Southern Sass: Here's Your Oscar Speech, Mad Libs

2.24.2016

Here's Your Oscar Speech, Mad Libs–Style

The weekend has money on Leo.

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02/24/16

The weekend has money on Leo.

PERK ALERT

The VIP Table Is Your Table

Your Perks: 1) A membership that scores you tough-to-get reservations at top restaurants around the country. Useful. Quite useful. 2) Stunning wooden headphones that look and sound amazing. Nicely done, trees. 3) A special bottle of Dom Pérignon. Make sure you always have (at least) one handy.




411:	Membership with Table8; Meze headphones; Dom Pérignon from Wired For Wine

SEEING STARRS

Beatles Memorabilia You Just Might Need

You: What’s this?
Us: An auction filled with rare Beatles paraphernalia.
You: Rare, huh? Like what?
Us: Handwritten letters from Ringo Starr, pages torn from autograph books, John Lennon’s erotic sketches, performance contracts, rare fliers and—
You: That’ll do. I’ll just go ahead and check out the slideshow to get an idea.




411:	Through Mar 1, Legendary: The Beatles, online now

SPONSORED MESSAGE

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Take Control. Of Your Kitchen.

Knowing your way around a kitchen is important. Like being able to grow your own escargot, emulsify dressings, build your own meat smoker... Right. All things addressed in this here guide, inspired by our recent Infiniti QX50-powered weekend with Chef Roblé. It’s about time your kitchen got some CliffsNotes.




411:	The Feed powered by Infiniti, online now

GO DUTCH

Many Nice ’50s-Inspired Dive Watches from Filson

Look down. Yep, right there. At your wrist. Find the spot where you’d put one of the 10 watches in Filson’s ’50s-inspired Dutch Harbor collection. Good. Now know that they’re available for preorder now and shipping in early March. Proceed as you see fit.

COME TOGETHER

This Is Sort of Like Tinder. Sort of Not at All.

Will this Tinder-inspired friendship-but-also-sort-of-dating app bring world peace? Probably not. Is it a pretty astounding way to try and forge conversations between Republicans and Democrats, and between Trump supporters and Latinos? Well, yeah. It most definitely is.




411:	Verona, available now for iOS and Android

STAY GOLD

There’s Still So Much Oscar Stuff to Process...

An Oscar speech template, Mad Libs–style. A history of red carpets. A by-the-hour style forecast, with all necessary consideration given to Eddie Redmayne. This, this is your guide to the Oscars.




411:	The Oscar Guide, online now

JUST SCROLL WITH IT

How to Scroll Through Anyone’s Instagram Feed and See What They See. Sure.

If you’ve ever thought it would be cool to experience what Instagram looks like through an Oscar nominee’s eyes... or, say, anyone else’s... here’s an app that’ll let you scroll through anyone’s feed as if you’re that person. If you haven’t ever thought that would be cool, then, well... maybe now you will.




411:	Being, available now for iOS

MR. PRICE GUY

These Sales Are in Spring Mode

Tanner Goods: Many parkas, windbreakers and boots at 40% off.
Ledbury: Up to 50% off flannels, button-downs and other things to ease your torso into spring.
Supply & Advise: You type in the code “EXTRA40” and 40% of the price disappears, you see?

THE AGENDA

Here’s What’s Up This Weekend

The New Yorker video series gets into wrestling and taxidermy, the DJ Shadow–endorsed Dj Pound drops a damn good single, and the new Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is happening—either on Netflix or on an IMAX screen near you. If you have your own personal IMAX screen, by all means...