Ikea is adding 71 new items for fall-and it’s remarkable that their products are becoming cooler and…
Dear step-nephew,
I’m sorry for telling you to suck my dick at Thanksgiving three years ago.
You were fifteen at the time, I think, or maybe sixteen. Needless to say, the expression is an inappropriate one for me to use…
“Last week Double X published Katie Roiphe’s desperate cry for relevance, ‘Get Your Kid Off Your Facebook Page.’ Roiphe, you might remember, is a little famous for a book about how college girls shouldn’t let themselves get raped…
A trusty Harvard young’un gets fired New Yorker writer
Dan Baum’s wife/co-writer on the phone! Even though they were busy barbecuing a deer that he had just shot! The more I know about these two, the less I understand!
Hot bald guy no longer allowed to kill people from the air due to his love of dudes’ butts. WTF MAMMALS, HOW DID EVERYTHING GET SO STRANGE?
Here is a helpful annotation of the excerpt recently released of reality star Lauren Conrad’s novel. (There are troubles with this piece of literature, apparently! “This is not the Lauren Conrad I know and identify with, the Lauren Conrad the girls who form the audience…
You think the story 4 Year Old Boy: “My Daddy Ate My Eyes” is as bad as it gets, and then you check KTLA’s “Most Interesting!” list next to that crazed tale of woe. “Toddler Found Buried In Playground”! “Pregnant Mom Stabbed To Death”! Then…
Thank heavens: Leon Wieseltier did not lead Maureen Dowd astray. Plagiarism-wise, at least.
Last night I saw a preview of Coraline, Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan’s musical adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel about a young girl who discovers a seemingly ideal alternate world which soon proves to be far more sinister than it appears. You know…
“Inglourious Basterds clocks in at nearly three hours, and its director could certainly have trimmed more of its flab.” OR! “Even at 160 minutes, the film feels rushed.”
Air America lady Ana Marie Cox asked about “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” at the just-concluded White House press briefing. And, like others before her, she didn’t get much of an answer, it sounds like-Obama will work with Congress, blah blah, though…
Richard Blakeley, the Steve Rubell of social media, sees green shoots in this dire economy! Or something. The Media Meshing founder and his distaff side have come up with a brand new event that is sure to [something something etc. too busy gagging on phrase “New Media Power…
In the post below on the forthcoming auction of Bob Dylan’s juvenilia, commenter “formerly it takes a lot etc.” directs us to this message board, which points out that the “Little Buddy” poem is actually an old Hank Snow song, making this one of…
Shocker: Being extremely fat might endanger your ability to fight off the swine plague.
Let me see if I have this right: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is saying that our troops abroad are so afraid of prosecution by Nancy Pelosi that they won’t torture anyone anymore, which will result in a nuclear or biological strike against this country…
The New York Times was blown away by Jimmy Kimmel’s routine at yesterday’s ABC upfront; Nikki Finke, who has been covering the presentations since CBS announced its first fall cave-painting schedule (it was the year that “Thok Say ‘Urg’,” “Find Warm Thing Make…
REMINDER: You can still get a 30% discount on tickets to tonight’s Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation NYC charity event. What are you waiting for?
A commission investigating Ireland’s church-run youth facilities (orphanages, reform schools, hostels, etc.) has released an absolutely horrific report detailing decades of assaults, rapes, and other incidences of abuse. How terrible is it?
Dark times in California, with the state facing a $21 billion budget deficit after voters rejected a series of ballot initiatives intended to fill the gaps. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who supported the measures so…
The WSJ runs what must be the millionth piece on how Web metrics and Internet readers’ affinity for lists result in world where the “most popular” stories gain traction through a combination of vapidity and sensationalism and by dint of being on the…
Neat, the U.S. Senate will officially not pay to close Guantanamo, because, OMG, terrorists on American soil! Dear everyone: there are already hundreds of “terrorists” being held in U.S. prisons.
Having been on the losing side of the gun control debate for the last fifteen years, Democrats have engaged in a new strategy to reduce the prevalence of firearms: Totally fold on the issue every time it comes up and hope that eventually everyone who’s packing a piece…
Christie’s will auction off a bunch of stuff Bob Dylan scribbled when he was a simple Midwestern teen, including a poem about an ill-fated dog (“A drunken man got mad at him/because he barked in joy/He beat him and he’s dying here today”) and a…
Short and Boston-ey New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has already spent $18 million on his reelection campaign this year. Against NO ONE. And so this results in what is most likely the greatest story ever written, about the Bloomberg…
