1950. See, everything really does go in cycles. Horrible, horrible cycles.
Keith Schofield’s excellent video for Justice’s Lenny Kravitz remix. (via Eli)
"As you can imagine, this has been a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on."
- Merrill Markoe’s official comment on the Letterman situation
Ben: I'll take any chance to get a bubbling/smoking blue drink.
Ben: I mean, fill a hot tub with hot Windex and my mouth salivates
Go take a look at the hit new Tonight Show website AHoleJuice.com. Come on, do it. Please?
May have posted this before, but damn I love it.
Why's a Dop Kit called a Dop Kit? #gregblogging
In any case, thanks to a discussion of the term “Dopp Kit” on the mailing list of the American Dialect Society (www.americandialect.org) a couple of years ago, I can assure you that “Dop” or “Dopp” isn’t an acronym or abbreviation for anything. According to newspaper accounts unearthed by Merriam-Webster’s Jim Rader, the Dopp Kit was first produced by Charles Doppelt, a leather goods designer who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1900s. Although it may have been Doppelt’s nephew and employee, Jerome Harris, who actually invented the snazzy leather toiletries case, Doppelt was the boss and so the finished product bore a cropped form of his name, giving us the “Dopp Kit.” Dopp Kits were manufactured by the Charles Doppelt Company until the firm was purchased by Samsonite in the 1970s, and Dopp Kits today are made by Buxton. The popularity of Dopp Kits was evidently boosted considerably by World War II, in the course of which the U.S. Army issued them to recruits by the millions.
China — not scary at all! (via Big Picture)
"A Journalist is a machine that converts coffee into copy."
- Michael Ryan Elgan (via Jillian)
"I’ve got nothing on Kanye… too many things rhyme with Rock."
- Chris Rock weighs in (or doesn’t) on Kayne West’s recent tribulations
"(People) say to me, ‘Dave, what keeps you working night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year after year? Seriously, why do you keep working?’ And I just tell them, ‘Well, Foxwoods gambling resort.’"
- David Letterman, during his 5,000th broadcast
"Does he know who I am? Exactly-he shouldn’t! My mom doesn’t even know I’m in the major leagues, and my dad still confuses me with my older brother at Thanksgiving dinner. To tell the truth, I’m pretty sure the ball was worth more before I hit it. I’m Matt Carson, for God’s sake!"
- Matt Carson, rookie A’s outfielder, on the jerk that caught his first home run and is demanding $10,000 for the ball (Deadspin)
"And Jay Leno, with your banana boat face having ass, you need to apologize to Kanye West for having him with his mother [would say], what she would think, she would think she’d need to smack your fucking banana face-having ass face off trying to be slick."
- Mos Def disagrees with Jay Leno’s choice in interview questions
"When the mayor sat down to eat a slice at Denino’s Pizzeria Tavern on Staten Island recently, this reporter spotted him applying six dashes of salt to it."
- Fine reporting by the Michael Barbard for the NYT
