Yay, it’s Friday! Please have a cocktail for us. Note! The SAGs are on Sunday, and we’ll be live-blogging the red carpet HERE at GFY, starting at 3pm Pacific. Come on by!
– Kate Middleton has been anointed something called HAT PERSON OF THE YEAR. (Fashion Etc)
– I don’t think I need to tell you any thing beyond this headline: The Most Ridiculous Science Fiction Plots From Actual Soap Operas. (i09)
– The New York Times takes an interesting look at how Esquire pulled themselves together when other magazines totally went to pot. (NYT)
– These Puritan baby names are amazing. “Wrestling Brewster” sounds like a kick! (The Hairpin)
– I am really scared that this Ferris Bueller Super Bowl ad is going to suck. If it does, Broderick, I will….SPEAK HARSHLY ABOUT YOU ON THE INTERNET! (Lainey)
– Speaking of Bowls, the starting line-up for the Puppy Bowl has been announced! (HuffPo)
– The most alarming thing about this report that Jon Hamm has given up drinking is that his usual drink used to be a MIDORI SOUR? JON. Please. You are a grown man. (Celebitchy)
– This is amazing: the National Gallery of Victoria reported a piece of art stolen….twelve years after the fact. They thought it was just misplaced. FOR TWELVE YEARS? (Time)
– Star Market asks: is it over for Katherine Heigl? The answer is brutal. (NY Mag)
– Take a look at these pretty pretty houses of famous famous authors. Dibs on the Wharton estate. (Flavorwire)
Comments (23):
A girlfriend of mine actually met him at a bar a few years ago (he was totally friendly and not cheating on Jennifer), but yes, what she thought odd was that he was drinking midori sours and paying with $1 bills.
That’s just awesome. <3
(What bar?)
Please, please, PLEASE give us Fugure Skating next week! US Nationals are on NBC tomorrow afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon. I’d hate to miss the biggest sequin convention of the year. Child-bride and Brubaker are currently leading the pack in pairs.
I will certainly cover them eventually — end of next week, maybe?
STOP IT. Jon’s given up drinking?!?
What’s he gonna have on our honeymoon? Coffee??
Evelyn Waugh’s house has nothing on Downton. It did make me think of Pemberley, though, which is probably comparable to Downton. Hmmm… Pemberley or Downton? Pemberley, I guess, since Fitzwilliam is so much better than Matthew.
BITE YOUR TONGUE, WOMAN.
I have been scouring the internet for Downton fans who don’t looooove Matthew. I should have checked with Fug Nation. Nicole, are you with me?
Nicole and Sophia, I am so happy to find someone else who loves Downton Abbey but not Matthew. He’s such a drip. Anybody who rejects Lady Mary in favor of that whiny little what’s-her-name . . .well, let’s just say I’d rather Lady Mary stop with the praying, realize her full capacity for awesomeness, and join forces with the evil newspaper guy.
OMG. Hamm is a Girl Drink Drunk.
Midori Sours were my first I’m-in-a-place-in-L.A.-that’s-not-carding-me drinks. (I think it was Hamburger Hamlet.) I was maybe 19, 20?
I can’t knock his taste. Sometimes occasions just call for a Green Apple Jolly Rancher in a glass.
I’m a girl and I don’t even like Midori! I’ll have an Amaretto Sour or a Blue Curacao any day, though!
I once dated a guy who liked Amaretto on the rocks. He called it “ammy on the rocks” like it was a thing. It was a bad sign.
MIDORI??? When I met my husband he used to drink that swill and I mocked him hardcore. AS HE DESERVED. GAH. At least drink PBR and be ironic.
sigh… I miss Passions.
As a person whose job it was to keep track of art objects in a large museum and then an IMPORTANT AND PRESTIGIOUS auction house, you would be surprised, nay, GOBSMACKED at the amount of art that goes missing and for how long. It could be the National Museum has loads of pieces they don’t even know they have or a registration department that neglected to perform inventory for several years or they really truly thought the lost art would turn up eventually – crazier things have happened! When you visit a museum, keep in mind you only see the smallest fraction of the work actually stored within the building and these old, colonial institutions are the worst for forgotten collections. Art and historic objects are wrecked, lost or stolen with alarming frequency.
As a future Museum Curator, I’m horrified by that!
Thank you for The Hairpin’s list of Puritan’s Baby Names! I laughed and laughed… It is fantastic!
I am the family historian/genealogist for both sides of my family and today’s kids ain’t got nothing on the kids of the past. I will also admit here that I have an great-uncle named Lemon, except that we pronounce it LEE-mon, not like the fruit.
I tried to visit Edith Wharton’s home last weekend…alas, it was closed for winter.
I grew up just down the road from there and if you’re able to, you should try again in the summer. The pictures don’t do it justice. It’s really quite breathtaking in person.
Edith Wharton wrote a book called “The Decoration of Houses” so she’s an expert of sorts. All I remember from it is that you want mullioned windows, not a big sheet of plate glass.
Oh, they totally said that. And that’s A LOT of mullioned windows!