Nic Narrates

It’s Friday: day of general workweek malaise and bated breath whilst the clock ticks toward weekendedness. In honor of the collective disinterest in being productive, “I Salute You” Fridays are buoyed by recent pop culture achievements according to me (which in some cases kindly lend themselves to time-wasting strategies for the greater good of humanity). Basically, it’s just whatever I’m loving right now.

• The return of Gossip Girl- less for the actual show than NY Mag’s (previously Daily Intel and now Vulture) recap and Reality Index. Fine-fucking-ly.
• The William Eggleston exhibit at the Art Institute. A color photography retrospective from a half century of American day-to-day sophistry. Who knew looking at photos of people grocery shopping in the 1960s could be so engrossing? 
• The Oscars for alerting me to the existence of the animated short film, Logorama. Brand logo mania and consumer voyeurism at its best. Also, the French producer’s acceptance speech was a delight. 
• And on a somewhat related note, this visual snack of movie parody awesomeness.
• The Ask by Sam Lipsyte. The (somewhat) depressive, sardonic, underachieving everyman narration is just the kind of dark humored, hegemonic, authorial mind fuck I’ve been looking to read. Also, thank you for saving me from the listless Gen X vocab diarrhea that is Tao Lin’s Bed.
• Conan O’Brien’s “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” coming to Chicago in May and the boyfriend’s agile ticket procuring prowess (dude was on it!). Conan and Andy, please do a modern version of “In the year 2000.” Pretty please.
• The Puppy Cam because, duh, it’s puppies. Could there be a better time suck? The answer is unequivocally “no.” 

To one and all I wholeheartedly say, “I salute you!”

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