"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the best album ever made and all other albums stink, and if you don’t agree, I’ll fight you."
- April Ludgate, of Parks and Recreation fame, writing for Vulture about her appreciation for Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on the album's 15th anniversary (Parks an Rec co-creator Mike Schur may have helped).
Erotic Stefon fan fiction: it exists. And it will make you very, very, very uncomfortable. I made it to the part where Stefon was tonguing Seth Meyers' nipples before I had to stop, and then I kept reading the whole thing because I am disgusting. Anyway, I love how even someone who is out of touch with reality enough to spend a substantial amount of time fantasizing about Stefon and Seth Meyers' sexual relationship agrees that Stefon's Ed Hardy shirt is hideous. That may well be the one thing binding all of humanity. Here's a taste of what you're in for, if you can take it:
The world's biggest Tolkien fan Stephen Colbert launched Hobbit Week on his show last night, a series of Hobbit and Lord of the Rings-themed shows that will last through Thursday. Entitled "The Pundit: Or Colbert and Back Again," Hobbit Week is what you should be watching if you've ever wanted to watch Stephen Colbert speak Elvish. Hit the jump for the rest of last night's Hobbit-related Colbert clips (including an interview with Sir Ian "Gandalf" McKellen:
To get to the Venture Brothers panel at New York Comic Con 2011, I had to wait in a long line to get to another line, to get to another line, all to get to the main line for admission to the IGN Theater. During the wait, I befriended the suited guy in front of me, who said he’d recently moved to New York from Atlanta. Trying to think of something conversation-y to say, I told him I was surprised that so many people wore costumes when the costume contest wasn’t till Sunday. He smiled at me and said, “You’ve never been to a con before, have you?”
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On Friday, the New York Times speculated that soon busloads of people will be seen outside Hannah's apartment (which is on India St. between Franklin and Manhattan). And I think we might've found our perfect tour guide: Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He told the New York Post yesterday: “We love the show for inspiring people to move to New York City and become the ‘voice of a generation,’ as Hannah would say.” Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson added: “We’re obsessed… It’s the big water-cooler topic of conversation Monday morning in the bullpen.” If you ever see Mike Blooms outside Café Grumpy wearing jeans with a slim leg, you'll know [...]
