Grunberg is a Dutch novelist and columnist. His blog is in English. It's well worth reading, once you get over the feeling that any foreigner who writes like this just needs to be slapped and slapped.
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This is like the drunkest guy you ever saw, and yet he wants to get drunker still! Edited down from the original 11 minutes, and with a nice pianola track.
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This may (I hope) be the grossest thing you'll ever see on YouTube. Wrong in so many ways, but "the tang of vinegar"? A whole cup of spirit vinegar, presumably to offset the whole cup of sugar! And the condensed milk! And a raw onion! Gaaah!
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Great post by Bing. He really sums up our generation. Man, did we fuck up. Remember what all we were going to do? "That was just a dream some of us had" Joni sang about peace.
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This is the dawning of the age of respect for the introverted, and about bloody time, too. The rise of the computer nerd has legitimised introvertedness somewhat, but if it gets a figurehead like Gina Trapani, we could be on the way to ruling the world.
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This is as old as the hills, but still brilliant. I first saw it long before there was sharing on Google Reader or Facebook, so it's good to see it again.
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"23 Euery time we do the Taming of the Shrew, some pvnter wants his Money backe, because we don’t actually show a shrew getting tamed."
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I'm so taken by this stop-action video, and by the pretty sleepy redhead in a bed (does it get any better?) that I have no idea what the song sounds like that I just listened to.
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Janeane Garofalo is one of the funniest, sexiest and most talented actresses out. The phenomenon she talks about is a terrible shame on the whole US entertainment industry. It doesn't quite work that way in Europe, luckily, as Catherine Deneuve and Helen Mirren will attest.
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While the third world battles HIV, TB and malaria, which kill millions, the West prepares to spend a minimum of $500 a pop on longer eyelashes.
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