Mad linkage:
John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe (and hopefully teaming up with young Abe Lincoln to hunt vampires).
Obama urges Americans to “turn the page” on Iraq.
Bill Compton as Doctor Doom and either Jack Bauer or John McClane as the Thing.
Jon Hamm: “If Rob Lowe had been cast in the part, it would have been different. There was no backstory with me.”
An interesting write up on Phonogram: The Singles Club.
Behind the “Frazenfreude.”
Stephen Hawking changes his views on God.
Just imagine this: An 80 hour Lost marathon.
5 mind blowing ways that your memory plays tricks on you.
5 UFO sightings that even non-crazy people find creepy.
5 stupidest ways that movies deal with foreign languages.
6 famous unsolved mysteries (that have totally been solved).
January Jones: “I need not to think about my character. Betty is so blissfully ignorant in certain ways, so I feel like I should be too.”
Speaking of Arcade Fire: Their new collab with Google folks, The Wilderness Downtown.
A cannibal restaurant in Berlin. Figures.
Laura Marling’s award-nominated love triangle.
Self-described CIA assassin dies in ([accidental] self-imposed) gun accident.
Some of these pictures are, of course, from Rolling Stone, which will be featuring Mad Men on the cover of their new issue. Great idea. Bad photoshopping on that cover though.
And, I tell ya, August and I have really missed doing our Mad Men write ups the past few episodes, especially since, as far as I’m concerned, this has been the show’s strongest season yet, but on the plus side, it’s probably spared you an incredible amount of Nora Zehetner photos that I would’ve just bombarded you with…
Seriously.
Creepy artificial arm from the 1800s.
Peter Travers talks with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Weezer’s just trying to sell some clothes and Cee-Lo says “Fuck You.”
Is Barnes & Noble really going bye bye?
Blah blah blah bedbugs.
The Bloom Box: A power plant the size of a coffee mug.
Why do hurricanes often curve out to sea?
There’s some NSFW happening in the new Conan movie.
One year after Disney bought Marvel: Not much has really changed.
The perilous profession of underground mining.
Wormholes in NYC.
I honestly can’t believe that they renewed Human Target.
Booty calls are their own special type of relationship.
Oh, and hey, the next post will be the 750th!
