You know how they told us that the Brontosaurus never existed? I had no idea it was made up in the course of an PALAEONTOLOGIST FEUD. A feud so bitter it has A NAME. (The Slideshow)

– I love this stuff: a mashup of 50 of 2012′s best pop songs. I can’t imagine how long it took to make this. (YouTube — video, obviously)

– These photos of gay and lesbian couples getting married on the first day it was legal in Washington State made me cry. (Buzzfeed)

– This article about New York’s best — and oldest — neon signs, and neon signs in general – is totally fascinating. (Collector’s Weekly)

– I never get tired of reading about how legitimately awesome Hugh Jackman is. (Lainey)

– The University of Chicago got a mystery package! ABOUT INDIANA JONES. It is AWESOME. Who made this?! (U of Chicago Admissions)

– Rumor has it that Chastain is dating her hot hot hot Zero Dark Thirty co-star. Good on you, lady. (Celebitchy)

– This article about Barneys is flat-out fascinating. (New York Times Magazine)

– Can we offer you some gifts for cultural icons? I HAVE been wondering what to buy Anna Wintour….(Flavorwire)

Fugs and Pieces, December 7 2012

Dec 7, 2012 By Jessica AT 2:00 pm

I just learned that, although I thought I ordered FOUR packets of Peppermint Bark from Williams Sonoma, I ordered FORTY. Um. Does anyone want some Peppermint Bark? While I try to figure out what happened here, please enjoy:

– If you are a Parks and Recreation fan, you’ll want to see this fanvid in which the MURDER OF LIL’ SEBASTIAN is turned into a very disturbing movie. Sometimes I love the internet. (Uproxx)

– If I know you guys — and I do — I know you will want to see the new Star Trek trailer due to how very much Benedict Cumberbatch voice-over there is. He is totally one of the cast members of Phone Book, the movie Heather and I are going to make that is just people with good voices reading the phone book. “Cumberbatch. Sutherland. Freeman. PHONE BOOK.” (Celebitchy)

– Outfits inspired by books. And, in one case, made of them. (Flavorwire)

– Freaks and Geeks fans, you must read the Vanity Fair oral history thereof. The pictures alone are worth your time. (Vanity Fair)

– Grantland was on the set of last week’s Homeland. Can we all agree that Damian Lewis — an otherwise terrific actor — can NOT act against a Skyping terrorist on a Blackberry? (Grantland)

– Vulture takes a look back at the year in hate-watching. (Vulture)

– A dog rescue organization in New Zealand has taught some dogs to drive. YES, CARS. (Time)

– I was neutral on Lenny Kravitz until I saw the EPIC SIDE-EYE he’s giving to Demi Moore in these pictures from Art Basel. Now I want to go to brunch with him and talk smack about people. (Lainey)

– Better take this quiz to find out which Wakefield twin you actually are. (Buzzfeed)

– The history of the Little Black Dress. (Refinery29)

– One of the most interesting things I read last week: What Thirteen People Wore to Their Interview With Anna Wintour. (The Cut)

– Is this the best hoodie in the world? (Slate)

Fugs, Fabs, and Fines: The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Power 100: Women In Entertainment’ Breakfast

Dec 5, 2012 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm

12 photos in gallery

Bearing in mind that this was a breakfast event, I was SURE someone was going to show up in a cocktail dress. But Power Women did not get to be Power Women by being dummies — almost all of these ladies wore something daytime appropriate. Although some of them HAD to be chilly; it was cold this morning in Los Angeles. Buy a power cardigan, you guys! I’m worried about all of you catching a cold.

[Photos: Getty]

Fugs and Pieces, November 30, 2012

Nov 30, 2012 By Jessica AT 2:00 pm

Don’t bother me, I’m working on our Gift Guide (coming your way next week). Until then:

– Are these New York’s 100 Most Important Living Writers? (Flavorwire)

– This is a really interesting article about what NFL training camp is like when you are NOT a star rookie — and may not even make the team — and the tough life of an undrafted free agent. (The New York Times Magazine)

– Speaking of sports, “Andrew Bynum and the Meaning of NBA Hair” is a great read from — (Grantland)

– PLEASE BUY SOME OF YOKO ONO’S NEW MENSWEAR FOR YOUR BOYFRIEND. (The Cut)

– Ooh, I love it when the list of the year’s most popular baby names comes out. That one isn’t the one that comes out from Social Security, but it will sate our cravings. FOR NOW. (Time)

– Do you like codes, ciphers, and secret societies? Then read this. (Wired)

– Look at some charming photos of Chris Hemsworth. (Celebitchy)

– Maybe you’re more in the mood for Joseph Gordon-Levitt (and his Marvel Comics/Batman prospects)? (Lainey)

– Cee-lo’s Christmas song is ably backed up by THE MUPPETS. YES. (Mashable)

– Longform curated six of Playboy’s best interviews, from Sinatra to Nabokov. (Slate)

– ABC News got security cam footage of a dude realizing that he won the Powerball — allegedly — and while he freaked out, I would have freaked out MORE. I would have knocked over that entire stand of oranges! (Gawker)

Fugs and Pieces, November 17, 2012

Nov 16, 2012 By Jessica AT 2:00 pm

I can’t pay attention to you right now. My big rivalry game is tomorrow. I have incantations to perform. Here, read this:

– The Hollywood Reporter’s review of Liz and Dick makes me SO EXCITED for it, Fug Nation! Allow me to quote! The movie is: “spectacularly bad,” “half train wreck, half SNL skit,” “Both an awful mess and an instant classic of unintentional hilarity,” and, finally, “it gets worse as it goes on, so in the right company with the right beverages, Liz & Dick could be unbearably hilarious toward the tail end of the 90-minute running time.” FUG NATION, I CAN’T WAIT.

– I love it when The Guardian takes on movie trailers — their piece about Hathaway’s accent in One Day is one of my favorite things ever — and this look at the new Miley Cyrus movie…is a must read. That movie ALSO looks like a GFY EVENT. (The Guardian)

– The Colbert Report’s take on the Petraeus affair is amazing. Susan Lucci is involved. (Colbert Nation — video, obviously)

– Also video and also amazing: the dudes on ESPN’s NFL Kickoff dropped quotes from The Princess Bride into all of last week’s show. Clearly intentionally, but WHY? Maybe just to be awesome. (Jezebel)

– The formula for being Sexiest Man Alive. (Time)

– David Beckham and Harper Seven blowing bubbles. I CAN NOT WITH THESE TWO. (Lainey)

– LOOK AT ALL THESE BOOKCASES! (Flavorwire)

– Speaking of books, ALLEGEDLY, the failure of Pippa Middleton’s party planning book is totally embarrassing to Wills and Kate. I am sure Wills and Kate just feel bad that poor Pippa wrote a book that includes such revelatory suggestions as, “consider serving a turkey at Christmas.” Poor, poor Pippa. (Celebitchy)

– In which Ann M. Martin names her 10 favorite Baby-sitters Club books. The list includes my personal favorite, Boy Crazy Stacey. (Entertainment Weekly)

– Oh my god. In Tokyo, there is a company that makes tiny action figures of YOU. I mean, not you personally in secret for some nefarious purpose. I mean, if you want one, you pay them and they make them and they are AWESOME. (Smithsonian)