JZ,
I agree. I'm actually a little down about Rakoff. I didn't really know him at all, but I just loved his writing. Ah well. Ob-la-di and all that.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2012 2:12:42 pm PDT #17742 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Lee - Aug 10, 2012 2:16:08 pm PDT #17743 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Video of the Synchronized Swiveling competition from yesterday
(will probably self destruct soon) Gone now
Allyson - Aug 10, 2012 2:19:52 pm PDT #17744 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm saddened by Rakoff, too.
Adam Yauch's will was released, and there's been a lot of speculation about his entire estate being worth "only" 6.4 million.
Do I need to recalibrate? That seems like such a huge sum of money to me. Are people desensitized by the crazy epic sums we keep hearing about from billionaires in the news all the time?
-t - Aug 10, 2012 2:50:48 pm PDT #17745 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Synchronized Swiveling is awesome.
I am appalled that people are commenting on the size of anyone's estate. That's just so nobody's business.
Tom Scola - Aug 10, 2012 2:56:50 pm PDT #17746 of 30001
hwæt
That seems like such a huge sum of money to me.
Compared to, say, how much Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons are worth? It’s not exactly fair.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2012 2:59:43 pm PDT #17747 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It’s not exactly fair.
Fair? What was he spending it on, and what was he doing for income? How could we possibly know what is fair?
Allyson - Aug 10, 2012 3:14:59 pm PDT #17748 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yeah, I dunno. I don't know how much he spent on charity, and Kristen brought up the point that just about three years of cancer treatments were probably pretty pricey. Plus Beastie Boys split everything three ways, regardless of who wrote what.
I know they got fleeced on LTI, and Paul's Boutique flopped when it came out. They didn't really sell a huge amount of records, and stopped touring in 2009, so that would be lost revenue. I don't know.
Lee - Aug 10, 2012 3:15:02 pm PDT #17749 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
The Synchronized Swiveling is awesome.
It was a lot of fun, but now the video is going away
Burrell - Aug 10, 2012 3:22:36 pm PDT #17750 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Loved the synchronized swiveling, Lee.
I don't know what to say about the Yauch estate. Is it that people think he deserves more?
erikaj - Aug 10, 2012 3:26:26 pm PDT #17751 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
that seems like bank to me too, Allyson.