feb. 5
Links we love today: The Super Bowl, and things to distract you from the SuperBowl
Assistant Editor Samantha Pitchel reads everything so you don’t have to.
Here are the links we loved today:
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday: 9 amazing touchdown celebrations, 90s Super Bowl nostalgia, this clip from the Super Bowl-inspired Hunter S. Thompson biopic, Where The Buffalo Roam:
...and the most heartwarming Super Bowl commercial ever, courtesy NBC:
The Guardian explores a recent resurgence in Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popularity.
Dan Chaon explains how “[f]iction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.”
Liz Phair on Lana Del Rey (will this NEVER END?!):
Let me break it down for you: she’s writing herself into existence. She’s giving herself a part to play because, God knows, no one else will and she wants to matter in this life. As far as I can tell, it’s working.
Over at Slate, The Financial Times’ Julian Baggini profiles America’s attitude towards atheism.
Rome’s first snowfall in over two decades.
Comedian Dana Gould has a new podcast!
Buzzfeed uncovers the earliest Human Centipede (but it was a little different in 1928); Jason Segal honored as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year, manages to look awesome in a Miss Piggy wig.
Watch OK Go’s new video, in which they perform “Needing/Getting” with the help of a Chevy Sonic and an incredibly musical obstacle course:
Zooey Deschanel and Ben Schwartz cover “Tonight You Belong To Me” (minus the trumpet solo, a la The Jerk):