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Well it looks as though avant-garde Twitter comedian Chuck Grassley — a Republican senator from Iowa — is broadening his social media horizons: Mashable reports that he’s joined Vyou, the site that lets users broadcast post videos responding to questions sent in by random people on the internet.
One of my favorite things about this time of year are the commencement addresses delivered to graduating students at colleges and universities across that country that pop up on YouTube. I enjoy watching/listening/reading these speeches because I think they’re often filled with wisdom and inspiration that we all can take from them.
At some point in the coming days there will probably be an UPROXX post featuring what we think are the best ones, but some are so outstanding that they deserve their own post, like the one Aaron Sorkin delivered at Syracuse University last weekend, my favorite line from which is this…
“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
Yes, the soon-to-be-shamer of Ashton Kutcher is spot-on. Video and full transcript of his speech are below. Enjoy…
Overheard recently inside of a GQ editorial meeting…
“So Justin Bieber’s people are going to grant us access to him for a piece. Who should we send to Los Angeles to do the profile?”
“How about that funny guy from the internet who cusses a lot?”
“You mean noted web vulgarian Drew Magary?”
“Yeah, that guy!”
“Brilliant!”
And so it came to pass that our pal Drew was dispatched to hang with the Biebs on a mission to put some hair on his taut little nutsack.
We typically leave the news about TV show pickups and cancellations to our TV nerd cousins over at Warming Glow, but I just learned about CBS ordering a sitcom about two bros working for Groupon — to be played by McLovin’ from Superbad and some dude named Nicholas Braun — and I just can’t not post about it.
No, I am not kidding, CBS is actually doing a show about Groupon employees and the title is nothing short of absurdly mind-boggling: Friend Me. Do the network’s executives not know the difference between Groupon and Facebook? Or are they betting that their viewers don’t? It’s like CBS is wearing a sign that says “We’re old and we know it and we desperately want to appeal to young people.”
All-around super-duper likable guy Adam Scott dropped by The Late Show last night, presumably to promote something, but all that matters is that he instead regaled Letterman and the audience with a story about the time he and Nick Offerman decided to drink beers with some college students at Cal Tech.
I don’t want to spoil any of it, because Adam Scott really is the underrated raconteur and me typing words won’t do it justice, so I’ll just tease this with A) when Nick Offerman gets propositioned to drink beers with college kids he simply responds, “Yeah, I’ll do that” (He does love talking to college kids, after all!), and B) Letterman thoroughly enjoys every second of the story, making the whole thing exponentially better.
“Alright, let’s go blow some minds…”
If you follow Bret Easton Ellis — author of American Psycho, Less Than Zero, etc. – on Twitter, you know that he’s become a bit of sad caricature of a Bret Easton Ellis character, one who’s obsessed with porn star James Deen, so much so that he penned a movie for Deen to star in (a move that some have interpreted as a desperate attempt to get Deen to have sex him).
And it’s that very movie Ellis wrote for Deen that has led him to Kickstarter: he’s asking for money to produce the project, which Ellis said will only feature actors and actresses who are willing “to act and be full frontal naked banging girls and guys realistically.”
Jon Stewart pointed out something interesting last night on the Daily Show that others have noted as well: the lack of a full-blown freakout on Fox News over Obama’s gay marriage announcement earlier in the week. It’s as if they’ve finally come to the realization that culture wars are probably a losing issue in 2012 and that an entire generation of voters is being alienated by the ignorance and bigotry of the party’s wingnut faction.
“And this is a true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation,” Stewart said last night. “In like five years the prime talking point from Republicans, on people who support gay marriage, has gone from ‘It will destroy society via turtle-f-cking’ to ‘Oh of course you’re for it, you’ll say anything popular to get reelected.’ And that is progress.”
Well said, sir.
If you’ve spent any time at all on Facebook or Twitter today, you’ve probably noticed that A LOT of people are talking about the new cover of Time magazine — for some reason — marking the first time in years anyone outside of your Aunt Mildred has talked about Time magazine in public.
Inevitably, some media outlet, possibly Time itself, will do an oral history of the photo shoot for the cover — the full, slightly NSFW version of which is after the jump — 20 years or so down the line, in which someone will interview cover model Jamie Lynne Grumet, her teet-suckling son Aram, photographer Martin Schoeller and others who were there the day the cover photo was shot to get their perspectives on it. Here’s how I imagine it will go.
I didn’t get to catch Conan last night but it was for the best as this morning I was greeted on Tumblr by the above GIFs that I think everyone should experience with limited context before actually watching the clip.
OK, now that you’ve taken it in, the lady yoga mounter is Nina Dobrev. She’s a young starlet on that CW show about vampires that I’d like to think none of you watches unless it is in some way getting you laid. She and Conan were talking physical fitness backstage and it somehow culminated with the demonstration. Full, highly entertaining clip after the jump.
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