The Hyacinth Bean Vine

While there are many vines in our Washington Heights garden, the Hyacinth Bean Vine (Dolichos lablab) has emerged as the most frightening intriguing as we head deeper into the fall season. Not only does it continue to grow vigorously, sending out blood-red tendrils and wide emperor-green…

Footnotes of Mad Men: “They See In Her Disaster” or, Love Amongst the Cheaters

by Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Real America, with Abe Sauer: The Last Game of Baseball in the Metrodome

by Abe Sauer

At 5 p.m. (EDT) the Twins will play the Tigers in an extra season game (163!) for the American League Central title. While the Twins’ inspired play helped them get…

Zach Braff Uses His Tongue For Toilet Paper

Let’s Blow Up The Moon!

You know what I hate? The fucking moon. Big white piece of shit with a rabbit on it. Makes people go crazy every time it’s full. You can put a man on it, but you can’t find a cure for the common swine flu. Who needs it? Fuck you, moon! That’s why I’m so thrilled to learn that NASA, in…

The Literary Vices Project: An Introduction

by Rudolph Delson

The chatter started last spring: Sarah Palin was writing a memoir, and it would be published in 2010. I moved my literary terror alert level from blue (“guarded”) to yellow (“elevated”), but I figured I had…

Elements of Stale, with Luke Mazur: “Sorry”

by Luke Mazur

I always considered David Letterman a sort of father figure. With two baby boomer parents, I basically have two moms: first, my dad who blogs and reads Sufi poetry and cooks with ghee and wears bright colors, and…

The Glory of New York City’s Subway System

‘Gourmet’ Should Have Figured Out A Michael Jackson Angle

“Standing outside his bedroom was a wax figure of a queen’s Household Cavalry guard. The bedroom itself was dark and quite plain, in tones of beige and brown, and, to be honest, a bit depressing. Adjacent to the bed was a huge…

Hacks Break Up Perfectly Good Altercation

Talk about the death of journalism all you want; so long as Fox reporters doing stories on the price of taxi medallions and “Entertainment Tonight” journos covering the David Letterman affair are pounding the pavement, the fate of newsgathering is going to be just fine.

Guns Don’t Kill People, People Who Carry Guns Kill People (Who Carry Guns)

A team at the University of Pennsylvania “analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar…

Yes, More Bear!

Bear Survivor Grilled By Shep Smith