Everyone will titter over this Times front-pager about the current vogue for dramaturgical concision in the adult film industry, and rightly so. That’s what it’s there for: links and laughs. And I’ve kind of made my peace with that. If the Times, in this…

The (Temporary?) End Of Christian Lacroix

What may have been Christian Lacroix’s last couture show went out yesterday in Paris…

By way of discussing Tony Manero, the 2008 Chilean film just released here to some rapturous reviews, National Review’s John Derbyshire offers historical perspective (the picture is set in 1978, four…

Sarah Palin, JFK Fan

Outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin passed along this wisdom on her Twitter feed earlier today. Because the quote, as she…

I Know What I’m Doing This Weekend…

Whoo hoo! Missed this earlier today, but apparently the feds successfully infiltrated 10 out of…

Hey, quick question: Do you slap your forehead and mutter, “Oh, God,” every time you see an entry I’ve written that begins with “So I was walking down the street this morning and etc.”? I ask because, in response to yesterday’s deliverance of absolution, a correspondent volunteered…

Using European Union mortality data for a period of nearly forty years, researchers at Oxford discovered that “for every 1 per cent increase in unemployment, both suicides and homicides rose by 0.8 per cent. When employment fell by 3 per cent or more in one…

Man has always loved his airplanes. But what about when the airplanes say “NO MORE”? (*) MSNBC will teach you, in an hour-long intensive fright video airing this weekend, to understand the terror of airplanes and why they want to kill…

A wise voicemail message from DC councilman and former mayor Marion Barry: “Donna, you don’t have to answer your home phone but let me just say that I’m addicted to you. Don’t call me back. I will not take a call from you. I’m not gonna call you so this is it. Don’t…

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Raja Gosnell will direct the forthcoming live-action/animated cinematic adaptation of The Smurfs. Gosnell is “best known for helming ‘Scooby-Doo’ and ‘Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,’ as well as last year’s ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua,’” and…

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called the Guardian’s suggestion that his government’s inability to properly prepare for the G8 summit in L’Aquila had lead some to wonder whether Italy should be a member of the Group at all “a colossal blunder by a small…

“Like Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to a church in Wittenberg — itself a disputed bit of reporting — in April two Los Angeles bloggers posted a suggested Food Blogger Code of Ethics.”