by Ben Dolnick
by Patrick Hipp
Here is a preview for the ‘Simpsons’ porno flick that absolutely nobody was clamoring for. May God have mercy on our souls.
In this episode of Cooking the Books: Doogie Horner, the author of Everything Explained Through Flowcharts, teaches Emily Gould how to make “Gettin’ Laid Lemonade.” And then they get wasted. Cooking the Books is directed by Valerie Temple and shot and…
Missed this one earlier in the week, but I feel pretty obligated to share it around: Are blowjobs sex? All I know is that they’re AWESOME.
by Sam Dean
Here’s a brief history of the Glock brand, with an important note: “Glock sales in Arizona have surged following [the Tucson shootings]… along with sales of all handgun brands. Glock was one of the best selling brands before the incident, so a surge in sales overalls means a comparatively larger surge in Glock sales.”
A few links from the archives for the Charles Portis fans out there: The Atlantic has a memoir, “Combinations of Jacksons,” and a short story, “I Don’t Talk Service No More.” The Believer has a 7,000 word celebration by Ed Park. And the New Yorker directs you to a 1984 “Talk of…
Are Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) really the way we process loss? A journalist says no.
“Residents of Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. They alerted authorities, fearing the birds had died from avian flu. But local veterinary officials decided the starlings had died after eating…
“There was a period of remorse and apology for banks. I think that period needs to be over.” — Barclays president Bob Diamond, “expected to receive an £8million bonus this year,” reckons that it’s time for bankers to stop apologizing about big payouts.
It’s your own personal literary zodiac!
Here’s a nice chat with director Paul Mazursky, whose Down and Out in Beverly Hills is terrifically underrated. Personal anecdote: A couple of years ago Mazursky wrote a piece for a publication I was editing. Not wishing to be presumptuous about selecting from his body of work, I got…
“The act of nail-clipping at least once a week is a pleasing task to undertake for its strange mercenariness, and also incredibly satisfying once the results are seen.”
“It used to be that the question ‘what are you drinking?’ was between you and your bartender. Now, thanks to smartphones (and megaphones too) the same question is between you and the world. What hasn’t changed, though, is that every drink is also a story. Brewtrakr asks ‘what are…
Are our dreams of a Rudy Giuliani-Chris Christie presidential ticket doomed to failure? The two politicians are now sniping at one another. Last week Giuliani criticized Christie’s absence during the December’s big snowstorm — Christie was at Disney World — and…
“A new year show put on by a touring circus in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk was so awful that police were…
I know this isn’t the point but… can someone explain why Loughner had a written exam for Pilates? #educationcrisisWed Jan 12 14:12:16 via TweetDeck
Irin Carmonirincarmon
“THERE are two remarkable things going on at Ciano, the casual, new-style Italian restaurant that Shea Gallante opened a few months ago on East 22nd Street. The first is Mr. Gallante’s food, which is ambitious, beautiful and flavor packed, a kind of…
