Links
Morning links
- Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir of her early years in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe, is being made into a movie. Here’s who she thinks could play them. (Vulture)
- If this clip of a bunch of Marines having a huge pillow flight on their flight home from Afghanistan does not warm the your heart, then you need to check your pulse. (Daily What)
- Did you hear the one about the brothel being run out of a Zumba studio in Kennebunkport, Maine? (HuffPo)
- This history of TV networks that aren’t what they started out to be is fascinating. TLC—home to Honey BooBoo—was founded by NASA as an educational channel in 1972. Also: ABC Family started out as part of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, and there is a stipulation built into the original contract of sale that the network must continue running Robertson’s The 700 Club. But I’m giving it all away. Read it. (Wired)
- Nooooooo! (Gothamist)
Posted on October 12th, 2012
Oh MAN – I am conflicted about the movie version of Just Kids, one of my favorite books that I read in the past year. I thought I saw somewhere that James Franco was playing Mapplethorpe in something – not this movie – but I don’t think I can buy him in that role. I don’t know who though, and kind of cringe at the thought of K Stew, but that could be because I have an irrational loathing of her.
And pleated pants? REALLY????? Ugh.
Thought you might be interested in this, if you haven’t seen it already: http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/04/18/ann-romney-why-should-women-be-paid-equal-to-men/
I half wish it was true!