Dear Bob Mould,
I’m sorry for ruining your solo acoustic concert.
It was fall, 1991. You were playing the Fast Lane in Asbury Park, New Jersey, near where I grew up. And near where I was living then-having failed out of…
I don’t know where people get the idea our moguls are out of touch. Why, just look at the new feature over at Forbes-Power Ambition Glory, which is lavishly presented as a “Special Report,” replete with a bust of Caesar placed…
Cheered by the semi-viral response to his tirade against Barack Obama last week, smarmy fuck Bill Maher goes back to the well, this time taking on the Democratic party as a whole. It is, once again, immensely frustrating: the fucking smarm…
The top two editors at the New York Times gave a little public chat last night. It was, reports the Observer’s John Koblin, a new-for-the-paper exercise in personal branding: “With all this human interest in the air, it was 63 minutes…
They are indeed spookily similar: last month’s world’s largest assembly of people dressed as Smurfs in Wales and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle.
“’You Light Up My Life’ writer indicted on sex charges,” and yes, the gentleman who flew aspiring at least 11 aspiring actresses to New York for “auditions” that allegedly included rape and grand larceny was 71.
When, in his Times Magazine Q&A; Deborah Solomon collage project, astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed that he “just did a rap session with Snoop Dogg and a rap composition called ‘Rocket Experience,’” I immediately thought, Oh God, here comes another…
“At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, undergraduates are relieved that they no longer have to fight the temptation of high-paying Wall Street jobs, President Drew Faust said.” Oh are they! The fuck you say! [via]
For many obvious reasons, this is maybe my favorite photo series in the world.
If you’re on Twitter or Facebook or whatever you’ll already know that there was a Very Important Press Conference today, where the President said lots of things about lots of stuff. Here is the Most Important Moment, when the President answered the Most Important Question. Thanks for watching, America!
We all know Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is 2 hour and 27 minute tribute to Megan Fox’s ample bosom, but is it possible that it’s also an endorsement of the neoconservative worldview? Yeah, sure, why not?
Uh, yeah, good luck with that: “Attempting to mitigate a maximum sentence of 150 years for a client whose name has become synonymous with greed, defense attorney Ira Lee Sorkin of Dickstein Shapiro asked a federal judge this morning to set aside the ‘hysteria’…
Spouse-beating Sun editor Rebekah Wade has been named the chief executive of News International, in which capacity she will be responsible for overseeing News Corp’s British daily papers (News of the World, the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times)…
An increasing number of cats and dogs are infected with MRSA-the antibiotic resistant “superbug” created by English people’s aversion to washing themselves. However, it seems that the animals are catching the infection from their human…
After deciding that Senate Republicans had not gone far enough in their attempt to make the State of New York and its government look absolutely ridiculous, at least 20 Democratic members have locked themselves in the Senate chamber to prevent the opposition from grabbing control of the gavel.
You know the irksome longhair who scribbles on the whiteboard in those horrible UPS commercials with the Postal Service as the soundtrack? Turns out he’s actually one of the ad guys responsible for the campaign. So now you have two reasons to hate him.
