Man of Steel hits theaters tonight, and Warner Brothers is hoping that it will bring out the inner…
by Brendan O’Connor
by Mark Bibbins, Editor
Belmont Overture (Poem of Eight A.M.) It’s about settling down and settling in and trying not to settle for,
by Bobby Finger
“Forget abandoning carbohydrates or detoxing. The new dieting craze sweeping Britain and taking off in the United States lets people eat whatever they like — but only five days a week.” — People, please. I had plans to make a fortune on my one simple diet tip, but…
“’I don’t know who comes to the boardwalk and says, ‘Let’s go to the boardwalk and find out how many asses we can see.’” — Wildwood mayor Ernest Troiano clearly hangs out with different people than you do.
If you are a white man in or approaching your 40s, you might want to clear your calendar around the end of the summer.
“A hashtag is the Greek chorus of the Internet. It tells everyone what the theme is, but it doesn’t do it very well. It’s the laugh-track-gone-concerned on an ’80s sitcom’s Very Special Episode — that hushed ‘ooh’when something bad (yet solvable!) is about to happen. It’s what you mutter to…
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Blow. Snow. Dope. Bolivian marching powder. Blue devils. Whatever you call them, these are the drugs — cocaine, heroin, and speed — that have fueled the creation of some of the finest literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
You know what? Someday you’re going to get old and talk about the stuff in your house with the same intensity you used to talk about art too. It’s just part of life. Deal with it.
“We are THRILLED AND TICKLED BEYOND BELIEF to announce the launch of Lizzie Skurnick Books, your gateway to the best YA from the 1930s through the 1970s. Get ready: Starting this fall, we’ll be publishing a novel a month for your pleasure, delectation, and…
Is it too cynical to suggest that if Pier Paolo Pasolini were alive today he would have mellowed to such an extent that he would be making rom-coms with titles like Mussolini’s Gay Island? Probably. Had he survived I bet he’d be making short clips for Italian Funny or Die.
★★★★★ The river was brown and stirred up; the clouds were white and whiter over deep blue. A man brushed his…
“The Joint Morris Organisations, the umbrella group for the hobby, has said it is struggling to cope with a nationwide shortage of ‘irons’ to fit onto the clogs worn by dancers. The dearth has been blamed on a lack of blacksmiths now producing the items, which are…
