The Metropolis

Interpretation of Memes: Royal Wedding Sick Bags, and the rest of the week's internet

Mike Pollitt | Friday 18 February, 2011 13:24

Words of the Week
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women, though, they’re all ‘crazy.’ I have a suspicion—and hear me out, because this is a rough one—that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.” Tina Fey tells it like it is in the New Yorker [£].

Childish product of the week
Some wag has designed a Royal Wedding Sick bag. You will either find this very funny or very stupid. We say: off with their heads! [Via Creative Review]

Joyous juxtaposition of the week
Jeff Mangum, of incomparable 90s indie geniuses Neutral Milk Hotel, is going to be rocking Butlins Minehead this December. This is incredible news, in so many ways. [Via Spinner]

Sundries

We loved this very quick, very cheap, gorgeous looking starter. Be generous with the chili and lemon, it can take it.

The sports nerd in us really got off on discovering this tool from ESPN. Click on Tactical Formation, then Average Position, and then bore your friends to tears with an analysis of Jack Wilshere’s effectiveness in a deep lying midfield role.

Oh look, it’s ten of the best new toys from the American Toy Fair. Includes a massive stuffed Angry Bird, inevitably.

And finally, snakes used to have legs. This just makes them more creepy, in our opinion.

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