June 2009
43 posts
Your Blog Makes You A Modern Girl →
Karen has mondo crushes, faithful readers know. I try to remain true to each of them, but life and responsibilities sometimes turn me whichway, till when I stumble on an old flame I’m thrilled to feel the rush still take my breath away.
I’ve known for months Carrie Brownstein had an NPR blog, but a fateful link through The Awl caused me to looky loo for the first time in a spell, and...
Indian Gaming Saves Lives →
So we learn, in this terrifying but ultimately heartwarming story of an elderly lady who passed up the buffet at the casino, only to find herself too weak to get out of the bathtub that same evening.
She kept herself going by drinking from a rubber duck—one of her “boys”—with a hole in it. Her collection of ducks include a fireman and a policeman.
“I kept thinking...
Hombres, “Let It Out (Let It All Hang...
Into the Mysticatnip →
So, while I was driving by the mortuary coming to work, because of the guy who fouled up the Ike by driving onto the L tracks and getting crushed by the train, this story came on FoxNews (I listen to it for the articles) about a kid whose family believes is reincarnated from a WWII fighter pilot.
They’ve written a book about it, and are touring to promote the book, so you will buy it, and...
Headed Over Heeled
I wanted to print out for you the daily e-mail you can sign up to get from The Awl (dot com), because Choire seems to write these in a contemplative mode that scratches the itch of his ruminative self (you can switch “contemplative” and “ruminative” there and I don’t think it would matter), and he actually hit on a couple points I was pondering talking about this...
Rev. Jeremiad Wrong →
Reverend Wright? Shut the hell up. Nobody cares.
Burris Probe Figure Killed →
This fellow helped For-Now Sen. Roland Burris get seated—then had an attack of conscience and began to cooperate with the investigation into the ALLEGED Burris-Blagojevich [alleged] “collusion” in Burris’ Senate appointment.
Died Monday at 42, on a rural road I’ve traveled a few times—mid-afternoon, no alcohol. Car vs. tree, as we say in the law biz. Brain...
Shooting Blanks →
KANE COUNTY IL. Your tax dollars at work. This is my elected county board, spending my property taxes to debate whether to support the Second Amendment. Sponsored by—no, you’re kidding!—a gun lobby who’ll run down to the State Capitol now and bray, “See, them folks up there to Geneva want their God-given right to discharge a sidearm at will!”
Next time have the...
peterfeld:
dailydoseofdylan:
One Of Us Must...
WatchI’m not quite sure what the fascination is with this fuckheel, given that his on-air persona is crafted from dialogue that could be written by a truck backing up. But he sure knows how to draw attention to himself. Here Gordon Ramsey apparently calls a veteran Aussie newsreader a pig, and in poor-quality video confesses a long-standing (doubt it) desire to BOOP her.
Posted primarily for the...
Exploding Hearts, “I’m A...
Cleaning Windows
Pardons in advance. This probably won’t tickle many ribs. But there are lessons, and hopefully light, in here somewhere.
First: point of order: Karen’s home computer died Thursday; in mid-coitus, it seems. Just as I was preparing another recipe of overripe riposte for you, a thief came in the night and totally trashed my Windows apps (shut up, Mac users; not today, okay?).
I have no...
BOO. →
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Fucking INSANE. Doree Shafrir is as talented and resourceful a writer as there is at work in NYC.
Whoever hires her hires a STAR.
So this is how it works in journalism now. Hack away your criminally-underpaid talent in the hopes the titty pics and ads can still sell SOMETHING to SOMEONE.
Wrong.
Steve Miller Band, “Take the Money and...
Fasten Seat Belts →
Turns out, per the Brazilian Air Force—what the hell does Brazil need with an Air Force? The remake of Flying Down To Rio?—that the debris found in the Atlantic earlier this week wasn’t from Air France 447.
That would include the big oil slick—“too large”—and an airplane seat.
Bound For Glory? →
Don’t look now, kids, but the media may be in for a bit of a tactical challenge in covering the hanging death of David Carradine. Way too early to, uh, go out on a limb, but, er, there is that report about the genitals being bound, and then, uh, the part about no, umm, forced entry, and, uh…
I mean, it was probably a suicide. Yeah. Or someone, God forbid, offed him. Or maybe it was...
Bill, Killed →
Apparently by his own hand, at age 72. Peace, Grasshopper.
Park Und Lock It
I drive to work. Something about sitting for 90 minutes twice a day to/from my suburban manse inspires the pastoral bent; to survey the lawns from my porch, watch the hounds excrete upon the parkway footpath, listen to F-250s peeling out robustly from the stop sign, their sinewy drivers secure in the knowledge that Sammy Hagar planted the flag of Cultural Eminence over our last half...
X, “The Once Over Twice”
Then I died...
Great.
dorothymantooth:
katiebakes:
nickdouglas:
Alex Balk wondered if kids still learn “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain” and “This Land Is Your Land.” I think I learned the former outside school, the latter in it. Also learned “Fifty Nifty United States,” which surprised the thirty-odd-old Balk when I told him.
North, south, east, west In our cool, considered, objective, unprejudiced...
“Sorry, Sam. You get zero sympathy from this journalist.
Do what the rest of...”
– Excerpted from commenter “Hockey Mom” on The Awl, to a post about Harvard Crimson’s Sam Jacobs’ dismay with job rejections.
Sadly, as legitimately tough as it is to enter the job market now, it’s tougher to be midway or further through a career, with big bills, no...
Laotian Justice →
Utterly horrifying. Life, for a 20-year-old woman, for trying to carry out a pound and a half of heroin. Suspicion is that she “borrowed” someone’s sperm to impregnate herself in prison to avoid a death penalty, which Laos is decent enough to do, if you’re pregnant and have narcotics sticking in you at the airport.
UPI reporting she isn’t expected to be in the...
Bob Dylan, “True Love Tends To...
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, “Fake...
Talk about your secret shame!
jgh:
What is your favorite chain restaurant? Mine is Chili’s. I’m also a big fan of Red Lobster cheddar biscuits.
Applebee’s is hit or miss IMO. Same with TGI Friday’s.
I miss Bennigan’s. Those broccoli bites were genius.
Come on. Steak ‘n Shake.
Something Wicked This Way Comes →
I do not condemn one who is against abortion. But I am pro-choice and unashamed. It this removes me from a moral high ground, well, I don’t spend my life there to begin with. I’m flawed, and secure in my convictions.
Having known women who made the choice, however, I see none who were unmoved or felt guiltless. Their decisions were heartrending and nightmarish in every case. Yet the...
Air America Viral Marketing
charitini:
This comment was left yesterday on one of my Flickr photos of Arianna Huffington:
airamerica says:
If you’re a fan of Arianna Huffington, you should check out her new Air America radio show with Chris Watson called “7 Days in America”. You can listen online (for free!) at airamerica.com/7daysinamerica! Posted 17 hours ago. ( permalink | delete )
It has 38 views so far. They also...
Balled and Cheneyed →
First, half-credit where sorta due: I applaud anyone—even Jabba the Hun—who comes out in favor of “legalizing” gay marriage; although the use of the words “legal” and “marriage” continue to arch the hairs in my ass, because “marriage” as a societal institution is principally religious, entirely cultural, and in any case...
New York Dolls, “Private World”
So...
May 2009
46 posts
Say Goodbye To Hollywood →
19-to-Life behind those walls of sound. You don’t come back from dead man’s curve.
Ironyed Out →
I watched this crawl along the edge of a straight razor between parody and catastophe, and prayed for Pedro Almodovar’s Gummo II: The Only Good Pussy Is A Dead Pussy.
The Moldy Peaches, “NYC’s Like A...
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