We are going to have to talk a bit about aesthetics and their relationship to fiction and reality here…
Dear Answer Lady,
Tell me you deal with shit like this:
“A new comment on the post #1 “Clip from [my recent standup performance that I posted on my website, which is intended…
TMZ is or is not jumping the gun by announcing Michael Jackson (the pop singer, not Barry Diller’s #2) dead. We’ll wait for Us Weekly until we believe it. However: “paramedics responded to a call at Jackson’s home around 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived.” Also…
Writers at the Washington Post, including Hank Stuever, have taken South Carolina governor Mark Sanford to task for his use of language in yesterday’s HIGHLY ENTERTAINING and totally wacko press conference. They wrote…
I know where I’m not flying to any time soon! British Airways is letting 800 staff work without pay; 4000 other employees are taking “unpaid vacation.” I am thinking it will be not a big lifestyle change if I avoid London altogether really.
Why are there like four women in Mike Sacks’ new book, And Here’s The Kicker, a Q&A; book that has interviews with 21 (largely penis-laden) funny writers? “I asked about 15 top women writers if I could interview them, and all either didn’t get back to me or didn’t want to do it,” he tells Awl pal EA Hanks. Mmm hmm.
Here is a brief history of the idea of levitation, which touches on Jews in Space, zero-g intercourse, and Christian ecstasy. Also! “Levitation is also related to levity, to the lighthearted, the frivolous, and the fun. The link between levitation, levity, and laughter was…
I am totally disappointed in everyone making fun of the Mark Sanford emails! Everyone on the TV last night was giggling and shouting about them. I think that none of them have ever received a proper love letter. Loveless TV…
What a truly excellent point young Nathan Heller makes here (although omitting Will and Grace and Fay Grim is nearly unforgivable): “If ever a person deserved an hour of mindless television, you are that person. You sigh. You wake your DVR. You call up Law & Order…
Leaving you with this, a gift from the gays.
The publisher and CEO of the New York Times have followed in the path of the rest of the TMZ-laden world and taken it upon themselves to Set The Record Straight about things at their company in a company-wide email. Or, you know, one could say: the top honchos…
