Here is a thing I wrote. I hope you like it. The Lottery It wasn’t until the jackpot hit $62 million that Sharon even considered buying a ticket. Until that point, she’d never really paid attention to the lottery. As far as she was concerned, “Powerball” might be some obscure Olympic event dominated by Romanians. [...]
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Ten hours
I recently stumbled across this video: ten hours of Darth Vader’s wheezing. Hypnotic! Weird! Fabulous! But then things got even more hypnotic, weird and fabulous when I discovered that the “ten-hour video” is a bona fide Interwebs phenomenon. People are looping together short clips to make ten hours’ worth of all kinds of ridiculous things, [...]
… shouldn’t you?
And believe it or not, that’s not even the worst dentist’s sign I’ve seen in Los Angeles. I came across this gem yesterday: Ouch! I’ve got an airplane on my lip! Can a dentist help me?
1st class dinner, April 14, 1912
On Sunday night, RB and I went to a restaurant in central California to indulge in a recreation of the last meal served on the Titanic. The restaurant, called the Vintage Press, has a dining room modeled after the Titanic’s own dining room. The interior was magnificent, and a five-piece string quartet set the [...]
“Because John Goodman is beautiful”…
… please enjoy this tumblr of his face plastered onto Japanese anime girls.
Is this editorial cartoon objectionable?
Apologies in advance to those who believe it is: This cartoon ran in the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, a decision for which the editor was assailed. (The cartoon was drawn by a syndicated editorial cartoonist, not a student.) Questions: – Was it wrong for the student paper to run [...]
Kony 2012 – the musical
I trust you’ve all been following the strange story of Kony 2012, the half-hour video that went viral last week? The 83 million views, the criticism of its makers for overstating the strength of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, the subsequent very public meltdown of the lead filmmaker Jason Russell? I [...]
The Billboard Hot 100
I believe it was Descartes who observed that “the moment one ceases to recognize the chart-topping artists, that is the moment the spring of one’s life turns to summer.” Just for kicks tonight, I decided to have a look at the Billboard Hot 100 and see how many of the top 25 artists I (a) [...]
How does this shirt look on this man?
This is Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post. He is a features and humor writer, and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. I am a devotee of his monthly live chat on Washingtonpost.com, which is called “Chatological Humor.” He recently bought this shirt: The question, which Gene asked in his most recent chat, [...]
Things that are supposedly great that I didn’t like at all
1. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy This got an 85 on Metacritic, which is high enough to give you a nosebleed. But when RB and I watched it, I squirmed and agonized through the whole thing, because… IT MADE NO SENSE! Seriously, how many scenes can you have where a white guy who looks just like [...]
