by Anne Helen Petersen
by Sarah Marshall and Amelia Laing
A few months ago I had what I guess you would call a milestone birthday — although given the deliberately poor choices I have made over my lifetime, pretty much every birthday at this point is some sort of actuarial miracle. In any event, this flipping of the chronology to a suffix…
“In the most obese state in the most obese country on the face of the earth in the history of the human race…” would be a good opening for a children’s book. As a real-life story, however, it is a little less whimsical.
James Vernon Taylor turns 65 today. There are a bunch of obvious jokes to be made, but they won’t be by me. It kind of seems like the older I get, the more tolerable James Taylor becomes. Which may be the idea. I’m not running out to buy a Greatest Hits or anything, but I won’t make exaggerated…
“It has appeared, most notably, in ‘There’s Something About Mary,’ and made a disconcerting cameo in Todd Solondz’s ‘Happiness.’)” — Can you guess what “it” is? You probably can. Still, fun to think of the career arc.
“There are five better sinkholes than that in Brooklyn alone.” — New Yorkers living in DC.
— Ryan Avent (@ryanavent) March 12, 2013
“[T]ravel with handsome luggage, as schlepping around a lousy, ugly, torn and/or unpractical bag is depressing.”
“With the spread of digital technologies, dictionaries have become a two-way mirror, a record not just of words’ meanings but of what we want to know. Digital dictionaries read us.”
Here you will find a photo of an orange horse.
“Emmy-winning actors enjoyed 2.7 more years of life than nominees who did not snag the trophy. Emmy-winning screenwriters were, mysteriously, at a 3-year disadvantage.”
★★★ Ashy gray, with ambient dampness. The neutral temperature was good enough for a motorcyclist in brown…
