February 2012
72 posts
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Anyone watching 30 Rock always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She’s the boss; Liz Lemon just works here. The big difference between them is Liz’s disastrous love life, yet even when Liz suffers rejection, we know it’s because Fey planned it that way. The losers she dates are really just fodder for her banter with Jack. So much as we love Liz Lemon, we really just love her for resembling Tina Fey.
The genius of Bossypants – and the main way it’s different from 30 Rock – is that it’s about being a young woman in the big city, but it’s not about dating. Talk about an underexploited market strategy. That’s an undeniable reason why the book was a success. Fey has a few teen-dating stories, but once she gets out of college, it’s all work, work, Lorne Michaels, work, Alec Baldwin and work. Then we’re on her honeymoon and we meet her in-laws and yada yada back to work. Genius. She is devoid of victim energy – if she doesn’t feel sorry for herself, nobody else should, and that helps make her insanely charismatic. As she writes, ‘Remember the beginning of the story where I was the underdog? No? Me neither.’
We don’t feel bad for Liz Lemon’s romantic humiliations because we know Liz’s problems are just an excuse for Tina Fey to flex her virtuosity. That’s why her act is impossible to replicate, though people are inevitably going to try as the cultural stakes get too big to ignore.
” —Rob Sheffield | Tina Fey and the Cult of Liz Lemon (via fromoneroomaway)12:01 am on a sunday
time for postsecret!
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
sweet jesus
Listen
The Blanks - Hey Ya Cover
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
—A Light In August by William Faulkner
Play
Why did the face of Boe not go to the party?
Because he had no body to go with.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
—Ray Bradbury (via butthequestioniswhynot)
“The past cannot subtract a thing from what I might do for you.”
—Relient K // Therapy (via melancoliaii)
You Were Cool
this is a song with the same four chords
I use most of the time
when I’ve got something on my mind
and I don’t want to squander the moment
trying to come up with a more complicated riff
to say what i want to say
people were mean to you
but i always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school
it’s good to be young but let’s not kid ourselves
it’s better to pass on through those years and come out the other side
with our hearts still beating
having stared down demons
come back breathing
people were mean to you
but i always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school
you deserved better than you got
someone’s got to say it sometime because it’s true
people should have told you you were awesome
instead of taking advantage of you
I hope you love you life like I love mine
I hope the painful memories only flex their power over you a little of the time
we held on to hope of better days coming
and when we did we were right
i hope the people who did you wrong
have trouble sleeping at night
people were mean to you
but i always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school
