Mar 3rd
Sorry. Something is WRONG WITH ME today.
Mar 3rd
Michael Lewis’ next book is about how...
Fishermen, in other words, are a lot like American investment bankers. Their overconfidence leads...
Mar 3rd
These people bring me so much joy.
Mar 3rd
It's all a question of perspective.
“The singer, 39, who is almost as well known for his love of cars as his music, was staying at...
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
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Robyn Hitchcock, “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?”
Mar 3rd
File under: revenge.
Mar 3rd
Who corrects da Shaq correctors?
Mar 3rd
The rest is noise.
Late last night I was at a secret show by a band whose sound was described to me as ‘nu Doolittle,’...
Mar 3rd
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I’m at the onset of one of my recurring Chilton phases.
Mar 3rd
blakeley:
Own a piece of Richard Blakeley history! For more...
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
Finally, an inarticulate black guy.
Mar 3rd
“How’s the Italian food in this...
Mar 2nd
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You’re reading the David Lynch Twitter, right?
Mar 2nd
Okay, let’s play a game called “Google searches...
Mar 2nd
“Ralph Ellison published his first novel, Invisible Man, in...”
— startling analogy by Timothy...
— startling analogy by Timothy...
Mar 2nd
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“I’d write her name out on the road/But I can’t piss Denise” may be my...
Mar 2nd
Just when you think the world is all out of...
Mar 2nd
The snowdens of yesteryear.
Remember the Blizzard of ‘96? My absolute favorite part came when a reporter for what I think...
Mar 2nd
Fossilized evidence shows that Bill Kristol...
Mar 2nd
You know what’s NOT RIGHT? Preventing our Lord and...
Mar 2nd
I mean, ya got midgets, giants,...
Has anyone ever done Gulliver’s Travels as porn? RELATED: Isn’t all porn, on some level,...
Mar 2nd
It's all Civil War statues and church...
spiers: First line of an AP story about snowstorms in Alabama: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A potent...
Mar 2nd
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Related to previous.
Mar 1st
Popular creeps.
One of the lead anti-Obama lawyers, Orly Taitz, a California dentist with a degree from an online...
Mar 1st
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Feb 27th
This guy is like the Wilt Chamberlain of...
Feb 27th
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Steve Earle w/Lucinda Williams
Feb 27th
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Robbie Fulks w/Lucinda Williams
Feb 26th
Listen here.
Feb 26th
Pop quiz: Can you find the logistical flaw in this post?...
Feb 26th
Fuck the religious aspect, I'm offended by...
Feb 26th
AMC notes that John McCain is now writing his own Twitter,...
Feb 25th
Now when people ask me why I don’t put out a book I...
Feb 25th
Tax on (legal) marijuana would net California...
Feb 25th
If "hipstavores" means "eats only hipsters" I...
Feb 25th
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Cf. “The nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
Feb 25th
Bobby Jindal: The case for optimism.
“His basic message was sound but his language was hackneyed and his performance was wooden....
Feb 25th
Is there anything more astounding than...
Feb 25th
“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the...”
— Leonard Cohen
— Leonard Cohen
Feb 25th
I want to meet the cop who spent the...
A thief was captured last week for a robbery two years ago where he took a man’s coat in...
Feb 25th
"Look how many people use Christmas as the...
Feb 25th
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The right is gonna try to raise a huge fuss about MSNBC buffoon Chris Matthews muttering, “Oh,...
Feb 25th
I smell Pulitzer.
It’s apparently not online, so you’re going to have to shell out your four bits for...
Feb 25th
Republicans finally help a weary nation reach consensus.
Feb 25th
Times scammed by "banker" bitches.
An article on Jan. 28 about women who commiserated over dating Wall Street bankers caught in the...
Feb 25th
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This is a pretty song.
Feb 25th
SPEECHWARS: See which words presidents have used in their...
Feb 24th
Purple Haze
An article on Monday about the Academy Awards ceremony misstated part of a comment by Danny Boyle,...
Feb 24th
DON'T piss off Maura Johnston.
Feb 24th
Announcing my long-awaited print...
I’m accepting submissions for the forthcoming tome My Little White Book: Men Discuss Their...
Feb 24th
chrismohney:
From the press release: “Conceptualized,...
Feb 24th
Say what you will about the diaper, it is...
Feb 24th
You know what’s odd? Matt Drudge, who has put the...
Feb 24th
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While we’re on the subject. Also, I can’t find a commercial for that famous store at...
Feb 24th
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Happy Mardi Gras
Feb 24th
Amidst all the hoopla over New York's...
you’d do well to read this article from a couple years back. (Meanwhile, as far as I can tell,...
Feb 24th
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I played this once at the Gawker office and about halfway through Em yelled, “Can we please...
Feb 24th
This is a good first step. Now apologize for the continuing...
Feb 24th
Jesus, that guy can play anyone.
Feb 24th
This idea is too genius to be fake.
Feb 24th
In re: Previous
Feb 24th
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I want to go there.
Feb 24th
Mandatory Convertible Preferred Shares:...
[NOTE: I have no fucking idea what mandatory convertible preferred shares are. As best I can figure,...
Feb 23rd
Lines I did not expect I would be...
“It’s also rather difficult to take seriously an economic forecast report whose sole...
Feb 23rd
I Dream of J. Co
Last night I had this dream that a bunch of us were out to dinner celebrating Jessica Coen’s...
Feb 23rd
American Express offering buyouts... to...
Feb 23rd
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Bring on the Gras.
Feb 23rd
Grrr.
Feb 21st
Tagline for a romantic comedy about a...
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making smother plans.”
Feb 21st
And with that, the problem of the color...
“Perhaps race relations would improve, Lester said, if black people lightened up a bit:...
Feb 20th
Holy crap, it's like Politico is TRYING to...
Feb 20th
youngmanhattanite:
What does it mean if you’re listening to Liz Phair’s Divorce Song on the way to...
Feb 20th
(via maura)Grrr.
Feb 20th
Alex Pareene wins the Internet today.
Feb 19th
We should all start calling him "Bob Noblow."
Feb 19th
Yeah, whenever that might be.
Still, Indonesia is in many ways a good-news story — and never more so than now. At the airport in...
Feb 19th
Blogosphere: The Game
Feb 19th
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While we’re on the subject, here’s a cover by The Delgados.
Feb 19th
Jerry Brown may not mention "California Uber...
Feb 19th
Meditation for beginners.
I’ve spent a lot of time practicing relaxative contemplation lately, mostly because I’ve always been...
Feb 19th
“I will say this on Downie’s behalf. The lay reader...”
— Michael Tomasky’s review...
— Michael Tomasky’s review...
Feb 18th
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Bud Powell (p), Ray Brown (b), Buddy Rich (d)
Feb 18th
Hey, want to feel old? Click this link.
Feb 17th
Further Roland Burris admissions:...
Feb 17th
Be careful, I hear he gets pretty handsy.
Feb 17th
Great moments in journalism.
Aussie band Men at Work hit it big in the 1980s with such songs as “Who Can It Be Now?”...
Feb 17th
tanya77:
thisiswhyyourefat:
Junk Food Pizza
Large meat...
Feb 17th
Twittering thakurs of tendentiousness.
This rhetoric creates a poisonous atmosphere. By assaulting the credibility of the press, it...
Feb 17th
Also, "Middlemarch Of The Vampires"
The movie “Pride and Predator,” directed by Will Clark and written by Mr. Clark with Andrew Kemble...
Feb 17th
“Where are those sanctimonious fucks, now? Where is the...”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates takes issue...
— Ta-Nehisi Coates takes issue...
Feb 17th
Joys of drinking, part X.
spiers: ninety9: Opening a fresh bottle. See, when you are young, you tend to have only one...
Feb 17th
No. No it could not.
“Balk’s description of a particular moment in place and time could certainly have larger...
Feb 17th
spiers:
If Facebook thinks they can repackage my claim to...
Feb 16th
I have a disturbing fascination with the FDA Food Recall...
Feb 16th
What diversity looks like, SCOTUS...
Chief Justice Roberts, in his remarks in Arizona, said his court is “very diverse in terms of the...
Feb 16th
"This is why you keep getting raped!"
A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists. The astonishing...
Feb 16th
At the movies.
When they wind up doing the porn version of Watchmen (inevitably entitled Crotchmen), I hope they at...
Feb 16th
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Feb 14th
In the past Hentai games have often catered to casual rape enthusiasts. These are perfectly normal...
Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
Shark week.
Whenever the biggest issue of the day is something like, “Was Joaquin Phoenix really fucked up...
Feb 13th
FINE.
I’LL be Commerce Secretary, okay? It’s not like I’m doing anything else.
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
No additional commentary required.
Andy Card, the former chief of staff to President George W. Bush, said Thursday that the public was...
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
Feb 12th
Three weeks.
Feb 12th
If this is going to be the last job title on my résumé...
Feb 11th
On the other hand...
one can’t in any sense consider oneself at all young when one’s morning is spent waiting...
Feb 11th
There are jewels in the crown of...
The Tories have admitted a member of staff altered a Wikipedia entry on the artist Titian after a...
Feb 11th
“An oft-quoted investment banker e-mails us: “There is no...”
Feb 11th
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“GOP House leader Eric Cantor’s office has come up with an intriguing response to the AFSCME...
Feb 11th
As a man grows older.
I’m walking down the street this afternoon and a guy in a car stops near me, rolls down the...
Feb 10th
Maud Newton, "Portrait of my Father"
Feb 10th
I wonder how Asian-American advocacy groups feel about the...
Feb 10th
My plan to save the press.
Micropayments: everybody’s talking about them! Will they save journalism? Can they help preserve the...
Feb 10th
Sorry. I promise to stay away from finance rescue plan jokes...
Feb 10th
Before everyone on the right gets all worked up about this,...
Feb 9th
Here’s the deal: We make him play an entire game high...
Feb 9th
When these folks have a picture of a guy sitting on his...
Feb 9th
This thing looks like that thing.
Feb 9th
Great, now the guy’s Carter and Ford.
Feb 9th
peterfeld:
I thought this would be fair use of the...
Feb 9th
What to do if you have a racist friend,...
Feb 9th
The Dream Fulfilled
Feb 9th
davidcho:
mikekarnell:
joejohnson:
ABC News: The...
Feb 9th
Eleven years later...
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and...
Feb 9th
No depression.
From now on the precise term by which to describe the current financial crisis shall be...
Feb 9th
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Blossom Dearie, 1926-2009
Feb 9th
I can hear the laughs.
“You can take a lot, put back not a thing, and still come home looking thinner,” wrote the great...
Feb 9th
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25 Random Things About Me, by Lyle Lovett 1. I like cream in my coffee 2. I like to sleep late on...
Feb 8th
Baby of mine.
“Hamtramck Police Det. Ben Bielecki said in forensic interviews conducted with the children...
Feb 8th
Warner Bros. distribution chief forecasts...
Feb 8th
There are jewels in the crown of...
“Cauliflower production has fallen in Britain by about 35 per cent in the past decade as fears...
Feb 8th
"I'll admit: it has long been a dream of mine...
Feb 8th
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Tonio K., “True Confessions”
Feb 7th
“He was a practitioner of a kind of abundance...
Feb 7th
Damn you, Boston Phoenix! What if...
“In his bestselling autobiography, Dreams From My Father, President Obama introduces us to his...
Feb 5th
“He’s got other stuff (to worry about) besides Etta...”
— Etta James comments on the...
— Etta James comments on the...
Feb 5th
It’s not online, so you’re just going to have to...
Feb 5th
Life is sweet.
Universal Pictures is sweet on “Candy Land.” Studio has set Etan Cohen to write and...
Feb 5th
Forget it, Isaacson. The Austin American-Statesman tried the...
Feb 5th
Yeah, I know, Kevin Smith already tried...
The next installment of the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer Death To Cinema series (Scary Movie, Epic...
Feb 5th
What kind of people read essentially every...
Feb 5th
Sometimes, when I ride the subway
jdel: caro: and I look up, and I see Dr. Jonathan Zizmor’s curiously drooping eyes staring down...
Feb 5th
Wait, Suri Cruise is pregnant?
Feb 5th
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“The city also believes that the company is not breaking any rules and that it is one of the...
Feb 5th
...but we won't let that stop us from...
America’s CEOs are coming under fire these days not just for their hefty salaries but also for...
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
“I went backstage. The first person we met was Costas. In...”
— It’s almost unfair how...
— It’s almost unfair how...
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
Fuck you, make me.
Feb 5th
Everything you need to know about...
“Wurzelbacher opposes the stimulus and said he questioned why the government can’t just cut...
Feb 4th
“I feel bad for some of these people, but...
Feb 4th
Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and rapidly losing sight in...
Feb 4th
In Wells Cathedral there’s this ancient
clock,
three parts time machine, one...
Feb 4th
This Is What Happens When You Try To Lasso A...
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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For Leitch, and all those in his state.
Feb 2nd
Bruce Super Bowl Prediction
whatevs: conraddoucette: 1. The Rising 2. The Promised Land 3. Working On A Dream 4. Born To...
Feb 2nd
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In the spirit of the day, let’s have a classic football song. Terry Allen, take it away.
Feb 1st
Rooting interest.
Techinically, it shouldn’t make a difference to me who wins today’s game, but, honestly,...
Feb 1st
Mary Yaeger, Female Merit Badges [Via]
Feb 1st