welcome to the party, nymag.

you're not really that late.

Here, for the uninitiated, is the timeline of 20-year-old Harlem rapper and mp3 blog darling Azealia Banks's rise to fame: Her delightfully raunchy breakout track, "212," hit YouTube sometime back in September, then was pulled owing to a sample dispute. Banks hit CMJ and started giving interviews about feminine power in the interim, and then right before Thanksgiving, the "212" video popped back up online. A day later, NME declared Banks the No. 1 Coolest Person on the Planet. (Predictably, some other British outlets chimed in to claim they'd discovered Azealia first. Relax, U.K.) The La Guardia High School graduate still doesn't have a record deal — she tells Pitchfork she's "not really scared of major labels" and is about to sign — and her first album won't drop until next year. But she's suddenly everywhere, thanks in no small part to the adorable, swaggerific "212" video, available for your viewing pleasure below. Watch her sass a Harry Potter hipster! See her Mickey Mouse sweatshirt! (via)

did you know she went to the same high school as nicki minaj?!?  in two months, i'll post the new york times article.

spotichristmas!!!

(i found this pre-made on the internet, i swear.)

turkey day has come and gone, and now it's time for cHriStmAsSssSss!!!

joel and i slaved and slaved and made you a 2Pz christmas playlist on spotify.

we hope you <3 <3 LoVe <3 <3 it!!

this is the best version i could find

Steve Johnson of the buffalo bills scores on the jets and then celebrates by mocking Plaxico Burress and then the jets. Burress, as you may recall, was out at a club and shot himself in the leg. Because Johnson went to the ground during his td dance, the bills were charged a 15 yard penalty. The jets won the game in part because of the ensuing touchdown...

woody allen mondays

I watched the first half of a really good documentary about Woody Allen and his movies. I love this opening sequence.

nerd alert, American Masters on PBS is also made a doc about Charles and Ray Eames jicyww.

sneezy corgi

and his name is pepper. can you believe it!

what it's like.

no spoilers from tonight's "mid-season finale" or anything, don't worry.

deer just wants to say hi

via

who is this?

i don't know but i'm intrigued! NSFanywhere lyrics.

kill some minutes

If you haven't already, visit Google.pl, where a mesmerizing Doodle honoring Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem will joyfully consume at least 20 minutes of your day. Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Lem's first but lesser known novel, The Astronauts, the black-and-white, pencil-sketched interactive Doodle is epic. (via)

tiny treasure.

Imagine a windswept moor in the north of England. Add a big house, where a clergyman and his four children live — isolated, pale little children inventing fantasy worlds in the nursery of a rambling old house.

These were the peculiar origins of the Bronte sisters, the novelists Emily, Charlotte and Anne who, with their brother Branwell, endured a grim and lonely upbringing by vanishing into fantasy worlds so obsessively and vividly imagined that they even had their own magazines. Next month, the auction house Sotheby's will sell one such manuscript produced by a 14-year-old Charlotte, estimated to fetch $315,000 to $475,000.

The magazine is tiny, "half the size of a credit card," Gabriel Heaton, deputy director of books and manuscripts at Sothebys, tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer, and designed to be the right size for the Bronte children's toy soldiers. Its 19 pages are crammed with more than 4,000 words — short stories, news, even advertisements — discernible only by magnifying glass. (via)

oooo burn

Kansas State declares themselves Texas State Champs!





Nice job K-State.

this is happening right now.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE:

we lost 99-97 in double overtime. if i had to hazard a guess, i would say that the full support of DJV may have been the extra boost the Vols needed in the final seconds of this close match.

UPDATE UPDATE:

is this game a circus?

UPDATE: 

it's overtime, y'all.

blog sneak attack:
David: i think memphis is going to win

"drive-thru"

"Drive-Thru" (official movie trailer) - watch more funny videos

a parody of "drive".

what it looks like irl.

BOP mmboop-oop mmBAH!

terry gross tuesdays

you might remember about two weeks ago, the people of mississippi voted on the issue of defining "personhood", which was totes stupid and thank g-d the new law, which would ban almost all forms of birth control, did not pass.

did you ever wonder about the history of the birth control / conception debate? i know i hadn't! until now. terry interviews historian and new yorker contributor, jill lepore, who outlines the history of the planned parenthood movement, started by margaret sanger in the early 1900's. they cover fascinating topics like nineteenth-century contraception, tenement life, adultery, eugenics, black panthers, and more!

spoiler alert: the phrase "feeble-minded" definitely DOES enter the picture. enjoy!