Here is a helpful roundup of men skiing in neon thongs, also referred to as “man-kinis.”
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama:
He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas…
The reviews are coming in for Joanna Smith Rakoff’s new novel, “A Fortunate Age,” which is not named ‘Brooklyn’: The novel ably captures the zeitgeist, with venture capitalists financing magazines headed by M.I.T. prodigies and young people worrying about the gentrification of their Brooklyn…
Via Fark: British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s will stop selling the pollack under that name, since it sounds too much like English slang for testicles. The fish will now be referred to as “colin,” which is pronounced col-an. Yeah, you read that right.
“The manager of public relations at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla had told me that the hospital and a local doctor were about to treat a young woman with facial tumors similar to the Elephant Man’s.”
A bunch of finance bloggers are passing around a chart from the “Public Policy Institute of New York” that shows, with data from up to 2006, that New York’s personal and tax burdens are the highest in the nation’s, and also the state spends a…
by Alex Balk
Here’s a fun story about Florida’s “exceptionally aggressive system to collect the…
“’Ok. You wanna ask me to sing or do you want me to just whup it out for ya?’ Dolly Parton asked 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer.” We… don’t know?
In the March 30th PR Week, which just arrived in the mail: Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner explains the relationship between the magazine and rich people.
PRWeek: Vanity Fair writes a lot about the upper echelons of society. Do you think your readers’ appetite for news about…
Always wanted to work for the BBC but lacked the right family connections or fancy university degree? Well, now you can! A new show called “Your World News” is looking for a few good contributors:
We want the news from where you are. You could…
What’d they do, put gloves on him? (Get it? Because Italians talk with their hands? Hahaha. Just kidding, our thoughts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy.)
News you can use! “Mere hours out of the tap would not ‘age’ water that comes clean out of the tap in any way that would make it unsafe to drink. But guidelines on safe storage of water for emergency use, as well as common sense, suggest covering the glass, so dust and other contaminants do not settle into it.”
“Wall Street and toy retailers” are worried about the “commercial potential” of Pixar’s forthcoming Up, but show me a six-year-old kid who doesn’t love Ed Asner. I mean, honestly? These movies are all highly digitized babysitting devices. Have you seen some of the crap that’s come out with CGI…
An arbitrator has ruled that former New York Giant Plaxico Burress deserves a $1 million bonus the team was trying to withhold, noting that the receiver, “who shot himself in the thigh on Nov. 29 and was subsequently suspended and later released by the Giants, did not ‘willfully’ hurt his chances of playing again.”
A quick look back:
Some thought it mildly symbolic that on the day ‘’Jurassic Park’’ opened in the movie theaters, it was announced that more than a billion dollars would be paid for a daily newspaper. ‘’Dinosaurs,’’ newspapers have been called, in this…
From today’s New Yorker, Talk of the Town, subscription-only, a description of a monthly meeting in New York City of Ayn Rand fans:
F-you and your F-22.
“Nobody really wants to go to a sitting Democratic governor who’s African-American and say, ‘Hey. You’re a disgrace. Get out,’” a prominent Democratic donor tells the New York Post in regards to David Paterson’s sinking popularity. So they’re giving him until November to get his poll numbers up, and then they’re gonna do it anyway.
AP Going To Sue Google Senseless, Senselessly: It is on, according to AP honcho William Dean Singleton, who told a bloodthirsty, news-loving crowd today that “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.”
To be fair to God, no one really likes Fags.com. It’s too garish and the navigation is poorly designed.
Good news! There are actually some new magazine launches!
That’s (alleged) Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, in an interview to air tonight on ABC News. CAN’T WAIT.
“There are three things I’ve learned in the past two weeks since my mother’s CT scan came back with what we swore had to be a sneeze on the film.” Three guidelines from Ainslee Drew regarding stressful times.
Everyone’s a critic.
There’s nothing like the headline “Deadly Rampages Rack the Nation” to add a little extra “ugh” to your Monday morning, is there? Hopefully things are better across the pond! Or, uh, not.
Irish economics explained: “As more and more Irish are made unemployed — last week, the unemployment rate hit 11 percent-public finances have deteriorated sharply. Taxing alcohol is one quick way of making the government a few extra bucks.”
