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Dave Bry in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

“Video Phone”: Watching and Being Watched

Beyonce’s I Am… Sasha Fierce celebrated its one year anniversary last week, and it is…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Graydon Carter Orders Fresh Desk Clearing

Since every memo leaks in this annoying modern age, the way to handle potentially…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

“Classic” Sun Front Pages

He didn't actually, but it made for a good story

The Sun is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloidization of the paper with a collection…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

British People Still Love The Strokes

The Strokes’ Is This It is the best record of The Nads, according to NME’s 100 Greatest Albums of The Nads poll. The Libertines, Primal Scream, Arctic Monkeys, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs round out the top five. Gold, by a certain Ryan Adams, also makes the cut.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Hooker-Loving Dad Reacts To Hooker Daughter

“I cannot say for certain until I speak to her, but it may have affected her. I guess she came to the realisation that prostitutes are just people, it’s not the stereotype that people often seem to think.”
-Paul Magnanti, father of Brooke Magnanti, on…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Food Scarcity And Wages

Further to the study released yesterday on hunger in America: “The report’s main author at USDA, Mark Nord, noted that other recent research by the agency has found that most families in which food is scarce contain at least one adult with a full-time job, suggesting that the problem lies at least partly in wages, not entirely an absence of work. “

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

How To Make It On The Internet, Explained!

This in-house LA Times memo explains how to make it on the Internet. Two big stories blew away some previous benchmarks, it sounds like. One was the story about Obama bowing in Japan! That is because it was in 48pt type on Drudge, and was the biggest…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Congressman: Terrorists Will Assrape Your Children During Recess

I am currently suffering from the world’s worst headcold-seriously, it feels like my neck is supporting a hundred odd pounds of snot and expectorant-so my judgment may be a little off. Rather than offer some sort of…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

The Politics Of Bowing

Richard Nixon BOWED BEFORE MAO, who wasn’t even Japanese. George H.W. Bush bowed before the remains of some dead emperor. George W. Bush held hands with that Saudi guy. The lesson here is that American presidents will prostrate themselves before pretty much anybody. Can we turn off the outrage machine now?

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

John J. OÃ¢â‚¬â„¢Connor, 1933–2009

John J. O’Connor, television critic for the New York Times for more than a quarter of a century, has died at the age of 76. O’Connor was a sharp, bracing critic, and anyone who ever heard his stentorian delivery on WQXR could feel the sting of his icy judgments. His…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

The Up With The Balloons and The Up! With The, Uh, Balloons

Pixar’s Up vs. the “1976 fuckfest by Russ Meyer” Up! Now you won’t be confused! [Note: The link is most definitely NSFW.]

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Area Vampires Are Just Like You, Except They Probably Listen To A Lot More Bauhaus

Reporting from the frontlines of the Atlanta vampire community: “Merticus, who declines to give his real name, and alliance members claim they are different, physically or psychologically…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

How To Not Dress

Ladies, how often do you face this dilemma? You’re going out on the town and you want to snag a man. But how much of yourself should you put on display? Show too little skin and you risk being ignored; show too much and things are sure to get rapey. Fortunately, Science is here with the solution…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

What a Blowout Year! Wall Street Rocking Without All Those Pesky Former Employees

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Hippos, Crocs, and Cats

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

TMF Tickets

Pre-sale tickets for the Magnetic Fields’ next tour are available now. They’ll be at Town Hall here in New York on March 10th and 11th, and at BAM’s Gilman Opera House a month earlier. If you’re at all a fan of the band I advise you to snap these up; I was fortunate enough to catch them at Town Hall the…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Sarah Palin Is Moving On

Because when you think Sarah Palin, you think USA

Mark it down in your RSS readers! I sure hope she keeps all the tacky design elements from the original.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

How To Make A Dorito Salad

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Sarah Palin’s Book Might Be A Little Self-Serving

Alex Balk in The Awl

Nov 17, 2009

Levi Lets Loose

“I just look at her in disgust. … It’s almost funny, that she’s like, 46 years old, and she’s battling a 19 year old, and I’m winning. And I’m telling the truth. She’s lying and losing. … If you look at her face, she’s got — she’s really — you can tell her mind’s going 100 miles an hour when Oprah…