Morning Dump: Bret Easton Ellis may be a douche, Gary Shandling is funny, Scott Pilgrim is charming, kids are idiots
Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by theashcan in Morning Dump
The fanboys bring out the snark in Bret Easton Ellis
- I’m sorry, but Bret Easton Ellis is totally one of my favourite authors, even though he totally comes off as a pompous douche in real life and his latest, Imperial Bedrooms, so far isn’t that great even though I’m only half way through it. But every time I get a chance to read some sort of profile or Q&A with him I eat it up.-jkg
- Gary Shandling hasn’t been around much lately. Luckily, GQ profiled the reclusive comedian and catches us up with what the neurotic Larry Sanders has been up to. Often with comedians we take for granted the amount of intelligence required to properly contextualize the most simple observation in life — the axiomatic details that are so ingrained we overlook them. Shandling is a godfather to Hollywood’s comedic culture and this profile sheds some light on both the character and humanity of, arguably, the torch bearer of modern sitcoms. -sy
- Are you sick of reading about Scott Pilgrim yet? Well, fuck you because Dan Kois’s slideshow for Slate about the comic’s various charms is fantastic. -jc
- In other news related to ‘things the kids like,’ The Guardian introduces the term “sodcasting.” Never heard of it? Well, I’m sure the proverbial lightbulb will go off when I provide you with the story’s fantastically British definition: “Sodcast [noun]: Music, on a crowded bus, coming from the speaker on a mobile phone. Sodcasters are terrified of not being noticed, so they spray their audio wee around the place like tomcats.” AUDIO WEE!-am
