by Rod Townsend
Part One OPENING VIGNETTE and CREDITS CUE MUSIC: Ramalama (Bang Bang), RóisÃÂn Murphy
The newspapers are doing a terrible, horrible job with Air France Flight 447. The most hilarious passage yet comes from today’s New York Post: “Perhaps no one will ever know how passengers reacted in those fatal 14 minutes-whether they screamed…
Bobster855's Flickr is a fascinating and weird ongoing collection of advertising…
After North Philadelphia neighbors beat up the man suspected of raping her 11-year-old daughter, the victim’s mother expressed surprise. The police are not pressing charges against the mob-and “I plan on…
Mildly funny story! While New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg was flipping out on Observer reporter Azi Paybarah, calling him “a disgrace” in front of tons of reporters, the Mayor had apparently already penned a moving…
We are starting up an email list. It is for fun-and later FOR PROFIT. It will be just like Daily Candy, except not about things for vapid girls. It will be just like VSL, except not about what’s cool. Ha, I’m totally kidding, I don’t really know what it’ll be like…
Wow, io9 points us to this blog post by Josh Friedman, the now-former executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, about the bitter end of his show. “It was Open Season on the Sarah Connor Suite as My Room of Ones Own…
Once upon a time there was a Bongwater song called “David Bowie Wants Ideas,” about a dream in which David Bowie invites a bunch of people to a party because he is desperately in need of ideas for his new album. (An album which was clearly going to be assembled in the Maureen Dowd…
Wait a minute. Kal Penn’s real name is KALPEN? Also apparently he is not working for Obama yet! Maybe because he’s been traveling to Africa and the Middle East with the USO? Ha, and in a Stanford graduate school International Security program? Also do not really care. Hmm. “Kalpen.” Do not like as much.
