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Jan 31st
Where are now your prophets which...
The weakest argument made for excessive earnings is that only by offering a fortune do you attract...
Jan 31st
If only Liam Neeson hadn't been sleeping...
In “Taken,” retired CIA agent Liam Neeson’s daughter is kidnapped by an Albanian Muslim sex slavery...
Jan 30th
Twenty years on, Schoolly D's timeless...
In response to a question from Human Events about how then-Sen. Barack Obama campaigned against him...
Jan 30th
Productivity.
Of course, it’s difficult to define exactly what it is, but I’m pretty sure that...
Jan 30th
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Here’s one for the hopeless.
Jan 30th
Everybody wants to get into the act.
“I’m happy to have participated in this process,” said Sen. James Meeks...
Jan 29th
You win this round of The...
Jan 29th
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Did you know that 1993 was sixteen years ago?
Jan 29th
The Rack gives back.
Jan 29th
cursivebuildings:
Reaching for the Out of Reach 49:
A...
Jan 29th
From the back of a book I just got in...
leoncrawl: There is something about Lux. He’s a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed...
Jan 29th
If John McCain Won
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Scottish singer-songwriter John Martyn dies, aged 60
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
Jason Calacanis IS Dante, in "Inferneto"
I feel I’m within my rights as pundit to reconstitute the idea of Asperger’s to explain my own...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
In defense of, uh, something.
Jan 29th
Self-appraisal.
There is something about dragging yourself from the bed in which you’ve been sweating out a...
Jan 28th
Hi, Paige!
Jan 27th
Kathie: Of course I don’t think I’m a beauty queen or a...
Jan 27th
John Updike, "A&P"
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Jan 27th
...and I don't feel so good myself.
John Updike, Author, Dies at 76
Jan 27th
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Remember when they both had debut records coming out and he was just “the other guy”...
Jan 24th
I’m Lockhart, click me.
Jan 24th
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“When David Newman was in band class at Dallas’ Lincoln High School, during a music reading...
Jan 24th
They also served.
Not to take anything away from the woman herself, but this obituary of Constance Cook, who co-wrote...
Jan 24th
Honestly?
Why is everyone assuming that an Arrested Development movie would be any good? Wasn’t the...
Jan 24th
I measure a man’s seriousness by the degree of moral...
Jan 24th
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Do not press play if you do not want this song stuck in your head for the next two days. Either way,...
Jan 23rd
“The circumstances that lead to a penile fracture are more...”
— “By mistake” my...
— “By mistake” my...
Jan 23rd
Thought experiment.
Were there ever a situation in which one was actually forced to make a decisive choice between the...
Jan 23rd
“You start getting into a really weird, messy gray area when...”
— Does it even matter what...
— Does it even matter what...
Jan 23rd
"Four hours of the music from Factory Records...
Jan 23rd
Yet another terrible Bush legacy for...
Obama is inheriting all the old links from Bush’s biography to the term “miserable failure” because...
Jan 23rd
“Sniggering at double entendres is a loved and time-honored...
Jan 23rd
Uh, let me count the ways.
“’We expressed our concerns about some of the spending that’s being proposed in the House...
Jan 23rd
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Houses of Parliament, London, Sun...
Jan 23rd
peterfeld:
Positively H Street.
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Jan 23rd
Yeah, I'm wearing a flannel shirt. Suck...
Signs it’s time for a diet: When you put on a flannel shirt, see yourself in the mirror, and...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
Great Moments In Journalism
“THE CRUSH WAS SO BAD THAT ‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ RAN VIDEO OF THE BACK OF THE...
Jan 23rd
But really, no one wants to see either.
“An appraisal on Saturday about John Mortimer, the writer who created the curmudgeonly London...
Jan 23rd
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karion:
Reblogged under the golden rule of Grohl.
fatmanatee:
Dave Grohl starts a bonfire on...
Jan 22nd
This is my life.
I am at a bar where Cracker’s “Low” just came on I started ROCKING OUT. Please,...
Jan 22nd
Lonely Is An Eyesore
Jan 22nd
thegurglingcod:
Is Farrah Fawcett the Jim Rice of...
Jan 22nd
Thainks for the memories, John! Sorry. I don’t know...
Jan 22nd
My Oscar Prediction.
Blackface < Dying
Jan 22nd
Some wealthy but tragically sad librarian...
Jan 22nd
Okay, so maybe there was no bible, but what’s the book...
Jan 22nd
Your word for the day: "fungible."
Jan 22nd
Max Tundra sings Mariah Carey's "Vision of...
Jan 22nd
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peterfeld:
Is it possible that the entire blogger drinking scene was cooked up by Andrew Krucoff...
Jan 22nd
Just asking.
Ya know what’s weird? The Post hasn’t put Sean Delonas’ cartoon of Sunday, January...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
Recommended reading.
Ben McGrath’s piece on doom scenarists in this week’s New Yorker is the best thing that...
Jan 22nd
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I’m a little down these days.
Jan 22nd
Something tells me there's gonna be a...
Is someone keeping a list of any gaffes – or botched jokes – that Vice President Biden makes? If...
Jan 22nd
"Baby, I'm going to interpret the fuck...
“Classical Arabic writers are generally not prudish, which posed a problem to Victorian and...
Jan 22nd
The French, they are a silly race.
Former French President Chirac hospitalised after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle [Via]
Jan 22nd
Continuing a White House ritual, President George W. Bush...
Jan 20th
Remember when JFK said "the torch has...
That’s gotta be how Bush just felt when Obama told the world that America is ready to lead...
Jan 20th
I smell Pulitzer!
Jan 20th
In DC today live-Tweeting the proceedings.
Jan 20th
topherchris:
I’d have just posted the link, but I want...
Jan 20th
What with everyone tripping all over themselves to...
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
Boxxy begins to learn at a geometric...
On the 9th, Boxxy delivered. She addressed ‘recent events’, said she was in fact free of...
Jan 19th
The Crazy Eddie offensive.
The Israeli theory of what it tried to do here is summed up in a Hebrew phrase heard across Israel...
Jan 19th
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We Will Eat Rats To Survive, “Life On A Tabletop”
Jan 19th
Still so bitter about the Tigers.
I guess the lesson here is never bet against Will Leitch. On the plus side, I can’t wait until...
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
There are jewels in the crown of...
“At Tuesday’s meeting Mr Brown tried to head off a damaging debate, only to be thwarted...
Jan 17th
Jesus. Did geese rape and murder...
It would be fairly easy for Port Authority workers to round up and net geese in June and July, when...
Jan 17th
REEEEEEMIX!
Jan 17th
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This should have been the biggest song of 1994.
Jan 16th
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“A whistleblower who triggered the controversy over pedigree dog breeding on television...
Jan 16th
Just as I suspected.
Jan 16th
Living in a material world.
POINT: “By the new millennium, a vagina—which, by the way, used to have a pretty high...
Jan 16th
It's just like "The Matrix"!
Jan 16th
Why will nobody acknowledge that...
Pinnacle Grill Recognized by Porthole Magazine as Best Alternative Restaurant in the Cruise Industry
Jan 16th
The Girl With The Anime Eyes
For Thai teenagers, Japan and Korea emanate all that is hip: candy-colored sneakers,...
Jan 16th
Prozac Jewish Nation State
Elizabeth Wurtzel weighs in on the whole Gaza thing. Finally.
Jan 16th
I have been much enjoying The Ragbag’s series of...
Jan 16th
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thegurglingcod:
monaghan:
Please let this be the end of the arch-ironic lionizing of Journey by...
Jan 16th
Casting Flight 1549.
VAGUELY RELATED: The CBS Evening News...
Jan 16th
“This sentence is short, not because it is brief—which it...”
— Colson Whitehead parodies...
— Colson Whitehead parodies...
Jan 16th
"That's the old dude who used to post...
A middle-aged man has been arrested in a series of lower Manhattan commercial burglaries that netted...
Jan 16th
“There is no pleasure worth forgoing...
John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole, dies aged 85 The Rumpole stuff is obviously what he’s...
Jan 16th
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American Music Club, “The Hula Maiden”
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Jan 15th
These are all good points. Also?...
“George Washington, in his farewell address, warned against the destructive force of party...
Jan 15th
spiers:
Press Relations 101a Illustrated.
Jan 14th
Rex In Effect
A play in one act about the difficult relationships between fathers and sons. [Curtain rises on a...
Jan 14th
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“’There was a moment when we were the hot new-media couple on the scene,’ said Mr....
Jan 13th
Countdown to outrage starts… now.
Jan 13th
“I would actually say that one meta-story that the...”
— Rob Walker is asking for it. I...
— Rob Walker is asking for it. I...
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
gillianmae:
I wrote about technology’s early adopters in...
Jan 13th
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Warming up to this one. Via her biggest fan.
Jan 13th
Okay!
Jan 13th
There are jewels in the crown of...
“The Prince of Wales has been calling an Asian friend ‘Sooty’ for years, it has...
Jan 13th
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Saxondale is out on DVD now.
Jan 13th
Jan 13th
Dissatisfied by the widget industry, J. Pierrepont Finch...
Jan 12th
What work is.
Natalie Dylan, 22, claims her offer of a one-night stand has persuaded 10,000 men to bid for sex...
Jan 12th
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Whatever happened to this guy? (And don’t knock yourself out doing any real research, I...
Jan 12th
I bet they’re arguing over which one gets to sue.
Jan 12th
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Spoiler alert: Sue’s a fucking whore.
Jan 10th
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“Buenos Amigos,” Leandro Fresco
Jan 9th
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There was an era in this country—we’re not even a century removed from it—where loathing for the...
Jan 9th
Mel Juffe and Edward Gorey’s The Recently Deflowered...
Jan 9th
“This well-named, fitfully and presumably unintentionally...”
— Manohla Dargis reviews The...
— Manohla Dargis reviews The...
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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It feels like an ambient tuba kind of day.
Jan 8th
Okay, the Conservative press has finally found a way to make...
Jan 8th
“12 April, Yorkshire. Snow in the night, which covers the...”
— Alan Bennett’s annual...
— Alan Bennett’s annual...
Jan 8th
“Terry Jackson, a Miami Herald editor who stood 5-foot-2 but...”
— Terrific obit of what sounds...
— Terrific obit of what sounds...
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
Also, are you fucking kidding me?
“Her subtlety, with which she did that role, was exceptional. You could just see the longing...
Jan 6th
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“Asheton was not an incredibly gifted player technically, but the dirgy, guttural sounds he...
Jan 6th
Whoever’s writing the headlines at the Post...
Jan 6th
Dramedy.
For an outfit known for its lack of drama, Team Obama has become a downright thrill show. Bill...
Jan 6th
At the corner of Red Hand and White Guy.
Has anyone else noticed the growing number of traffic signals where both the “walk” and...
Jan 6th
The better to assrape you with.
Madoff continues to live in luxury in a $7 million Park Avenue spread - and you don’t - while...
Jan 6th
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“Here comes the part where I break down and cry”
Jan 6th
Crushed into cider
markcoatney: magicmolly: The available metaphors for New York are unsatisfying. An organism? An...
Jan 6th
Thank God someone finally took a stand.
Gabe Delahaye renounces rap music and all its evil misogyny. I mean, that’s what he’s...
Jan 6th
I'll stick with my busted old Razr,...
So maybe you already knew this, but I just noticed that the number-one selling paid app for the...
Jan 5th
If I were at all career-oriented I'd...
BALK: How long before someone does a twitter pastiche based on past moments in journalism?...
Jan 5th
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“The ancient art of morris dancing, handed down through generations and now performed in pub...
Jan 5th
1: In the beginning God created the United States Senate....
Jan 5th
Recommended reading.
Three great financial pieces from this weekend that you may still be reading because they’re...
Jan 5th
This makes me think of nothing so much as some of those...
Jan 5th
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Willie should have called this album I Don’t Think Frank Done It This Way.
Jan 5th