All stories published by The Awl on November 13, 2009

All Stories published by The Awl on November 13, 2009

Tom Scocca in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

The Misplaced Child

There was a loud but muffled scream, and when I looked up, the kid was gone.

The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Literary Vices, with Rudolph Delson: Spiro Agnew, NSFW

by Rudolph Delson

Now that Sarah Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’ is beginning to leak out onto the Internet in advance of next week’s publication date, we are wrapping up our series analyzing the canon of vice…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Those Scummy Monsters at Pfizer Not Only Destroy Entire Cities, They Also Cheat on their Own Drug Studies

What happens when Pfizer doesn’t like the test results it gets for a new epilepsy drug? You conceal the evidence-says the New England Journal of…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

There Was No Father To His Style; Remembering Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Cormac McCarthy Interview

“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
-Author Cormac McCarthy (The Road, All The Pretty Horses, et al) from an absolutely fantastic interview that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal. Go read it.

The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Difficult Listening Hour, with Seth Colter Walls: I Let You Touch Me Every Now And Then: Last Chance for Isabelle Huppert in ‘Quartett’ at BAM; First Chance for Annie’s ‘My Love is Better’

Dave Bry in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Goodie Mob are reunited. And yes, Peaches, it does feel so good. Rap Radar brings us their performance from Jimmy Fallon’s show last night. They sound super with the Roots behind them. But just in case any golden-oldies rap fans needed to be reminded of how old they are, T-Mo’s…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Are You Really Still Eating Hamburgers?

THIS COW WILL GO INTO 90 DIFFERENT BURGERS

“A deadly outbreak of E. coli has been traced to a large producer of ground beef that…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

‘2012’: I am going to watch this shit four times this weekend!

The critics* agree! “Is 2012 art? Absolutely not. It reminds us that cinema exists not only to make art but also to expertly create sensation like no other medium. When done well, that can be just as valuable and just as…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell was unable to attend President Obama’s first visit to the state because of an unbreakable prior commitment to deliver a speech at the Associated General Contractors of Alaska Annual Conference in Anchorage. To be fair, it was the “Excellence In Safety Awards Luncheon,” and that’s something you don’t pass up easily.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Why Are They So Mean To Her?

Sarah Palin has once again been victimized by the liberal mainstream media: “As you probably have heard, the AP snagged a copy of my memoir, Going Rogue, before its Tuesday release. And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Huh, it’s like a modern-day version of “The Pina Colada Song.” But with pedophilia.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

‘Going Rogue’: The Early Leaks

The AP got its hands on a copy of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue and offers a quick summary. Also, Matt Drudge has a brief excerpt. You will be shocked to learn that there were tensions with the McCain team during the campaign, that Sarah felt sorry for Katie Couric, and that…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Inaccessible Vistas More Accessible Via Internet

It’s so good that different people are equipped to do different things. If I was to try to assemble my own motorized paraglider and fly over the Sahara Desert taking pictures, I would die probably ten minutes into the assembly part. Luckily…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Will the emerging Chinese behemoth finally put an end to the Anglo-German dominance of the last two decades? All eyes turn to London for this week’s World Memory Championships to find out.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 13, 2009

Sandra Tsing Loh, Thief

I go back and forth on Sandra Tsing Loh-okay, we get it, you’re bad-but it is hard not to love something like this: “I myself am not just an imperfect mother, I am a bad mother. I am bad not in that fluttery, anxious, 21st-century way educated middle-class mothers consider themselves…