If you’re not watching IFC’s Portlandia, you should be! Fred Armisen is always hilarious (unlike Andy Samberg, who just thinks he is. Fifteen minutes…fifteen minutes). You can watch clips and full episodes on the IFC site! Premieres on IFC Friday, January 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM ET/PT.
Anyone who’s cool enough to use Washed Out’s “Feel It All Around” as the opening theme is already awesome in my book.
N-Word Removed From Literary Classics
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with “slave” in an effort not to offend readers.
Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in “Huck Finn” and four times in “Tom Sawyer.” He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those “which people praise and don’t read.” (more…)
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