The August Slump

April may be the cruelest month, but in terms of life gardening, August is arguably the shittiest. If your garden is anything like ours, it has entered ‘the slump,’ a demoralizing period when your favorite perennials have already flowered, the conifers are sagging and even the most dependable…

Why Can’t America See ‘The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus’?

Local Currency Is Selfish Plan To Ruin America

Bonfire Of The Vanities

We’re still eight weeks away from McKinsey actually handing out down recommendations for whatever painful cuts they devise to help boost the publisher’s bottom line. But it’s clear, from interviews with Condé Nast employees-from editors to executives to editorial staffers to ad sales…

How To Drink In Public For College Kids

Okay, this is what passes for college rebellion now. So, well, where are the instructional videos that show how to make an apple marijuana smoking device? OH HAYYYY, HERE IT IS!

Our Mysterious Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra

I wasn’t really paying attention to the U.S. CIO, Vivek Kundra, who handles, um, I dunno, the IRS blogs and stuff? Oh wait… he is the one building the government a website that costs $18 million. Is it made of Internet platinum, and…

‘Big Lebowski’ Character Burnishes Volkswagen’s Indie Cred

More on LOLCats: It Is Creole, Not Pidgin

Awl friend Anil Dash explains why we get all those Google alerts for things like “i luv awl my friendeses cats.” LANGUAGE!

New Perez Site: Jezebel For Tween Consumer Dimwits

Serious Political Figure Discusses Issues

Flicked Off: District 9 (Is Really, Really Great)

Here are my only two beefs with District 9, the new Peter Jackson-produced scifi apartheid-invoking epic stealth blockbuster opening this weekend. One is that I do not approve when a film switches seamlessly between faux-documentary and…

Flying Rabbis Blow Horns To Prevent Pig Disease