Dear Everlast from House of Pain,
I’m sorry for calling you a “Leprechaun of Rage.”
This was back in 1996, in a review I wrote for Vibe magazine of the third and last House of Pain album, Truth…
It’s an incredible business model to have two entwined yet separate revenue streams. First, you charge people to receive or buy your magazine-and you also sell some of the space inside your magazine to companies that would like to…
by Mark Bibbins, Editor
An announcement! The Poetry Section will publish new work by poets twice a week. The section is edited by Mark Bibbins, who teaches in New York City at The New School and who also has a…
by Seth Colter Walls
Of course NME and Pitchfork are trying to make it all about a beef with Radiohead (who, by the by, do tend to get overpraised even though, no, they don’t blow) but the point is: Beck has a…
This cat is lucky he doesn’t live in Ozark, Arkansas. According to CBS News, police officers there recently tasered a ten-year-old girl. Oh, what’s this? “Ozark police were called to the home Nov. 11 after the girl’s mother couldn’t get the child to take a shower.” I guess that makes sense then.
by Luke Mazur
So in high school we were forced to buy this English language handbook called Warriner’s. The book was bright red like an biohazard needle drop box, but that has nothing to do with the fact that the faculty…
God bless Popular Mechanics. Here’s how they start their latest consumer report, ‘7 Small Drills Bore It Out: Tool Comparison Test’:
“How much cordless drill do you need? Probably not as much as you think.”
A little late to this one, but with so many of our favorite trends coming together it would be remiss of us not to mention it: “A hairdresser who glassed another woman in the face leaving her covered in blood on the dance floor was identified by social networking site Facebook.” Also…
Local color from the Sarah Palin book tour:
The event also drew its share of more ideological conservatives. Bob Weinert, 56, a fencing salesman from Lansing, said he’d heard Rush Limbaugh say recently that Palin is “the most conservative candidate out there.”…
Can anyone stop Vice from taking over the world? Apparently not.
Here are some images of the planets in our solar system that are more recent than may be familiar with! The one above is Saturn! I wanted to do…
I am not sure what they’re putting in her water, but Gail Collins has been absolutely topping the charts over at the Times op-ed page for the last six months or so. They need to pass some of that stuff around.
Aww, the Rudy Giuliani excitement is getting incrementally less exciting-because people keep changing their stories. The Daily News earlier was having a source say: “In the next 48 hours he will announce that he will not run for…
Rudy Giuliani has reportedly decided that he will not run for governor next year. The former mayor will instead devote his energies to fearmongering on the terrorism issue and popping up occasionally to remind everyone just how unpleasant he actually is.
Those expected AOL layoffs? Not 1000! Not 2000! Actually 2500, amounting to 1/3rd of their employees.
When I woke up this morning I did not believe that I would want to read anything about “General Hospital,” but thanks to Awl pal Willa Paskin I have seen the error of my ways. She calls the program, on which actor James Franco is shortly to make a baffling guest appearance, “the most morally…
If you’re in New York tonight you’ll want to head over to the Bowery Poetry Club at 8 PM to see Awl contributor Edith Zimmerman engage in Opium magazine’s literary death match. Hopefully she will not die.
The future is now: “University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Adam Bauer has nearly 400 friends on Facebook. He got an offer for a new one about a month ago. ‘She was a good-looking girl. I usually don’t accept friends I don’t know, but I randomly accepted this one for some reason,’ the…
Here’s a handy primer on how to argue before the Supreme Court. Lesson One: Don’t mock Scalia, he’s very thin-skinned. Lesson Two: Even though Clarence Thomas has not spoken since February 22, 2006, he’s still listening. Probably. [Via]
