party down

Dunce Flash: Monday, August 2

in: the press

Lizzy Caplan/Julie Klausner

I don’t care about your band, but Lizzy Caplan, I care about your show!

The network that brought us the glorious gems Eastbound and Down (I’m Kenny Fucking Powers!) and Summer Heights High is supposedly in talks to develop Julie Klausner‘s hilarious memoir I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, Felons and Other Guys I’ve Dated. Klausner’s manifesto of dating debacles will be translated onto the small screen as a show, in which the 20-something lead character will encounter a bevy of total losers. Again and again.

So, as if the Gary Sanchez Productions tag (founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and the brains behind Funny or Die) weren’t enough to whet my appetite, Lizzy Caplan (Janis Ian!) will play the Klausner-esque vamp. Caplan, the adorably charming Casey of the canceled-all-too-soon delight Party Down, will be perfectly cast for the role, which will see her in bed with all sorts of loser letharios. Such win. [Paste via Deadline]

Dawgs of Party Town

Congratulations to the University of Georgia for topping the Princeton Review‘s list of U.S. party schools! The Bulldogs have done it – they’re the best party school in the nation. UGA was ranked No. 4 last year and has been on the top-20 list for 10 of the past 13 years – impressive! Thanks, Mom and Dad, for pushing me in the right direction.

This year’s list, released Monday, is below. The Princeton Review comprises lists annually for all sorts of categories, including drug use, political affiliation and town-gown relations at the nation’s best universities. [USA Today]

Princeton Review’s “Best Party Schools”:

1. University of Georgia
2. Ohio University, Athens
3. Pennsylvania State University
4. West Virginia University
5. University of Mississippi
6. The University of Texas, Austin
7. University of Florida
8. University of California, Santa Barbara
9. University of Iowa
10. DePauw University

Open Season: A Letter to Rob Thomas

in: big words

Oh, Veronica Mars.

remember this track?


The Dandy Warhols, “We Used to Be Friends”

Okay, so I’ve been kind of absent from the blogosophere these past couple days, and, in full disclosure, I’m starting to look pasty and kind of crunchy like Kristen Stewart – except with facial expressions. I spent an absurd four days straight on my couch/in my bed, engrossed in the three seasons of UPN/The CW’s all-too-short Veronica Mars. That’s right – I watched all 64 episodes of Veronica Mars in the span of one long weekend. Needless to say, I was more or less a shut-in for those few days, but I remain unashamed. The show? Completely worth it.

I watched Veronica Mars off and on when it aired initially but never really regularly. And what a freaking shame. The show is one of the most brilliant pieces of small screen cinema I’ve ever seen. For those of you held captive beneath a rock for the last five years, Veronica Mars ran from late 2004 to mid 2007 and followed a female amateur private eye through the end of high school and the beginning of college. It was, by all CW estimations, a commercial failure – but it was a critical darling. And, within the first ten minutes of the pilot episode, I was utterly in love.

So, to kick off a brand new feature, Open Season, I’m writing an open letter to Veronica Mars‘ creator, Rob Thomas. Open Season will be an open letter to someone prominent in popular culture (or not, I suppose) about an issue that concerns or intrigues me. I’m maybe three years too late with this one, but I figure it’s never too late to write a love letter.

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