by John Del Signore
Previously in our tale of seasonal Santa-employment: Part Two, Part One.
by Nic Musolino
I never had eggnog growing up. The holiday drink of choice was served in the basement of my Aunt Mary’s house (she just had a heart attack, so send out some love), where my uncle’s bar was filled with strange Amari that…
by Foster Kamer
Today is Festivus. Which, if you didn’t know, is “a holiday for the rest of us.” Beyond this, I have no real idea what a Festivus is, but I do know this: Allen Salkin wrote the book on it. And Allen Salkin was laid off from the New York Times…
‘We refer to our habitat now as ‘merroir,’’ an aquatic play on the wine industry’s word of choice, ‘terroir.’”
-Apparently now oyster fisherman are total homos, just like wine people. Who knew?
by The End of the 00s
Just the other night I was watching Anderson Cooper’s variety show on CNN, and right before a commercial break, Mr. Cooper showed about seven seconds of wobbling and…
“There was a time when ‘Yankee ingenuity’ meant inventing an airplane or splitting the atom, but that was before the eighth season of Laverne & Shirley reduced our national IQ to just a smidge over À. The best we can do these days is to foist the…
Extremely racist newspaper commenters are apparently the fault of sports blog Deadspin, which is “not a serious news-gathering source,” says Chicago Sun-Times web editor. RELATED: Chicago Sun-Times web editor kind of an idiot, right?
In These Troubled Times, many Americans are seeking financial wisdom from an unlikely source: the Bible.
All sound professional advice, I found, … has its roots someplace in Scripture,”…
Trying to get a train out of Penn Station today? Good luck with that! There is NO ESCAPE from New York, people.
You know what makes for a bad morning? It’s when you finally read one of those 9000-word HuffPo pieces that have been going around for a couple days, about how the President is whiffing, and how this healthcare bill is kind of bullshit and… you pretty much agree…
OMG, you guys, the ones still on the Internet, both of you: me and Balk are totes currently losing the Mediaite poll of “top online editor of 2009.” To HARVEY LEVIN! I am never going to sleep again. (Because I am playing Yoko Ono’s Season of Glass really loud in the…
Quick retort to the previous entry, which seems to suffer from the persistent refusal to acknowledge the institutional realities that has been such a hallmark of progressive thought over the last year. I’ll see your HuffPo and raise you an…
Here is an obituary for Rudy Giuliani’s political career. Is it still possible that he might at some point in the future be considered a viable candidate for state or national office? Sure, I can envision a scenario. It looks a lot like The Road.
As a public service, we are offering this space for BlackBerry users to complain about the continuing problems they are suffering this week. You poor, deluded saps.
