rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

yeah there were more, i was trying to see if i had mutual friends with the three that went to my college (of course)

also there was an embed in the middle of the article of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8

Maybe Grantland hired a bunch of 'em

haha ok wait:

"My roommate is muscular and black, so when we walk down the street together, people assume we’re just another hip, racially mixed couple to not mess with (we’re not, he’s gay). I like to pretend we’re Lady Gaga and Usher taking a stroll, just living our lives.

Like my roommate and I, Harlem is eccentric."

trying to figure out if his eccentricity comes from his gayness or blackness or the combination of the 2. how droll!

I think it comes from his Usherness

although in fairness, the only evidence she gives for her own eccentricity is that she likes to compare herself to Lady Gaga

she's the girl Usher and Kels sang about

well shes eccentric enough to live with a gay black dude, i assume she sees that as her cred

is HMGL a subsidiary of TBS?

we're lady gaga
and usher, taking a stroll,
just living our lives

a thug perspective

i feel p bad that this girl submitted a cv to HIREMEGRANTLAND.COM and matt "wayne's world, manhattan, swingers" ford immediately assigned her a piece on why a "nice girl like her" lives in harlem and now the whole internet hates her

i guess the first part of that is where she started to deserve it tho isn't it

I'm not sure that aspiring to be a writer and maybe not knowing the best way to make that happen should make you hated

my own first-published-piece btw was also about nyc but its climactic scene was in a johnny rockets so i'm p sure she's still cooler than i am (like lady gaga)

lmao @ rare in-the-wild appearance of "think about it"

is this really being talked about everywhere on the internet? it had 26 comments and 20 of them were from her family/girl scout leaders.

maybe grantland should write something about it

deadspin linked it

it got tumbld a lot or whatever. anyway klosterman should do a 2000-word exegesis ending w an admission that it "probably means nothing".

i feel p bad that this girl submitted a cv to HIREMEGRANTLAND.COM and matt "wayne's world, manhattan, swingers" ford immediately assigned her a piece on why a "nice girl like her" lives in harlem and now the whole internet hates her

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

this probably isn't how it worked

likely not but i'm just going by the preamble

really i think we should be focusing on the uncle who's lived in nyc for 30 years and remains haunted by the staircases from serpico

There was so much in that article that I found hilarious that it's hard for me to be too mad at her

i love that 40% of the staff immediately decided to reconsider being attached to a site called HIRE ME GRANTLAND the minute that people started paying attention to it

it says something about the VIRAL AGE that a few people who have actually worked (or currently do work) in media decided to try and circumvent the "build a profile and relationships" model of a career in favor of the "well maybe if i make an ass out of myself someone will throw me money" model

Quietly putting together one of the best resumes in Hollywood since 2009 – Inception, Midnight in Paris, Dark Knight Rises, Contagion, Public Enemies – Mademoiselle Cotillard is nailing down the “Not Bat-Shit Crazy Female Actress Who Is Not Just Hot But Can Also Act” niche previously occupied by Natalie Portman and never once occupied by Megan Fox.

i guess they went with Hire Me Grantland because Can I Please God Actually Turn Into Bill Simmons was too long

lol

guys: http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2012/11/chino_latinos_new_menu_criticized_for_racist_remarks.php

hey guys if anyone needs me tonight i'll be chilling in harlem, waiting for gaga

http://i.imgur.com/W3tdL.jpg

anything bad that happens to chino latino is alright by me

Standing in the in store barns and nobles starbucks with my pumpkin spice latte, i take a single sip, burning my tongue slightly. But i don't even mind. Harlem is the fire in which art is forged. "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere." I say outloud. Nobody hears me, due to every single person in a 500 foot radius having iphone buds in

it's times like this i'm just so disappointed that google is unable to furnish me with a gif or macro of Tom Cruise saying "I'll see you in Harlem, brother!" to Kanye West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0KKtUMzuA

http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/shows/sweet_home_alabama/season_1/men/MichaelChadwick-281x211.jpg http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/157926_123361431064733_1907757910_n.jpg http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Michael-Chadwick-192.jpg

Standing in the in store barns and nobles starbucks with my pumpkin spice latte, i take a single sip, burning my tongue slightly. But i don't even mind. Harlem is the fire in which art is forged. "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere." I say outloud. Nobody hears me, due to every single person in a 500 foot radius having iphone buds in

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

hahaha

Even after Chino was ordered to pay $325,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought on by allegations of mistreatment of Hispanic employees, owner Phil Roberts brushed off comments from protesters by saying he hopes to keep the ads "rather outrageous," adding, "I really do want people to be offended." He has also referred to the people who decry the billboards as "bedwetting hippies."

classy

I went there years ago. Their meat tastes like it was boiled in dishwater. Their old fashioned is a fruit cocktail with whiskey dribbled over the top. I was offended. Good job, Phil.

Definitely gonna be borrowing the phrase "bedwetting hippies" in the future.

Phil has a notebook filled with phrases to describe the people who think he's an insufferable asshole.

I do not! I threw it away a few years after high school.

(I don't think you post in the threads I inhabit on ILM, so you probably didn't know that my real name is Phil.)

hahaha no

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

hey, if I don't keep angrily clicking, the computer will never sense my impatience and complete its operation in a timely fashion

almost went to that place once, glad I didn't

one of my friends ate this thing on a dare:

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/57/7fbfdfc350944b97aee1b70428ef37e6/l.jpg

eating guinea pig was supposed to be funny, but it was mostly just stupid

now we know what happened to the original Mickey Mouse

Nice to eat you!