The Will Leitch Experience

theawl:

skidder:

AdWeek requires you to share certain stories in order to finish reading them. Why would I want to share something I can’t read? And is there anything more desperate a publisher can do? Gross.

I want to talk to the evil stupid-genius that invented this.

Ha. Honestly, I would rather PAY to finish the story.

As pointed out by Lindsay Robertson, Michael Ginsburg’s folder SHIT I GOTTA DO on last night’s “Mad Men” is frighteningly similar to my infamous SHIT TO GIT DUN list I’ve been updating three or four times a day for about 10 years now, so that the world does not spin off into chaos and madness. His list is cleaner, but I have more shit to do. You’re on alert, Ginsburg.

Happy Mother’s Day to Sally Leitch, David Letterman fill-in host last year, and my awesome mom.

(For that matter, a happy Mother’s Day to Alexa Stevenson, who is celebrating her first Mother’s Day as a mom, thanks to this messy rugrat. Alexa used to look like this.)

So here’s the best thing you will see today, via Mike D’Angelo.

(This is sort of the literal version of what the release of “Nevermind” did for me metaphorically in high school.)

Yeah, what does your dog do?

(The stuff you find when you’re cleaning out your home for a move is really quite fantastic.)

Man, Tony, you drove me crazy, but couldn’t be happier for you. It was all so, so worth it.

julieklausner:

Get the new episode of my podcast from iTunes or download/stream it directly here!

How Was Your Week: Episode 62
“The Front of a Crocodile: Will Leitch, Sara Schaefer”

Oh boy, oh boy! This episode of How Was Your Week is so good, it will curl your pretty lashes.

First and foremost, Julie went with Billy Eichner to see Rita Wilson perform at Joe’s Pub last night, and there is an extensive recap at the top of the show of that blessed and sacred evening of song and magic. Nora Ephron and Wendi Deng were both in the audience? I mean. I can’t.

And then, there are the guests. The guests! And what guests! In time for Mothers’ Day, the charming and attractive SARA SCHAEFER (You Had To Be There) is here to tell a touching, funny and insane story about the time her mom invited a homeless man to live with her family for 6 months. Learn about chicken strips, Christmas Eve and Rwanda through the prism of a man named Harold.

Then, wonderful gentleman writer WILL LEITCH (New York Magazine, Gawker, Deadspin) joins Julie for the latest installation of How Was Your Week Movie Club. This week, we discuss the sublime Fargo. Subtopics of our fun, fascinating chat include:

>Whether Tarantino’s ’90s blood legacy holds up with the woodchipper gag (and it IS a gag, right?)
>If Harve Presnell was indeed Fargo’s high-status stand-in for the “bellowing heavy” in the Coen Bros’ cabinet of archetypes
>What Lt. Columbo and Marge Gunderson have in common
>A theory about how Walter White, Carl Showalter and Jerry Lundegaard are the trinity of failed virility
>Mike Yanagita, Mike Yanagita, Mike Yanagita

Also, more details are revealed about Jimmy Jazz, including some extremely intimate details about his intimacy parts! Julie accepts her Comedy Awards defeat graciously, then goes on to renew her vow to crush absolutely everybody on her way to where she—and we—need to be! Sean Bean is discovered and considered for who he is and not who he could be! And Julie watches, then recaps, Duck Dynasty and Tanked, because there is nothing better than never leaving the house.

A show that is so wonderful, even Rita Wilson would stop singing “Angel in the Morning” to complement it!

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Julie Klausner is one of those human beings who makes the world a better place every time she walks through it. (Which is daily, one would presume.) ‘Twas a dandy-darned honor to be on the show. Listen! (To her. Mute me.)

Been quiet about this so far this year to make sure I don’t mess with it … but I’m don’t think there’s been a month-and-a-half start to a Cardinals season I’ve enjoyed this much in the last 20 years. Shhhh.

Progress, followed immediately by something decidedly less than that.

mcnallyjackson:

Atria’s concerns with the hardcover jacket design for Jennifer Weiner’s Then Came You:

• Skirt color 
• Hair style
• Ugly desk

Things about which they are blithely unconcerned:

• The terrifying geometries of their stock photography, making it seem as if the floor of this office lies at a forty-five degree angle to the surface of the earth. Or is she in a plummeting aircraft? Maybe it’s the future, and she is actually in the interior of a spun up asteroid, and those are screens meant to ease claustrophobia. Which explains the Future Desk. And the blouse. Nobody wears green on X-371, lest they be targeted by the security wasps, obviously.

Ha. “Is she in a plummeting aircraft?”

(via theawl)

peterfeld:

Beastie Boys and Elvis Costello, “Radio Radio”

Mikhail Gorbachev, Buzzsaw fan.

I posted this a year ago — thanks, Timehop! — and I still can’t believe it exists. (And here are some more.)

My Derrick Rose story has inspired a grammatically questionable Bleacher Report poll. Check that one off the bucket list.