As you've probably gleaned by now, headline writers have found a new living on The Twitter. Their mission should they choose to accept it, craft a headline in 140 characters or less that sounds intriguing, fascinating, spell-binding. Of course, more often then not, when you click the link, the results are less than spectacular. That's where @SavedYouAClick comes in...
For example:
Jobs above pre-crisis level. Tied for longest consecutive growth streak RT @UpshotNYT: Two milestones in jobs report, writes @JustinWolfers
Saved You A Click
Because he has a deal with Powerade. RT @SInow: Gatorade trolled LeBron James after he left Game 1 early with cramps:
You're doing it wrong. MT @Salon: This helps explain why you can't get your female partner off
Okay maybe that last one you should still click through... not that I need any help, but..
2. TGIF
Special thanks to, where else, Masshole Sports, for the Gif of not only the week..perhaps the century. Poor Lebron, cramping up at the most inopportune time.. (It's probably menstrual)
3. FSF
Just audio today, as I recently had the pleasure of re-discovering this gem. Was the perfect soundtrack for a little hour long drive to allow Julius to nap. He had a great time in the back seat, Daddy had a great time in the front seat.. and all was right with the world. I forgot just how nasty that Dark Star Medley 1st set was... non-stop headie-ness. Enjoy
Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here”
Still, for all the richness of the result you hear here and all the fan-hours spent listening to Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album in the 35 years after it came out, the public never got to hear Grappelli’s playing foregrounded until Immersion reissued it three years ago. This long-lost but rediscovered mix of the title track marks, to the mind of Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason, a marked improvement over the version on the original album. “I think that was the jewel in that particular crown,” he said to Sonic Reality. “It was something that I assumed had been lost forever. I thought we’d recorded over it. [ … ] I can’t imagine why we didn’t use it at the time.” In the one they did use at the time, what remains of Grappelli’s playing came out so inaudible that the album’s credits didn’t even name the violinist. I’d like to chalk up another point for the cultural revision made possible by our technological age, but alas, I doubt any sort of rediscovery will break true Floyd acolytes of their adherence to the canon.
via Something Else Reviews
5. In Your Face Bullock!
I have to admit, I loved Gravity. Thought it should have won best picture (disclaimer: I don't watch that aahtsy shit).. but after seeing this, I may have to rethink a few things...
Here's Everything Wrong With 'Gravity' As Told By Neil deGrasse Tyson
6. Life Lessons
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from Seinfeld. And now, there's proof!
Most importantly:
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
7. Hard Hitting Journalism
Ever wonder what happened when a mild mannered reporter heads to the Rocky Mountain High state for a lil hands-on journalism? Well here's your answer...
Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude
The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child.
Sitting
in my hotel room in Denver, I nibbled off the end and then, when
nothing happened, nibbled some more. I figured if I was reporting on the
social revolution rocking Colorado in January, the giddy culmination of
pot Prohibition, I should try a taste of legal, edible pot from a local
shop.
What could go wrong with a bite or two?
Everything, as it turned out.
Not
at first. For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from
room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay
and mediocre-movies-on-demand.
But
then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made
it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory
state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn’t move to get
water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure
that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn’t answer, he’d call
the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy.
I
strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching
my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my
paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was
telling me.
It
took all night before it began to wear off, distressingly slowly. The
next day, a medical consultant at an edibles plant where I was
conducting an interview mentioned that candy bars like that are supposed
to be cut into 16 pieces for novices; but that recommendation hadn’t
been on the label.
Okay, I know it sounds scary..but did you know, Dan Rather did HEROIN for a story!??! Yep, ye ole' H-Bomb. Now that's a journalist.
You read that right. The revered CBS anchor did smack for a report when he worked for a radio station in Houston in the 1950s. After a group of musicians visiting the city were busted for heroin possession, Rather went down to the police station and convinced the pigs to inject him. “I said it would be a good story to get some heroin—[though] I had no idea how to get it—and then describe how you feel,” he told Business Insider in 2012. “And so I did that with the help of the police in the police station. Hard to imagine these days, but I knew these guys pretty well.” Rather told Bravo’s Andy Cohen one dance with black tar was enough because “It gave me a hell of a headache.”
8. Photoshop Win of the Week
File under: certain things you can't unsee
Here’s what a bunch of dudes would look like with Zooey Deschanel’s eyes
9. What's in the Box?
Finally, one of cinema's great unanswered questions.. gets answered.
10. The Best Long Read You Never Thought You Needed
But you most certainly do.. may I present, the real life story of Deebo. Shit is off the hook
Say Hello to the Bad Guy
The life and times of Hollywood heavy Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, better known as Deebo
My favorite part:
“He can go from that innocent look to absolute danger in a blink of an
eye,” says Eric Roberts, Lister’s costar in four films. “When he looks
angry, you feel anger.”
I love that Eric Roberts has co-starred in 4 films with him.. of course he has.And while we're here..
Happy Friday Yawl!
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