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By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Pajiba Love | Comments (21)

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Okay, so Natalie Portman has some Opinions on chick flicks. I too have some Opinions on chick flicks and they align fairly well with hers. I do find it difficult, however, to take her Seriously as a Serious Person when she has this World Patrol Kids skeleton dangling in her closet. Oh, internet, will your wonders never cease? (Celebitchy)

I imagine these being sold at the Toshi Station because, in my head, the Toshi Station is like an intergalactic Pep Boys where you can get power converters, a pack of gum and bobble head dolls. (Nerd Approved)

Listen, Economist reporter, it’s not necessary for you to lie to me in the title of your article and claim Portugal is using jujitsu to tackle their drug problems. What? Metaphorical jujitsu? Policy jujitsu? It’s an article about the decriminalization of drugs! That should be interesting by itself! And actually, folks, it kind of is. What are your thoughts on decriminalization? Or linguiça? (The Economist)

Kids, this beats the pants right off “Wino Forever” as my most favorite tattoo of all time. Imagine what the flexing will do!! (Deep Sea News)

Here’s an embarrassing confession I’m going to make to you hipper-than-thou, you sneer soaked masses. I love musical theater. It’s possibly my dorkiest love. It’s not one I often share, however, lest I be shunned. And while this clip features Daniel Radcliffe (my least favorite Potter kid) talking about “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (one of my least favorite musicals), it is also heavy on the Anderson Cooper (my second favoritest silver fox after Roger Sterling!!!). Here you can see Cooper laying down tracks for the narration of the show. Suck it, Brian Williams, you don’t have a corner on the humorous gravitas market. (Evit Beet)

Once again, Think Geek comes through with a gift for my soon-to-be-born nephew. Imma get him this and then I’m going to bite his little toes. Yes I am. Yes I-BEING AN AUNT WILL NOT MAKE ME SOFT, YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH. (Think Geek)

I find these snaps of the props from Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi flick, Looper, to be fairly neat, although the water fountain looks like an electric shaver and none of these photos involve Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a vest. Awww, man, now that I’ve said that, you’re not even going to bother clicking, are you? (Slash Film)

The other day a clever commenter pointed out that something I posted was not exactly new. Yup, they’re not all going to be fresh off the link vine, my pretties. Some internet concoctions are even better when aged in an oak cask. So here’s a treasure I’ve always found fun to mess around with, a tale as old as time, The Periodic Table of Elements. No really! Don’t laugh! There are neat graphics! This isn’t your uncle Tom’s Periodic Table! Don’t neglect to mess with the sliding temperature bar on the right. (Periodic Table)

John Cusack himself shared some photos from the set of the Edgar Allan Poe biopic. It looks sort of, um, dynamic. All I’ve ever envisioned Poe doing is pondering weakly and wearily. But, apparently, he died under mysterious circumstances? Those are my favorite kind of circumstances! (Boing Boing)

And here is where your long-winded link wench runs out of words so I’ll just say: “And now for something completely different!”

Joanna Robinson’s favorite part of the “The Elements” song is when Tom Lehrer says “thuliam and thallium.” Do you have a favorite element? Let me know here: godtopuswept@gmail.com









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Posted by: Jadine at January 20, 2011 1:04 PM

OMG, Anderson Cooper holding a small animal. I don't even need to read the story.

Posted by: Slash at January 20, 2011 1:17 PM

Fixed. The Sharktopus tattoo is all kinds of awesome.

Posted by: Jadine at January 20, 2011 1:18 PM

Poe made a ton of enemies while he was alive as he earned his living as a critic. So, some people (Griswold in particular) wrote up some really nasty obituaries when he kicked it. Chances are when he died, he wasn't huffing a hookah after being attacked by a rapid pack of flying squirrels, drowning in a puddle of his own urine in the gutter during a twelve day moonshine bender. But it could have happened. Maybe.

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2011 1:26 PM

Kudos on the Toshi Station love - and it is something that would be sold there though the beady black eyes creep me out a bit - like they're pod people.

Robot Chicken did a sketch on what really goes down at Toshi - not new but for your viewing pleasure....

http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/the-power-converters.html

And the kids being so cute you could eat them or bite of their toes/fingers/nose off has never really set well with my stomach because I think well, people probably used to do that if there is a saying. . .

Posted by: TVConnoiseur at January 20, 2011 1:33 PM

That Periodic Table is awesome! I love that the temperature shown once you set the scale is in Kelvin.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at January 20, 2011 1:36 PM

I regret that I have only one "meh" to give to that Edgar Allen Poe movie. Man, does that look meh. Actually, it kinda sorta looks like the Johnny Depp Legend of Sleepy Hollow deal. Which was amusing enough, I suppose.

Posted by: MM at January 20, 2011 1:39 PM

OH MAH GAH I NEED THAT TATT LIKE YESTERDAY.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 20, 2011 1:40 PM

Edgar Allen Poe and his pet RAVEN? Yeah that's not cheesy at all....

Posted by: logan at January 20, 2011 1:41 PM

Those are my favorite kind of circumstances!

I prefer my circumstances extenuating.

Posted by: mswas at January 20, 2011 1:48 PM

mswas - I prefer my circumstance to be Pomp and, but I enjoy a big entrance.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 20, 2011 2:01 PM

I totally pre-ordered all those bobble heads. Perhaps this necesitates an analysis of my priorities in life.

Posted by: the bees knees at January 20, 2011 2:28 PM

I have a compilation of Poe readings done by celebrities like Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne (yum), Jeff Buckley, Marianne Faithful, etc, called "Closed on Account of Rabies". It has a little description on the inside of why, perhaps, the circumstances surrounding his death point to this particular and peculiar malady. It is also the theory to which I largely subscribe.

In any case, it is an excellent compilation of any fan of Poe's.

Posted by: classical-numb at January 20, 2011 2:37 PM

I hate musical theater but I love cute animals and the peridoc table. Is there a venn diagram for that?

Posted by: anikitty at January 20, 2011 2:48 PM

OK Natalie, you're sounding horribly Heiglish and you have to STOP.

You know why? Have you seen the ads for your fucktard piece of SHIT movie with Ashton Kutcher? They make me want to HIT YOU. With HIM. How do you have the gall to whine about movie cliches when your very next project IS A GIANT BAD MOVIE CLICHE.

NO, NATALIE. NO. SHUT THE FUCK UP. I don't want to hate you, but dear God you're getting close to it.

I need to take a warm bath and forget about this, because grr.

Posted by: figgy at January 20, 2011 2:48 PM

I'm still waiting for the Poe movie that Sylvester Stallone wanted to star in. "Yo! Adrienne! Where's my cask of amontillado?"

Posted by: BWeaves at January 20, 2011 3:25 PM

and none of these photos involve Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a vest. Awww, man, now that I’ve said that, you’re not even going to bother clicking, are you?

JGL, we'll need you to go ahead and
A) become a spokesman for several formal menswear companies so that I can justify buying more suits and
2) release a video of your performance of "See My Vest"

Posted by: branded at January 20, 2011 3:39 PM

Posted by: Sara Tonin at January 20, 2011 4:58 PM

@ classical-numb: I thought the rabies theory had been (somewhat) soundly put to bed?

The smoking gun for the rabies theory was an account Dr Michael Benitez sourced in his article that sort of broke the rabies news. Benitez quotes from an article by Charles Scarlett, Jr.: "[Poe] was given a drink of water to determine if he could swallow freely, but he did this with difficulty." The idea here is that one of the side effects of rabies is hydrophobia; Poe seems to be exhibiting hydrophobia when he has trouble with the water; Poe, then must have had rabies.

However, as it turns out, Scarlett gets the quote a little wrong. (And if you aren't already bored, bear with me a little longer; it gets confusing because of all the names.) Scarlett uses for his source an account written in 1875 by a man named Dr John J. Moran (that's where the above "with difficulty" quote comes from); however Moran amended that statement in 1885 by writing instead, "I put a small lump of ice in his mouth, and gave him a sip of water, to ascertain what difficulty, if any, he had in swallowing. He drank half a glass without any trouble."

The later account takes out the hydrophobia, and that takes rabies out of the game.

Of course, what makes it a mystery is the fact that all this evidence is essentially circumstantial. This is a question that we should be able to answer, if we had all the evidence.

Posted by: Mike B. at January 20, 2011 5:00 PM

stop motion animation can be so goddamn COOL. i really enjoyed that video, joanna. thanks!

Posted by: carolyn at January 21, 2011 12:17 PM

Never too late for a killer Beck lyric:

"Silver foxes looking for romance in my chain-smoke Kansas flashdance asspants."

Posted by: Mattfactor at January 21, 2011 3:35 PM